Wojciech Kilar

Foreign Body (2014)

A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi. ...

Poste restante (2009)

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven. ...

Revisited (2009)

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland's great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works. ...

Welcome (2009)

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel wh ...

And a Warm Heart (2008)

A businessman, spoiled by the good life, learns that he suffers from a serious heart condition. He can only survive by finding a donor immediately. In the hospital, he accidentally meets a young man whose grief and job loss have taken away all his will to ...

We Own the Night (2007)

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen. ...

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)

Francis Ford Coppola, the cast, and the production crew discuss the production of the 1992 masterpiece. ...

Black Sun (2007)

After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death ...

Persona non grata (2005)

A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife. ...

The Revenge (2002)

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On ...

The Pianist (2002)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays beh ...

The Supplement (2002)

An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. ...

I Remember (2002)

Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland. ...

Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure (2001)

Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly. ...

Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimen ...

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 ...

The Ninth Gate (1999)

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil. ...

A Week in the Life of a Man (1999)

Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he does to others. As Adam Borowski, Stuhr plays a government lawyer prosecuting a variety of cases, includin ...

Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law (1998)

A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral outrage is complicated: the married man allowed himself to be seduced by the woman, who threatens to tell the ...

Weekend Stories: Dilatory Line (1998)

A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal the truth the more uncertainty he discovers. ...

Weekend Stories: The Last Circle (1998)

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immediately clashes with his ex-wife, who stayed behind when he defected. ...

Weekend Stories: Deceptive Charm (1998)

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps. ...

Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings (1997)

A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve concert, but his shot at fame is threatened when, against his better judgment, he goes out on a rainy night and g ...

Our God's Brother (1997)

In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless. ...

Weekend Stories: Little Faith (1997)

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism. ...

The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cyn ...

At Full Gallop (1996)

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorit ...

Ghost with Driver (1996)

A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer. ...

Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge. ...

Faustina (1995)

Faustina is a 1995 Polish film directed by Jerzy Łukaszewicz about Blessed Sister Faustina Kowalska, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church who was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000. It is the first feature film of its kind in Poland, and far from the ...

Legenda Tatr (1995)

Andrzej, who lives in the lowlands, comes to Zakopane. He rents a carriage and orders himself to be taken to the Strążyska Valley. ...

Death as a Slice of Bread (1994)

Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. A group of Zomovniks, smashing union security, drags the chairman of the Company Commission of the NSZZ Solidarity in the Wujek mine out of his apartment. The ...

Death and the Maiden (1994)

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government. ...

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting ...

The Silent Touch (1992)

Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical ...

Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel (1992)

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. ...

Korczak (1990)

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. ...

Inventory (1989)

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Ju ...

Turning Table (1988)

On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. ...

Wherever You Are... (1988)

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. ...

Salsa (1988)

Fatherless barrio Puerto Rican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming contest is to be his. He encourages h ...

Blind Chance (1987)

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. ...

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986)

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague. ...

Power Of Evil (1985)

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man. ...

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the righ ...

Credo... (1983)

Report from the Holy Father's second pilgrimage to Poland in 1983. ...

Imperative (1982)

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. Wha ...

The Contract (1982)

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Onl ...

Versuchung (1982)

From a Far Country (1981)

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities ...

Gwiazda Wytrwałości (1981)

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels. ...

The Constant Factor (1980)

A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frai ...

The Beads of One Rosary (1980)

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in ...

The King and the Mockingbird (1980)

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy. ...

Ways in the Night (1979)

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom. ...

From a Night Porter's Point of View (1979)

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view. ...

Rodzina Połanieckich (1979)

The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century. ...

David (1979)

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several yea ...

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 ...

Camouflage (1977)

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

Anatomiestunde (1977)

A group of German medical students is discussing the influence of various factors on the human psyche. Pharmacological agents can not only restrict an individual's freedom and destroy their free will, but also plunge them into fear and cause the disappeara ...

