Katarzyna Bargiełowska

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Avalon (2001)

In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mamoru Oshii
CAST:  Małgorzata Foremniak  •  Władysław Kowalski  •  Jerzy Gudejko  •  Dariusz Biskupski

In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mamoru Oshii
CAST:  Małgorzata Foremniak  •  Władysław Kowalski  •  Jerzy Gudejko  •  Dariusz Biskupski

The Pianist (2002)

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The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roman Polanski
CAST:  Adrien Brody  •  Thomas Kretschmann  •  Frank Finlay  •  Maureen Lipman

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roman Polanski
CAST:  Adrien Brody  •  Thomas Kretschmann  •  Frank Finlay  •  Maureen Lipman

Job: The Last Grey Cell (2006)

A story of three friends - Adi, Pele and Chemik, who experience many adventures.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Konrad Niewolski
CAST:  Tomasz Borkowski  •  Andrzej Andrzejewski  •  Borys Szyc  •  Agnieszka Włodarczyk

A story of three friends - Adi, Pele and Chemik, who experience many adventures.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Konrad Niewolski
CAST:  Tomasz Borkowski  •  Andrzej Andrzejewski  •  Borys Szyc  •  Agnieszka Włodarczyk

Run Boy Run (2013)

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pepe Danquart
CAST:  Kamil Tkacz  •  Elisabeth Duda  •  Jeanette Hain  •  Itay Tiran

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pepe Danquart
CAST:  Kamil Tkacz  •  Elisabeth Duda  •  Jeanette Hain  •  Itay Tiran

Nothing But Fear (1994)

TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barbara Sass
CAST:  Anna Dymna  •  Dorota Segda  •  Dorota Pomykała  •  Jerzy Trela

TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barbara Sass
CAST:  Anna Dymna  •  Dorota Segda  •  Dorota Pomykała  •  Jerzy Trela

A Time for Witches (1994)

Twenty years old prostitute and drug addict, Jola, by chance meets Andrzej, a "railway station gay". They try to stay together, in spite of numerous diffculties. They both are carriers of the HIV virus. At the end of their travels they find themselves in the Red ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Piotr Łazarkiewicz
CAST:  Jolanta Fraszyńska  •  Andrzej Mastalerz  •  Bogusław Linda  •  Henryk Bista

Twenty years old prostitute and drug addict, Jola, by chance meets Andrzej, a "railway station gay". They try to stay together, in spite of numerous diffculties. They both are carriers of the HIV virus. At the end of their travels they find themselves in the Red ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Piotr Łazarkiewicz
CAST:  Jolanta Fraszyńska  •  Andrzej Mastalerz  •  Bogusław Linda  •  Henryk Bista

Pułapka (1997)

An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Adek Drabiński
CAST:  Marek Kondrat  •  Joanna Benda  •  Bogusław Linda  •  Zbigniew Zamachowski

An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Adek Drabiński
CAST:  Marek Kondrat  •  Joanna Benda  •  Bogusław Linda  •  Zbigniew Zamachowski

A Man Thing (2001)

13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannized by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sławomir Fabicki
CAST:  Bartosz Idczak  •  Mariusz Jakus  •  Marek Bielecki  •  Katarzyna Bargiełowska

13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannized by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sławomir Fabicki
CAST:  Bartosz Idczak  •  Mariusz Jakus  •  Marek Bielecki  •  Katarzyna Bargiełowska

Daughters of Fortune (1999)

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A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Márta Mészáros
CAST:  Olga Drozdova  •  Jan Nowicki  •  Olaf Lubaszenko  •  Jan Wieczorkowski

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Márta Mészáros
CAST:  Olga Drozdova  •  Jan Nowicki  •  Olaf Lubaszenko  •  Jan Wieczorkowski

Within the Whirlwind (2009)

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marleen Gorris
CAST:  Emily Watson  •  Pam Ferris  •  Ian Hart  •  Ben Miller

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marleen Gorris
CAST:  Emily Watson  •  Pam Ferris  •  Ian Hart  •  Ben Miller

The Great Give-Away (1993)

Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Łomnicki
CAST:  Jan Englert  •  Krzysztof Wakuliński  •  Marzena Trybała  •  Ewa Gawryluk

Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Łomnicki
CAST:  Jan Englert  •  Krzysztof Wakuliński  •  Marzena Trybała  •  Ewa Gawryluk

The Detective and Death (1994)

Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gonzalo Suárez
CAST:  Javier Bardem  •  Maria de Medeiros  •  Héctor Alterio  •  Carmelo Gómez

Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gonzalo Suárez
CAST:  Javier Bardem  •  Maria de Medeiros  •  Héctor Alterio  •  Carmelo Gómez

Małe stłuczki (2014)

Two girls clean places after somebody dies there. Sometimes they sell the belongings of the dead at a flea market. When they meet an odd guy who has a passion for boxes, a strange game unfolds. An unconventional love story about the oddity of ordinary things. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksandra Gowin  •  Ireneusz Grzyb
CAST:  Helena Sujecka  •  Agnieszka Pawełkiewicz  •  Szymon Czacki  •  Katarzyna Bargiełowska

Two girls clean places after somebody dies there. Sometimes they sell the belongings of the dead at a flea market. When they meet an odd guy who has a passion for boxes, a strange game unfolds. An unconventional love story about the oddity of ordinary things. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksandra Gowin  •  Ireneusz Grzyb
CAST:  Helena Sujecka  •  Agnieszka Pawełkiewicz  •  Szymon Czacki  •  Katarzyna Bargiełowska

Zacma: Blindness (2016)

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryszard Bugajski
CAST:  Maria Mamona  •  Malgorzata Zajaczkowska  •  Janusz Gajos  •  Marek Kalita

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryszard Bugajski
CAST:  Maria Mamona  •  Malgorzata Zajaczkowska  •  Janusz Gajos  •  Marek Kalita

Historia Roja (2016)

In the spring of 1945, the commanding officer of the National Armed Forces in Mazowsze and older brother of 20-year-old Mieczyslaw Dziemieszkiewicz, is assassinated by Soviet soldiers. Mieczyslaw then joins the National Military Union. He becomes the commander of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrzej Lelito  •  Jerzy Zalewski  •  Elżbieta Latałło-Górecka
CAST:  Wojciech Żołądkowicz  •  Krzysztof Zalewski  •  Piotr Nowak  •  Mariusz Bonaszewski

In the spring of 1945, the commanding officer of the National Armed Forces in Mazowsze and older brother of 20-year-old Mieczyslaw Dziemieszkiewicz, is assassinated by Soviet soldiers. Mieczyslaw then joins the National Military Union. He becomes the commander of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrzej Lelito  •  Jerzy Zalewski  •  Elżbieta Latałło-Górecka
CAST:  Wojciech Żołądkowicz  •  Krzysztof Zalewski  •  Piotr Nowak  •  Mariusz Bonaszewski

Close-Ups (2014)

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Magdalena Piekorz
CAST:  Ewa Wiśniewska  •  Joanna Orleańska  •  Andrzej Seweryn  •  Henryk Talar

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Magdalena Piekorz
CAST:  Ewa Wiśniewska  •  Joanna Orleańska  •  Andrzej Seweryn  •  Henryk Talar

Hel (2009)

Piotr (Paweł Królikowski) jest psychiatrą. Siedzi na nocnym dyżurze, gdy na jego oddział przywożą chłopaka. To Kamil (Lesław Żurek), syn którego nie widział całe lata. Chłopak znika ze szpitala równie szybko, jak się pojawił. Jednak Piotr postanawia nawiązać z nim ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kinga Dębska
CAST:  Paweł Królikowski  •  Anna Geislerová  •  Lesław Żurek  •  Anna Gornostaj

Piotr (Paweł Królikowski) jest psychiatrą. Siedzi na nocnym dyżurze, gdy na jego oddział przywożą chłopaka. To Kamil (Lesław Żurek), syn którego nie widział całe lata. Chłopak znika ze szpitala równie szybko, jak się pojawił. Jednak Piotr postanawia nawiązać z nim ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kinga Dębska
CAST:  Paweł Królikowski  •  Anna Geislerová  •  Lesław Żurek  •  Anna Gornostaj

Playing Hard (2019)

Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kinga Dębska
CAST:  Agata Kulesza  •  Maria Dębska  •  Dorota Kolak  •  Marcin Dorociński

Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kinga Dębska
CAST:  Agata Kulesza  •  Maria Dębska  •  Dorota Kolak  •  Marcin Dorociński

Conversation with a Cupboard Man (1994)

Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariusz Grzegorzek
CAST:  Bożena Adamek  •  Rafał Olbrychski  •  Karol Cieślar  •  Maciej Wilk

Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mariusz Grzegorzek
CAST:  Bożena Adamek  •  Rafał Olbrychski  •  Karol Cieślar  •  Maciej Wilk
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