POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS Antczak Jerzy 12 the Lady of the Camellias / Dama Kameliowa 13 Nights and Days / Noce I Dnie

Home , 1980 in Poland, A Year of the Quiet Sun, Cartagena Film Festival, Everything for Sale, How to Be Loved, Janusz Gajos

POLISH CINEMA of DIGITALLY RESTORED MASTERPIECES MASTERPIECES RESTORED DIGITALLY CLASSICS

2 INTRODUCTION Since the Polish Film School cinema has become the exceptional trademark of Polish culture. Throughout the years behind the Iron Curtain Polish filmmakers proved many times that despite the isolation they were still the citizens of the world, who significantly contributed to the discussion of its condition through their output.

Today their films are an important part of Polish culture. For years, they have been shaping our national identity, raising important existential questions, and uniting us around certain values. They have also brought on the social, political and moral changes and encouraged us to act. We owe them successes at international film festivals as well as rendering the Polish school of cinematographers famous.

Polish films have many admirers around the world and thanks to the digital restoration the spectators can watch the most acclaimed ones in their best quality on HD TV, in cinemas as well as on DVDs and Blu-rays.

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POLISH CINEMA MASTERPIECES of POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS Antczak Jerzy 12 The Lady of the Camellias / Dama Kameliowa 13 Nights and Days / Noce i dnie

Bajon Filip 14 Aria for an Athlete / Aria dla atlety

Bareja Stanisław 15 A Bunet Will Call / Brunet wieczorową porą 16 Teddy Bear / Miś 17 There’s No Place Like Home / Nie ma róży bez ognia 18 Wanted: Male or Female / Poszukiwany, poszukiwana 19 What Can You Do to Me If You Catch Me / Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz DIGITALLY RESTORED MASTERPIECES MASTERPIECES RESTORED DIGITALLY

Borowczyk Walerian 20 The Story of Sin / Dzieje grzechu

Bromski Jacek 21 The Art of Loving / Sztuka kochania 22 Kill Me, Cop / Zabij mnie, glino

Buczkowski Leonard 23 The Eagle / Orzeł

Bugajski Ryszard 24 Interrogation / Przesłuchanie

Chęciński Sylwester 25 Big Shar / Wielki Szu

4 FILM INDEX

Chmielewski Tadeusz 26 Eva Wants to Sleep / Ewa chce spać 27 I Hate Monday / Nie lubię poniedziałku

Dejczer Maciej 28 300 Miles to Heaven / 300 mil do nieba

Falk Feliks 29 Chance / Szansa 30 Hero of the Year / Bohater roku 31 Top Dog / Wodzirej

Ford Aleksander 32 Knights of the Black Cross / Krzyżacy

Gradowski Krzysztof 33 Mr. Blot’s Academy / Akademia Pana Kleksa cz. 1 i 2 34 Mr. Blot in Space / Pan Kleks w kosmosie cz. 1 i 2

Has Wojciech Jerzy 35 The Hourglass Sanatorium / Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą 36 How to Be Loved / Jak być kochaną 37 The Saragossa Manuscript / Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie

Hoffman Jerzy 38 Colonel Wolodyjowski / Pan Wołodyjowski 39 Deluge / Potop 40 Deluge Redivivus / Potop Redivivus

5 Hoffman Jerzy, Skórzewski Edward 41 Gangsters and Philanthropists / Gangsterzy i filantropi 42 The Law and the Fist / Prawo i pięść

Holland Agnieszka 43 Provincial Actors / Aktorzy prowincjonalni

POLISH CINEMA 44 A Woman Alone / Kobieta samotna of

Kaniewska Maria 45 The Devil from Seventh Grade / Szatan z 7 klasy

Kawalerowicz Jerzy 46 Austeria / Austeria 47 Death of a President / Śmierć prezydenta 48 Mother Joan of the Angels / Matka Joanna od Aniołów 49 Night Train / Pociąg 50 Pharaoh / Faraon

Kieślowski Krzysztof 51 Blind Chance / Przypadek 52 Camera Buff /Amator

DIGITALLY RESTORED MASTERPIECES MASTERPIECES RESTORED DIGITALLY 53 The Decalogue 1 / Dekalog 1 54 The Decalogue 2 / Dekalog 2 55 The Decalogue 3 / Dekalog 3 56 The Decalogue 4 / Dekalog 4 57 The Decalogue 5 / Dekalog 5 58 The Decalogue 6 / Dekalog 6 59 The Decalogue 7 / Dekalog 7 60 The Decalogue 8 / Dekalog 8 61 The Decalogue 9 / Dekalog 9 62 The Decalogue 10 / Dekalog 10 63 No End / Bez końca 64 Tha Scar / Blizna 65 A Short Film about Killing / Krótki film o zabijaniu 66 A Short Film about Love / Krótki film o miłości

Konwicki Tadeusz 67 All Saints Eve / Zaduszki

6 FILM INDEX 68 How Far, How Near / Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko 69 The Issa Valley / Dolina Issy 70 Jump / Salto 71 Tha Last Day of Summer / Ostatni dzień lata 72 Lava. A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz’s ‚Forefathers’ Eve’ / Lawa. Opowieść o „Dziadach” Adama Mickiewicza

Koprowicz Jacek 73 Medium / Medium

Krauze Krzysztof 74 The Debt / Dług 75 My Nikifor / Mój Nikifor

Krzystek Waldemar 76 The Last Ferry / Ostatni prom

Kutz Kazimierz 77 The Beads of One Rosary / Paciorki jednego różańca 78 Colonel Kwiatkowski / Pułkownik Kwiatkowski 79 Nobody Is Calling / Nikt nie woła 80 People from the Train / Ludzie z pociągu 81 Silence / Milczenie

Kuźmiński Zbigniew 82 Agent nr 1 / Agent nr 1

Lenartowicz Stanisław 83 Giuseppe in Warsaw / Giuseppe w Warszawie

Leszczyński Witold 84 Axiliad / Siekierezada 85 Konopielka / Konopielka 86 Matthew’s Days / Żywot Mateusza

Łomnicki Jan 87 Operation Arsenal / Akcja pod Arsenałem

7 Łukaszewicz Jerzy 88 Faustina / Faustyna

Machulski Juliusz 89 Deja Vu / Deja vu 90 Kingsajz / Kingsajz

POLISH CINEMA 91 Sexmission / Seksmisja of 92 Squadron / Szwadron 93 Va Banque / Vabank 94 Va Banque II / Vabank II, czyli riposta 95 V.I.P / V.I.P.

Majewski Janusz 96 Devilish Education / Diabelska edukacja 97 Hotel Pacific /Zaklęte rewiry 98 Jealousy and Medicine / Zazdrość i medycyna 99 Lesson of the Dead Language / Lekcja martwego języka 100 The Lodger / Sublokator

Marczewski Wojciech 101 Escape form the „Liberty” Cinema / Ucieczka z kina „Wolność”

DIGITALLY RESTORED MASTERPIECES MASTERPIECES RESTORED DIGITALLY 102 Nightmares / Zmory 103 Shivers / Dreszcze

Morgenstern Janusz 104 And All Will Be Quiet / Potem nastąpi cisza 105 Back to Life Again / Życie raz jeszcze 106 Good Bye Till Tomorrow / Do widzenia, do jutra 107 Jovita / Jowita 108 Smaller Sky / Mniejsze niebo 109 To Kill This Love / Trzeba zabić tę miłość 110 Tomorrow’s Premiere / Jutro premiera

Munk Andrzej 111 Eroica. Heroic Symphony in Two Parts / Eroica 112 Man on the Tracks / Człowiek na torze

8 FILM INDEX Pasikowski Władysław 113 Kroll / Kroll 114 Pigs / Psy

Petelski Czesław 115 The Depot of the Dead / Baza ludzi umarłych

Piwowarski Radosław 116 March Caresses / Marcowe migdały 117 Self-Portrait with the Mistress / Autoportret z kochanką 118 A Train to Hollywood / Pociąg do Hollywood

Piwowski Marek 119 Cruise / Rejs

Polański Roman 120 Knife in the Water / Nóż w wodzie

Poręba Bohdan 121 Sleepwalkers / Lunatycy

Różewicz Stanisław 122 Birth Certificate /Świadectwo urodzenia 123 The Lynx / Ryś 124 Westerplatte Resists / Westerplatte

Saniewski Wiesław 125 Custody / Nadzór

Sass Barbara 126 Scream / Krzyk

Skolimowski Jerzy 127 Hands Up / Ręce do góry 128 Identification Marks: None /Rysopis 129 Walkover / Walkower

9 Stuhr Jerzy 130 The Big Animal / Duże zwierzę

Szulkin Piotr 131 Golem / Golem 132 King Ubu / Ubu król

POLISH CINEMA 133 O-bi, O-ba. The End of Civilization / O-bi, o-ba. Koniec cywilizacji of 134 The War of the Worlds - Next Century / Wojna światów - następne stulecie

Szumowska Małgorzata 135 A Happy Man / Szczęśliwy człowiek

Wajda Andrzej 136 The Ashes / Popioły 137 Ashes and Diamonds / Popiół i diament 138 The Birch Wood / Brzezina 139 A Chronicle of Amorous Incidents / Kronika wypadków miłosnych 140 The Conductor / Dyrygent 141 Danton / Danton 142 Everything for Sale / Wszystko na sprzedaż 143 A Generation / Pokolenie

DIGITALLY RESTORED MASTERPIECES MASTERPIECES RESTORED DIGITALLY 144 Holy Week / Wielki Tydzień 145 Hunting Flies / Polowanie na muchy 146 Innocent Sorcerers / Niewinni czarodzieje 147 Kanal / Kanał 148 Korczak / Korczak 149 Landscape After the Battle / Krajobraz po bitwie 150 Lotna / Lotna 151 The Maids of Wilko / Panny z Wilka 152 Man of Iron / Człowiek z żelaza 153 Man of Marble / Człowiek z marmuru 154 Pan Tadeusz. The Last Foray in Lithuania / Pan Tadeusz. Ostatni zajazd na Litwie 155 The Promised Land / Ziemia obiecana 156 The Revenge / Zemsta 157 Rough Treatment / Bez znieczulenia 158 The Shadow Line / Smuga cienia 159 The Wedding / Wesele

10 FILM INDEX Wosiewicz Leszek 160 Kornblumenblau / Kornblumenblau

Wójcik Jerzy 161 The Gateway to Europe / Wrota Europy

Wójcik Wojciech 162 Karate Polish Style / Karate po polsku

Załuski Roman 163 Eggnog / Kogel-mogel 164 Rigmarole or Eggnog 2 / Galimatias, czyli Kogel-mogel II

Zanussi Krzysztof 165 Camouflage /Barwy ochronne 166 The Constant Factor / Constans 167 Family Life / Życie rodzinne 168 Illumination / Iluminacja 169 The Spiral / Spirala 170 Structure of Crystal / Struktura kryształu 171 A Year of the Quiet Sun / Rok spokojnego słońca

Zaorski Janusz 172 A Baritone / Baryton 173 The Mother of Kings / Matka Królów 174 The Soccer Poker / Piłkarski poker

Żebrowski Edward 175 Transfiguration Hospital /Szpital przemienienia

Żuławski Andrzej 176 The Devil / Diabeł 177 On the Silver Globe / Na srebrnym globie 178 The Third Part of the Night / Trzecia część nocy

11 THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS / DAMA KAMELIOWA Genre: period drama

Year of production: 1994

Technical specs:

JERZY ANTCZAK color; 94 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: The action of the film takes place in mid-19th century. The main character TVP Polish Public Television, of the film is Małgorzata Gautier, a Parisian courtesan, known for showing up at opera Skorpion Art performances with a bouquet of white or red camellias. After the death of the woman, all her properties are auctioned. Alexander Dumas, who is a writer, buys a book that Rights: used to belong to Małgorzata. A few days later, a man named Armand Duval, for whom TVP Polish Public the purchase of the writer is an extremely valuable souvenir, pays him a visit. It turns out Television that Duval was a lover of Małgorzata, but their relationship ended tragically. An unusual Distribution: guest decides to tell the writer the dramatic story of their love. TVP Polish Public Television

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12 NIGHTS AND DAYS / NOCE I DNIE JERZY ANTCZAK Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1973

Technical specs: color; 177 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.30:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Early days of the First World War. Barbara Niechcic leaves the burning city Studio Filmowe KADR surrounded by crowds of refugees mad with fear and despair, trying to save what is left (KADR Film Studio) of their possessions. Barbara travels on the horse - drawn cart of Shimshel the Jew. Her voyage takes her to her daughter’s manor but also back in time. The voyage in time Distribution: is a summary of her life, spent with a man she married but did not love. Her memories Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) rush back – her great love for a handsome young gentleman who married another, the first encounter with her future husband and 40 years of a common, toilsome life, Restoration: marked with births and deaths – presented against the changing background of the life 2K, 2012 of Polish landed gentry at the turn of the 20th century. A lavish adaptation of the eponymous novel by Maria Dąbrowska. Great acting – the best parts in the respective careers of Jadwiga Barańska and Jerzy Bińczycki – and beautiful, moving score by Waldemar Kazanecki. Justly deserved awards – the Golden Lions of Gdańsk and a nomination to the Academy Awards. One of the most often viewed Polish movies. POLISH CLASSICS

Awards selection 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Golden Lions Award (Jerzy Antczak) 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor Award (Jerzy Bińczycki) 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actress Award (Jadwiga Barańska) 1976 Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear – Best Actress Award (Jadwiga Barańska) 1977 Oscar Academy Awards – Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category 13 ARIA FOR AN ATHLETE / ARIA DLA ATLETY Genre: biographical, drama, sport film

Year of production: 1979 FILIP BAJON Technical specs: color; 104 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Set at the turn of the 19th and 20th century the film tells a story of a famous Rights: Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. All begins in a small town where a traveling circus TOR Film Production attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus Distribution: manager fires the boy; he leaves happily as the two wrestler brothers were harassing TOR Film Production him. Then he goes on to fame, performing in the world’s top arenas. Restoration: Celebrity brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his 2K, 2014 profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.

