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During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
The Saragossa Manuscript
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20....
Love at Twenty
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the...
Knife in the Water
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by...
Bad Luck
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's...
Colonel Wolodyjowski
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Gangsters and Philantropists
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Barrier
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to...
April
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks,...
The Doll
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...
Passenger
Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car...
Roly Poly
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw...
One Room Tenants
Three short segments about love.
No More Divorces
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
Penguin
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the...
Everything for Sale
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her...
How to Be Loved
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...
The Moonwalkers
Three stories about life problems.
Trzy kroki po ziemi
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Markiza de Pompadour
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Gold Dreams