Ryszard Kotys

Gods (2014)

Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa. ...

1939 Battle of Westerplatte (2013)

September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland. ...

Erratum (2010)

Michał, a former musician who gave up his dreams and became an accountant, is asked by his boss to retrieve a truck he had shipped from America. The destination is Michael's former hometown, a port town which Michal left in a hurry years earlier. After re ...

Miracle Seller (2010)

A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives. ...

Eucalyptus (2002)

A story about the search for an ideal in a world devoid of values. It is a surreal parable about human nature, played out in the convention of a Western, in which the myth of the Wild West is put to the ultimate test of endurance. In the Wild West's most d ...

Sezon na leszcza (2000)

The teenage siblings know that no one will give them a life more interesting than vegetating in a gloomy hole. They take matters into their own hands and organize a bank robbery, because money is their ticket to a better world. Everything was supposed to g ...

Trees (1996)

A forty-year-old pregnant woman working scientifically as a biologist conducts unusual experiments in her home laboratory. The plants she grows feel physical pain and fear. One day a falling tree kills a man. The incident repeats itself and people begin to ...

The Story About Master Twardowski (1996)

On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions are not selfless. Twardowski signs a pact with Hell, unaware of what he is agreeing to. Eighteen years pass, an ...

Kamień na kamieniu (1995)

A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before the war. There, he became involved in the leftist movement. He returned to his home village after the war ...

Tu stoję... (1994)

A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth. ...

Pigs 2: The Last Blood (1994)

Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight s ...

At the End of the World (1994)

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands, using it as a tool in his election campaign. In the queue outside the passport office, people chat, make plans ...

Two Moons (1993)

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor. ...

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993)

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - a ...

A Bachelor's Life Abroad (1993)

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approac ...

Kanalia (1992)

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge. ...

Controlled Conversations (1991)

Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland. ...

Les Enfants du vent (1991)

It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of Resistance fighters have taken refuge in the mountains, and they manage to hook up with three local youngsters. All six of them are being hunted by the Germ ...

Seychelles (1991)

A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman an ...

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. ...

The Secret of a Wild Forest (1991)

Tadeusz, a junior high school student, visits to his forester grandfather who lives in an ancient forest. During one of the hunts, his grandfather tells him about the rumors circulating around about a treasure sunk in the lake. ...

Po upadku (1990)

A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception. ...

The Return of She-Wolf (1990)

A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess attacks the fiancée. ...

Zabić na końcu (1990)

Two workers, bored with their current situation, decide to rob a famous movie director. ...

Déjà vu (1990)

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of ...

Piggate (1990)

The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig. ...

Koniec (1990)

A referee informs his associates about the nuclear war that is about to begin. ...

Ring (1990)

Return of the Pied Piper (1989)

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town. ...

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. ...

Światło odbite (1989)

The writer Zbigniew takes part in a psychotherapeutic session, during which he tells his story. ...

Dotknięci (1989)

Jan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives, and the clandestine extra pills supplied by Jan, their son Piotr and Jan's friend Maria, leads to Joanna's fatal overdose. Accused of murder, Jan endures ...

Thief (1988)

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples. ...

Bermuda Triangle (1988)

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness. ...

Swan Song (1988)

After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: "The Flame". The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes ...

The Crossing (1988)

WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions. ...

Sonata marymoncka (1988)

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland. ...

King Size (1988)

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the ...

Black Feet (1987)

A group of Boy scouts who name themselves Black Feet learn lessons about honor and brotherhood in a camp. ...

Freelancer (1987)

Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother. ...

A Woman Alone (1987)

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by he ...

Rykowisko (1987)

The 1970s. Senator Caposta, an American of Polish descent, is due to arrive for trade negotiations. A condition of his arrival is to obtain permission to shoot a magnificent deer. The hunt is to be led by Wiktor Szalaj from the Kosy forester's lodge. ...

The Wild One (1987)

The forest man, Kondrat, tells the boys about a she-wolf with a young litter. They sneak into the lair. The she-wolf sets off in pursuit of her pups. Bierniuka falls into the swamp. He is rescued by Kondrat. He punishes him for taking all the wolf pups. Bi ...

Sezon na bażanty (1986)

Well-known fencer Paweł Kaczmarek makes an important decision in his life – he decides to quit drinking. Unexpectedly, he receives information that his ex-wife is staying in Austria with his child. He immediately sets off for Austria, finds Anna's apart ...

Crumbs of War (1986)

A young partisan named Derkacz is fighting in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. In order to transport the wounded commander, he takes a horse from a nearby village along with its owner, teenage Józek. ...

