Scared and wide-awake, enlightened and confused, horny and satisfied: people in NYC. The A-train provides the narrative pattern for fast-paced image flows and meditative passages. A pop pearl.
Even without arms the hero of this film is a passionate skier and high board diver – and a brilliant painter, too.
With his shovel-like hands the Silesian miner Bernard Bugdoł became a working class hero and the great white hope of the new socialist Poland of the 1950s.
Paweł Łoziński follows the Jewish writer Henryk Grynberg as he returns from the U.S. to his native Polish village where his father was killed by his own neighbours.
Marriage is a kind of accounting. But after 45 years together Barbara and Zdzisław disagree on whether more is listed on the debit or the credit side.
Conscientious objectors in Russia and their trials: pacifists, gays and political activists caught in the mills of a merciless system with grotesque features.
Daniel is in love. He sends letters and messages to his adored one. Has boys’ discussions about girls. Never mind that Daniel and his friends are “disabled”.
1988: for 36 years the twin sisters have been loading and unloading bricks every day.
Of scarce commodities and disappointed hopes: the queues in front of the shops reveal the social stagnation. People queue up endlessly to get anything. No matter what.
Krzysztof Kieślowski unmasks the prototype of the informer and opportunist (in a totalitarian society) exclusively from the latter’s own perspective.
An engineer has to justify himself to a committee for professional and personal misconduct. There’s got to be a reason why norms weren’t fulfilled.
In 1968 the accountant Ryszard Siwiec publicly burned himself to death at the Warsaw stadium in protest against the Soviet invasion of Prague. But nobody was interested at the time.
On Sunday the car is taken out of the garage to be washed, the family meet to exchange many kisses and a few shots, the secret lovers come into their own behind the shrubs.
Silent people in a queue, silent people behind the windows of a bus – only apathy keeps the Polish people together. An impressionist appraisal of the end-of-days mood of the 1980s.
Hammer, chisel, swab... During a brutal 24-hour shift in a Warsaw hospital the fight against material shortages and lack of sleeps takes on surrealist traits, occasionally reminding us of the Muppet Show.
“Big Brother” at the camping site: a competition for the best family is announced at the company camping holiday. The prize: a washing machine.
