Movies: Maria Wachowiak

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 had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life....

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times c...

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances. This causes the industrialist to rethink his life choices....

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story....

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and fall...

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in...

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor....

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her....

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

Five short stories....

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves....

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth....

"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....

1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways....