Barbara Lass

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012)

An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work. ...

Cracow by Polanski (2010)

Roman Polanski lived in Cracow/Krakow during 1936-1955 - almost 20 years of his life. These years formed him to become one of the most popular film directors of the world. The title of the documentary refers to Roman Polanski's autobiography "Roman by Pola ...

Eine Wahnsinnsehe (1990)

A trusting, naive police officer is prepared to follow the ever new ideas and quirks of his spirited, enthusiastic wife out of honest conviction. However, he cannot keep up with the pace of her willingness to turn to the next new thing. As a result, he is ...

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vi ...

Blaubart (1984)

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former wives, confront him with his past. Finally acquitted, the doctor loses himself in feelings of deepest guil ...

Sting in the Flesh (1981)

Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia. ...

How It's Done (1974)

Two ambitious men - one a self-described director, another a self-described writer, meet on a train to Zakopane and decide to make a movie together. ...

Effi Briest (1974)

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer. ...

Doppelspiel in Paris (1972)

Hauser's Memory (1970)

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi s ...

Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli (1970)

A former U-boat commander becomes a pastor to ease the suffering of young Hamburg women in trouble. ...

Jowita (1967)

Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka. ...

Serenade for Two Spies (1965)

An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has ...

Rififi in Tokyo (1963)

Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond. ...

Vice and Virtue (1963)

1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Com ...

Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962)

Five short stories. (1) "Czas przybliża, czas oddala" – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna. (2) "Krąg istnienia" – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by fa ...

Love at Twenty (1962)

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson. ...

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)

The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, ...

The Joy of Living (1961)

Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him). ...

Ostrożnie yeti (1961)

Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, fr ...

The Thousandth Window (1960)

An old man against the public housing project. ...

Bad Luck (1960)

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck. ...

Tysiąc talarów (1960)

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years. ...

When Angels Fall (1959)

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the at ...

Pan Anatol szuka miliona (1959)

Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery. ...

Obrazki z podróży (1959)

A small cardboard train embarks on a long journey full of strange events. ...

Słoń (1959)

A short film based on a story by Sławomir Mrożek of the same title. The need to have an elephant in a fictional zoo gives rise to the idea of making one. A giant inflatable animal is created, but instead of becoming the main attraction, it flies away in ...

Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru (1958)

A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue. ...

Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)

The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. ...

Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thie ...