Awards selection 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Debut Director Award (Filip Bajon) 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Cinematography Award (Jerzy Zieliński) 1980 San Remo International Art Film Festival – Opera Prima Best Debut Director Award (Filip Bajon) 1980 San Sebastián International Film Festival – Best New Director – Special Mention (Filip Bajon) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

14 A BRUNET WILL CALL / BRUNET WIECZOROWĄ PORĄ STANISŁAW BAREJA Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1976

Technical specs: color; 95 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.40:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Pryzmat A criminal comedy. An editor, Michał Roman sends away his wife and kids and is hoping for a peaceful weekend. His night passes uneventfully, until the lights fuse. As Rights: he fixes them, a Gypsy knocks at his window. The woman predicts his future – among KADR Film Studio; other things finding something he had lost, she gives him the winning numbers of the TOR Film Production; coming lottery-drawing, but most of all she warns him against the dark-haired man who ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive will knock at his door in the evening… his visit will bring misfortune. The next day Michał – to his dismay – finds the prophecies to be true: he finds his lost watch, the numbers Distribution: in lotto match perfectly and a dark - haired man knocks at his door… the visit ends with Studio Filmowe KADR murder, and Michał, to avoid the undeserved punishment, has to become the home - (KADR Film Studio) grown Sherlock Holmes. An excellent pastiche of the genre allowing to play with the People’s Repub- Restoration: lic of Poland then reality: arrogance of the office workers, lack of supplies, and almighty 2K, 2012 wangling. POLISH CLASSICS

15 TEDDY BEAR / MIŚ Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1980

Technical specs: color; 116 min.

Aspect ratio:

STANISŁAW BAREJA STANISŁAW 1.39:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa Ryszard Ochódzki, nicknamed ‘Teddy Bear’, is the president of the sports club ‘Rainbow’. While travelling abroad he is detained as several pages are torn out of Rights: his passport. Ochódzki suspects his wife, Irena, who may have wanted to prevent or at Studio Filmowe ZEBRA least delay his departure in order to reach London before him. The reason is that the (ZEBRA Film Studio) couple opened a bank account some years ago in one of the London banks and now, Distribution: since Irena has left Ryszard, they have to divide their assets. Neither of them seems to Studio Filmowe ZEBRA be willing to share the money deposited abroad. (ZEBRA Film Studio); Consequently, whoever reaches London first, will rake the whole pot. CRF Ochódzki does not give up easily and is doing his best to thwart his wife’s plan, trying simultaneously to get a new passport. Restoration: A cult movie with the plot full of intrigues and twists, showing an exaggerated 2K, 2012 image of Poland of the late 70s and early 80s. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

16 THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME / NIE MA RÓŻY BEZ OGNIA STANISŁAW BAREJA Genre: comedy, slice of life

Year of production: 1974

Technical specs: color; 95 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.44:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Pryzmat One of the best movies directed by a Polish comedy master Stanislaw Bareja, was based on a real and completely absurd tenant regulations (script was advised by Rights: a lawyer). Wanda and Janek think they finally made it. A gentleman called M. offers KADR Film Studio; them, for sentimental reasons as he claims, a two-room apartment in a block of flats in TOR Film Production; exchange for their tiny room in an old house mostly converted into offices. ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive This beautiful dream soon turns into a nightmare when, as a result of hous- ing regulations, they are forced to share their brand new flat with Wanda’s ex-husband Distribution: Jerzy. It can get even worse – according to the regulations Jerzy’s fiancée, her father, Studio Filmowe KADR and even her bygone fiancé are also entitled to move in with them... Every day the num- (KADR Film Studio) ber of people living in their small apartment increases… Restoration: 2K, 2012 POLISH CLASSICS

17 WANTED: MALE OR FEMALE / POSZUKIWANY, POSZUKIWANA Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1972

Technical specs: color; 87 min.

Aspect ratio:

STANISŁAW BAREJA STANISŁAW 1.37:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Pryzmat An art historian Stanislaw Maria Rochowicz works in an art museum in Warsaw; it’s not a very well-paid job. When a painting is found to be missing from the store room, Rights: the boss accuses Stanislaw of theft and gives him 24 hours to return it otherwise he’ll KADR Film Studio; go to jail. As Stanislaw is innocent, he decides to borrow some of his wife’s clothes and TOR Film Production; her wig, and go into hiding as a woman, Maria. He gets a job as housemaid, although ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive his practical home skills are pretty well non-existent, and a succession of amorous husbands, difficult children, and eccentric bosses drives him from one job to another. Distribution: Meanwhile he tries to keep in touch with his wife and in his spare time make a copy of Studio Filmowe KADR the missing painting. Finally, he gets a decent place working, and his wife unexpect- (KADR Film Studio) edly accepts the situation, as being a housemaid turns out to be much better paid that the post in the museum… One of the best Polish comedies. The brilliant performance Restoration: of Wojciech Pokora in the leading role, hints to the film classics and the mockery of 2K, 2012 modern art and the insane, aberrant world in which a housemaid earns more than an art historian and the high social position of useless ignorants reflects the extent of the humiliation of the Polish intelligentsia. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

18 WHAT CAN YOU DO TO ME IF YOU CATCH ME / CO MI ZROBISZ JAK MNIE ZŁAPIESZ STANISŁAW BAREJA Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1978

Technical specs: color; 104 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Pryzmat For those not living in any communist country, this movie might look like science fiction but it is very realistic albeit very funny. The director K. is a big fish, but Rights: he has his problems. The company which he runs is failing and he’s afraid he might lose KADR Film Studio; his job. However, sheer luck helps him. One day an unknown girl comes to his office and TOR Film Production; informs him that she is pregnant with his child. As it accidentally turns out the prospec- ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive tive young mother is the daughter of a VIP. Always an opportunist, K. recognizes his great chance for a change. He decides to divorce his wife under the pretext of adultery, Distribution: and start a new perfect life as the son-in-law of a VIP... The plan meets, however, many Studio Filmowe KADR difficulties, as his wife remains impeccably faithful… (KADR Film Studio)

Restoration: 2K, 2011 POLISH CLASSICS

19 THE STORY OF SIN / DZIEJE GRZECHU Genre: psychological, erotic drama

Year of production: 1975

Technical specs: color; 130 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

WALERIAN BOROWCZYK WALERIAN Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

The turn of 19th and 20th century. An impoverished young noblewoman, Ewa Rights: Pobratyńska, falls in love with the lodger of her parents’, Łukasz Niepołomski. An affair TOR Film Production with a married and – as it turns out – faithless man is the beginning of her moral fall. An unwanted pregnancy and infanticide, a relationship with a con man and prostitution Distribution: make up for the main components in the story of the heroine’s sin, a story with no TOR Film Production; NOWA FILMKLATKA chance for a happy ending. It is the adaptation of the once scandalous novel by Stefan DISTRIBUTION Żeromski. Formally sophisticated, presenting accurately the specific atmosphere of the era, true to the book, but contrary to its spirit: instead of social criticism – there is a re- Restoration: proach of culture for creating a false visions of love, making people drift away from the 2K, 2015 truth about themselves. One of the biggest commercial successes of the Polish cinema.

Awards selection 1975 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Walerian Borowczyk) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

20 THE ART OF LOVING / SZTUKA KOCHANIA JACEK BROMSKI Genre: erotic comedy

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 102 min.

Aspect ratio 1.65:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Zebra

Rights: Olgierd Pasikonik – a noted sexologist, author of the most popular agony Studio Filmowe ZEBRA column in a widely read paper and a promoter of modern psychotherapy methods of (ZEBRA Film Studio) treating sexual disorders – is answering a letter from Anna, one of the readers, who hesitates over her choice of the future husband. At Pasikonik’s instigation she runs away Distribution: from the altar, leaves home and decides to become the sexologist’s housekeeper. In the Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio) meantime other Pasikonik’s admirers join forces and this excess of women makes him, to his despair, fail as a man. The comedy depicting the capers of the doctor-macho and Restoration: his numerous ex and would-be lovers, ends with the conclusion that the only cure for 2K, 2013 sexual disorders is love. POLISH CLASSICS

21 KILL ME, COP / ZABIJ MNIE, GLINO Genre: crime drama, sensational

Year of production: 1987

Technical specs: color; 121 min. JACEK BROMSKI JACEK

Aspect ratio: 1.74:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa Jerzy Malik, a dangerous criminal, escapes from prison, but soon gets caught by Captain Popczyk. Yet Malik does not give up. During the trial he escapes from the Rights: courthouse with the help of his buddy Seweryn. With the new identity, he lives in Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Sosnowiec with Dorota, a doctor met by chance. The woman is so madly in love with (ZEBRA Film Studio) him, that even when she finds out who he really is, she does not hand him over to the Distribution: police. Meanwhile, Malik is trying to leave the country. He extorts money from his for- Studio Filmowe ZEBRA mer gang boss and organizes himself new papers. Aware that he will not be able to get (ZEBRA Film Studio); rid of Popczyk, he breaks into the captain’s house, with the intention to kill him, but he CRF kills his wife and her lover instead, thereby giving Popczyk a personal reason to catch him. But that is the very reason why captain’s superiors remove him from the case. The Restoration: policeman, however, keeps continuing his investigation. His colleagues fall on the trail 2K, 2012 of Dorota, but it’s too late – Malik is now in Warsaw, taking part in a mail van robbery. Yet Popczyk breathes down his neck and they finally meet face to face.

Awards selection 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Editing Award (Jadwiga Zajicek) 1988 The Filmmaking Committee Chairman’s Award for the filmmaking output in the category of feature film of 1987 (Jacek Bromski) 1988 The Filmmaking Committee Chairman’s Award in the category of feature film of 1987 (Piotr Machalica) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH 1988 The Filmmaking Committee Chairman’s Award in the category of feature film of 1987 (Bogusław Linda)

22 THE EAGLE / ORZEŁ LEONARD BUCZKOWSKI Genre: war film

Year of production: 1958

Technical specs: black and white; 110 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

The legend of the Second World War on screen. September 1939. Repub- Rights: lic of Poland’s submarine ‘Eagle’ is waiting for orders, helplessly facing the shelled Studio Filmowe KADR Westerplatte. Sent to neutral Tallinn, it is interned by the Estonians under German pres- (KADR Film Studio) sure. Together with the sailors, the commander of the ship decides to escape. Soon the ‘Eagle’, chased by German Kriegsmarine, makes the world’s press headlines. The route Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR to England is long and dangerous, and its culminating moment will be passing under the (KADR Film Studio) bottom of the German freighter. Following the conventions of war adventure movie it is a screen version of the legendary daring escape of the Polish submarine. The story Restoration: is based on true events – the commander’s logbook was a valuable resource for the 2K, 2012 screenwriters.

Awards selection 1959 Moscow International Film Festival – Silver Prize (Wienczysław Gliński,

Bronisław Pawlik, Aleksander Sewruk) POLISH CLASSICS 1959 Moscow International Film Festival – Nomination for Grand Prix (Leonard Buczkowski)

23 INTERROGATION / PRZESŁUCHANIE Genre: political, psychological drama

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 116 min.

Aspect ratio:

RYSZARD BUGAJSKI RYSZARD 1.36:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

The early 1950s, Poland under the Stalinist regime. Tonia Dziwisz travels with Rights: the band around the country, giving performances for urban and rural proletariat. One Studio Filmowe ZEBRA evening, shortly after an argument with her husband Konstanty, Tonia is made drunk (ZEBRA Film Studio) in the restaurant by two men and then taken to jail. The secret police demands that she gives testimony incriminating her colleague. A long-lasting, hopeless and brutal Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA interrogation begins. (ZEBRA Film Studio); A shocking study of a human faced with ruthless Stalinist tyranny. The CRF film-legend, classified by the communist authorities as the most anti-communist movie, was the direct cause of the dissolution of Andrzej Wajda’s ‘X Film Productions’. A year Restoration: after the film was shot Ryszard Bugajski left Poland. The premiere took place not until 2K, 2012 1989. ‘Interrogation’ was in competition to Golden Palm Award (Palme d’Or) at Cannes Film Festival in 1990.

