Witold Dębicki

Shattered Games (2024)

The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow ...

The Girl from My Dreams (2022)

The story of the 50-year-old surly, award-winning, alcohol-abusing writer Zbigniew, who distances himself from the world and other people. Zbigniew, hit by writer's block, carries a trauma from the past. One warm summer night, he notices an unusual girl th ...

Johnny (2022)

After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life. ...

David and the Elves (2021)

Christmas is drawing near, but it's not a happy time for David. After moving to a big city, his parents have been bogged down with work and forgotten the meaning of Christmas. David decides to change that. Together with Albert the Elf, who escaped from the ...

Masha (2020)

Vera, a Ukrainian woman working illegally in a Polish factory tries to help Masha - a friend who suffered in an accident at work. ...

The Day of Chocolate (2018)

Through the window, Dawid watches a new neighbour move into a house next door. The girl is more or less his age. She's wearing a strange skirt. Later on, Dawid finds out it's a Hawaiian hula skirt and the girl's name is Monika. Most probably, he also learn ...

Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)

Sabine Waldmann is a special person. Her world is different to that of most people because she has Asperger's syndrome. Numbers and fixed structures give her a sense of security and no one can fool her when it comes to memory. Personal interaction with oth ...

Manhunt (2012)

Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with hi ...

My Father's Bike (2012)

Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them. ...

Taxi A (2011)

"No one said life was beautiful." - hears business shark Andrew one day, learning that his shrewd partner and unfaithful wife have jointly let him off with his socks. Persecuted by a malicious bailiff, the heartbroken man is already considering saying good ...

Black Thursday (2011)

Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970. ...

Flying Pigs (2010)

A wealthy guy hires Oscar to cheer for his team which happens to be arch rival of the team he previously supported along with his brother. Oscar accepts the offer and fight kicks off between him and his brother along with other supporters. The fight costs ...

Krzysztof (2010)

Ladies (2008)

Four friends are facing problems like infidelity, infertility and disease. But together, they can solve every single problem. ...

Futro (2007)

A wealthy grandfather throws a party to celebrate his grandson's First Communion. Soon the family gathering takes unexpected turns. ...

There and Back (2002)

In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to consider taking part in a bank robbery. ...

O dwóch takich, co nic nie ukradli (1999)

The provincial seaside town of Cierpie Dolne. Magda, a journalism student, arrives as part of her internship to conduct broadcasts on the local radio station. Her first interview is with police lieutenant Tucznik, also an intern. Businessman Outlaw and the ...

Jak bóg Maior utracił tron (1999)

The brothers Ubi and Obi live in Lailonia in the city of Ruru. The authority over the city is held by the god Maior. The basic law of the god Maior is that everything for humans is at the bottom, what for the god is at the top. The brothers live according ...

Last Mission (1999)

Andre, an assassin working on behalf of French government goes to Poland to kill Polish businessman Muran. ...

The Circus Connection (1996)

In the middle of the Augustów Forest, tarpans are bred - small wild forest horses, found in the wild only in Poland. An old abandoned fort near the port of Gdynia is used by smugglers and international wildlife traders as a hideout to store livestock. ...

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. ...

East Wind (1993)

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR. ...

The Great Give-Away (1993)

A well-known wheeler dealer joins the underground opposition to avoid responsibility after stealing valuable coins. When he is released from prison, he sets up a private bank with high interest rates together with a Security Service colonel. However, the c ...

Guilty of Innocence (1992)

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead ...

Cynga (1991)

A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi's attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a camp in Siberia. He will spend the war in a psychiatric hospital. ...

Eminent Domain (1991)

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events. ...

Mr. Blot in Space (1988)

It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 ...

Komediantka (1987)

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters. ...

Starzy znajomi (1987)

Zdzicho leaves prison and tries to get his share from his former partners. ...

Wcześnie urodzony (1986)

A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life. ...

Ostatni dzwonek (1986)

The film takes place in a small town somewhere in the Polish countryside. A man arrives and notices a wealthy woman employed in the finance department of a local government office. He decides to seduce the clerk. However, he achieves this not so much throu ...

Idol (1985)

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his ow ...

Jeśli się odnajdziemy (1982)

A holiday camp in Masuria is running a program called "If We Find Each Other." Its aim is to conduct a pedagogical experiment in which children from orphanages choose their own adoptive parents. Some of the children are passive, while others try to "study" ...

Laureat (1980)

Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home. ...

A Woman and a Woman (1980)

A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up the injustice. Her best friend backs her up instead of the cultprit, the man she is living with. Later, the f ...

To Save the City (1976)

1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans. ...

Long Honeymoon (1976)

The story of a young married couple. Marta, a schoolteacher, and Adam, a factory worker, marry despite family objections and anxiously await their own apartment in a housing-shortage city, struggling through renting makeshift lodgings and mounting money wo ...

Zawodowcy (1975)

W te dni przedwiosenne (1975)

The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba. ...

The Beard (1974)

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal. ...

Gościnny występ (1974)

A student theater company returns home after an unsuccessful performance. ...

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. ...

To Kill This Love (1972)

A dramatization of problems faced by a young couple in 1970's Poland - job uncertainty, conflicts with parents, living together, unfaithfulness. ...

A Slip-Up (1972)

A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman. ...

Agent #1 (1972)

Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions a ...

Pejzaż z bohaterem (1971)

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story. ...

Warsaw Sketches (1970)

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period. ...

Kwestia sumienia (1969)

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet. ...

The Canterville Ghost (1968)

An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him. ...

Świat grozy (1968)

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics. ...

Cześć kapitanie (1968)

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way. ...

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 ...

Kochajmy syrenki (1967)

Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario ...

The Marriage of Convenience (1967)

Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a young, talented, but poor painter. However, the girl's father, Kazimierz Burczyk, decides to find a suitable husband for her himself. A shrewd tradesman, un ...

Buty (1966)

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

Cooked Doves (1966)

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers. ...

Alone in the City (1965)

Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones. ...

Back to Life Again (1965)

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated. ...