Movies: Danuta Szaflarska

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion -- not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this coming-of-age drama, Mala, an ordinary Polish girl who is about thirteen years old, is just beginning t...

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the p...

A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to bury their son despite the refusal from the communist authorities....

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the sta...

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it....

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All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, a...

The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son....

Jakub, who is dominated by his mother, invites a healer to his home....

Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance....

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust....

A simple story of a meeting between two completely different and distant people. By chance, they spend a few days together....

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form....

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Over the course of four generations, a family in Hungary confronts poverty, political turmoil and a life that's perpetually on the move....

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities....

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother....

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