Stanisław Niwiński

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, ...

Penelopy (1989)

Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City. ...

Black Feet (1987)

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

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. ...

Na tropach Bartka (1984)

Friends, with the help of the gamekeeper and forester, try to catch the poacher. ...

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 ...

Biała gorączka (1981)

Jeśli serce masz bijące (1981)

A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men. ...

Bołdyn (1981)

Racławice. 1794 (1980)

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question. ...

Na własną prośbę (1980)

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management. ...

Green Years (1980)

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children. ...

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. ...

The Gorgon Case (1977)

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the g ...

Where the Water Is Pure and the Grass Is Green (1977)

The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who wan ...

Karino (1977)

The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competiti ...

Kazimierz Wielki (1976)

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

Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist. ...

Heads and Tails (1975)

In spring of 1954, thanks to amnesty, Marcin Nowak - a political prisoner - get released from prison and tries turn his life back to normal ...

The Peasants (1973)

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkows ...

Hubal (1973)

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders. ...

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. ...

Facing the Truth (1970)

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility. ...

Album polski (1970)

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents. ...

The Last Witness (1970)

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

Olympic Fire (1970)

During World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest. ...

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 ...

The Night of the Generals (1967)

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. ...

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju (1967)

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy. ...

Buty (1966)

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her. ...

The Catastrophe (1966)

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

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. ...

Rendes-Vous with a Spy (1964)

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies. ...

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 ...

Passenger (1963)

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life. ...

Czarne skrzydła (1963)

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he or ...

Spotkanie w 'Bajce' (1962)

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe. ...

Rodzina Milcarków (1962)

The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising. ...

It Started Yesterday (1961)

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town. ...

The Hours of Hope (1955)

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards. ...