Józef Hen

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God (2003)

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and ...

Hania (1984)

Young master Henry and his peer, the son of a rich Tatar landowner Salim Mirza, fall in love with the same girl. Hania is an orphan, the daughter of Henry's father's faithful servant. There is a fierce rivalry between the young men for the girl's favor, an ...

Ostrze na ostrze (1983)

The action of the film takes place in the 17th century. Piotr Wolski returns to the country and is appointed juridic governor. A man tries to rule fairly and restore order. He soon falls in love with Konstancja, but his background causes problems. ...

Yokohama (1982)

An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer. ...

Cham (1980)

The Border (1978)

Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely Justyna Bogutówna, the daughter of a cook. When the canicule comes to an end, Zenon packs his bags and leaves f ...

Teraz i w każdą godzinę (1973)

The dispatcher of the Medical Aviation Ambulance Service receives a phone call about the need to transport a patient from hundreds of miles away to Warsaw. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Ping-pong (1966)

A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them. ...

Pearls and Ducats (1966)

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her. ...

Markiza de Pompadour (1966)

A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father's business by promising a marriage to the customers. ...

The Unknown (1964)

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen. ...

The Law and the Fist (1964)

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against ...

Adam's Two Ribs (1964)

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof. ...

Weekendy (1963)

An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s. ...

Far Is the Road (1963)

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland. ...

The Boxer and Death (1963)

Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend a ...

Bitwa o Kozi Dwór (1962)

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

Nobody's Calling (1960)

Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past. ...

Rancho Texas (1959)

Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, ...

Cross of Valor (1959)

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is h ...

Warsaw: A City Divided (2019)

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot b ...