Henryk Bąk

Zamach stanu (1981)

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski's country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal's return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski's move spark ...

Golem (1980)

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe ...

Return Ticket (1979)

A young peasant girl, Antonina, emigrates for bread to Canada. She stays with her uncle, who offers her marriage, but Antonina does not accept the offer. She marries a farmer from a nearby village, surreptitiously puts away pennies to pennies and sends to ...

Charade (1977)

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

Kazimierz Wielki (1976)

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great. ...

Mniejszy szuka Dużego (1976)

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him. ...

Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist. ...

Doctor Judym (1975)

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor. ...

W te dni przedwiosenne (1975)

The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba. ...

Strach (1975)

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. ...

Hazardziści (1975)

The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came ac ...

The Nest (1974)

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achiev ...

Lazarus' Whims (1973)

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end. ...

Bolesław Śmiały (1972)

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski. ...

Con bravura (1972)

Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rather unco ...

Journey for One Smile (1972)

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey "for a smile," hitchhiking and using every transport they can find. ...

Leprosy (1971)

When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal. ...

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. ...

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni... (1971)

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if ...

Martwa fala (1971)

After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage. ...

Nuremberg Epilogue (1971)

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV. ...

Pejzaż z bohaterem (1971)

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story. ...

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. ...

Abel, Your Brother (1970)

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences. ...

Shoot Paragon! (1970)

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon. ...

The Neighbours (1969)

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager. ...

The Contribution (1967)

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground. ...

Barrier (1966)

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland. ...

Cooked Doves (1966)

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

Miejsce dla jednego (1966)

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter. ...

Wystrzał (1966)

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge. ...

Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a "Polityka" magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski. ...

Obok prawdy (1965)

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma. ...

Back to Life Again (1965)

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated. ...

Rendes-Vous with a Spy (1964)

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies. ...

Good Sins (1963)

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way. ...

Far Is the Road (1963)

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland. ...

Drugi człowiek (1961)

A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home. ...

Silent Traces (1961)

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him. ...

Przeciwko bogom (1961)

Accused by colleagues of cowardice, the aviator gets a chance for rehabilitation. ...

Time Past (1961)

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighte ...

Glass Mountain (1960)

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

Rok pierwszy (1960)

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities. ...

Bad Luck (1960)

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck. ...

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 ...

Eroica (1958)

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one ...

Podhale w ogniu (1956)

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski. ...

Pierwsze dni (1952)

An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war. ...