Edward Żentara

Trick (2010)

Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help. ...

Czarny (2008)

The thirty-year-old returns to his home village after years. ...

Nie ma takiego numeru (2007)

A classic of cinema with a twist, that is, the story of how to intelligently empty the casino safe where the gambling underworld launders government money. The young team, which can't miss a trusted butler, an experienced gambler, an attractive thief and a ...

Afera Mięsna (2007)

A portrait of cabinet intrigues, the false aspirations of the party elite and the grinding reality of the 1960s, or "our little stability." Robert Meller and Janusz Dymek's documentary drama concerns the famous 1964 meat scandal, in which three death sente ...

Show (2003)

Petty thief Czarek takes part in a TV reality show to escape from the mafia. He is sent to a house on a desert island with 9 other contestants. Even the death of one of them does not stop the show. ...

Deserter's Gold (1998)

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mis ...

Temptation (1996)

Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential priest is kept in. She discovers the priest is the man she loved a few years before. Communist authorities try to make her spy on him now. ...

Puszka Pandory (1996)

After killing her husband, the beautiful but cunning Lulu evades justice with the help of the people that are in love with her. A Polish teleplay of Frank Wederkind's play that adapts the second part of the story. ...

Enak (1993)

The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about ...

Beautiful Stranger (1993)

Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of ...

Polowanie na Króla Lira (1993)

A couple of Warsaw actors come to a small town to play in a play staged there. When one of them disappears, the theater director begins a private investigation. ...

Damned America (1993)

Zbyszek Butryn returns to Poland from exile to help win the Solidarity elections. His children, staying in orphanages, who intend to find him, learn about his father's return. ...

La Treizième Voiture (1993)

A Scottish woman with her nephew travels to Russia in the Paris-Moscow express. On the same flight in the 13th carriage, the old icons are returning from France to Russia. Thieves try to replace real icons with fake ones. ...

Republik der Träume (1993)

TV movie about Bruno Schulz ...

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991)

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. ...

Ay, Carmela! (1990)

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner. ...

Hard to Be a God (1990)

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the ...

Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" (1990)

Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

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. ...

Jedenaste przykazanie (1988)

A young penniless woman comes to a small town with her newborn baby. She goes to work but because her child has no father, life is hard for her. Until she meets a carefree vagabond photographer willing to help her out. ...

Opowieść Harleya (1988)

Poor Janek is in love with a beautiful girl called Irena. Her aspiring parents have already chosen a proper husband for their daughter - the rich and handsome Witek. Can a rented Harley-Davidson help Janek to fight for Irena? ...

Angel in the Wardrobe (1988)

About a sound designer for films who years ago, while in bed with his mistress, failed to respond to calls for help outside his door. Now during the recording of the audio track for a new film he begins to hear strange noises on his headphones. ...

Cupid's Bow (1988)

Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest much when is seduced by the husband's friend, a seedy professor with sickly wife and other mistresses on the s ...

Powrót po śmierć (1987)

One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious custom ...

Sala nr 6 (1987)

An introverted, experienced doctor is the director of a mental hospital. Despite his friendly nature, he has long been no longer appreciated by the staff, and a younger colleague is waiting for his job. ...

Siegfried (1987)

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences. ...

Klatka (1986)

A young man, attacked by thugs, seeks shelter in a random apartment block. ...

Axiliad (1986)

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect. ...

H.M. Deserters (1986)

Set in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Italians, and others—confined in a provincial barracks under German officers. Subjected to the cruelty of a sadistic lieutenant, they rebel, humiliate him, a ...

Sam pośród swoich (1986)

The year 1946 - a young officer between service, love, school... ...

Wedle wyroków twoich... (1984)

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relati ...

Austeria (1983)

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment. ...

Karate Polish Style (1982)

The story takes place in a small, provincial town in Masuria. Beginner artist painter Piotr comes here from Warsaw to paint frescoes in the local church. Piotr is a great karate and treats everyone as potential rivals. His antagonist is Roman, the head of ...

The Big Race (1981)

Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new motorcycle by the country's president. Chief organizer is a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to make ...

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. ...