Maciej Góraj

Smolensk (2016)

Inspired by true events of 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smolensk, the film tells the partially fictional story of crash and various people affected by the tragedy. The protagonist is a journalist Nina, who refuses to accept the official version of ...

Pułapka (1997)

An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s. ...

Virtuti (1989)

Second half of September 1939. Lt. Brejer, along with a detachment of his sappers, receives orders to blow up the bridge. The promised explosives do not arrive. So Brejer gets the order to withdraw and reunite with the rest of the division. Along the way, ...

Konsul (1989)

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes. ...

Faithfulness We Pledge (1989)

Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War ...

Warszawskie gołębie (1989)

Wacław Kaczmarski has been breeding pigeons for many years, which is a family tradition (his grandfather and father bred pigeons before him). The birds are an important part of his life; he spends every free moment with them, and they are his escape from ...

Chrześniak (1986)

The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistak ...

Piętno (1985)

Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death. ...

The Mystery of the Old Garden (1984)

A group of teenagers dream of adventures and experiencing something unusual, mysterious and romantic. The boys play treasure hunters and detectives in an old park adjacent to a modern housing estate. By accident, the heroes find the trail of a youth gang t ...

Thais (1984)

Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed ...

I Died So I Could Live (1984)

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison. ...

Michał (1984)

Michał is among the soldiers quartered in a village near Lublin. By accident, he goes to the palace and visits the magnificent building, where he meets a widow Maria. Meanwhile, local peasants do not want to wait for the start of land reform. They appoint ...

Co dzień bliżej nieba (1984)

After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there. ...

On, ona, oni (1983)

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce. ...

Śpiewy po rosie (1982)

A portrait of a small, contemporary village, shaken by the return of one of its residents from prison. Zdzich returns from prison to a small village on the edge of the Augustów Primeval Forest. He was accused of shooting a militiaman and, despite the clea ...

Hotel klasy lux (1979)

The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening. ...

The White Mazurka (1979)

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow ...

Najlepsze w świecie (1977)

Ten-year-old Kajetan is fascinated by the young MO lieutenant Wandalin. He would like to meet him, so he is delighted when he learns that the man will become his stepfather. A wonderful bond develops between them. Kajetan's mother dies; the boy is afraid t ...

Doctor Judym (1975)

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor. ...

Nights and Days (1975)

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The pl ...

Strach (1975)

I killed (1975)

During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface. ...

The Promised Land (1975)

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town. ...

Remember Your Name (1974)

Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the sn ...

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. ...

Opis obyczajów (1973)

A group of ethnography students meet the enigmatic Mruk family while doing an internship at the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. ...

Bolesław Śmiały (1972)

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski. ...