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Krzysztof Zanussi

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Powstaniec 1863 (2024)

A gripping story about a man who was the terror of the Russian Empire: the legendary figure of a Polish priest, chaplain and general - Father Stanislaw Brzoska. ...

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The Perfect Number (2022)

The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to gradually reevaluate his priorities. This meeting will have a huge impact on both of them and will provoke ...

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Ether (2018)

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he ...

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My Beloved Enemy (2018)

A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no enemies, the killer goes on a mission and transforms the professor's life. ...

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Spoor (2017)

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her. ...

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Under Electric Clouds (2015)

Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. ...

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Close-Ups (2014)

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways. ...

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Foreign Body (2014)

A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi. ...

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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema. ...

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Rose (2012)

This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plund ...

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Back to Your Arms (2010)

1961. Father and daughter, separated during World War II, are trying to meet in Berlin. He comes to Berlin from Soviet Lithuania, she comes from the USA. Even if the Berlin Wall has not been built yet, the Cold War is coming close to its apogee. Political ...

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Revisited (2009)

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland's great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works. ...

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Drowsiness (2008)

The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a gay doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations. ...

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The Offsiders (2008)

Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship. ...

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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 ...

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Wednesday, Thursday Morning (2008)

On August 1, the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, two young people, lost and alone, are looking for happiness and their way in life. ...

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Black Sun (2007)

After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death ...

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Solidarność, Solidarność... (2005)

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview. ...

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Persona non grata (2005)

A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife. ...

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Tulips (2005)

The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him. ...

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The Welts (2004)

Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon ...

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Julie Walking Home (2002)

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her h ...

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The Supplement (2002)

An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. ...

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Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure (2001)

Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly. ...

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Weiser (2001)

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser. ...

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Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimen ...

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100 Years of Polish Cinema (1999)

The Polish entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries ...

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Rider of the Flames (1998)

Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedrich Hölderlin secures the position of a private tutor in the home of a banker named Gontard. He is soon tor ...

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Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law (1998)

A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral outrage is complicated: the married man allowed himself to be seduced by the woman, who threatens to tell the ...

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Weekend Stories: Dilatory Line (1998)

A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal the truth the more uncertainty he discovers. ...

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Weekend Stories: The Last Circle (1998)

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immediately clashes with his ex-wife, who stayed behind when he defected. ...

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Weekend Stories: Deceptive Charm (1998)

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps. ...

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Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings (1997)

A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve concert, but his shot at fame is threatened when, against his better judgment, he goes out on a rainy night and g ...

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Our God's Brother (1997)

In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless. ...

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Weekend Stories: Little Faith (1997)

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism. ...

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Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika T ...

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At Full Gallop (1996)

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorit ...

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Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge. ...

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"Do not be afraid". The Life and Teachings of Pope John Paul II (1996)

May 13, 1981, afternoon. A general audience with the head of the Church is taking place in St. Mark's Square in Rome. Suddenly, the joyful buzz rising above the crowd of pilgrims is interrupted by the crack of gunshots. John Paul II, his face contorted wit ...

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The Wrong Address (1995)

A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Lady with an Ermine". The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski in Cracow where he presents his favourite painting and with the aid of video effects, he wryly invites us to com ...

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The Silent Touch (1992)

Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical ...

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Luke (1991)

Young homeless man Luke is not going to obey the laws established by his homeless colleagues, as well as the arbitrariness of the foreman when he finds himself in forced labor. But only resistance to his own kind does not give Luke anything: without housin ...

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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991)

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. ...

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Inventory (1989)

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Ju ...

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Wherever You Are... (1988)

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. ...

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And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust. ...

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Power Of Evil (1985)

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man. ...

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Blaubart (1984)

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former wives, confront him with his past. Finally acquitted, the doctor loses himself in feelings of deepest guil ...

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A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the righ ...

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The Unapproachable (1982)

A once celebrated, still famous actress lives an "unreachable" and secluded life in a villa in Berlin's Grunewald forest. One day, a young man uses a trick to break into her voluntary isolation, and a subtle game develops between the two, in which each sli ...

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Imperative (1982)

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. Wha ...

