Jerzy Block

I Love Cinema (1988)

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater. ...

On the Banks of the Niemen (1987)

Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between ...

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986)

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague. ...

Tętno (1986)

In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease. ...

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. ...

Miłość z listy przebojów (1985)

Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed yea ...

Follies of Miss Eva (1985)

From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world. ...

Fort 13 (1984)

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War. ...

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. ...

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi (1983)

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it. ...

Spokojne lata (1982)

Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema. ...

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 ...

Ślepy bokser (1982)

A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site. ...

The Quack (1982)

A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of sever ...

Dog (1981)

A young couple's dog becomes a subject of crutiny by the other residents of their apartment complex, setting off a bureacratic nightmare in this satire of Polish society. ...

Biała gorączka (1981)

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 ...

Whiter Than Snow (1976)

A film crew arrives at an eighty-year-old writer's mansion to interview him. The behavior of the host's wife raises concerns in one of the reporters. ...

Faust (1976)

Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil offers him youth and knowledge of the meaning of existence. Faust becomes a beautiful young man. He meets a young, virtuous girl Margaret - he asks Mephistoph ...

The Leaves Have Fallen (1975)

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompani ...

Grzech Antoniego Grudy (1975)

Rush Hour (1974)

The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill. ...

God's Finger (1973)

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

Through and Through (1973)

Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime. ...

Fortune (1973)

A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars. ...

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. ...

The Ring of Queen Ann (1971)

Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation. ...

Signs on the Road (1970)

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace. ...

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 ...

Co jest w człowieku w środku (1969)

A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected. ...

The Red and the Gold (1969)

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War. ...

Pharaoh (1966)

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country. ...

The Catastrophe (1966)

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

Salto (1965)

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd. ...

The Lost Bridge (1963)

Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terroris ...

Skąpani w ogniu (1963)

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there. ...

Mężczyźni na wyspie (1962)

Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman. ...

The People from the Train (1961)

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station t ...

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. ...