Jan Paweł Kruk

Stary człowiek i pies (2008)

The film presents the story of Robert - an aging, once-recognized artist who is today struggling with his own complexes and vices, and helplessness towards a new reality that ruthlessly throws him to the margins of existence. One day Robert finds himself i ...

20 lat później (1997)

Ewa and Stefan Hauser, with their children Monika and Wolf, live an average middle-class life in East Berlin in 1969. Under Stasi blackmail, Stefan is coerced into cooperation, prompting the family's escape attempt to West Berlin. The plan fails: the coupl ...

The Story About Master Twardowski (1996)

On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions are not selfless. Twardowski signs a pact with Hell, unaware of what he is agreeing to. Eighteen years pass, an ...

A Bachelor's Life Abroad (1993)

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approac ...

Kanalia (1992)

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge. ...

Europa Europa (1990)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. ...

Return of the Pied Piper (1989)

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town. ...

Republika nadziei (1988)

The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in ...

King Size (1988)

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the ...

Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu (1987)

The young count makes a bet with his friends about who will be the first to win the favor of a girl they meet. The opportunity to meet her arises unexpectedly quickly. ...

The Faithful River (1987)

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and ...

Memoirs of a Sinner (1986)

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego. ...

Axiliad (1986)

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect. ...

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. ...

Vabank II (1985)

A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. ...

Fucha (1985)

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb. ...

The Linnet (1982)

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She st ...

Śpiewy po rosie (1982)

A portrait of a small, contemporary village, shaken by the return of one of its residents from prison. Zdzich returns from prison to a small village on the edge of the Augustów Primeval Forest. He was accused of shooting a militiaman and, despite the clea ...

Bołdyn (1981)

Placówka (1979)

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not ...

Umarli rzucają cień (1979)

Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance. ...

Biohazard (1978)

The former head of the Institute of Science - Professor Molnar, returns to the Institute to seek treatment for his heart condition. The new director of the Institute, and his former assistant, Dr. Egberg had a falling out with Molnar after the latter consi ...

Milioner (1977)

The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads ...

Honor dziecka (1976)

There has been a secret relationship between the nephew of the ordinate - Jan, and his older cousin Xymena. However, Jan falls in love with the foster daughter of the ordinate, the young Krystyna. The ordinate does not consent to marriage, because Krystyna ...

Victory (1975)

This film was created by combining and shortening the films Kierunek Berlin (Destination Berlin) and Ostatnie dni (The Last Days). It presents the final phase of the great offensive of 1945, which ended with the capture of Berlin, from the perspective of a ...

The Promised Land (1975)

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town. ...

Dwoje bliskich obcych ludzi (1974)

A young couple decides to divorce. ...

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 ...

Skarb trzech łotrów (1972)

An old man's death leads to a high-profile police investigation, who connect the crime with the search for lost corsair treasure. ...

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 ...

Przygoda Stasia (1970)

The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local or ...

Ostatnie dni (1969)

As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters. ...

Komedie pomyłek (1968)

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works. ...

Kochajmy syrenki (1967)

Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario ...

Boxer (1967)

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics. ...

Komedia z pomyłek (1967)

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on th ...

Cierpkie głogi (1966)

A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings. ...

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. ...

Zawsze w niedziele (1966)

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at co ...

Niedziela sprawiedliwości (1966)

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder. ...

Then There Will Be Silence (1966)

Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans. ...

The Holy War (1965)

To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski). ...

Obok prawdy (1965)

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

Banda (1965)

A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation. ...

Beata (1965)

Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her, runs away from home. ...

A Lady from the Window (1964)

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

The Devil from Seventh Grade (1960)

Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous. ...

Place on Earth (1960)

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law. ...