Sam pośród swoich (1986)

The year 1946 - a young officer between service, love, school... ...

Zátah (1986)

A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a long time, even managing to infiltrate Polish territory. They head for the coast, from where they intend t ...

Romans z intruzem (1985)

End of August 1939. The Polish-German border is crossed by a German defector from the Wehrmacht, Ernst Hoffman, with the information that on August 26 at 4:45 Germany will attack Poland. ...

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. ...

Vabank II (1985)

A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. ...

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterio ...

Bohun and Kmicic (1984)

A unit of the People's Army celebrates the moment of liberation of the country. They remember the times of occupation, the actions they took, and their fallen colleagues. ...

It's Only Rock (1984)

After watching a concert by a fledgling rock band, renowned songwriter Marczak decides to promote only its vocalist, Sylwia. The girl decides to leave her bandmates, including her boyfriend, Janek. She is to perform at a festival in Gradów. Marczak's ex-w ...

The Twenties, the Thirties (1984)

On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform. ...

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. ...

Big Shar (1983)

Fresh out of prison, a seasoned poker hustler finds himself teaching the trade to a young cab driver chasing his first big win. ...

She-Wolf (1983)

In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf. ...

Barbed Wire (1983)

Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive. ...

Shivers (1981)

A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts. ...

The Big Picnic (1981)

Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and deci ...

Vabank (1981)

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstab ...

Biała gorączka (1981)

Olympics 40 (1980)

The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of ...

Father of the Queen (1980)

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission. ...

Golem (1980)

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe ...

Leisure Time (1979)

Poland in the mid-1970s. In a small town, the student theater is preparing its premiere. ...

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. ...

Operation "Himmler" (1979)

A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident. ...

Provincial Actors (1979)

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble ...

Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation. ...

Top Dog (1978)

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career. ...

A Room with a Sea View (1978)

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man. ...

Merry Christmas (1977)

Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends. ...

Wolna sobota (1977)

Sunday Children (1977)

A young couple who are unable to have children make a deal with a poor woman to buy her illegitimate child rather than wait through the time-consuming process of legal adoption. ...

Strach (1975)

A Story in Red (1974)

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village ...

Awards and Decorations (1974)

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty. ...

Lost Night (1974)

Returning from Rome, Warsaw writer Wacław Kisielecki's car breaks down late one evening on a country road, forcing him and his chauffeur, Konstanty, to seek lodging at a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the dilapida ...

Fortune (1973)

A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars. ...

Bolesław Śmiały (1972)

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

The Epidemic (1972)

Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man. ...

Uciec jak najbliżej (1972)

A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip. ...

Leprosy (1971)

When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal. ...

Nos (1971)

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted. ...

First Love (1971)

Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance. ...

Piżama (1971)

A woman desperate to improve her social standing goads her husband into buying pajamas - a symbol of high status. ...

Wezwanie (1971)

A family drama set in a Polish village - a woman recounts her life after her husband's death, focusing on the differences between her two sons and the tragedy that befalls one of them. ...

Who Believes in Storks? (1971)

A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend. ...

Signs on the Road (1970)

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace. ...

The Last Witness (1970)

Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure. ...

Red Rowan (1970)

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

Only the Dead Can Answer (1969)

Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing ...

The Red and the Gold (1969)

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War. ...

The Pier (1969)

After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades. ...

The Doll (1968)

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended t ...

Wolves' Echoes (1968)

A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East. ...

Poczmistrz (1968)

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer. ...

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four (1968)

The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8. ...

Our Folks (1967)

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms. ...

The Killer Leaves a Trace (1967)

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files. ...

The Wall of Witches (1967)

A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart. ...

Bumerang (1966)

A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II. ...

Sobótki (1966)

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father. ...

The Saragossa Manuscript (1966)

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather. ...

The Catastrophe (1966)

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses. ...

Then There Will Be Silence (1966)

Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans. ...

A Lady from the Window (1964)

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

Agnes 1946 (1964)

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other. ...

Avatar: The Exchange of Souls (1964)

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives in Paris with his beloved wife, but their quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of Octavius de Saville, a former admirer of the Countess from her days in Florence. Obsessed with possessing her, Octavius seeks out Dr. Cherbon ...

White Tracks (1963)

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

Dziewczyna z dobrego domu (1962)

Instead of coming to her own engagement party, Joanna throws herself into New Year's Eve partying. Her fiancé follows her lead. ...

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. ...

Pills for Aurelia (1958)

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo. ...

Two from the Big River (1958)

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents. ...

Zemsta (1957)

Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry. ...

Trzy starty (1955)

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is ...

A Generation (1955)

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight o ...