Irena Karel

Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic (2012)

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera ...

Rose (2012)

This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plund ...

Bajland (2000)

A black political comedy, which, as a backdrop, uses the election race and the accompanying chaos in the media. The film's protagonist is a presidential candidate in the 2000 elections in Poland who suddenly withdraws from the election campaign despite his ...

Art of Loving (1989)

Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist... ...

Mister Blot's Academy (1984)

Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa's classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is th ...

Salty Rose (1983)

The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he recalls how he fell in love with a charming Jewish girl before the outbreak of the war. He manages to find her, ...

Teddy Bear (1981)

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages. ...

Justyna (1979)

Lesson of a Dead Language (1979)

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances. ...

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 ...

The Shadow-Line (1976)

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curious ...

Dulscy (1976)

Set at the end of the XIX-th century. Madame Dulska is the sole and absolute ruler of her house in Cracow. She is ruthless, greedy and oversensitive of the reputation of her family. To protect his son from temptations she overlooks the affair he is having ...

Convicted (1976)

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

Hour After Hour (1974)

Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers. ...

Language of Love (1974)

An Egyptian man falls in love with a Polish woman and gets a scholarship to be with her. Meanwhile, an American student decides to seduce him for revenge. ...

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 ...

Motodrama (1971)

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

November Day (1971)

Karol lives alone in the forester's lodge. Unexpectedly, he is visited by his mother whom he has not seen for years. ...

Wezwanie (1971)

A family drama set in a Polish village - a woman recounts her life after her husband's death, focusing on the differences between her two sons and the tragedy that befalls one of them. ...

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. ...

Signals: A Space Adventure (1970)

In the middle of the next century, a spaceship loses its bearings, and the commander of another space crew, seemingly on a routine check flight, decides to investigate. The result is an unusual suspense adventure. ...

In Any Weather (1970)

A young sea rescuer tries to find his place in the difficult world of his work. ...

Nowy (1970)

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed. ...

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. ...

More Than Life At Stake Part Two (1969)

The second of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 2 and 4. ...

Mistrz tańca (1969)

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death. ...

Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies. ...

Ostatni po Bogu (1968)

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea. ...

Wolves' Echoes (1968)

A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East. ...

Poradnik matrymonialny (1968)

Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was taken to the hospital, where he is looked after by his sister Krystyna. ...

When Love Was a Crime (1968)

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler's "racial purity" law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany. ...

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines. ...

Stajnia na Salvatorze (1967)

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer. ...

Bicz Boży (1967)

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw. ...

Penguin (1965)

A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party. ...