Polish Language Films Austeria (1982) Early in World War I, a group of This is a list of suggested Polish Orthodox flee from the Cossack language films found in the Lake army. A secluded country inn becomes Oswego Public Library movie collection. In this handy their temporary refuge, where emotional list you can read the film summary, view the cover art attachments, brief love affairs, and for the film and find the call number as it is assigned even a renewed faith in humankind inspire them. for the Lake Oswego Public Library. CALL 891.85 AUS NUMBERS appear in red after the summary

Bad Luck (1960) Between the Cup and Lip (1987) The odyssey of a man through The young and charismatic count from 1930 to 1950, in a changing world Wentzel Croy-Dulmen falls in love with that seems to have no place for him. We an enigmatic stranger, a beautiful young watch him from his childhood to his first woman who's the cousin of his love, from his unwilling involvement in grandmother living in Poland. His desire Fascist politics to his arrest and imprisonment. for her necessitates a full scale reconsidering of his 891.85 BAD thoughts and ideas about Poland. 891.85 BET

Blind Chance (1981) Amator (1979) Facing an unclear future, Witek, a young Happily married and economically Polish medical student, chooses to put stable, Filip buys an 8mm film camera his education on hold. What happens with the intention of filming his newborn next spawns into three successive child - and capturing the moment of scenarios depending on whether Witek attaining a lifelong dream. But when a catches or misses his train--giving him three different powerful director of the town's local factory recruits futures. Whether as an idealistic Communist Party him to film an important board meeting, Filip's member, an ambivalent dissident or a devoted healer fascination with the medium grows into a passion and and husband, the young Pole's destiny is shaped by a he reaches an irreconcilable deadlock with his wife, troubled present poised to engulf him. 891.85 BLI friends and the director. 891.85 CAM

The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Eroica (1958) Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and Based on a pair of World War II stories her double, Veronique, is a French music by J.S. Stawinski, the film unfolds in two teacher. Though they are unknown to parts. The first tells the tale of a small- each other, the two women share an time black marketeer, who cares little enigmatic, purely emotional bond. about the war but unwittingly becmes 891.85 DOU involved with the Polish Resistance. In the second story, Polish military prisoners battle boredom and despair in a prison camp. One inmate makes a brave if foolhardy attempt to escape, giving hope to the other prisoners 891.85 ERO Innocent Sorcerers (1960) Just Beyond this Forest (1991) A handsome but insensitive young doctor An Aryan laundress is hired by her spends his evenings playing jazz in a former employer to take her daughter to small club, and having one-night stands. the countryside until the war is over. One night he invites a young girl to his Because the washerwoman becomes rude room and they spend the night talking. In and overbearing, the former employer the morning, she has disappeared ... or has she? showers her with gifts and money until she agrees to 891.85 INN take her daughter. 891.85 JUS

Kanal (1957) Katyn (2007) Begins on the 56th day of the Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 Uprising against the Nazis during World people (Polish officers as well as War II. A ragtag group of trained and civilians) by the Soviet secret police at untrained Resistance fighters hold on to Katyn in the spring of 1940, and the the front line. They try to live a relatively cover-up that followed. Follows the normal life, and even find time to play the piano. They fictional stories of four families, separated from one achieve small victories, but must retreat into the sewers another in the confusion of September 1939, when the in order to survive. 891.85 KAN Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the massacre gets suppressed. 891.85 KAT

Leper (1976) Louder than Bombs (2001) The forbidden love affair between a After the death of his father, Marcin, a wealthy young nobleman and a beautiful 21-year-old man with a penchant for young high school teacher is the central James Dean and The Smiths, must focus. With the teacher not of the same contend with the funeral arrangements of class, she will never be accepted into his father, while hosting his buffoonish high society, she will always be rejected, considered a out-of-town relatives. On top of that, his long time leper. The townsfolk, including the nobleman's girlfriend has decided to leave Poland for life in the grandmother, try to destroy the feelings between these United States. Marcin's coming-of-age closely mirrors two lovers who are from two very different social that of an entire nation, struggling to redefine itself in classes. 891.85 LEP the aftermath of the Cold War. 891.85 LOU

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) Night Train (1959) A young priest arrives to exorcise the Jerzy, a man running from the demons from a group of possessed authorities, and Marta, who's trying to Ursuline nuns, and when he meets the escape her spurned lover, end up in the beautiful head of the convent, her same sleeper berth on an overnight train. blasphemies against the church both Passengers become a frenzied rumor- repel and excite him, with tragic consequences. fueled lynch mob when police board looking for an 891.85 MOT escaped killer. 891.85 NIG No End (1985) The Promised Land (1975) Antek was one of the few lawyers Interpretation of a classic epic depicting willing to take on political cases in a the changes in values ushered in by the period of enforced martial law. Upon his industrial revolution. Three friends build unexpected death, Antek's wife Ulla a factory, but are sidetracked by local struggles to cope with her grief. She politics and a dangerous love affair. eventually takes on the task of finding another attorney Original title Ziemia obiecana. 891.85 PRO to take over one of her husband's cases to defend a man jailed for leading a labor strike. A series of mysterious signals make Ulla believe that Antek's ghost is warning her about the man chosen to replace him. 891.85 NO

The Roe’s Room (1997) Samson (1961) Within their apartment, a father, mother and A psychological study of Jakub Gold, a son bear the dullness of an ordinary urban Polish Jew imprisoned for killing a life. The mind and heart of the son are set schoolmate in a brawl. He is released aloft by the cycle of the seasons and the from prison at the outbreak of World images and music within him and transforms War II, only to be confined to the Warsaw ghetto. his cloistered existence into a richly poetic emotional utopia. Escaping the ghetto, he is confined--by the fear of As autumn arrives, cracking flakes of plaster become falling leaves. With spring, a cold hard floor comes alive with being Jewish in a world hostile to Jews. 891.85 SAM meadow grass and love beckons in the form of a beautiful young girl's outstretched hand. 891.85 ROE

The Scar (1976) A Short Film About Killing (1988) An ambitious small town Polish A psychological vivisection of the brutal communist official prepares to receive a and senseless murder of a taxi-driver by delegation from Warsaw. At stake is a a young drifter, with no explanation large fertilizer factory contract that offered and no extenuating would mean hundreds of jobs for a dirt circumstances given. A searing, poor rural province. But winning the contract creates powerful, moral indictment of capital punishment. more problems than it solves as politicians, 891.85 SHO environmentalists, and displaced citizens alike inadvertently plumb the gap between socialism and the anarchy of human nature. 891.85 SCA

A Short Film About Love (1988) The Wedding (2004) Focuses on the lives of two human Wojnar, a wealthy man from a small beings who have been deprived of the town, throws a big wedding party for his gift of love. A young postal worker falls daughter. As is the Polish custom, the in love with an older woman who lives in party is flamboyant. While it evolves, the flat opposite his. She attempts to among the guests the bride recognizes prove to him that "love" is nothing more than a set of her ex-boyfriend with whom she is still in love, and biological impulses, as a reaction to his voyeurism, and who is a cameraman at the wedding. 891.85 WED draws him into a game in which neither is the winner. 891.85 SHO