Known for Acting
Searching for his family roots, aged German pensioner Hugo Schmidt arrives with his grandson in a village in the Mazury region. The house where he was born is now inhabited by a poor Polish family, resettlers from across the Bug River, not very concerned with keeping the farmhouse in order.
The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.
Stasio Tuchala, old bachelor, resident of Sucha Wolka, after his sister left for America, lives alone. Because he can not cope with the farmwork, his friends decide to get him married. Stasio already attracted two girls from his village and Ukrainian Vera, but he dreams of Miss from colorful magazines. Matrimonial ad that Stasio, Albert and Henry put in the press, has nothing to do with reality, Stasio is NOT a handsome, dark haired, and wealthy. Meanwhile, the mayor Sucha Wolka seriously offended gang leaders from the neighboring village Mokra Wolka and on Sunday the village is expecting a retaliation ...
An actor, Lutek Star, and a director, Emil Baks, end up in prison, where they decide to join forces to create a serial script about three independent women.
A mature man recalls his youthful love and comes to the town where he once met a woman who was important to him. However, it is hard to turn back time.
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons.
The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
The drama called I Love, You Love was made in 1980 but because of the absurd ideological ban, the film entered cinemas nine years later. Pišta is an unmarried man who works at a freight wagon which carries letters and parcels. Alcohol helps him to overcome his handicap of being short and not good-looking. He wishes he had a woman, but the woman he really wants, ageing Viera who reloads the cargoes, has a soft spot for another man. So, Pišta has nobody and nothing, except for senile mother who sometimes fails to recognize him. The film received Silver Bear for Best Director at the International Film Festival in Berlin.
Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