Awards selection 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Audience Award (Ryszard Bugajski) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Critics Award (Ryszard Bugajski) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actress Award (Krystyna Janda) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Special Jury Prize (Ryszard Bugajski) 1990 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palm d’Or (Ryszard Bugajski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

24 BIG SHAR / WIELKI SZU SYLWESTER CHĘCIŃSKI Genre: sensational, psychological

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 101 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

An ageing sharper introduces a young cab driver from a small town to the Rights: world of cards – and cheating. A fascinating duel between the master and the appren- Studio Filmowe KADR tice. The old sharper, tired of life but rich in experience, wisdom, and distance to himself, (KADR Film Studio) stands against the impatient youth who is fascinated with his tutor, hungry for success and money, and who becomes addicted to gambling. Who shall win in the game when Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR the boy’s soul is at stake? (KADR Film Studio) A classical work of Polish popular cinema. The ruthless nouveau-riche Poland of the Edward Gierek period (the 1970s) and a hero who stands out from the Restoration: crowd and represents moral values. A great, Bogart-like part of Jan Nowicki. One of the 2K, 2011 greatest hits of 1983 awarded the Golden Duck by the readers of the ‘Film’ magazine. POLISH CLASSICS

25 EVA WANTS TO SLEEP / EWA CHCE SPAĆ Genre: poetical comedy

Year of production: 1957

Technical specs: black and white; 99 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

TADEUSZ CHMIELEWSKI TADEUSZ Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Syrena

Policemen and robbers – in somewhat surreal tones. Pretty Ewa arrives at Rights: the boarding school the day before the beginning of the school year. The stuffy porter Studio Filmowe KADR would not let her sleep in there, so the girl wanders through the strange town at night (KADR Film Studio) observing thieves having their training academies, policemen on duty learning to lure the villains playing the flute, and prostitutes knitting while waiting for customers. One of Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR the best and most original Polish comedies, where the grotesque, half-fantastic poetics (KADR Film Studio) of ‘the world turned upside down’ reflect the absurdities of the 1950s Poland. Excellent gags, witty dialogues by Jeremi Przybora, gentlemanly charm of Stanislaw Mikulski; and Restoration: Barbara Kwiatkowska – a beautiful girl in her first on-screen appearance. 2K, 2012

Awards selection 1958 San Sebastián International Film Festival – Alma Award for the Best Screenplay (Tadeusz Chmielewski, Andrzej Czekalski) 1958 San Sebastián International Film Festival – Golden Seashell Award (Tadeusz Chmielewski) 1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival – Best Film Award (Tadeusz Chmielewski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

26 I HATE MONDAY / NIE LUBIĘ PONIEDZIAŁKU TADEUSZ CHMIELEWSKI Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1971

Technical specs: color; 103 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Plan

Rights: An unlucky Monday in Warsaw. An Italian businessman gets picked up from Studio Filmowe KADR the airport by the wrong people, a traffic policeman cannot find anyone to leave his (KADR Film Studio) sick child with, a visitor from the country desperately seeks spare parts for his combine harvester, and a well-known actor cannot find his way back home after a night he spent Distribution: partying. A sequence of absurd adventures of unlucky characters all of which, as usual Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) in comedies, end well... but only in the evening, closer to Tuesday.

Restoration: 2K, 2011 POLISH CLASSICS

27 300 MILES TO HEAVEN / 300 MIL DO NIEBA Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 93 min.

MACIEJ DEJCZER MACIEJ Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production, Lise Lense-Moller Film, Trans Europe Film The screen play is based on the famed escape of brothers Zieliński from Po- land to Sweden in 1985. Grześ, aged 12, and Jędrek aged 15, stow away in the undercar- Rights: riage of a truck train to flee poverty, but also to find freedom. Emaciated and starving, TOR Film Production they reach the West. Harassed by the Polish consular authorities, they refuse to return to Poland. Christmas Eve is the first chance for them to talk to their parents in Poland Distribution: TOR Film Production over the telephone. Jędrek asks his mother if she wants them to stay in Denmark. His father takes over the phone and starts talking Restorarion: 2K, 2017

Awards selection 1989 European Film Awards – Young European Film of the Year (Maciej Dejczer) 1989 European Film Awards – European Composer of the Year Nomination (Michał Lorenc) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Debut Director Award (Maciej Dejczer) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Cinematography Award (Krzysztof Ptak) 1990 Cannes Film Festival – Young Jury Award 1990 Angers European First Film Festival - C.I.C.A.E Award (Maciej Dejczer) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

28 CHANCE / SZANSA FELIKS FALK Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 91 min.

Aspect ratio 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: The 1970s. A new PE teacher starts working in a provincial high school. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA He establishes a handball team, organizes trainings, gets all the necessary equipment, (ZEBRA Film Studio) and his efforts are soon rewarded with the forthcoming sport successes and the support of school headmaster. However, frequent trainings become more and more time consum- Distribution: ing, causing students to neglect other subjects. The PE teacher begins to manipulate Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); the team members, gets control over his pupils, resorts to blackmail and frames one of CRF the boys into being an informer. Meanwhile, the history teacher is preparing for the up- coming school celebration, during which he is going to present a play. Rehearsals for the Restoration: play cannot be held regularly because of the students’ sports workouts. The headmaster 2K, 2013 decides to cancel the performance to the advantage of the sports event. The history teacher tries to oppose, but other teachers side with the coach. When the situation seems to be settled, an event occurs that shows the PE teacher in a different light. The history teacher discovers something that completely changes the course of events. POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1979 Locarno International Film Festival – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention (Feliks Falk) 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor Award (Jerzy Stuhr) 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Screenplay Award (Feliks Falk)

29 HERO OF THE YEAR / BOHATER ROKU Genre: drama

Year of production: 1986

FELIKS FALK FELIKS Technical specs: color; 116 min.

Aspect ratio 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Perspektywa Film Studio

Poland, early 1980s. A well-known master of ceremonies, Ludwik Danielak, Rights: loses his job in television and starts trading in leather goods. He does not forget, however, Studio Filmowe ZEBRA about his aspirations, and soon he manages to get back to the salons, making covers (ZEBRA Film Studio) of newspapers and reaching the heights of popularity. This success is a result of an unusual television concept aimed at making a simple man a hero of national importance. Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Danielak promotes an employee of one of the biggest department stores as the ‘Hero of (ZEBRA Film Studio); the Year’. The TV program wins huge popularity, earning its author instant fame. CRF ‘Hero of the Year’ is a film about manipulation and commercialization. It is a sequel of Feliks Falk’s film ‘Top Dog’ featuring Ludwik Danielak’s life. Restoration: 2K, 2015

Awards selection 1986 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk - Silver Lions - Award for Best Director (Feliks Falk) 1987 Moscow International Film Festival – Special Jury Award (Feliks Falk) 1987 Moscow International Film Festival – Award of the Soviet Filmmakers’ Association (Feliks Falk) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

30 TOP DOG / WODZIREJ FELIKS FALK Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1977

Technical specs: color; 109 min.

Aspect ratio 1.38:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: Brilliant and cunning Lutek Danielak works in the provincial branch of Studio Filmowe ZEBRA ‘Estrada’ event agency. Being quite low in the hierarchy of MCs working there, he runs (ZEBRA Film Studio) events for children and senior citizens. When he finds out about a grand ball to be held after the opening of the ‘Lux’ hotel, he decides to fight for the lead, for this event can Distribution: be a turning point in his career. Lutek knows that he is good at what he does, but he is Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); also aware that the competition is very strong. Lutek decides to eliminate all the rivals CRF using any method that can bring him closer to success, including writing denunciations, offering his girlfriend to influential sponsors, stealing from his ex-wife or betraying a Restoration: friend. Clawing his way to the top and unfair, unethical fight are natural methods for 2K, 2012 Lutek. One of the cult films of ‘the cinema of moral concern’.

Awards selection 1978 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Grand Prix ‘Golden Grape’ Award

1978 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Don Quixote Award of the Film POLISH CLASSICS Society DKF (Feliks Falk) 1978 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Don Quixote Award of the Film Society DKF (Edward Kłosiński) 1978 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Don Quixote Award of the Film Society DKF (Jerzy Stuhr) 1979 Chicago International Film Festival – Golden Plaque (Jerzy Stuhr)

31 KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK CROSS / KRZYŻACY Genre: historical, drama

Year of production: 1960

Technical specs: color; 172 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 ALEKSANDER FORD ALEKSANDER

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Pryzmat

The first Polish historical blockbuster commemorating the 550th anniversary Rights: of the victorious battle of Grunwald. An impressive number of battle scenes, a touch of KADR Film Studio; politics and a bit of troubled love in medieval setting. The tragic love of Zbyszko and TOR Film Production; Danusia and the parental tragedy of Jurand set against the Polish-German conflict ZEBRA Film Studio; culminating in the battle of Grunwald. A major smash hit and the most viewed Polish National Film Archive movie of all times. Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) Awards selection 1960 Venice Film Festival – Nomination for the Golden Lion Award (Aleksander Restoration: Ford) 2K, 2011 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

32 MR. BLOT’S ACADEMY

PARTS I (THE ADVENTURE OF PRINCE MATTHEW) KRZYSZTOF GRADOWSKI AND II (THE SECRET OF PHILIP THE BARBER) / AKADEMIA PANA KLEKSA. CZEŚĆ I (PRZYGODA KSIĘCIA MATEUSZA) I II (TAJEMNICA GOLARZA FILIPA) Genre: family, fantasy

Year of production: 1983

Technical specs: color; 81 min. (part I), 78 min. (part II)

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy ZODIAK A film adaptation of a novel by Jan Brzechwa, the classic of Polish literature for children. Adam Niezgódka is 10 years old and in some magical way gets accepted Rights: to the Academy of Mr. Blot. That’s where he takes part in unconventional classes, meets Filmoteka Narodowa fairy tale characters and gets to extraordinary places. He also learns about the secret (National Film Archive) of Mathew the Starling, who is a prince of Fairy Tale Land transformed into a bird. The Distribution: only way for him to become human again is to find a magical button that he was given Filmoteka Narodowa by doctor Pai-Hi-Wo. Adam promises Mathew that he’ll find it. Soon it’s also revealed (National Film Archive) that another dark secret is concealed by Philip the Barber who supplies Mr. Blot with freckles… Restoration: Full HD, 2015 POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1984 Festival of Films for Children and Youth in Poznań – Poznańskie Koziołki Award for the Best Actors Movie 1984 Festival of Films for Children and Youth in Poznań – Children Jury Award ‘Marcinek’ 1985 Moscow International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize 1985 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival – Special Jury Prize for Creativity

33 MR. BLOT IN SPACE PARTS I (KIDNAPPING AGNIESZKA) AND II (MISSION OF VOLTAN 2) / PAN KLEKS W KOSMOSIE. CZEŚĆ I (PORWANIE AGNIESZKI) I II (MISJA VOLTANA II) Genre: family, Sci-Fi

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color; 79 min.(Part I), 63 min. (Part II) KRZYSZTOF GRADOWSKI KRZYSZTOF

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy ZODIAK, Wytwórnia Children residing in the orphanage in Maliszewo get the latest model of com- Filmowa Koliba puter as a Christmas present from the institution’s former charge. At night the machine (Bratysława), switches on – in and of itself – to tell the children what will happen in 25 years. The vil- Wytwórnia Filmów lain of this story, taking place on space ships and extraordinary planets in the future, is Fabularnych (Wrocław) the Grand Electrician who fears laughter and with whom Mr. Blot needs to confront. Mr. Rights: Blot is assisted by a couple of brave children, Agnes and Peas, and doctor Pai-Hi-Wo’s Filmoteka Narodowa mysterious jewel case plays an important role in the whole tale… (National Film Archive)

Distribution: Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive)

Restoration: Full HD, 2015 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

34 THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM / SANATORIUM POD KLEPSYDRĄ WOJCIECH JERZY HAS Genre: poetic, psychological

Year of production: 1973

Technical specs: color; 124 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Silesia

Rights: Józef arrives at the sanatorium of Doctor Gotard, where his father Jakub KADR Film Studio; stays. In this very special place, the old man who passed away years ago – is alive again, TOR Film Production; due to the successful experiment with turning back time by an interval, and his son can ZEBRA Film Studio; meet him and have the last, important conversation. For Józef, this is a beginning of an National Film Archive extraordinary, oneiric journey in time, return to his childhood haunts – his father’s shop, Distribution: Jewish shtetl and Bianka’s garden. Studio Filmowe KADR A masterpiece of Polish cinema. An auteur adaptation of the short stories (KADR Film Studio) by Bruno Schulz, read through the prism of the Holocaust and reconstructing the irretrievably lost world of small Jewish towns. A remarkable film essay on the Schulzian Restoration: themes of passing, destructive passage of time, with the stunning cinematography by 2K, 2009 Witold Sobociński. One of the most original, visually wonderful and internationally acclaimed Polish films.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1973 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize (Wojciech Has) 1973 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Wojciech Has) 1974 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Production Design Award (Jerzy Skarżyński, Andrzej Płocki)

35 HOW TO BE LOVED / JAK BYĆ KOCHANĄ Genre: melodrama, psychological

Year of production: 1962

Technical specs: black and white; 101 min.

