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People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party...

This museum does not collect the achievements of mankind. On the contrary, we can find there the evidence of its fall. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Mu...

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metal...

Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely int...

An orchestra of working-class musicians rehearses in this short film, honored at the 1960 Venice Film Festival and among the favorite films of directo...

One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s

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 speak...

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the ol...

Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life thr...

A film showing the social mood and tensions in the period between the end of the strikes in August 1980 and the registration of the Solidarity Trade U...

The "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker d...

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of gate 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Witnesses to the D...

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from...