Bronisław Pawlik

All The Saints (2002)

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children. ...

Where Eskimos Live (2002)

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight t ...

Poznań 56 (1996)

The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the director, who was a nine-year-old boy at the time, is the only canvass of the script. The main characters of the black-and-white film are two boys aged ten ...

Szabla od komendanta (1996)

In a fairy-tale village lives Jakubek, a former legionnaire. He buried his wife some time ago and now lives with his adult but very shy son Janeczek. Three of Jakubek's comrades-in-arms also live in the same village: Kotek, Ingatko, and Gniewisz. For some ...

Nothing Funny (1996)

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspers ...

Kamień na kamieniu (1995)

A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before the war. There, he became involved in the leftist movement. He returned to his home village after the war ...

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993)

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - a ...

SuperWizja (1993)

A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost impossible to return to reality. ...

Goodbye Rockefeller (1993)

Four friends work out the interests of a dishonest businessman. ...

Po własnym pogrzebie (1992)

The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a s ...

Obywatel świata (1991)

Old friends come to the reunion of alumni, for whom the meeting after many years is an opportunity for memories, but also comparisons of who have been most successful in their lives. ...

Sceny nocne (1990)

Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland. ...

Decalogue VIII (1989)

Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades a ...

Prywatne niebo (1989)

The nouveau riche chinchilla breeder hires a painter-portraitist. ...

Soccer Poker (1989)

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to ...

Męskie sprawy (1989)

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans. ...

Taboo (1988)

Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mothe ...

Swan Song (1988)

After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: "The Flame". The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes ...

Pantarej (1988)

Wanting to get drugs, Pantarej and Zito decide to break into the hospital. ...

Sonata marymoncka (1988)

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland. ...

The Death of John L. (1988)

Zbigniew Gąsior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with women he can't neglect the emptiness in his life. ...

Special Mission (1987)

In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland. ...

Komediantka (1987)

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters. ...

Fachowiec (1987)

Kazimierz Zaliwski was born into an intellectual family, he graduated from high school, and knows two foreign languages. The foreman, in love with his daughter, decides not to continue his studies. He wants to take a job as a locksmith in a factory. ...

Child's Scenes of Provincial Life (1987)

Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After another argument with his father, he leaves the house. Comrade R., the mayor of the city, engages Julian as hi ...

Wcześnie urodzony (1986)

A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life. ...

Bariery (1986)

A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life. ...

Oh, Karol! (1985)

Karol has everything. He has three mistresses in addition to the bride. He is charming, loves sex and enslaves women in the blink of an eye. He's also well aware of that women like and uses it for his benefits. ...

Thais (1984)

Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed ...

I Died So I Could Live (1984)

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison. ...

Jan (1984)

The writer Jan Kellert - the author of the widely known book "The Legend of the Vistula", which is part of the canon of pre-war middle school reading, comes from Lublin to Żmurki, where he spent the occupation. The division of the Żmurki estate is to tak ...

Na tropach Bartka (1984)

Friends, with the help of the gamekeeper and forester, try to catch the poacher. ...

Mister Blot's Academy (1984)

Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa's classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is th ...

Pensja pani Latter (1983)

The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are ...

The Castellan's Daughter (1983)

The film is set in the interwar period. Jerzy, a young journalist, spends his vacation alone, kayaking on rivers and lakes. One day, he stops for the night near an old manor house. He learns from the local residents that the once magnificent residence has ...

The Haunted (1982)

1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. ...

Ciosy (1981)

Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer S ...

Teddy Bear (1981)

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages. ...

Najlepszy kolega (1981)

A school reunion is called to commemorate Adam, who died during the Second World War while defending a bridge. Unexpectedly, Adam shows up just before the ceremony. It turns out that he was only wounded, and after a war started a family and lived an ordina ...

Filip z konopi (1981)

Without Love (1980)

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one ...

Morning Stars (1980)

A Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive. ...

Nightmares (1979)

Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under wa ...

Rodzina Połanieckich (1979)

The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century. ...

What Will You Do When You Catch Me? (1978)

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorc ...

Koty to dranie (1978)

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

Proszę słonia (1978)

Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures. ...

The Border (1978)

Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely Justyna Bogutówna, the daughter of a cook. When the canicule comes to an end, Zenon packs his bags and leaves f ...

Wolna sobota (1977)

Wielki człowiek do małych interesów (1975)

A Jungle Book of Regulations (1974)

Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once ...

Take It Easy (1974)

The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit ...

Awards and Decorations (1974)

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty. ...

The Peasants (1973)

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkows ...

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne (1973)

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student. ...

A Slip-Up (1972)

A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman. ...

Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais? (1972)

A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder. ...

Kłopotliwy gość (1971)

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it. ...

Piąta rano (1970)

Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses. ...

Husband Under the Bed (1970)

A jealous husband follows his wife, but accidentally ends up in a strange apartment. ...

How to Gain Money, Women and Fame? (1970)

Three ironic episodes showing how to get what every man dreams of - money, women and fame. ...

Warsaw Sketches (1970)

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period. ...

Nowy (1970)

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed. ...

Mieszczanin szlachcicem (1969)

Mr. Jourdain, oblivious to his own ignorance, embarks on a comical journey to transform himself into a nobleman, taking lessons from music, dance, fencing, and philosophy teachers who exploit his naivety for profit. Despite the mockery from his maid Michas ...

More Than Life At Stake Part Four (1969)

The fourth of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 8 and 9. ...

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. ...

More Than Life At Stake Part Three (1969)

The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7. ...

More Than Life At Stake Part Two (1969)

The second of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 2 and 4. ...

Mistrz tańca (1969)

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death. ...

Countess Cosel (1968)

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704. ...

Komedie pomyłek (1968)

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works. ...

Świat grozy (1968)

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics. ...

Wolves' Echoes (1968)

A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East. ...

The Barrel Organ (1968)

This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus. ...

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a (1968)

The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible. ...

Father (1967)

A young boy must go to school with his father. ...

Komedia z pomyłek (1967)

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on th ...

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1967)

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble. ...

Hell and Heaven (1966)

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos. ...

Don Gabriel (1966)

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict. ...

Sposób bycia (1966)

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life. ...

Wózek (1965)

A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically. ...

The Unknown (1964)

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen. ...

Liczę na wasze grzechy (1964)

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club. ...

Manhunter (1964)

1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways. ...

Teenager (1963)

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble. ...

The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest (1963)

A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet. ...

Klub kawalerów (1962)

A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club. ...

Bitwa o Kozi Dwór (1962)

A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square. ...

Story of the Golden Boot (1961)

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Craco ...

Husband of His Wife (1961)

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being mu ...

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 Knave of Spades (1960)

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals. ...

Tysiąc talarów (1960)

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

Inspekcja pana Anatola (1959)

PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers. ...

Stars Meet in Moscow (1959)

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum. ...

Cross of Valor (1959)

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is h ...

Noc bez końca (1959)

Eagle (1959)

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the ...

Farewells (1958)

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, ...

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 ...

Kapelusz pana Anatola (1957)

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one. ...

Warszawska syrena (1956)

A fairy tale film based on an ancient legend about the founding of Warsaw and the good fairy Sirene of the Mazovian forests, who became the patron saint of the city. ...

The Hours of Hope (1955)

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards. ...

Under the Phrygian Star (1954)

Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose". ...

Cellulose (1954)

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of c ...

Domek z kart (1954)

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities. ...

The Warsaw Debut (1951)

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka". ...