Ryszard Ronczewski

The Wedding Day (2021)

The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 80 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history. ...

My Name Is Sara (2020)

The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend's identity and finds refuge in a small ...

Chemo (2015)

Thirty year old Benek experiences a crisis mainly manifested by compulsive suicidal thoughts and dreams about death. Accidentally he meets a beautiful, magnetic and mouthy Lena. He is dazzled from the first moment and his admiration grows when Lena not onl ...

11 Minutes (2015)

The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time. ...

West (2013)

East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, sh ...

Aftermath (2012)

Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them. ...

Kaddisch für einen Freund (2012)

Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, 14-year-old Ali Messalam learned to hate "the Jews" from an early age. After fleeing Lebanon with his family, he arrives in Berlin Kreuzberg. Here, Ali tries to make friends with the Arab youths in the neighborhood ...

Kop głębiej (2011)

Searching for his family roots, aged German pensioner Hugo Schmidt arrives with his grandson in a village in the Mazury region. The house where he was born is now inhabited by a poor Polish family, resettlers from across the Bug River, not very concerned w ...

Time Of Darkness (2008)

Four friends come to the site of an old abandoned factory in Lower Silesia, where a year ago lost their buddy. Trying to unravel the mystery of his disappearance uncover the terrible truth about their experiments in the factory. ...

And Along Come Tourists (2007)

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herol ...

1409. Afera na zamku Bartenstein (2005)

On the outskirts of the monastic state stands the small, neglected Bartenstein Castle. Its residents are exceptionally exceptional Teutonic Knights. Their swords are deadly.... For themselves. Not far from the castle, a village of clever craftsmen flourish ...

King Ubu (2004)

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country. ...

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God (2003)

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and ...

Edges of the Lord (2001)

A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis. ...

Podróż na wschód (1997)

Ewa decides to leave Paris and find her husband left in Poland. ...

Blood of the Innocent (1994)

A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob. ...

Kanalia (1992)

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

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. ...

A Little Girl from the Hotel 'Excelsior' (1988)

Jan, an accountant at pre-retirement age, is on holiday at the Baltic Sea with his wife. He doesn't enjoy her company. He doesn't enjoy other people's company either. The resort's atmosphere makes him sick. One day he meets a mysterious girl on the beach. ...

The Refuge (1978)

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man. ...

Index (1977)

The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everyt ...

Ostatnie takie trio (1977)

Kazimierz Wielki (1976)

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great. ...

Green, Bygone... (1976)

A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling ...

The Nest (1974)

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achiev ...

Copernicus (1973)

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. ...

Ferry (1970)

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines. ...

Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies. ...

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. ...

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. ...

The Vampire (1968)

Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy. ...

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 ...

Bicz Boży (1967)

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw. ...

Full Ahead (1967)

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures. ...

A Cure for Love (1966)

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to wo ...

Pharaoh (1966)

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country. ...

The Saragossa Manuscript (1966)

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

Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a "Polityka" magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski. ...

A Lady from the Window (1964)

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

Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed i ...

The End of Our World (1964)

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it ...

My Second Marriage (1964)

After the death of his wife, Marcin stays alone with his growing son on the farm. ...

"Yokmok" (1963)

Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him suspicious in the eyes of the local government. ...

Mrs. Hanka's Diary (1963)

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs. ...

The Last Ride (1963)

Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders. ...

Skąpani w ogniu (1963)

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there. ...

The Two Who Stole the Moon (1962)

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They se ...

Komedianty (1962)

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success. ...

All Souls' Day (1961)

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up. ...

Time Past (1961)

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighte ...

Rok pierwszy (1960)

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities. ...

Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights. ...

The Devil from Seventh Grade (1960)

Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous. ...

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. ...

Białe zwierzęta (1960)

An experimental film made for Polish television. ...

Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thie ...

The Real End of the Great War (1957)

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls ...

Trzy kobiety (1957)

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war. ...

Kanal (1957)

In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However ...

Nikodem Dyzma (1956)

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero o ...

Podhale w ogniu (1956)

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski. ...