Bogdan Łysakowski

Fun and Games (2009)

In the villa of the party dignitary, the fates of Stanisław, his son's friends, Zbyszek, a worker leaving the army, and the head of the thieves' gang, cross. The film was shelved by the censors for 27 years before finally getting a limited release in 2009 ...

Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (1983)

A fictionalized documentary about the life of General Władysław Sikorski from the beginning of World War II until his tragic death in a plane crash. The action begins with the evacuation of the Polish government and general staff to Romania, showing thei ...

Salty Rose (1983)

The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he recalls how he fell in love with a charming Jewish girl before the outbreak of the war. He manages to find her, ...

Zamach stanu (1981)

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski's country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal's return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski's move spark ...

Placówka (1979)

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not ...

Zerwane cumy (1979)

Psychological drama; a retired sailor, after 40 years of absence, returns to his native village to spend the rest of his life there. After forty years of work at sea, Petty Officer Ignacy Krzeminski returns to his home village in the Suwałki region. The m ...

Sto koni do stu brzegów (1979)

World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London. ...

Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation. ...

Epizod (1979)

Quiet Is the Night (1978)

In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal. ...

Koty to dranie (1978)

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens. ...

Red Thorns (1977)

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution. ...

Brunet Will Call (1976)

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a myster ...

Kazimierz Wielki (1976)

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great. ...

The Nest (1974)

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achiev ...

Hubal (1973)

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders. ...

Na krawędzi (1973)

A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich. ...

More Than Life At Stake Part Five (1969)

The fifth of the six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 14 and 15. ...

Człowiek z M-3 (1969)

A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife. ...

Everything for Sale (1969)

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up. ...

Korn's Password (1968)

An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn. ...

When Love Was a Crime (1968)

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler's "racial purity" law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany. ...

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines. ...

Westerplatte Resists (1967)

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It ...

The Attempt (1959)

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera. ...