Jerzy Maksymiuk

Memoirs of a Sinner (1986)

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

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. ...

Who Is That Man? (1985)

The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of language ...

Szkoda twoich łez (1985)

Teresa, a revue dancer dreaming of stardom and love with actor Modecki, endures fleeting affairs, her friend's suicide and a struggling provincial theatre before returning to Warsaw. After winning a leading role and finding success, she learns she's pregna ...

Kamienne tablice (1984)

The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were in the country. But one day, while in the cinema, he watches a newsreel of the shocking riots in Poznan. Dee ...

Pastorale heroica (1984)

March 1945. After crossing the Oder River, one of the Polish Army units heading for Berlin encounters resistance from German defensive formations. After a fierce exchange of fire, a doctor operates on seriously wounded soldiers. Private Józef Łopuch help ...

An Uneventful Story (1983)

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not l ...

Barbed Wire (1983)

Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive. ...

The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)

Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greate ...

Fiasco of Operation Terror (1981)

The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of ...

Najlepszy kolega (1981)

A school reunion is called to commemorate Adam, who died during the Second World War while defending a bridge. Unexpectedly, Adam shows up just before the ceremony. It turns out that he was only wounded, and after a war started a family and lived an ordina ...

Bołdyn (1981)

The Birthday (1980)

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence th ...

Na własną prośbę (1980)

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management. ...

Śnić we śnie (1979)

A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. ...

Sekret Enigmy (1979)

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers ...

Sto koni do stu brzegów (1979)

World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London. ...

Return Ticket (1979)

A young peasant girl, Antonina, emigrates for bread to Canada. She stays with her uncle, who offers her marriage, but Antonina does not accept the offer. She marries a farmer from a nearby village, surreptitiously puts away pennies to pennies and sends to ...

Wherever You Are, Mr. President (1978)

Stefan Starzyński, the mayor of Warsaw, organizes life in the capital in September 1939 and lift the inhabitants' spirits via radio announcements. After the surrender, he does not use his last chance to escape. ...

Working Women (1978)

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary, repetitious labor. ...

Kazimierz Wielki (1976)

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great. ...

Padalce (1974)

An old farmer comes into conflict with his daughter and son-in-law, who value the teaching profession more than farming. ...

Criminal Records (1974)

Two young men from a town near Łódź attack and rob a taxi driver. Unsatisfied with the loot, they make their escape from the authorities across Poland. ...

The Nest (1974)

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achiev ...

Nicponie (1974)

Jolka and the boys from the yard accompanying her meet a retired professor who pays for the glass which they broke. ...

Dark River (1974)

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs. ...

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares. ...

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. ...

Obcy w lesie (1972)

A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness. ...

Opowieść (1972)

A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź. ...

Pułapka (1971)

Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories. ...

Pan Dodek (1971)

A cinematic ode to actor Adolf Dymsza, one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema. The film combines footage from Dymsza's new movies and contextualises in the frame story of Mr. Dodek, a retired actor who recounts his past exploits while trying to ...

Podróżni jak inni (1970)

A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis. ...

Red Rowan (1970)

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2. ...

The Tortures of Hope (1969)

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition. ...

Kwestia sumienia (1969)

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet. ...

Toast (1969)

In 1969, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, documentary filmmakers analyze the achievements of the past 25 years. Contemporary, color photos contrast with black and white, archival photos. Workers of different generati ...

Polonez (1969)

Report from the sports parade on July 22. ...

Examination (1968)

A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it. ...

The Canterville Ghost (1968)

An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him. ...

Świat grozy (1968)

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics. ...

Cześć kapitanie (1968)

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way. ...

Wycieczka w nieznane (1968)

A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer. ...

273 Days Below Zero (1968)

Siberia, contrary to people's first association, is not a deserted land covered with snow. During the one-year stay, Polish documentary filmmakers collected materials that make up the image of the modern industrial area of ​​the North. ...

A Walk in the Clouds (1967)

A balloon flight with Zbigniew Burzyński, the pioneer of ballooning in our country, and his wife became a great opportunity to take picturesque shots of the Polish landscape from a bird's eye view. Zbigniew Burzyński (1902-1971) is the pioneer of balloo ...

Don Gabriel (1966)

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict. ...

Czarne skrzydła (1963)

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he or ...

Maksymiuk. Koncert na dwoje (2019)

Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk and his wife Ewa have a special relationship. The charismatic maestro, who is successful in the world of music, seems completely helpless and lost in everyday life without his wife's help. She supports him in the simplest everyday ...

Męskie sprawy (1989)

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans. ...