Józef Zbiróg

Inland Empire (2006)

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces. ...

20 lat później (1997)

Ewa and Stefan Hauser, with their children Monika and Wolf, live an average middle-class life in East Berlin in 1969. Under Stasi blackmail, Stefan is coerced into cooperation, prompting the family's escape attempt to West Berlin. The plan fails: the coupl ...

The Faithful River (1987)

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and ...

Woman in a Hat (1985)

A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespear ...

Pensja pani Latter (1983)

The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are ...

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 ...

Polonia Restituta (1981)

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent exist ...

"Ty pójdziesz górą..." (Eliza Orzeszkowa) (1980)

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series ...

Placówka (1979)

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not ...

Lesson of a Dead Language (1979)

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances. ...

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 ...

Death of a President (1977)

After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his el ...

Próba ognia (1976)

Romantyczni (1970)

An intimate psychological drama: the story of two brothers who, in the winter of 1848, waited for the opportunity to enter General Bem's troops in Hungary and experience emotional conflicts in a noble manor, which lead to a fundamental confrontation of att ...

How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends (1970)

Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, h ...

More Than Life At Stake Part Three (1969)

The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7. ...

First Pavilion (1968)

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a house where his former mentor, a professor, is conducting experiments on shrinking humans. ...

Hell and Heaven (1966)

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos. ...

Back to Life Again (1965)

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated. ...

A Lady from the Window (1964)

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

Echo (1964)

It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk's (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He's a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor's office. He's accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It's an echo of his ...

Where is the General? (1964)

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers ...

White Tracks (1963)

Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions. ...

Guests Are Coming (1962)

Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wan ...

Birth Certificate (1961)

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In "On the Road," the two main protagonists are lost in the September's strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless document ...

Rzeczywistość (1961)

The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc. ...

Free City (1958)

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II. ...

Szkice węglem (1957)

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband. ...