Aspect ratio:

WOJCIECH JERZY HAS WOJCIECH 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy A plane heading for Paris becomes a time machine for Felicja. She travels Kamera back in time to the war-time Cracow where during the Second World War she offered a safe hiding place to her greatest love, actor Wiktor Rawicz, hunted by the German Rights: secret police Gestapo. The internal monologue of the main heroine recounts the painful KADR Film Studio; history of their relationship. As it shows, sacrifice was not enough for her to be loved TOR Film Production; ZEBRA Film Studio; while love could not save anyone. National Film Archive An excellent film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Kazimierz Brandys. The only masterpiece of the Polish Film School with a heroine, a fact which stresses – Distribution: through a mocking reference to the famous scene from ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ in which Studio Filmowe KADR the main characters recall their fallen friends – the concealment of the war-time drama (KADR Film Studio) of women, that was taking place outside the boundaries of the ‘great history’. The most magnificent part in the career of Barbara Krafftówna and Zbigniew -Cy Restoration: 2K, 2013 bulski challenging the myth of Maciek Chełmicki, the protagonist of ‘Ashes and Diamonds’.

Awards selection 1963 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Wojciech Has) 1963 San Francisco International Film Festival – Best Picture Award (Wojciech Has) 1963 San Francisco International Film Festival – Best Actress Award (Barbara Krafftówna) 1963 San Francisco International Film Festival – Best Screenplay Award (Kazimierz POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH Brandys)

36 THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT / RĘKOPIS ZNALEZIONY W SARAGOSSIE WOJCIECH JERZY HAS Genre: fantastic, poetic film

Year of production: 1964

Technical specs: black and white; 182 min. (I part: 80 min.; II part: 102 min.)

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: The year 1739. Alphonse van Worden, the captain of the Walloon Guard, Zespół Filmowy crosses the wild range of the Sierra Morena. He refuses to listen to tales of demons, Kamera invisible hands that push travelers into chasms, and abandoned inns inhabited by evil spirits. He stops for the night in such an inn and his visit starts a whole sequence of Rights: supernatural and frightful events which will alter his straightforward psyche. Moving KADR Film Studio; TOR Film Production; through the maze of a Chinese box tale the hero begins to speculate and the aim of ZEBRA Film Studio; the game is to determine how he is going to think. Everything can be interpreted in National Film Archive two ways: the magic, mystical philosophy of the Cabbalist is opposed by the humanist materialism of the Mathematician. Distribution: This brilliant screen version of one of the greatest works of world literature, Studio Filmowe KADR directed masterfully by Wojciech Jerzy Has was awarded the prizes of festivals in Edin- (KADR Film Studio) burgh and San Sebastián, and the Prize of Spanish Film Critics. Restoration: 2K, 2010

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1965 Edinburgh International Film Festival – honourable mention 1969 San Sebastián International Film Festival – CIDALC Award (Wojciech Has) 1969 San Sebastián International Film Festival – Golden Pen (Wojciech Has) 1969 Sitges International Festival of Fantasy and Horror Films – Special Medal (Wojciech Has) 1972 Cinema Writers Circle Awards in Spain – Special Award (Wojciech Has)

37 COLONEL WOLODYJOWSKI / PAN WOŁODYJOWSKI Genre: history, adventure

Year of production: 1969

Technical specs: color; 148 min.

JERZY HOFFMAN Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy KAMERA

A film adaptation of the third part of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy. After the Rights: death of his beloved fiancé, Michał Wołodyjowski decides to join the order. However, Filmoteka Narodowa his old comrade, Zagłoba, has a clever plan and helps Wołodyjowski to regain his joie (National Film Archive) de vivre. He falls in love again and goes back into military service under commander Sobieski’s leadership. He is entrusted with a fortress in Chreptiów, where he has to repel Distribution: Filmoteka Narodowa the attacks of Tatars. (National Film Archive)

Restoration: Awards selection 2K, 2014 1969 Moscow International Film Festival – Best Actor Award (Tadeusz Łomnicki) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

38 DELUGE / POTOP JERZY HOFFMAN Genre: adventure, history

Year of production: 1974

Technical specs: color; 285 min.

Aspect ratio: 2:35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Przedsiębiorstwo Realizacji Filmów “Zespoły Filmowe” A film adaptation of the second part of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy. Andrzej Kmicic, a cadet officer, arrives to Wodokty to meet Aleksandra Billewiczówna, his bride- Rights: to-be. They fall in love at first sight. However, Kmicic’s impulsive and rebellious nature Filmoteka Narodowa gets him into trouble. At the same time the Swedes invade the Republic of Poland. (National Film Archive) Kmicic decides to devote himself to fight the enemy in order to expiate for his guilt and Distribution: to regain the heart of his beloved. Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive)

Awards selection Restoration: 1974 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Golden Lions Award 2K, 2013 1974 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor (Daniel Olbrychski) 1974 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Audience Award 1975 Oscar Academy Awards – Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category POLISH CLASSICS

39 DELUGE REDIVIVUS / POTOP REDIVIVUS Genre: adventure, history

Year of production: 1974/2014

Technical specs: color; 184 min.

JERZY HOFFMAN Aspect ratio: 2.40:1

Sound: stereo

Production: Przedsiębiorstwo Realizacji Filmów “Zespoły Filmowe”/ ‘The Deluge’ 40 years later, thus ‘Deluge Redivivus’ (redivivus – Latin for Filmoteka Narodowa revived). The new re-edited version of the film based on digitally restored original ver- (National Film Archive) sion was created by Marcin Kot Bastkowski under the artistic supervision of the director Jerzy Hoffman and the director of photography Jerzy Wójcik. The new version is Rights: shorter, more dynamic and attractive for modern-day audience and adjusted to the Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive) requirements of the latest technology.

Distribution: Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive)

Restoration: 2K, 2014 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

40 GANGSTERS AND PHILANTHROPISTS / GANGSTERZY I FILANTROPI JERZY HOFFMAN, EDWARD SKÓRZEWSKI Genre: criminal comedy

Year of production: 1962

Technical specs: Black and white; 85 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy KAMERA A two-novel film. Novel (1) A respected thief – called the Professor – plans a robbery on Rights: a wagon containing the daily take of the Central Goods House. Everything goes as Filmoteka Narodowa planned until it is time to run from the scene… (National Film Archive) Novel (2) Anastazy Kowalski, a chemist who is tired of his everyday life, makes Distribution: a mistake and is fired from work. In order to drown his sorrow he goes to a bar and in Filmoteka Narodowa absent-mindedness puts an alcoholmeter into a glass of vodka. People mistake him for (National Film Archive) a restaurant inspector and he receives a bribe. After this incident he comes up with an idea for a way to make his life more interesting… Restoration: 2K, 2010 POLISH CLASSICS

41 THE LAW AND THE FIST / PRAWO I PIĘŚĆ Genre: psychological drama, western

Year of production: 1964

Technical specs: black and white; 96 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Film based on Józef Hen’s novel Toast. Andrzej Kenig wants to start his life KAMERA over after the war. He goes to small town Siwowo, where he is to guard it from looters. He meets doctor Milecki, who starts to behave strangely once he gets to know him. When Rights:

JERZY HOFFMAN, EDWARD SKÓRZEWSKI JERZY HOFFMAN, EDWARD Kenig realizes that Milecki is the leader of a gang of looters and the chances of him Filmoteka Narodowa being caught by the police are faint, he decides to work alone… (National Film Archive)

Distribution: Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive)

Restoration: 2K, 2010 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

42 PROVINCIAL ACTORS / AKTORZY PROWINCJONALNI AGNIESZKA HOLLAND Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1978

Technical specs: color; 108 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: The Polish province of the 1970s. In the local theatre, a director from Warsaw KADR Film Studio; intends to stage Wyspiański’s ‘Liberation’ with Krzysztof Malewski in the role of Konrad. TOR Film Production; For the talented but unfulfilled 30-year-old actor it is a chance of a lifetime. While being ZEBRA Film Studio; involved in the production of the play, he notices over time that the director, by means National Film Archive of avant-garde devices, trivialises the text and the rest of the team are rather indifferent Distribution: to the project. Main character’s frustration and urge to rebel is even greater because his Studio Filmowe KADR professional issues overlap with personal problems: his marriage with Anna, an equally (KADR Film Studio) unfulfilled actress of the puppet theatre, experiences a crisis. Agnieszka Holland’s feature debut – one of the most mature in the history of Polish cinema. An environmental Restoration: portrait using the motif of a ‘theatre within a theatre’ but, above all – an attempt to 2K, 2014 answer the universal question of what it means to be an artist.

Awards selection

1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Leading Actress Award (Halina POLISH CLASSICS Łabonarska) 1980 Cannes International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award (Agnieszka Holland)

43 A WOMAN ALONE / KOBIETA SAMOTNA Genre: drama

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color; 97 min includes 5 minutes of material oryginally removed by censorship AGNIESZKA HOLLAND AGNIESZKA

Aspect ratio: 1.37.1

Sound: mono (original)

Communist Poland, the early 1980s. Irena is an overworked postal worker Production: struggling to make ends meet while raising her son alone. Then Jacek, a younger man TVP Polish Public left crippled by a mining accident, unexpectedly enters her life. Will a meeting between Television two people who have suffered at the hands of fate change her difficult life while bringing him happiness and love? Filmed in Wrocław, ‘A Woman Alone’ was Agnieszka Holland’s Rights: TVP Polish Public final film produced in Poland before she left for the West. Television Its premiere was postponed by the introduction of martial law while Holland was in France. She decided not to return to her homeland, and the film premiered in Distribution: cinemas six years later. Considered the gloomiest of her films, Holland concluded after TVP Polish Public making it that ‘things shouldn’t be painted in such dark tones.’ The film brought the di- Television, DI Factory rector a Special Jury Prize at the Festival in Gdynia in 1988, as well as acting awards for Maria Chwalibóg and Bogusław Linda for performances that have entered the annals Restoration: 2K, 2016 of cinematic history.

Awards selection 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Special Prize of Jury (Agnieszka Holland) 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actress (Maria Chwalibóg) 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actor (Bogusław Linda) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

44 THE DEVIL FROM SEVENTH GRADE / SZATAN Z SIÓDMEJ KLASY MARIA KANIEWSKA Genre: adventure, comedy, sensational

Year of production: 1960

Technical specs: black and white; 111 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.39:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Start A seventeen-year-old schoolboy called by his professor ‘The Devil’, due to his extraordinary detective skills discovers a treasure hidden by a soldier of Napoleon Rights: during the Emperor’s retreat from Moscow. KADR Film Studio; However, ‘The Devil’ does not know that dangerous criminals also want to TOR Film Production; find the treasure... A successful screen version of the novel by a popular children and ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive teenagers’ author Kornel Makuszyński that became a smashing hit and the cinematic debut of the later idol Pola Raksa. Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio)

Restoration: 2K, 2012 POLISH CLASSICS

45 AUSTERIA / AUSTERIA Genre: war-drama film

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 107 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.90:1

Sound: JERZY KAWALEROWICZ mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: From the very first sequences of the Kawalerowicz’s picture it is plain to see Studio Filmowe KADR that we enter the world we don’t know or we had long forgotten existed, the world (KADR Film Studio) that perished decades ago. It is the world of the Polish Jews – their hermetic culture, their society with the philosophy, morality, religiousness and humor of their own. The Distribution: year 1914. The first day and the first night of the 1st World War. In a roadside inn, the Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) host – a wise Jew Tag, gives shelter to the refugees escaping the Cossack pogrom. The refugees are both the rich, emancipated Jews from the nearby town, as well as mystics, Restoration: religious zealots – the Chassids. None of the newcomers realizes what really is going 2K, 2009 on. Only Tag, a philosopher and freethinker is aware of the approaching disaster… but he welcomes his guests cordially and offers them accommodation. He senses that the morning will bring doom.

Awards selection

1984 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

46 DEATH OF A PRESIDENT / ŚMIERĆ PREZYDENTA JERZY KAWALEROWICZ Genre: biographical, historical

Year of production: 1977

Technical specs: color; 143 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Gabriel Narutowicz. The first President of the Republic of Poland and at the Studio Filmowe KADR same time the president who remained in office for the shortest time in history – after a (KADR Film Studio) week he was killed by Eligiusz Niewiadomski, a fanatical nationalist. Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s film is a painstaking reproduction of the historical realities of this heinous crime and Distribution: Niewiadomski’s trial. Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio)

Restoration: Awards selection 2K, 2013 1977 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Special Jury Award (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 1977 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Sound Award (Jerzy Błaszyński) 1978 Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear Award for an Outstanding Single Achievement (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 1978 Berlin International Film Festival – Nomination for the Golden Berlin Bear (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) POLISH CLASSICS

47 MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS / MATKA JOANNA OD ANIOŁÓW Genre: psychological drama, mystery

Year of production: 1960

Technical specs: black and white; 109 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.32:1 JERZY KAWALEROWICZ

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr The seventeenth century on the eastern borderlands of Poland. An experienced exorcist arrives at a remote nunnery. He is supposed to face the demons that Rights: possessed a beautiful Prioress, Mother Joanna, and almost all the nuns. He does not Studio Filmowe KADR know that he will first and foremost need to deal with demons that wake up in himself. (KADR Film Studio) The picture was inspired by the seventeenth-century story of the so-called ‘Devils of Distribution: Loudon’. On its premiere the film provoked strong emotions and protests, especially Studio Filmowe KADR from the Catholic Church. Today, when the excitement has passed, it is considered a (KADR Film Studio) timeless and universal treaty about human nature, sin, love and redemption. The film was awarded Special Jury Prize of the Cannes Festival in 1961. For her mesmerizing Restoration: performance in the title role, Lucyna Winnicka received, among others, the Crystal Star 2K, 2009 – Prize of the French Film Academy.

