Elżbieta Starostecka

I Believe in Santa (2023)

Due to a violent snowstorm, Agnieszka is cut off from the rest of the world in a charming mountain cottage, and a mysterious and handsome man in a Santa Claus suit appears on her way. Five-year-old Zosia and her mother, despite their poor financial situati ...

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 ...

Skradziona kolekcja (1979)

The Leper (1976)

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him. ...

Nights and Days (1975)

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The pl ...

Ferry (1970)

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines. ...

How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape (1970)

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Po ...

Rzeczpospolita babska (1969)

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby. ...

The Doll (1968)

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended t ...

Tabliczka marzenia (1968)

A fifteen-year old Ludka navigates first love and frustrations related to failures of the adult world during summer holidays. ...

Zmartwychwstanie Offlanda (1968)

A year after his death, a young artist returns to the world of the living. ...

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. ...

Cooked Doves (1966)

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers. ...

A Lady from the Window (1964)

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families. ...

Echo (1964)

It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk's (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He's a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor's office. He's accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It's an echo of his ...

The End of Our World (1964)

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it ...