Top 30 Polish Documentaries
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- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiPeople of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
- DirectorMarcel LozinskiStarsTomasz LozinskiAn energetic six-year-old boy talks to elderly strangers relaxing in the park. He confronts his childish knowledge of the world with their life-long experience.
- DirectorAndrzej FidykStarsWojciech GassowskiIl-Sung KimJong-Il KimNorth Korea, late 1980s. The communist authorities hold enormous parades celebrating the 40th anniversary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea and worshipping its leader, Kim Ir Sen. But all this splendor, pomp and incredible lavishness is also to eclipse sports olympics taking part in South Korea.
- DirectorPawel LozinskiStarsHenryk GrynbergAfter almost 50 years, Holocaust survivor Henryk Grynberg visits the village he grew up in. He was also hiding there during the Nazi occupation. Grynberg wants to know what happened to his father and younger brother during the war.
- DirectorBartosz KonopkaThe untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsMarian OsuchA factory night watchman, who is a fanatic of total control, shares his opinions on various topics.
- DirectorWojciech WiszniewskiFrom the alphabet to the patriotic children's poem, an allegorical vision of social consciousness of 1970s Poland unravels and haunts us with a crowd of sad people in depressing surroundings.
- DirectorMaciej J. DrygasStarsRyszard SiwiecMaria SiwiecInnocenta SiwiecThe story of an ordinary accountant, Ryszard Siwiec, who set himself on fire during the large harvest festival at the Warsaw stadium in 1968. He did it to protest against the military invasion in Czechoslovakia.
- DirectorAndrzej BrzozowskiThe lesson commences at the school for blind children. Today the pupils will study an egg to learn its shape through touching and smelling it.
- DirectorWojciech WiszniewskiStarsWanda GosciminskaTextile worker Wanda Gosciminska was a 1950s communist propaganda icon and role model for other workers. The system exploited her, just like so many other individuals, and turned her into a tool of ideological manipulation.
- DirectorMarek PiwowskiThe final stages of alcohol addiction are juxtaposed with the official attitude of Polish authorities towards the success of the ever-growing national alcohol industry.
- DirectorMarcel LozinskiAt the famous Grand Hotel in Sopot, each worker - whether a porter, a maid, a cook or a stoker - feels an important part of their workplace. Perhaps even the most important.
- DirectorMarcin KoszalkaA bold uncompromising look at the hell of the director's real-life family life. He still shares the apartment with his dysfunctional parents who use verbal violence towards him on a daily basis.
- DirectorEwa BorzeckaArizona is a brand of cheap wine which happens to be the only escape and consolation for the unemployed and depraved former workers of PGR (State Farming Cooperative) that now stands in ruins.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanEdward SkórzewskiMass Catholic pilgrimage to the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Sanctuary where amateur actors perform the Passion of the Christ.
- DirectorJolanta DylewskaStarsJan BorysiakMichal DarochaJózefa Dabrowska"Po-lin" is a story of a world long gone. Of place and time when two cultures, Polish and Jewish intertwined and coexisted. The documentary shows a collection of unique, black and white films, that take us back to a small villages and towns caught on camera right before the second World War.
- DirectorAndrzej CzarneckiThe only professional rat exterminator in Poland, who works on an industrial scale, presents his unorthodox methods of destroying the intelligent enemies.
- DirectorJerzy BossakJaroslaw BrzozowskiStarsAndrzej LapickiOver a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.
- DirectorMaria Zmarz-KoczanowiczStarsTeresa ToranskaEva RozenbaumFreda UziyelPolish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.
- DirectorKazimierz KarabaszA contemplative look at the 1990s Poland seen through the eyes of ordinary Varsovians.
- DirectorMarek PiwowskiPolish society is represented here by the customers of a dingy bar who drink, flirt and chat about things both extremely vital and completely trivial.
- DirectorAndrzej BrzozowskiArcheologists excavate numerous items on the site of the crematorium at former Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. These objects help us remember and understand what happened there.
- DirectorJacek BlawutStarsTomasz GniatkowskiHenryk LangeJanusz MachajA new music teacher comes to the institution for mentally disabled children. He's got a month to teach them to play some instruments. But it takes much more than time to understand and accept these children. And vice versa.
- DirectorJan LomnickiThe last assembly works at the Gdansk Shipyard are followed by the ceremonial launching of a new ship.
- DirectorMaria Zmarz-KoczanowiczThe 1980s Poland was a country of empty stores and long lines of people, standing all night and day to buy virtually anything. This film takes a look at such a gigantic queue and recreates its surreal dialogues and atmosphere.