Awards selection 1961 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Special Prize (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 1961 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 1961 French Film Academy Awards – Crystal Star Award (Lucyna Winnicka) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

48 NIGHT TRAIN / POCIĄG JERZY KAWALEROWICZ Genre: psychological, mystery, thriller

Year of production: 1959

Technical specs: black and white; 97 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.32:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

The idea for this film was prompted by life itself: as a result of coincidence Rights: Jerzy Kawalerowicz once went to the seaside in a women’s sleeping compartment with Studio Filmowe KADR a woman experiencing a crisis, who told him the story of her life overnight. The director, (KADR Film Studio) looking for the best way to make a film version of the story, decided to set almost all the action on the train. It takes as much time as the journey by a night express train to Hel Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR peninsula. The protagonists are passengers huddled in its cramped interiors. Among (KADR Film Studio) them stands out a couple – Marta and Jerzy, who as a result of coincidence share a sleeping compartment. Restoration: The spectator, sharing the perspective of the characters, learns little of 2K, 2009 either of them, or of the other passengers. They know only as much as can be learnt about accidental travel companions. The turning point seems to be the moment when police arrives and the information that there is a murderer on the train. Soon, it turns out that this seemingly normal community is able to act like beasts. POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1959 Venice Film Festival – Golden Plate Award (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 1959 Venice Film Festival – Special Mention (Lucyna Winnicka) 1959 Venice Film Festival – Nomiantion for the Golden Lion (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

49 PHARAOH / FARAON Genre: historical

Year of production: 1965

Technical specs: color; 151 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.56:1

Sound: JERZY KAWALEROWICZ mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Egypt in the Ramesside period. The new pharaoh Ramessese XIII intends to Studio Filmowe KADR reform the state and to build its power at the expense of priests who – to begin with (KADR Film Studio) the powerful Herhor – gained enormous influence during the reign of the previous ruler. The youth – idealistic and impatient – when confronted with sceptical and wise maturity Distribution: of the opponent ‘armed’ with the knowledge which also constitutes a strong weapon, Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) is doomed to failure. An excellent adaptation of the novel by Bolesław Prus. A universal message – Restoration: the mechanisms and dilemmas of power, the question if the noble goal really justifies the 2K, 2012 means and at which point zealous idealism should be replaced with dispassionate pragmatism. A picture of an extraordinary, well-thought-out, artistically consistent, ascetic form. An anti-Hollywood historical film, auteur cinema of Jerzy Kawalerowicz and well-deserved awards – inter alia: an Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Awards selection 1966 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 1966 Oscar Academy Award – Nomination in Best Foreign Language Film category POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

50 BLIND CHANCE / PRZYPADEK KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: political, psychological

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color; 122 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.72:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Blind chance or fate? Kieślowski comments on the forces which control TOR Film Production human destiny. The direction which his life will take depends on whether the 20-year- old Witek can catch his train. In the first version of events Witek makes it, he meets a Distribution: devout communist on the train and joins the Party Youth Organisation. In the second TOR Film Production; scenario he fails to get on the train and starts a fight with the security guards on the MK2 (world sales) platform, consequently, he is sent to a labour camp where he meets people from the Restoration: opposition movement and decides to join them. In the third scenario Witek arrives late 2K, 2012 but he is not arrested – he returns to the university, graduates, and starts a scientific career with no political involvement. The movie transmits a universal message – faith in the internal autonomy of every human being and insistence on common decency regardless of circumstances – and blends it with a comment on political and social situation of the beginning of the 1980s.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1987 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actor Award (Bogusław Linda) 1987 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Silver Lions Award (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1987 Moscow International Film Festival – Russian Film Federation Prize

51 CAMERA BUFF / AMATOR Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 113 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.41:1

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born, as he is a family TOR Film Production man and wants to document the development of his daughter. Because it’s the first camera in town, he gets an offer to make a film on the 20th anniversary of his corpora- Distribution: tion. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but TOR Film Production; his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas. MK2 (world sales) Filip turns from a man hidden in his own privacy, into a social activist and an artist Restoration: sensitive to injustice and human suffering. He gets more and more involved in his new 2K, 2012 passion neglecting his family duties. His documentaries are screened on TV. He learns the burden of responsibility, the borders of creative freedom and the price of integ- rity. When he finally returns home, his wife and kid aren’t there anymore. Filip directs his camera on himself and starts telling his story anew… ‘Amator’ is one of the most acclaimed films of the ‘cinema of moral concern’.

Awards selection 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Leading Actor Award (Jerzy Stuhr) 1979 Moscow International Film Festival – Golden Prize (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1979 Moscow International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1979 Berlin International Film Festival – Interfilm Award – Otto Dibelis Film Award POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

52 THE DECALOGUE 1 / DEKALOG 1 KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 56 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Krzysztof introduces his small son, Pawel, to the mysteries of the personal computer, a machine which he believes is infallible. It is winter. Pawel, anxious to try out Rights: his new pair of skates, asks his father if he can go out to the local pond which has just TVP Polish Public frozen over. They consult the computer; the ice will hold the boy’s weight; he can go. Television Pawel doesn’t come home. There was a freak local thaw; the computer was wrong; Pawel Distribution: drowned. Krzysztof runs to the church in protest and despair, falls against an altar. Can- TVP Polish Public dle wax splashes over the face of the black Madonna and dries on her cheeks as tears. Television, DI Factory

1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award POLISH CLASSICS 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award

53 THE DECALOGUE 2 / DEKALOG 2 Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 60 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Dorota visits Andrzej, her dying husband, in the hospital. She is pregnant - this might be the last chance for her to have a baby - but not by him. She asks the Con- Rights: sultant in charge of her husband’s case whether Andrzej will die. If he lives, she will have TVP Polish Public an abortion; if he dies, she can have the child. How can the doctor decide the life or Television death of an unborn child? How can he be certain whether his patient will die or mirac- Distribution: ulously recover? He tells Dorota that her husband doesn’t have a chance; but Andrzej TVP Polish Public recovers. Dorota tells Andrzej that they are going to have a baby; he thinks it’s his. Television, DI Factory

Restoration: Awards selection 2K, 2015 1989 Venice Film Festival - Children and Cinema Award 1989 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize 1989 International Film Meeting in Dunkirk - Critic’s Award 1989 International Film Festival in Montreal - Critic’s Award 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

54 THE DECALOGUE 3 / DEKALOG 3 KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 59 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR The single father known from ‘The Decalogue, One’ is looking at the window of his neighbours living on the first floor, sitting around the table and waiting for Christ- Rights: mas presents. A happy idyllic picture of a loving family shatters when Janusz goes out TVP Polish Public provoked by his ex-lover Ewa. They drive around the deserted city under the pretext Television to find her missing husband. In the morning the old feelings seem to explode again but Distribution: little Christmas carol singers ring the doorbell singing about the birth of Jesus at the TVP Polish Public early hours. Before the dawn Ewa reveals to Janusz that she made a dangerous bet with Television, DI Factory herself as she did not want to spend the Christmas Eve’s night alone. The other woman, Janusz’s wife, has been waiting for him all night long suspecting what was the true rea- Restoration: son of his disappearance. 2K, 2015

Awards selection 1989 Venice Film Festival - Children and Cinema Award

1989 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize POLISH CLASSICS 1989 International Film Meeting in Dunkirk - Critic’s Award 1989 International Film Festival in Montreal - Critic’s Award 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award

55 THE DECALOGUE 4 / DEKALOG 4 Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 58 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Anka is 20 years old. Her mother is dead and she lives with Michal, her father. They get on well together. Michal has to go on a trip abroad. While he is away, Anka Rights: finds an envelope in her father’s room: ‘Not to be opened before my death.’ Within that TVP Polish Public envelope there is another one, addressed to her and written in her mother’s handwriting. Television Anka meets her father on his return and quotes the letter where her mother reveals that Distribution: Michal is not Anka’s real father. A different relationship emerges between Anka and TVP Polish Public Michal as Anka subtly tries to seduce him. Michal resists; she might still be his daughter. Television, DI Factory As Michal leaves for another trip, Anka runs after him, confessing that she hasn’t read the letter after all. Restoration: 2K, 2015

Awards selection 1989 Venice Film Festival - Children and Cinema Award 1989 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize 1989 International Film Meeting in Dunkirk - Critic’s Award 1989 International Film Festival in Montreal - Critic’s Award 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

56 THE DECALOGUE 5 / DEKALOG 5 KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 60 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.70

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Three alternately shown characters whose ways cross on March 16, 1985 in Warsaw filmed in a gruesome way: a young attorney who is about to take the bar exam; Rights: Jacek, a young man from the countryside, lost in a big city and a rude taxi driver with TVP Polish Public a little devil. Piotr, an opponent of the death penalty, tells the examiners with great Television conviction that his job would give him the chance to meet people he otherwise had Distribution: no chance to meet. But he does not notice Jacek preparing for murder in the bar in TVP Polish Public Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. If he had noticed him and talked to him, he might have Television, DI Factory stopped the young man who, as Tadeusz Lubelski wrote, “was living with his false image like with an unexploded bullet which had to explode one day”, carrying the burden of Restoration: responsibility for his sister’s accidental death. But he notices – and ignores – a road 2K, 2015 worker (Artur Barciś) pointing at the symbolic number 5.

Awards selection

1989 Venice Film Festival - Children and Cinema Award POLISH CLASSICS 1989 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize 1989 International Film Meeting in Dunkirk - Critic’s Award 1989 International Film Festival in Montreal - Critic’s Award 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award

57 THE DECALOGUE 6 / DEKALOG 6 Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 62 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.70

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR The opening sequence presents both characters setting the scene for a drama that would take place between them: a window glass that separates them, they are Rights: of different ages and social status; all that they can do is watching and being watched. TVP Polish Public In a precise structure of the sixth film of The Decalogue three parts, almost of the same Television length, can be distinguished: in the first the woman is seen from Tomek’s viewpoint, Distribution: separated by window glasses and the lens of a telescope, only seemingly coming closer. TVP Polish Public The middle part consists of their meetings: a love-struck young man confesses to his Television, DI Factory spying on her, tells her he loves her but he expects nothing. The third part is shown from the point of view of the woman: now she starts to search for the young man and Restoration: discovers that love which is not equal only to physiological satisfaction exists. 2K, 2015

58 THE DECALOGUE 7 / DEKALOG 7 KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 59 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Six-year-old Ania is being brought up by Ewa in the belief that Majka, Ewa’s daughter, is her sister, whereas Majka is really her mother. Tired of living this lie and des- Rights: perate to have Ania love her as a mother, Majka ‘kidnaps’ Ania and runs away from her TVP Polish Public parents. She seeks refuge with Wojtek, Ania’s father. Majka was just a schoolgirl when Television Wojtek, her teacher, got her pregnant. Ewa, jealous of Ania’s love, looks for her every Distribution: where, phones Wojtek. Majka seizes her little girl and continues to run; she will only TVP Polish Public return home if her mother allows her to bring up her own daughter in the recognition of Television, DI Factory the true relationship. Majka and Ania hide at a nearby station. Ewa asks the woman at the ticket office whether she has seen a young woman with a little girl. The ticket woman Restoration: lies - yes, she did see them but they left some two hours ago. In the background, Ania 2K, 2015 wakes up and sees Ewa. ‘Mommy,’ she calls and runs to her. A train arrives, Majka jumps on, rejecting Ewa’s pleas for her to come home.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1989 Venice Film Festival - Children and Cinema Award 1989 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize 1989 International Film Meeting in Dunkirk - Critic’s Award 1989 International Film Festival in Montreal - Critic’s Award 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award

59 THE DECALOGUE 8 / DEKALOG 8 Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 57 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Elzbieta, researching the fate of Jewish war survivors, is visiting from New York and sits in on lectures in ethics at the University of Warsaw. She approaches Zofia, Rights: the professor, and tells her that she is the little Jewish girl whom Zofia refused to shelter TVP Polish Public from the Nazis during the Occupation. As Zofia explains the reason for this is apparent Television cowardice - someone had betrayed Zofia’s husband who was active in the underground Distribution: and any Jewish child would have fallen into the hands of the Gestapo - her long-stand- TVP Polish Public ing sense of guilt is cleared while Elzbieta’s faith in humanity is restored. Television, DI Factory

60 THE DECALOGUE 9 / DEKALOG 9 KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 61 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR Roman learns he’s impotent. Recognizing his wife, Hankas’s, sexual needs, he encourages her to take a lover. She is reluctant; she loves Roman, but does have an af- Rights: fair with Mariusz, a student. Roman, despite his own words, becomes excessively jealous TVP Polish Public and obsessed with the thought that Hanka might have followed his encouragement and Television taken a lover. He spies on her and learns of her relationship with Mariusz, unaware of Distribution: the fact that Hanka has broken off the affair. Roman tries to commit suicide but survives. TVP Polish Public Hanka rushes to his side. Television, DI Factory

1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Catholic Organisation Award POLISH CLASSICS 1989 Sao Paulo International Film Festival – Critic’s Award

61 THE DECALOGUE 10 / DEKALOG 10 Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color, 62 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Zespół Filmowy TOR A man dies leaving an extremely valuable stamp collection to his two sons, Jerzy and Artur. Although they know very little about stamps, they are unwilling to sell. Rights: They learn that one very rare stamp is needed to complete the valuable set. To acquire TVP Polish Public the stamp Jerzy donates his kidney - the man in possession of the stamp is in need of Television a kidney for his daughter. Returning from hospital, Jerzy and Artur find that they have Distribution: been burgled. The entire stamp collection is gone. Shamefully, they confess that they TVP Polish Public suspected each other and are reconciled. Television, DI Factory

62 NO END / BEZ KOŃCA Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI 1984

Technical specs: color; 108 min

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: The year 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ula, a TOR Film Production translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself Distribution: in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. Acquainted with TOR Film Production; Antek’s last case, Ula refers the wife of one of her husband’s clients Darek, a jailed Sol- MK2 (world sales) idarity strike organizer to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Restoration: Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys. Then she decides to 2K, 2013 join her husband…

Awards selection 1985 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Don Quixote Award of the Film Society DKF POLISH CLASSICS

63 THE SCAR / BLIZNA Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1976

Technical specs: color; 106 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound:

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: The year 1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is TOR Film Production taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in a small town where the Distribution: factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party activist there, and he has unpleasant TOR Film Production; memories of it. But he sets to the task with the belief that he will build a place where MK2 (world sales) people will live and work well. His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with Restoration: those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs. 2K, 2014 Disillusioned, Bednarz gives up his post.

Awards selection 1976 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor Award (Franciszek Pieczka) 1976 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Special Jury Prize (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1978 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomination in the Best Feature Category POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

64 A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING / KRÓTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Genre: psychological, drama

Year of production: 1987

Technical specs: color; 85 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.70:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: On a sombre March day the paths of three men cross – the cabbie Marian TOR Film Production cleans up his car, the lawyer Piotr celebrates the success of his attorney exam with his girlfriend, while in the same café, 20-year-old Jacek prepares his murder weapon. Jacek Distribution: gets in Marian’s taxi and murders him brutally. Piotr, who opposes capital punishment, TOR Film Production; defends Jacek during his trial. Piotr manages to establish closer contact with the youth, MK2 (world sales) speak to his conscience, and understand that evil was born out of the lack of goodness. Restoration: The appearance of the picture in theaters elicited a very emotional reaction 2K, 2012 of the audience. Not only because of the exceptionally brutal scenes of murder and execution, but also due to the particular period of time in Poland. When the title was released, in 1988, the nationwide discussion about the justness of the capital punishment was in full swing. The film critics as well as the spectators regarded Kieślowski’s movie as an important voice in the debate. A voice interpreted as a resolute ‘no’ as the response to the ‘crime in the majesty of law’. POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1988 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1988 Cannes Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1988 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1988 Felix Prize for the Best European Film / European Film Awards – Best Film Award (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

65 A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE / KRÓTKI FILM O MIŁOŚCI Genre: psychological, drama

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color; 87 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI KRZYSZTOF Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Tomek, a young, shy and sensitive post office worker, is obsessed with Rights: Magda, the promiscuous beautiful woman who lives in the tower block opposite. TOR Film Production He spies on her through a telescope and finally declares his love. She initiates him into the basic fact of life – there is no love, only sex. Tomek, shattered, tries to commit Distribution: suicide but doesn’t succeed. When he returns from hospital, it is Magda who becomes TOR Film Production; MK2 (world sales) obsessed with him. Kieślowski’s movie has an ascetic plot but an extremely rich and complex Restoration: psychological message. With the rare subtlety it shows the internal transformations of 2K, 2012 the characters. The dramatic destiny of their ‘relationship’ makes them both discover their ability to love.

Awards selection 1988 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize, FIPRESCI and OCIC Prize 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Leading Actress Award (Grażyna Szapołowska) 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 1989 Genova International Film Festival – Best Main Role (Olaf Lubaszenko) 1989 Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo – Best Actress POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH (Grażyna Szapołowska)

66 ALL SAINTS EVE / ZADUSZKI TADEUSZ KONWICKI Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1961

Technical specs: black and white; 98 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Two mature people come to a provincial town to experience their first night Rights: together in a small dingy hotel. Having lived alone so far, here they are hoping for close- Studio Filmowe KADR ness, but not only the living hinder them – like a hotel neighbor – but also, and perhaps (KADR Film Studio) above all, the dead. The past overshadows the present, and the nagging memories of unfulfilled love make them ask themselves whether they stand a chance of finding Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR happiness. Or maybe, what was supposed to happen to them had already happened... (KADR Film Studio) The next chapter of Tadeusz Konwicki’s original work. His favorite themes of unrequited love, history encroaching upon the lives of the protagonists, or the past, from which Restoration: there is no escape. Small-scale great cinema. 2K, 2009

Awards selection 1962 Mannheim International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize (Tadeusz Konwicki) POLISH CLASSICS

67 HOW FAR, HOW NEAR / JAK DALEKO STĄD, JAK BLISKO Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1971

Technical specs: color; 97 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 (original); TADEUSZ KONWICKI TADEUSZ 1.85:1 (DCP; HDTV)

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Zespół Filmowy Plan

40-year-old Andrzej, the main character of this film made in a dream-like Rights: convention, is tormented by his war memories and the mystery of the subsequent, suicidal Studio Filmowe ZEBRA death of his friend. Andrzej sets off on a symbolic journey into his own past in order to (ZEBRA Film Studio) face it, to make an assessment of his life and look into the eyes of his deceased relatives. During this unreal passage he meets ghosts of people with whom he was once bound. Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio)

Awards selection Restoration: 1973 San Remo International Film Festival – Special Prize for the Best Screenplay 2K, 2015 (Tadeusz Konwicki) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

68 THE ISSA VALLEY / DOLINA ISSY TADEUSZ KONWICKI Genre: poetical, psychological drama

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 110 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa Lithuania, the beginning of the 20th century, the River Issa Valley. A young boy, Tomaszek, is experiencing the initiation into adulthood. He discovers a story of Rights: the priest’s romance with his landlady which had tragic consequences. He witnesses Studio Filmowe ZEBRA unrequited love of a maid to her master, as well as the story of Baltazar, a forester whose (ZEBRA Film Studio) existential anxieties lead to madness and crime. The world of the living merges with the Distribution: world of the dead. The stories of the individual characters are accompanied by devils Studio Filmowe ZEBRA and demons well-known from Lithuanian legends. ’The Issa Valley’ is a film adaptation (ZEBRA Film Studio); of a novel by Czesław Miłosz of the same title. CRF

Restoration: 2K, 2012 POLISH CLASSICS

69 JUMP / SALTO Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1965

Technical specs: black and white; 104 min.

Aspect ratio: TADEUSZ KONWICKI TADEUSZ 1.40:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Sleepy life in a provincial town is disturbed by the appearance of a mysteri- Rights: ous man, Kowalski-Malinowski. He tells various versions of his biography, hence nobody Studio Filmowe KADR knows who he really is – a prophet, a martyr or simply a liar. Regardless of these con- (KADR Film Studio) tradictions, he changes the life of people living in this town – he listens to them, allows them to accept themselves just the way they are, gives them hope. At an annual cele- Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR bration night – he invites the town residents to the dance called ‘Salto’. The spell casted (KADR Film Studio) on the town breaks when his wife appears... Grotesque and derisive reference to the films of the Polish Film School and, Restoration: most of all, an auteur cinema of Tadeusz Konwicki featuring his favourite actors and an 2K, 2010 important voice in a discussion on the Polish mythomania and the role of the artist. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

70 THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER / OSTATNI DZIEŃ LATA TADEUSZ KONWICKI Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1958

Technical specs: black and white; 61 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.38:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Two people meet on an empty beach. They cannot communicate. This ascetic Rights: scenario was realized by a team of 5 people on an equally ascetic sand dunes by the Studio Filmowe KADR sea. And although it seemed that they were put under a curse – shots turned out to be (KADR Film Studio) bad the first time round and the film had to be shot again; part of the team got seriously ill, and before they got better, the last day of summer turned into the middle of autumn – Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR the result of their work proved to be remarkable. Subtle, almost semi-documentary tale (KADR Film Studio) of the confrontation of two solitudes, which cannot end in authentic closeness. Among the viewers who appreciated ‘The Last Day of Summer’ right away was an acclaimed Restoration: Polish writer Maria Dąbrowska. After seeing it she noted down in her diary: ‘The sea, 2K, 2010 empty beach, dunes... Not a soul – except for two people and jet planes roaring in the sky. A one-day affair, frail dialogue – and so eloquent! In life, I have never before liked a film but this one.’ There is no better recommendation. POLISH CLASSICS

71 LAVA. A TALE OF ADAM MICKIEWICZ’S ‘FOREFATHERS’ EVE’ / LAWA. OPOWIEŚĆ O „DZIADACH” ADAMA MICKIEWICZA Genre: drama

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 135 min.

TADEUSZ KONWICKI TADEUSZ Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa

Film adaptation of ‘Dziady’ (Forefathers’ Eve), a nineteenth-century verse Rights: drama by Adam Mickiewicz. The work depicts Poland under the then Russian rule, Studio Filmowe ZEBRA interweaving political and personal drama with a semi-pagan rite during which needy (ZEBRA Film Studio) souls communicate with the living on the night of ‘Forefathers’ Eve’. Apart from literary references such as ideas of romanticism and the struggle Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA for national independence against the Russian occupant, the director blended into his (ZEBRA Film Studio); picture the twentieth-century history of Poland: the Second World War and the post- CRF war period. Mickiewicz’s ‘Dziady’ is commonly considered as an iconic work of Polish Restoration: romantic patriotism and one of the greatest works of European Romanticism. 2K, 2014

Awards selection 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Supporting Actor Award (Henryk Bista) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Film Score Award (Zygmunt Konieczny) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Sound Award (Mariusz Kuczyński) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Special Jury Prize (Tadeusz Konwicki) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

72 MEDIUM / MEDIUM JACEK KOPROWICZ Genre: horror film, psychological

Year of production: 1985

Technical specs: color; 93 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Set in 1933, a story of four people, mysteriously brought together to an old Rights: villa in Sopot to reenact a murder ritual that took place 50 years earlier. The first Polish TOR Film Production film entirely dedicated to the occult thematics. ‘Medium’ came to existence adrift the huge interest in the phenomena of parapsychology and the secret supernatural powers Distribution: that were only accessible to the chosen ones. The picture by Jacek Koprowicz es- TOR Film Production capes the traditional qualifications and genre definitions. It is an idiosyncratic collage of Restoration: horror, thriller and action movie. After the premiere the critics praised the director’s 2K, 2013 poetic imagination and brilliant acting and the spectators mobbed the cinemas.

Awards selection 1986 Mystfest – Best Original Story Award (Jacek Koprowicz) 1986 Mystfest – Nomintation for the Best Film Award (Jacek Koprowicz) POLISH CLASSICS

73 THE DEBT / DŁUG Genre: thriller, psychological drama

Year of production: 1999

Technical specs: color; 102 min.

