Gabriela Kownacka

Przebacz (2007)

Polish province. 20-year-old Stan quits his job at a car repair shop. He joins his friends, Gobi, Meta and the pack leader Anka, who live by mugging people and robbing stores. One evening Joanna, who is returning home late, falls victim to the gang. Under ...

Powiedz to, Gabi (2003)

A teenage girl named Gabi has a crush on an older guy. She's trying to pursue her feelings. ...

Pas de deux (2002)

Little town. Józef Struziak, a local veterinarian, is bored with his wife Anna and her passion - ballet. He secretly meets his lover in his office. One day, a student, Wiktor Malec, comes to the vet for his internship ... ...

Fluke (1999)

Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film. ...

Killer 2 (1999)

Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And th ...

Children and Fish (1996)

Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertising agency, faces a life choice: her ex-husband, who returns from the US after ten years, her current love ...

Smacznego, telewizorku (1992)

The TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into their set, vanishing from the living room. Their three bewildered children must band together to pull Mom and Dad back out of the television before they're ...

Sauna (1992)

A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna. ...

Dismissed From Life (1992)

Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shel ...

Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland (1990)

A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capit ...

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself. ...

Hanussen (1988)

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients ...

Nieproszony gość (1987)

The film is set in a house where a thug terrorizes a certain unhappy family. He is a psychologist and TV personality, she is a musicologist. The extreme situation in which they unexpectedly find themselves makes them wake up ghostly. Resentments and frustr ...

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986)

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague. ...

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986)

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that a ...

Jak się pozbyć czarnego kota? (1986)

A young engineer notices that bad luck is haunting him. The man comes to the conclusion that the source of the misfortune is his wife, Christine. He decides to take decisive steps to remedy this. ...

Write and Fight (1985)

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband. ...

Custody (1985)

A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the c ...

Spokojne lata (1982)

Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema. ...

Przypadki Piotra S. (1982)

The pupil of the orphanage is entering adulthood. ...

Childish Questions (1981)

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him. ...

Bo oszalałem dla niej (1980)

Ukryty w słońcu (1980)

Artist Janek is waiting for his beloved Joanna. He is worried because he has a feeling that there has been a tragedy the night before. After an hour of waiting, the man departs. He keeps reminiscing about Joanna all the time. ...

The Birthday (1980)

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence th ...

Hello, Fred the Beard (1978)

The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers ...

Rekolekcje (1978)

Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art. ...

Rebus (1977)

Social drama which addresses the problems faced by delinquent young people and how difficult it can be to change their way of life. Czesiek is a young hooligan who who comes into contact with Marek, a sociology student and tries to change his lifestyle but ...

Charade (1977)

A young lab technician, threatened by a blackmailer, descends into madness. ...

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. ...

Convicted (1976)

A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide. ...

Rush Hour (1974)

The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill. ...

The Wedding (1973)

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's ...