Barbara Sass

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Władysław is declared a hero after controlling panic in a bank archive fire.

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

A young Jewish man from Warsaw is imprisoned after an antisemitic incident at his university. He is released when the Second World War breaks out and manages to escape from the ghetto. However, he chooses to leave his hiding place and fight, determined to share the fate of those threatened by the Holocaust. The protagonist is compared to the biblical Samson, who sacrificed his own life.

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.

An interventionist documentary describing the damage done by mining wells to historic landmarks in Bytom.

Making-of documentary made for Polish television on The Saragossa Manuscript

Anna is a teacher and her husband Marek is an engineer. They both face moral dilemmas at work: Marek's boss wants him to help get rid of a renowned engineer from their company; Anna refuses to support the false accusation of her student.

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

Nunnery. Group of nuns led by Mother Superior is trying to protect the sinful, corrupt world. Soon, a charismatic priest Francis will take a lead. He will open up new concept of God. ...

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

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, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.

Edek, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood finds his first crush in Basia. His father, guilt stricken after the war took his wife and two daughters believes that his son falling in love will take his son away from him and desperately tries to put an end to his budding relationship.

A young boy must go to school with his father.

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.