Aspect ratio:

KRZYSZTOF KRAUZE KRZYSZTOF 1.67:1

Sound: stereo (original); 5.1

Production: Studio Filmowe Zebra (Zebra Film Studio) Warsaw, the 1990s. Two friends and business partners in their twenties, Adam and Stefan, decide to start up a business on a larger scale. They plan to start Rights: assembling scooters, but the bank refuses to lend them money. They meet Gerard, a Studio Filmowe ZEBRA former pal, who, in exchange for a commission, offers them help in finding a reliable (ZEBRA Film Studio) guarantor of the loan. The plan fails, but Gerard demands the return of the alleged Distribution: ‘costs’ – a total of several thousand dollars. Gerard begins the collection of the debt Studio Filmowe ZEBRA which is impossible to pay off. Three months after the first meeting of those three, the (ZEBRA Film Studio); police pulls two headless corpses out of the Vistula river. CRF The screenplay of the film was based on authentic events. Restoration: 2K, 2012

Awards selection 1999 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Krzysztof Krauze) 1999 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actor Award (Andrzej Chyra) 1999 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Film Score Award (Michał Urbaniak) 1999 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Critics Award (Krzysztof Krauze) 2001 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Director Award (Krzysztof Krauze) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

74 MY NIKIFOR / MÓJ NIKIFOR KRZYSZTOF KRAUZE Genre: biographical, drama

Year of production: 2004

Technical specs: color; 101 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA; TVP Polish Public Television; Canal + One winter of 1960, Nikifor enters the painting studio of Marian Włosiński in Polska Krynica Spa House; he arranges his painting tools and stays there for the next 7 years. Suffering from TB, gibbering, with irritating habits, he is a difficult tenant, but the host Rights: treats the safekeeping over the genius ‘naive artist’ in terms of a life-long commitment, Studio Filmowe ZEBRA which he fulfils at the expense of his own work and family. An unconventional biography, (ZEBRA Film Studio) a story of a friendship between two painters as a story of selflessness and sacrifice: one Distribution: of them, internally free, fully indulges in the world of art, the other, less talented – takes Studio Filmowe ZEBRA care of the artist and a man in need. (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF

Restoration: Awards selection 2K, 2014 2004 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actress Award (Krystyna Feldman) 2004 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Editing Award (Krzysztof Szpetmański) 2004 Valladolid International Film Festival – Best Actress Award (Krystyna Feldman)

2005 Athens Panorama of European Cinema – FIPRESCI Prize (Krzysztof Krauze) POLISH CLASSICS 2005 Chicago International Film Festival – Gold Hugo for the Best Feature (Krzysztof Krauze)

75 THE LAST FERRY / OSTATNI PROM Genre: psychological drama, political film

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 87 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 WALDEMAR KRZYSTEK WALDEMAR

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy ZODIAK December 12, 1981. The ferry leaves Polish city of Świnoujście for a four-day cruise to Hamburg. Some of the passengers have no intention of coming back from that Rights: trip, choosing emigration which offers a chance for normal life or for relationship revival. Filmoteka Narodowa One of the people on-board is Marek Ziarno, high-school Polish language teacher and (National Film Archive) the Solidarity emissary. The man’s ventured to smuggle important union documents Distribution: West. It’s a tough task, for he’s being followed by Security Service agents; however he Filmoteka Narodowa gets helps concealing the cargo from his wife and female student, both met on-board. (National Film Archive) Once the ferry reaches German sea, the passengers hear the news about introducing martial law in Poland – for everybody it’s a time of taking very difficult decisions: do they Restoration: emigrate or go back? 2K, 2015

Awards selection 1989 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Award of the President of Gdynia (Waldemar Krzystek) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

76 THE BEADS OF ONE ROSARY / PACIORKI JEDNEGO RÓŻAŃCA KAZIMIERZ KUTZ KAZIMIERZ Genre: drama, psychological

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 111 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: The rhythm of life in the multigenerational home of the Habryka family, Studio Filmowe KADR determined by daily rituals, gets disrupted by official plans: the old mining district is to (KADR Film Studio) be demolished for the construction of high-rises. The miners get allocations for hous- ing in the blocks of flats in return, but old Habryka refuses to move to ‘a drawer in Distribution: concrete’. When his resistance, incomprehensible to everyone but his son, becomes Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) drastic, the mine authorities agree to grant the deserving miner and veteran of the Silesian Uprising a luxurious villa. They do not understand that the house is more than Restoration: just walls and a roof. The last part of Kazimierz Kutz’s Silesian triptych, with the symbolic 2K, 2012 final scene of the funeral. Karlik Habryka, the last Silesian Romantic, carries on the uneven struggle for his identity and homeland, with its values, traditions and rituals being destroyed by heartless officials of modernity. For contemporary Silesians this was a record of thedisappearing world (the film includes images of genuinely destroyed houses in Giszowiec). POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1980 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize (Kazimierz Kutz) 1980 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Golden Lions Award (Kazimierz Kutz)

77 COLONEL KWIATKOWSKI / PUŁKOWNIK KWIATKOWSKI Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1995

Technical specs: color; 123 min.

KAZIMIERZ KUTZ Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, TVP Film Production Agency, It is 1945 and the Russian occupation of Poland has been complete for some Ikam Ltd. time. Andrzej Kwiatkowski is a surgeon for the Polish army who is given a generous leave of absence by an appreciative patient in the secret police. After rekindling an Rights: old romance with Krystyna, Andrzej finds himself successfully impersonating a secret TVP Polish Public policeman following an argument with Russian soldiers. Alongside Krystyna and an old Television friend, Dudek, Andrzej uses his new personality to get people out of prison, but how Distribution: long can the charade last? TVP Polish Public Television

Awards selection Restoration: 1995 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actor Award (Marek Kondrat) HD, 2009 1995 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Supporting Actress (Renata Dancewicz) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

78 NOBODY IS CALLING / NIKT NIE WOŁA

Genre: KUTZ KAZIMIERZ drama, romance, psychological

Year of production: 1960

Technical specs: black and white; 82 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.38:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr A story of first love and initiation: Bożek is a young Home Army veteran, who never killed a ‘red’, Lucyna has been repatriated. They meet in a small town in the Rights: Recovered Territories, where she has been resettled, and he fled in fear of the conse- Studio Filmowe KADR quences of an unexecuted command. The emergent feeling is a chance for a new life (KADR Film Studio) for both of them, but their love is not easy – he is burnt out; she is empty. On top of Distribution: that, one day Zygmunt, Bożek’s former colleague from the organization comes to town... Studio Filmowe KADR Kazimierz Kutz’s adaptation of the novel by Józef Hen constituted an (KADR Film Studio) ideological polemic with Andrzej Wajda’s ‘Ashes and Diamonds’. Bożek is the reverse of Maciek Chełmicki, and a protagonist who does not execute a command – chooses Restoration: to live. Instead of political issues – sexual initiation, the story of the ‘time of love’, 2K, 2012 consistently expressed through an original, New Wave form, and above all, excellent photography of Jerzy Wójcik and score by Wojciech Kilar. This was once a film largely misunderstood, considered scandalous and subject to censorship; after years it has been recognized as one of the most original Polish pictures. POLISH CLASSICS

79 PEOPLE FROM THE TRAIN / LUDZIE Z POCIĄGU Genre: war film, psychological

Year of production: 1961

Technical specs: black and white; 95 min. KAZIMIERZ KUTZ Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Poland, the year 1943. As a result of train breakdown, passengers are trapped Rights: at a small station. Among them, there are ordinary bread eaters, crooks, a conspirator, Studio Filmowe KADR blackmailer, a woman carrying a Jewish child, smugglers – a cross-section of wartime (KADR Film Studio) society. When a drunk railway security officer raises the alarm, everyone will face a tough test - of their humanity and heroism. A crisp vision of wartime everyday life, Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR awarded the Silver Sail at Locarno. (KADR Film Studio)

Restoration: Awards selection 2K, 2012 1961 Locarno International Film Festival – Silver Sail Award (Kazimierz Kutz) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

80 SILENCE / MILCZENIE KAZIMIERZ KUTZ KAZIMIERZ Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1963

Technical specs: black and white; 100 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.39:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Provincial Polish town right after the end of the Second World War. A foolish Rights: prank and a tragic incident bring together the lots of a teenage orphan Stach and Studio Filmowe KADR an old priest. As a result of an accidental explosion Stach loses his eyesight. As he (KADR Film Studio) attempted to frighten the old priest prior to the explosion, people treat the accident as a divine retribution for an attempted attack against the reverend. Enmity towards Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR Stach increases while the priest, the only person who knows the truth, remains silent... (KADR Film Studio) A screen version of the autobiographical novel by Jerzy Szczygieł. Perfectly rendered small town mentality, but above all a deeply moving study of loneliness. Restoration: 2K, 2012

Awards selection 1963 Venice Film Festival – Nomination for the Golden Lion Award (Kazimierz Kutz) POLISH CLASSICS

81 AGENT NR 1 / AGENT NR 1 Genre: war drama, action

Year of production: 1971

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

ZBIGNIEW KUŹMIŃSKI Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy NIKE

Rights: A fact-based story about Jerzy Iwanow, a Polish agent, who became famous Filmoteka Narodowa for his reckless sabotages during the II World War. Iwanow, who has been living in (National Film Archive) Greece for many years, wants to join the Karpacka Brigade. Because of a lack of trust the Pole is recruited by the British Security Service. Iwanow becomes their agent and Distribution: begins a series of dangerous and reckless spying activities... Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive)

Restoration: Awards selection Full HD, 2010 1972 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Audience Award POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

82 GIUSEPPE IN WARSAW / GIUSEPPE W WARSZAWIE STANISŁAW LENARTOWICZ Genre: comedy, war film

Year of production: 1964

Technical specs: black and white; 99 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe Kadr

Stanisław Lenartowicz’s comedy showing feverish clandestine activity in a Rights: distorting mirror. The roles of the film’s siblings, Marysia and Staszek, are played by the Studio Filmowe KADR most acclaimed and loved acting couple of the then Polish People’s Republic: Elżbieta (KADR Film Studio) Czyżewska and Zbigniew Cybulski. She created a character of a bit crazy conspirator, he – of an anti-hero, a painter attempting to escape from the actuality of war, to no avail Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR anyway, because that actuality continues to crawl into his home. Swift action, funny (KADR Film Studio) gags, unforgettable dialogues, bravura acting, in other words – a classic Polish comedy. Restoration: 2K, 2011 POLISH CLASSICS

83 AXILIAD / SIEKIEREZADA Genre: psychological drama, poetic film

Year of production: 1985

Technical specs: color; 82 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 WITOLD LESZCZYŃSKI WITOLD

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zaspół Filmowy Perspektywa A poet and globetrotter, Janek Pradera, carrying all his belongings in a sack on his back, hides in a deep forest after splitting up with his girlfriend. He stays at his Rights: grandmother’s Oleńka, and takes up a job at clearing the forest. People here are differ- Studio Filmowe ZEBRA ent than in a big city – straightforward and open. Pradera makes friends with the logging (ZEBRA Film Studio) workers: Peresada, Wasyluk and young Batiuk. They spend a lot of time together after Distribution: work. Janek also continues his constant internal dialog with his beloved. However, soon Studio Filmowe ZEBRA an unexpected fight takes place.... (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF

Awards selection Restoration: 1986 The Filmmaking Committee Award – Best Feature Film of the year 1985 2K, 2014 (Witold Leszczyński) 1986 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Golden Lions Award (Witold Leszczyński) 1986 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Supporting Actor Award (Ludwik Pak) 1986 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Grand Prix (Witold Leszczyński) 1987 Berlin International Film Festival - Fourm of New Cinema: FIPRESCI Prize and Interfilm Award Otto Dibelius Film Award (Witold Leszczyński) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

84 KONOPIELKA / KONOPIELKA WITOLD LESZCZYŃSKI Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: black and white; 93 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.36:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa Times of Communist rule in Poland, the Podlasie region, a godforsaken Taplary village. Superstitious residents of the village, separated from the rest of the Rights: world by surrounding bogs, live a peaceful life away from the hustle and bustle of the Studio Filmowe ZEBRA city. One day some county officials and an attractive teacher arrive in the village; they (ZEBRA Film Studio) want to install electric wiring and open a school there. However, the Taplary villagers are Distribution: not happy with the ideas of the newcomers. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF Awards selection 1983 International Comedy Film Festival in Vevey – Audience Award (Witold Restoration: Leszczyński) 2K, 2014 1983 International Comedy Film Festival in Vevey – Golden Sick Award (Krzysztof Majchrzak) 1984 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Jury Prize (Witold Leszczyński)

1984 International Film Festival Haugesung – Main Critics’ Award (Witold POLISH CLASSICS Leszczyński)

85 MATTHEW’S DAYS / ŻYWOT MATEUSZA Genre: poetic, psychological drama

Year of production: 1967

Technical specs: black and white; 80 min.

Aspect ratio: WITOLD LESZCZYŃSKI WITOLD 1.60:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Start This poetic story, combining fictional motives with elements of a fairy tale, presents the life of Matthew – an oversensitive man with the soul of a child. Treated with Rights: contempt and perceived as a dimwit by the society, Matthew lives in harmony with the Studio Filmowe ZEBRA surrounding nature. Together with his sister, Olga, he inhabits in a small house by a large (ZEBRA Film Studio) lake. Matthew loves nature and truly enjoys its beauty and richness. One day he invites a Distribution: man, whom he helped to get across the lake, to their house. Olga takes an instant liking Studio Filmowe ZEBRA to the stranger, thus initiating the series of dramatic events... (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF

Awards selection Restoration: 1968 Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo for Best Actor (Franciszek 2K, 2012 Pieczka) 1969 Valladolid International Film Festival – Golden Spike (Witold Leszczyński) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

86 OPERATION ARSENAL / AKCJA POD ARSENAŁEM JAN ŁOMNICKI Genre: war film

Year of production: 1977

Technical specs: color; 98 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.39:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Iluzjon

Rights: Second World War. In occupied Warsaw, scouts of the Szare Szeregi (Grey Studio Filmowe KADR Ranks) carry out anti-German operations, as the Small Sabotage. In March 1943, the (KADR Film Studio) Gestapo arrests one of them, Janek Bytnar, ‘Rudy’. His friends, led by Tadeusz ‘Zośka’ Zawadzki, want to rescue him at the daily transport from the headquarters in Szucha Distribution: Avenue to the prison at Pawiak. On 26th March, the assault groups of the Szare Szeregi Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) release ‘Rudy’ and 25 other prisoners. Unfortunately, the boy dies, exhausted after tor- tures. Film reconstruction of the legendary operation of Polish underground. A story of Restoration: courage, friendship and trust, and above all, a portrait of the exceptional generation. 2K, 2012

Awards selection 1978 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Special Jury Prize (Jan Łomnicki) POLISH CLASSICS

87 FAUSTINA / FAUSTYNA Genre: feature/biography

Year of production: 1994

Technical specs: color; 74 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 JERZY ŁUKASZEWICZ Sound: mono (original)