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The Contract (1982)

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Onl ...

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From a Far Country (1981)

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities ...

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The Constant Factor (1980)

A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frai ...

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Ways in the Night (1979)

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom. ...

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The Spiral (1978)

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, d ...

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Haus der Frauen (1978)

Six women from three generations of one family live in an old villa on the outskirts of a provincial Polish town. All of them have lost their husbands; one is divorced, the others are widows. The women live on their memories, raving about the old days or l ...

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Camouflage (1977)

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp. ...

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Anatomiestunde (1977)

A group of German medical students is discussing the influence of various factors on the human psyche. Pharmacological agents can not only restrict an individual's freedom and destroy their free will, but also plunge them into fear and cause the disappeara ...

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The Catamount Killing (1975)

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together. ...

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A Woman's Decision (1975)

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when ...

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Nachtdienst (1975)

A young doctor from Yugoslavia takes care of a rich baroness, who in carefully devised ways, attempts to destroy her dignity. An intimate drama about the search for self-esteem by humiliating others. ...

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The Catamount (1974)

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together. ...

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Hipoteza (1973)

A brilliant but troubled professor confronts his fears while working on his design of a space rocket. ...

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Illumination (1973)

Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart. ...

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Behind the Wall (1971)

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses. ...

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Podróżni jak inni (1970)

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

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Mountains at Dusk (1970)

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together. ...

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The Structure of Crystal (1969)

Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths. ...

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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. ...

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Krzysztof Penderecki (1968)

A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki ...

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Computers (1967)

How does a computer work? It's easy! This educational film vividly explains the principles of the binary system, which is the underlying operating concept for digital machines. ...

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The Death of a Provincial (1966)

Young and lively artist lives at the monastery while restoring the interiors and pays attention to the very old monk who is going to pass away soon. ...

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Students (1962)

This is a short story woven into the scenery of Kraków's students' festival. The camera is always at the center of events and is accompanied by the main character – Jurek, in search of his sister. In this film, events are part of a larger whole. The ma ...

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A Plane from Budapest (1961)

Here we see short scenes from a random day at the airport. We have flying planes, landings, passport checking scenes, passengers waiting for their relatives. This documentary shows the ordinary but unique behaviors and reactions of the passengers and the a ...

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Holden (1961)

A rainy-night clash in a boarding-school dorm forces a swaggering teen to confront his insecurities and the price of rebellion. ...

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Girl and Uhlan (1961)

A school etude referring to a painting motif about the farewell of lovers. He, the uhlan, must ride away on his horse into the blue distance, and she, the girl in a flower wreath, cannot come to terms with it. ...

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Umbrella (1961)

A light, comedy etude by Krzysztof Zanussi about a husband jealous of his wife's secret admirer. ...

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Stop Thief (1961)

An etude depicting theft and the pursuit of a thief taking place in an urban setting. ...

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Recepta dla Johna (1960)

A spy named John learns the importance of sports and health from Nowa Huta citizens ...

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Movies Starring Krzysztof Zanussi (15)

Talking Heads 2021 (2021)

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as "Who are you?" and "What do you want?". ...

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Life is a Thrill (2020)

This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with love for cinema. ...

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The Gift (2019)

After the release of "Nostalgia", Andrei Tarkovsky runs out his Soviet authorities permission to work abroad: he has to go back home. But he understands from the messages of some friends and colleagues that his life in Russia would be even tougher than bef ...

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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017)

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years' imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. T ...

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We Film the People! (2013)

The unique story of film directors who managed to critic the Communist regime while being produced by the State: this is Polish cinema's golden age, in the 1970s. Director Ania Szczepanska, born in Poland and raised in France, meets prominent filmmakers, p ...

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Celluloid Man (2012)

Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant. ...

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Sodankylä Forever (2010)

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (2008)

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Tarkovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia ...

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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski (2006)

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documen ...

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Solidarność, Solidarność... (2005)

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview. ...

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Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimen ...

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Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings (1997)

A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve concert, but his shot at fame is threatened when, against his better judgment, he goes out on a rainy night and g ...

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Camera Buff (1979)

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus o ...

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