Janusz Zaorski

Pokolenia (2017)

The history of Poland told through fragments of movies produced by Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych. ...

Siberian Exile (2013)

An epic tale of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews who are deported to Russia. Their fate is shown from the perspective of a young boy Staszek, who goes to Siberia with his family and neighbors from a small village in the eastern Polish borderlands. Together with his ...

Tree Doctor (2005)

Szymon discovers a naked woman and takes her to his secluded house where, over the next few days, she tells contradictory stories about her life. But it turns out she is not the only person in the house with something to hide. ...

Saved by a Miracle (2004)

The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Years passed, and the "miraculously saved" person did not keep his promise. Now feeling that it is prob ...

Hacker (2002)

Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of complete submission to his clever friend Turbo - and he, in turn, guarantees him the easy money and attention to ...

Happy New York (1997)

The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and cope with the realities of the Big Apple. ...

Who Is Joe Louis? (1992)

The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni. ...

Panny i wdowy (1991)

Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events. ...

Do domu (1990)

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains. ...

Goryl, czyli ostatnie zadanie... (1989)

Soccer Poker (1989)

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to ...

The Mother of the Kings (1987)

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon ...

Sons and Comrades (1986)

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests ...

Baryton (1985)

A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice. ...

Zabawa w chowanego (1984)

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. ...

Point of View (1980)

In 1974 a group of students declares what they plan to be in 1980, and the series follows their lives during those six years. ...

Overdue Vacation (1979)

Maria, a veteran architect heading a design studio, finally secures approval for a long-awaited bearing factory project, but now faces a two-year deadline and staff eager for bonuses. She insists on a meticulously accurate plan that will delay opening yet ...

A Room with a Sea View (1978)

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man. ...

A Partite for a Woodwind Instrument (1976)

The owner of sawmill receives a order from a german lieutenant to make forty gallows ...

Promotion (1975)

After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize. ...

Chleba naszego powszedniego (1974)

A contemporary drama about the problem of adaptation of people from rural areas to the urban environment, which is characteristic of our civilization. A father and son arrive in Warsaw and find themselves on a large construction site of a modern thoroughfa ...

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. ...

Uciec jak najbliżej (1972)

A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip. ...

Goodnight (1971)

Two neighbours living in one block of flats share the same dreams at night - they murder each another. ...

Night Silence (2024)

A theatre actor whose health is failing gets admitted to a nursing home. Soon, he starts having nightmares that seemingly become deceptively real. The so-called nightmares were able to make him live in two parallel dimensions. ...

Escape to the Silver Globe (2021)

A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic "On the Silver Globe". ...

Hacker (2002)

Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of complete submission to his clever friend Turbo - and he, in turn, guarantees him the easy money and attention to ...

E=mc² (2002)

The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend. ...

Panny i wdowy (1991)

Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events. ...

Soccer Poker (1989)

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to ...

The Smaller Sky (1981)

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter i ...

Man of Iron (1981)

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Po ...

Screen Tests (1977)

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an aff ...

God's Finger (1973)

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor. ...

Goodnight (1971)

Two neighbours living in one block of flats share the same dreams at night - they murder each another. ...