Wojciech Alaborski

Marcinelle (2003)

Based on a true story. On August 8, 1956, hour by hour, the story of an accident in the Marcinelle mine in Belgium. More than 250 miners, many of Italian origin, were killed. ...

The Last Days (1999)

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the son of a murderer, and Zosia, a young woman, come together for a wedding against a backdrop of changing politics, anc ...

Królestwo Zielonej Polany (1994)

The main character of the film is a little boy named Marek, who from an enemy of nature becomes its devoted friend. Before this happens, however, fate plays quite a trick on him. At first, however, nothing foreshadows this. Marek arrives in the forest with ...

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 ...

Lupus (1993)

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair. ...

Fik-Mik (1988)

Wcześnie urodzony (1986)

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

111 dni letargu (1985)

A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival. ...

Stardust (1982)

An odd couple of old people lead their simple lives close to nature. The man is an amateur constructor and his goal now is to build a small river dam to produce electricity for his country house. ...

Childish Questions (1981)

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him. ...

Man of Iron (1981)

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Po ...

Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831 (1980)

Most important events of November Uprising in Poland. ...

Laureat (1980)

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

Mała sprawa (1980)

A few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must be prepared to show the guest how well the place is being managed. ...

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 ...

The Spiral (1978)

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, d ...

Passion (1978)

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other ...

Camouflage (1977)

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp. ...

Operation Arsenal (1977)

In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German "Zachęta" cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema. ...

Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)

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

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 ...

Pearl in the Crown (1972)

When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues. ...