Halina Buyno-Łoza

Long Night (1989)

The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew. ...

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. ...

Szkoda twoich łez (1985)

Teresa, a revue dancer dreaming of stardom and love with actor Modecki, endures fleeting affairs, her friend's suicide and a struggling provincial theatre before returning to Warsaw. After winning a leading role and finding success, she learns she's pregna ...

Revenge (1983)

Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives ...

The Weather Forecast (1983)

When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside. ...

Przeklęta ziemia (1983)

Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity a ...

Barbed Wire (1983)

Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive. ...

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 ...

Biała gorączka (1981)

Smak wody (1980)

Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives. ...

Śnić we śnie (1979)

A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. ...

Leisure Time (1979)

Poland in the mid-1970s. In a small town, the student theater is preparing its premiere. ...

Horizontal Landscape (1978)

Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his professional duties, the trio bands together to keep the production on course. ...

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 ...

Big Deal (1977)

Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral ...

Before the Day Breaks (1977)

A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that ...

Zofia (1976)

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her s ...

The Fog (1976)

In the first months after the war, a period of confusion and fratricidal fighting, a Warsaw whack-job drafted into the ranks of the KBW gains the first life experiences that make him an informed citizen. Marian, a boy from Targówek, is serving in the KBW. ...

The End of the Holiday (1975)

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love. ...

Matylda's Birthday (1975)

Matylda reflects on her life on her 30th birthday. ...

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 ...

Muffin (1973)

A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city. ...

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 ...

Sekret (1973)

After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he lead a second life. ...

Possession (1973)

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman. ...

Z tamtej strony tęczy (1973)

Teresa is an attractive 30-year-old doctor. She divides her stable life between work, caring for her younger sister Ania, a high school student, and her romance with Jan, a well-off lawyer who wants to marry her. However, Teresa postpones her decision to m ...

The Epidemic (1972)

Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man. ...

Motodrama (1971)

An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer. ...

Kardiogram (1971)

A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants. ...

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. ...

Heaven on Earth (1970)

Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory. ...

How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends (1970)

Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, h ...

Only the Dead Can Answer (1969)

Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing ...

Julia, Anna, Genowefa... (1968)

25-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war. ...

Our Folks (1967)

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms. ...

Bumerang (1966)

A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II. ...

The Catastrophe (1966)

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses. ...

Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed i ...

Weekendy (1963)

An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s. ...

All Souls' Day (1961)

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up. ...

Glass Mountain (1960)

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor. ...

Decyzja (1960)

A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save. ...

Meetings In The Dark (1960)

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war. ...

One Room Tenants (1960)

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and ...

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę (1960)

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław. ...

Signals (1959)

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife. ...

Lotna (1959)

Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit. ...

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 ...

Pills for Aurelia (1958)

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo. ...

The Eighth Day of the Week (1958)

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It ...

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 ...

Lost Feelings (1957)

One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble. ...