The Leper (1976)

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him. ...

The Shadow-Line (1976)

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curious ...

The Catamount Killing (1975)

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together. ...

Znikąd donikąd (1975)

The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region. ...

The Promised Land (1975)

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town. ...

A Woman's Decision (1975)

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when ...

The Wicket Gate (1974)

Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship. ...

Hipoteza (1973)

A brilliant but troubled professor confronts his fears while working on his design of a space rocket. ...

Illumination (1973)

Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart. ...

Jealousy and Medicine (1973)

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland. ...

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. ...

Possession (1973)

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman. ...

Bolesław Śmiały (1972)

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

Glass Ball (1972)

Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures. ...

Brylanty pani Zuzy (1972)

Polish intelligence sends a mole into the ranks of a high-profile gang, the boss of which recently died in mysterious circumstances. ...

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. ...

Martwa fala (1971)

After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage. ...

The Ring of Queen Ann (1971)

Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation. ...

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters (1971)

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury. ...

Przystań (1971)

Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for ...

Romantyczni (1970)

An intimate psychological drama: the story of two brothers who, in the winter of 1848, waited for the opportunity to enter General Bem's troops in Hungary and experience emotional conflicts in a noble manor, which lead to a fundamental confrontation of att ...

The Cruise (1970)

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and cr ...

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (1970)

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population. ...

The Taste of the Black Earth (1970)

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands. ...

Mountains at Dusk (1970)

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together. ...

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 Structure of Crystal (1969)

Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths. ...

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime (1969)

Retired police captain Siwy recounts to a reporter how he undertook a final, private investigation into the suspicious death of Ewa Salm, known as "Princess." Though her testimony had secured a conviction, Siwy doubted the man's guilt and set out to uncove ...

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 Neighbours (1969)

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager. ...

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. ...

Człowiek z M-3 (1969)

A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife. ...

Loneliness of the Couple (1969)

The film is a psychological study addressing the problem of lack of inner resilience in the face of misfortune. The death of a son, trampled by frightened horses, disrupts the peace and happiness of the family of Pastor Hubina. Mentally broken wife Edyta ( ...

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 ...

Ostatni po Bogu (1968)

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea. ...

Tabliczka marzenia (1968)

A fifteen-year old Ludka navigates first love and frustrations related to failures of the adult world during summer holidays. ...

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. ...

Stajnia na Salvatorze (1967)

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer. ...

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. ...

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 Killer Leaves a Trace (1967)

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

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. ...

Skinny and Others (1967)

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears. ...

Return to Earth (1967)

After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life. ...

Bumerang (1966)

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

Ktokolwiek wie... (1966)

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search. ...

Maria and Napoleon (1966)

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to ...

Hell and Heaven (1966)

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos. ...

The Catastrophe (1966)

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

Tomorrow Mexico (1966)

A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent. ...

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. ...

Salto (1965)

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd. ...

Wyspa złoczyńców (1965)

A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town. ...

Obok prawdy (1965)

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma. ...

Late Afternoon (1965)

Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter. ...

Pięciu (1964)

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine. ...

Echo (1964)

It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk's (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He's a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor's office. He's accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It's an echo of his ...

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 ...

Ciemnogród (1964)

Propaganda film. The army is portrayed as a force for progress in communist Poland, eradicating the medieval superstitions of people living in the provinces. ...

Kryptonim Nektar (1963)

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market. ...

Mansarda (1963)

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works. ...

Silence (1963)

Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment. ...

Far Is the Road (1963)

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland. ...

Czerwone berety (1963)

A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk ...

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. ...

The Voice from Beyond (1962)

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authoriti ...

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem (1962)

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal. ...

Wild Horses (1962)

In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves. ...

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. ...

Nobody's Calling (1960)

Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past. ...

The Moonwalkers (1960)

A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends. ...

Paul Grimault, image par image (2003)

Obrazy i dźwięki. O muzyce Wojciecha Kilara (1991)