Jerzy Łapiński

It Looks Pretty from a Distance (2012)

A love story between a scrapper and a young woman. Seen through the monotony of everyday life the film depicts the hardships of a rural community in present-day Poland. The bucolic landscape becomes the seemingly idyllic backdrop from which a sudden disapp ...

Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku (2011)

The plot is a series of unfortunate events happening to unremarkable characters. The father of the main character, Sigismund, unexpectedly decides to marry an unknown, mysterious woman. Shortly after this event, he loses all his money, and his son, Andrew, ...

Polska nowela filmowa (2009)

To a couple, at the age of menopause, who are unexpectedly born a coveted son. Both the mother and father of the child, impressed by the miracle of this birth, want to give the child a name with special meaning. The name has significant religious connotati ...

And a Warm Heart (2008)

A businessman, spoiled by the good life, learns that he suffers from a serious heart condition. He can only survive by finding a donor immediately. In the hospital, he accidentally meets a young man whose grief and job loss have taken away all his will to ...

The World Is Waiting for Us (2006)

The film shows the gray reality of a Polish unemployed slacker still living (despite 30 on the neck) "on mommy's pot". Just what to do when one day she runs out? Where to get money for living? ...

Moje miasto (2002)

This is a story about the inhabitants of a block of flats standing alone on the outskirts of an industrial city. Unemployment, lack of prospects, and powerlessness create a special aura in which events unfold. The main character, 25-year-old Goździk, has ...

Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. ...

Treatment (2001)

A young scientist becomes a victim of his own experiment. Andrzej Majer, a psychiatrist, decides to go to a psychiatric hospital for three months as a patient in order to learn the secrets of his profession. ...

blok.pl (2001)

The residents of a grim 1970s apartment building - the owner of a neighborhood bar and his daughter, who works at the post office, a stockman of fairground junk, a maiden who dreams of becoming a model and winning the affections of the local handsome man, ...

A Very Christmas Story (2000)

Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacatio ...

Bigda is Coming! (1999)

The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to be a cunning populist and an immoral politician, ready fo ...

O dwóch takich, co nic nie ukradli (1999)

The provincial seaside town of Cierpie Dolne. Magda, a journalism student, arrives as part of her internship to conduct broadcasts on the local radio station. Her first interview is with police lieutenant Tucznik, also an intern. Businessman Outlaw and the ...

Amok (1999)

Entertaining movie about the early days of Polish stock exchange in the beginning of 80's. Young TV reporter is sucked into the inferno of easy money, deception, crime, sex and drugs. Sometimes like Kieslowski's moral tales, sometimes like Pasikowski's bru ...

Deserter's Gold (1998)

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mis ...

Taekwondo (1998)

South Korean Kim lives alone in Warsaw, Poland, where he teaches taekwondo. His wife and daughter live in Berlin, just six hours away by train, but he's been traveling around Europe for 10 years and hesitates to even send a birthday card to his daughter. O ...

The Devils, the Devils (1991)

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion — not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this coming-of-age drama, Mala, an ordinary Polish girl who is about thirteen years old, is just beginning to wak ...

Szklany dom (1990)

The main character of the film has just received her dream apartment in an old tenement house. However, it is not allowed to enjoy it for too long. When he returns home with the child, it turns out that the tenement house has disappeared. The woman's goal ...

Zmowa (1990)

Christmas Eve night of 1976. In a village in the newly formed Tarnobrzeg province, a local bus hits a young married couple and a twelve-year-old boy. In the presence of numerous witnesses, the victims are beaten to death with a wheel wrench. In the afterma ...

Konsul (1989)

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes. ...

Powrót do Polski (1988)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office. ...

A Little Girl from the Hotel 'Excelsior' (1988)

Jan, an accountant at pre-retirement age, is on holiday at the Baltic Sea with his wife. He doesn't enjoy her company. He doesn't enjoy other people's company either. The resort's atmosphere makes him sick. One day he meets a mysterious girl on the beach. ...

Famous Like Sarajevo (1988)

The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents. ...

Koniec sezonu na lody (1988)

The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters. ...

Zátah (1986)

A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a long time, even managing to infiltrate Polish territory. They head for the coast, from where they intend t ...

Carmilla (1980)

In 19th-century Styria, isolated Laura's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Laura's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, and t ...

Mała sprawa (1980)

A few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must be prepared to show the guest how well the place is being managed. ...

Provincial Actors (1979)

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble ...

The Refuge (1978)

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man. ...

Passion (1978)

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other ...

Wolna sobota (1977)

Copernicus (1973)

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. ...

Landscape After Battle (1970)

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to cont ...

A Lady from the Window (1964)

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

Godzina pąsowej róży (1963)

A girl finds herself transported to 1880's Warsaw. ...

The Two Who Stole the Moon (1962)

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They se ...

The Voice from Beyond (1962)

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authoriti ...

Bitwa o Kozi Dwór (1962)

A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square. ...

Komedianty (1962)

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success. ...

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. ...

Argument About Basia (1959)

Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death. ...