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During the last days of WWII, an old railroad worker and his assistant guide a train liaded with explosives to the Western front. The journey is a perilous trek through rough terrain, occupied by ruthless German soldiers, desparate deserters, and dangerous gangs seeking easy money.Read More »
Polish
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Bohdan Poreba – Droga na zachód AKA Road to the West (1961)
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Andrzej Munk – Czlowiek na torze AKA Man on the Tracks (1957)
1951-1960Andrzej MunkDramaMysteryPolandIn 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man – stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?Read More »
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Jerzy Hoffman – Potop AKA The Deluge (1974)
1971-1980EpicJerzy HoffmanPolandWarNominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1974, this follow-up to WITH FIRE AND SWORD is set in the 17th century during the Swedish invasion and occupation of Poland, known as The Deluge, which left the country in ruins.
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Andrzej Wajda – Kronika wypadków milosnych AKA Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986)
1981-1990Andrzej WajdaDramaPolandSynopsis:
Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.Read More » -
Marcin Wrona – Demon (2015) (HD)
2011-2020DramaFantasyMarcin WronaPolandA bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.Read More »
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Agnieszka Smoczynska – Córki dancingu AKA The Lure (2015) (HD)
2011-2020Agnieszka SmoczynskaComedyDramaPolandIn Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.Read More »
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Maciej J. Drygas – Uslyszcie moj krzyk AKA Hear my cry (1991)
1991-2000CultDocumentaryMaciej J. DrygasPolandHear My Cry“ depicts the startling story of Ryszard Siwiec, a man who, on a Polish national holiday in September 1968, immolated himself in front of thousands of people in a stadium in Warsaw. He performed this desperate act of self-burning as a protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces. The world, however, kept silent. His name and deed received no front page newspaper coverage. Why? „Hear My Cry“ is a human story, a story of mankinds love of freedom, a story which portrays mans eternal need to escape from the constraints of totalitarianism.Read More »
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Janusz Majewski – Ja gore! (1968)
1961-1970ComedyFantasyJanusz MajewskiPolandJa gore! / I Am Burning 1967. Part of TV anthology: Opowiesci Niezwykle (The Amazing Stories). Written and directed by Janusz Majewski. Based on Henryk Rzewuski’s short story.HDTVRip 720p (TVP1 HD broadcast).
Awards: Brazowy Lajkonik in the feature film category at the Cracow Short Feature Festival, 1968.Read More »
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Janusz Majewski – System (1972)
1971-1980HorrorJanusz MajewskiPolandTVIt features a young man and a lady friend driving to an insane asylum whose overseers the woman knows. Weirdness is evident before they even reach the place, in the form of a ranting maniac in a tree. More crazies are found freely wandering the grounds of the asylum, they being participants in an apparently revolutionary new system instituted by the asylum’s director. But the director seems just as nutty in his own way as the patients, and it turns out there’s a good reason for this: he is one of the patients, having taken over the asylum and locked up its overseers.Read More »