Józef Nowak

Zamach stanu (1981)

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski's country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal's return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski's move spark ...

Na melinę (1981)

A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis. ...

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. ...

Full Moon (1979)

A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to l ...

Zakręt (1977)

A psychological study of a successful man, completely devoted to his professional work, for whom the first vacation in years becomes an opportunity to reflect on the illusory value of civilizational progress, opposed to the purity and harmony of the natura ...

Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist. ...

How It's Done (1974)

Two ambitious men - one a self-described director, another a self-described writer, meet on a train to Zakopane and decide to make a movie together. ...

It's Spring, Sergeant (1974)

In Trzebiatów, a small town, there is an unusual bustle. A crowd of residents has gathered in the market square to welcome their beloved MO sergeant, Władysław Lichniak. The sergeant has just returned from his written high school final exam. The residen ...

The Peasants (1973)

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkows ...

Hubal (1973)

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders. ...

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne (1973)

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student. ...

Through the Fifth Dimension (1973)

Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures. ...

Profesor na drodze (1973)

Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas. ...

Agnieszka (1973)

The school incident of the disappearance of a watch became a pretext for the filmmakers to faithfully show an interesting social layer, to present the life of the school community, Agnieszka's conflicts with her parents and the emerging sympathy for a boy. ...

Culling (1972)

Chief Forester Szymon from the observation tower sees a professor in the forest, walking through his district. Szymon and his wife Celina later engage in a disagreement due to his indifference and refusal to react on the professor's illegal hunting. Celina ...

Kłopotliwy gość (1971)

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it. ...

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni... (1971)

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if ...

Kardiogram (1971)

A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants. ...

Hydro-Puzzle (1971)

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As. ...

Legenda (1971)

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2. ...

Goodnight (1971)

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

Facing the Truth (1970)

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility. ...

Planeta - Ziemia (1970)

The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life. ...

Dom (1970)

A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow. ...

A Hole in the Ground (1970)

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberanc ...

Shoot Paragon! (1970)

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon. ...

Red Rowan (1970)

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

Nowy (1970)

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed. ...

The Neighbours (1969)

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager. ...

Korn's Password (1968)

An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn. ...

Ostatni po Bogu (1968)

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea. ...

Countess Cosel (1968)

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704. ...

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines. ...

Westerplatte Resists (1967)

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It ...

Bigos (1966)

The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp. ...

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 ...

Barwy walki (1964)

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region. ...

Mężczyźni na wyspie (1962)

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

Drugi brzeg (1962)

A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars. ...

The Verdict (1962)

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it. ...

Drugi człowiek (1961)

A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home. ...

Silent Traces (1961)

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him. ...

Księżyc z Alabamy (1961)

Ostrożnie yeti (1961)

Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, fr ...

The Return (1960)

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him. ...

Bad Luck (1960)

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck. ...

Dezerter (1958)

A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ... ...

Eroica (1958)

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one ...

Man on the Tracks (1957)

One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a ...

Under the Phrygian Star (1954)

Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose". ...

Cellulose (1954)

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of c ...

Adventure in Marienstadt (1954)

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. ...

Soldier of Victory (1953)

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs. ...

The Warsaw Debut (1951)

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka". ...