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, MT Art Prod. A biography of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, who left her family house and found a job as a maid to save every penny in order to be admitted to the Congregation Rights: of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. Contrary to Faustina’s expectations, the convent TVP Polish Public turned out to be a place of envy, pettiness, pride and laziness. Against all odds, she Television decided to stay in the Congregation and her faith was invincible. On April 18, 1993, Distribution: Pope John Paul II proclaimed Sister Faustina blessed and on April 30, 2000 she was TVP Polish Public declared a saint. Television

Restoration: HD, 2009 Awards selection 1994 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia - Video Studio Gdańsk Award (Dorota Segda) 1995 The International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in Niepokalanów - the award in feature film category POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

88 DEJA VU / DÉJÀ VU JULIUSZ MACHULSKI Genre: criminal comedy

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 108 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe Zebra (Zebra Film Studio), Film Studio – Odessa Chicago 1925, years of the Prohibition. Mick Nitsch, a mafioso, betrays (Ukraine) his clan by tipping the police off about the planned alcohol transportation, and then flees to the Soviet Union – the land of his ancestors. The Mafia sends John Pollack, a Rights: professional killer of Polish descent, with the task of eliminating the traitor. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Odessa 1925, the period of the New Economic Policy. A ship from New York (ZEBRA Film Studio) with John Pollack on board arrives welcomed by a bit too enthusiastic Russians. As a Distribution: result of a shock Pollack loses his memory... Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF Awards selection 1990 Polish Filmmaking Committee – Lifetime Achievements in Filmmaking Prize Restoration: 2K, 2012 (Juliusz Machulski) POLISH CLASSICS

89 KINGSAJZ / KINGSAJZ Genre: fantastic comedy

Year of production: 1987

Technical specs: color; 110 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1 JULIUSZ MACHULSKI JULIUSZ Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Contemporary dwarves are nothing like their relatives in the fairy tales. They Studio Filmowe KADR do not assist people anymore because they live in ‘Drawerland’ in conditions eerily (KADR Film Studio) similar to these of a penal camp. They are governed by the supreme leader Kilkujadek and a group of his cronies. They limit access to ‘King Size’, a miraculous elixir which al- Distribution: lows dwarves to change their size and enter the Land of the Big Ones. There is prohibi- Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) tion in Drawerland, access to ‘fly wild style’ is limited while one’s own drawer is available only as a prize for special services which usually mean ratting on the more rebellious Restoration: compatriots. However, there are more and more of the latter – they demand not only the 2K, 2014 complete edition of the fairy tales of brothers Grimm but also ‘King Size’ for all. A classic Polish comedy inspired by the dystopias of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, a satire against totalitarian regime in the disguise of fantasy.

Awards selection 1988 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Production Design Award (Janusz Sosnowski) 1990 Brussels Film Festival – Best Production Design Award (Janusz Sosnowski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

90 SEXMISSION / SEKSMISJA JULIUSZ MACHULSKI Genre: fantastic comedy

Year of production: 1983

Technical specs: color; 121 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: It is 1991. Volunteers Albert and Max take part in the epoch-making Studio Filmowe KADR experiment. They are to remain in hibernation for over three years, but due to the out- (KADR Film Studio) break of nuclear war their sleep lasts... more than half a century. They wake up in 2044, in a world in which all men have long been extinct, and the women reproduce by par- Distribution: thenogenesis. Treated like a fascinating archaeological find and extravagant research Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) material, they are trying to restore the world’s old male-female order. Their sex-mission will prove extremely difficult... Restoration: Juliusz Machulski’s cult comedy and the hit of the decade in the 1980s. 2K, 2010 A brilliant pastiche of the genre and at the same time – dressed in the sci-fi costume – a metaphor for the totalitarian system.

Awards selection 1984 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Silver Lions Award (Juliusz Machulski)

1984 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Production Design Award POLISH CLASSICS (Janusz Sosnowski) 1984 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomination for the Gold Hugo (Juliusz Machulski) 1986 Fantasporto – Nomination for the International Fantasy Film Award (Juliusz Machulski)

91 SQUADRON / SZWADRON Genre: historical drama, war film

Year of production: 1992

Technical specs: color; 101 min.

Aspect ratio:

JULIUSZ MACHULSKI JULIUSZ 2.35:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Studio Filmowe Zebra (Zebra Film Studio) Jeremin, an aristocrat from a noble Russian family, joins the squadron of Co-production: dragoons as a volunteer, to impress a girl he unhappily fell in love with. At that exact Arkadia Film Studio time an uprising breaks out in Poland, known later as the January Uprising of 1863. (Odessa, Ukraine), Jeremin volunteers for the troops sent to suppress it. Now – as he believes – suffice it A. K. Productions to defeat the Poles, get an officer’s insignia together with a number of decorations and (Belgium), High Speed Films (France) spoils, and, as a hero and victor, lay it all down with his ardent heart at the feet of his beloved. However, this ‘small Polish war’ has little in common with romantic visions of Rights: noble soldiering, and is completely different from what Jeremin imagined. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio)

Distribution: Awards selection Studio Filmowe ZEBRA 1992 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Supporting Actor Award (Janusz Gajos) (ZEBRA Film Studio); 1993 Polish Candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at 66th Academy CRF Awards Restoration: 2K, 2012 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

92 VA BANQUE / VABANK JULIUSZ MACHULSKI Genre: gangster comedy

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color; 101 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Warsaw, 1934. Henryk Kwinto, an experienced bank robber is freed after 6 Studio Filmowe KADR years of imprisonment. Death of a friend makes him – despite previous declarations – (KADR Film Studio) decide to take part in another robbery, his last. And although the aim is a bank’s safe deposit box, money is less important than revenge, or rather meting out justice to the Distribution: dishonest owner of the bank, responsible both for the imprisonment of Kwinto and the Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) death of his friend. Polish popular cinema classic; a brilliantly executed subversive tale about a righteous robber professing the principle: ‘instead of stealing as a director, Restoration: manufacturer, secretary or a president, you’d better steal as a thief par excellence – this 2K, 2010 is probably fairer’.

Awards selection 1981 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Debut Director (Juliusz Machulski) 1982 Mystfest – AGIS-BNL Award (Juliusz Machulski)

1982 Mystfest – Nomination for Best Film (Juliusz Machulski) POLISH CLASSICS 1982 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomination for Gold Hugo for Best Feature (Juliusz Machulski)

93 VA BANQUE II / VABANK II, CZYLI RIPOSTA Genre: gangster comedy

Year of production: 1984

Technical specs: color; 101 min

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 JULIUSZ MACHULSKI JULIUSZ Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Further fate of the characters of ‘Va Bank’, who traded places: bank rob- Studio Filmowe KADR ber Kwinto became a respected vegetable farmer, and Kramer, the banker – a prisoner (KADR Film Studio) convicted of robbing his own bank. Behind bars, Kramer spins a revenge plan employing – for a price – a clever fellow prisoner who promises to help him. The first stage Distribution: is to escape, the second, more difficult – setting a trap for Kwinto. In order to achieve Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) the goal Kramer and his partner will hit Kwinto’s most sensitive spot – his love ones... Realized in the same pastiche poetics, sequel to blockbuster conventions. Stylish, ex- Restoration: cellent detective comedy with allusions not only to the classics, but also the situation 2K, 2010 of Polish mid-80s.

Awards selection 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Audiance Award (Juliusz Machulski) 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Score Award (Henryk Kuźniak) 1986 Mystfest – Nomination for Best Film (Juliusz Machulski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

94 V.I.P / V.I.P JULIUSZ MACHULSKI Genre: crime comedy

Year of production: 1991

Technical specs: color; 115 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Zebra Film Studio; High Speed Films (France); Legend Roman Natorski is a young and talented composer. Due to insufficient (Belgium) income from his profession and the lack of suitable conditions to compose music, Roman – though initially reluctant – eventually accepts a proposition of a friend who Rights: promises generous compensation in return for a small favour. Roman’s task is to drive a Studio Filmowe ZEBRA car with a woman inside to a house in the Mazury Lake District. Easy as it may seem, the (Zebra Film Studio) assignment leads to quite unexpected series of events. Roman gets himself mixed up in Distribution: an international smuggling scandal, in which persons of high standing and mafia bosses Studio Filmowe ZEBRA are entangled. He also gets involved in a dangerous affair and, finally, a tape with the (Zebra Film Studio); recording of murder cases falls into his hands. CRF

Restoration: 2K, 2015 POLISH CLASSICS

95 DEVILISH EDUCATION / DIABLESKA EDUKACJA Genre: drama, short

Year of production: 1995

Technical specs: color; 28 min.

Aspect ratio:

JANUSZ MAJEWSKI JANUSZ 1.78:1

Sound: stereo

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Heritage Films, Regina Ziegler A beautiful seventeen-year-old Małgorzata, a daughter of a poor widow, lives Filmproduktion in a small village among the lakes. She is raised up in a catholic family and her main duty is to tend the cattle. One day when the girl takes a bath in the river a stranger appears Rights: out of nowhere. The man gradually gains the girl’s trust. Under the pretext of anatomy TVP Polish Public studies, he directs girl’s interest towards the secrets of human body. Małgorzata first Television poses for a portrait, then she begins to forget her shyness and poses for an act and Distribution: eventually she becomes man’s lover. TVP Polish Public Television

Restoration: HD, 2009 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

96 HOTEL PACIFIC / ZAKLĘTE REWIRY JANUSZ MAJEWSKI Genre: drama, psychological

Year of production: 1975

Technical specs: color; 99 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production; Dramaturgicka Skupina dr. V. Kaliny The 1930s. To the young and poor Roman Boryczko the luxurious restaurant of the Hotel Pacific which he watches through a window seems an almost magical world. Rights: He succeeds in getting employed there – he starts from washing dishes but quickly TOR Film Production moves upwards to become a waiter. This social and professional promotion comes at the price of numerous moral compromises. While discovering mysteries of the art of Distribution: TOR Film Production; waiting tables Roman becomes an adult and mature man. NOWA FILMKLATKA DISTRIBUTION

Awards selection Restoration: 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor Award (Roman Wilhelmi) 2K, 2011 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Sound Award (Stanisław Piotrowski) 1976 Berlin International Film Festival – Nomination for Golden Berlin Bear (Janusz Majewski) 1977 Panama International Film Festival – Best Screenplay, Best Direction and

the Best Main Role Awards POLISH CLASSICS

97 JEALOUSY AND MEDICINE / ZAZDROŚĆ I MEDYCYNA Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1973

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

Aspect ratio:

JANUSZ MAJEWSKI JANUSZ 1.71:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Krynica, before the war. Widmar, an industrialist, suspects that his young wife TOR Film Production Rebeka betrays him with doctor Tamten. Madly in love with Rebeka, tormented with jealousy, he tries everything to see if his misgivings are true. He hires an old tailor, Gold, Distribution: to follow Rebeka, in exchange offering to help him go to England. Gold discovers that TOR Film Production Widmar’s wife has an affair. Failing to receive confirmation of his suspicions due to the Restoration: tailor’s coincidental death, Widmar trusts his wife’s assurances of love and so he is led 2K, 2015 to a conclusion that he simply suffered from morbid jealousy. An adaptation of Michał Choromański’s 1932 novel ‘Jealousy and Medicine’, popular before the war in Poland and many European countries. A combination of a mysterious melodrama and a film with psychological ambitions. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

98 LESSON OF THE DEAD LANGUAGE / LEKCJA MARTWEGO JĘZYKA JANUSZ MAJEWSKI Genre: slice of life, psychological

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 (original); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production The year 1918. Lieutenant Alfred Kiekieritz is discharged from the military field hospital and then transferred – as a commandant – to the Galician town of Turk. Rights: An aesthete, ill with TB, he is well aware of his impending death and by obsessive think- TOR Film Production ing and talking about it, he is trying to give meaning to his fading life by, among others, collecting beautiful things. An excellent adaptation of the novel by Andrzej Kuśniewicz. Distribution: TOR Film Production; One of the best films in the director’s output and another of his works portraying the NOWA FILMKLATKA image of a vanishing world. One of the most beautiful images of Galicia in the Polish DISTRIBUTION cinema, emphasizing its dreamlike beauty. Restoration: 2K, 2015 Awards selection 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Film Score Award (Andrzej Kurylewicz) POLISH CLASSICS

99 THE LODGER / SUBLOKATOR Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1966

Technical specs: black and white; 93 min.

JANUSZ MAJEWSKI JANUSZ Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kamera Ludwik is a scientist looking for a quiet place to work. He rents a room in a villa inhabited exclusively by women, each of them having their eccentricities and Rights: dreams. Maria, a house manager, intends to start breeding chinchillas crossed with rats. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Małgosia, Maria’s niece, wants to eliminate her aunt. Sportswoman Kazimiera demands (ZEBRA Film Studio) the transformation of the villa into a rehabilitation centre for disabled women. Each Distribution: of them tries to draw Ludwik into the implementation of their plans. This grotesque Studio Filmowe ZEBRA comedy is a full-length directorial debut of Janusz Majewski. (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF

Awards selection Restoration: 1966 Mannheim – Heidelberg International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize 2K, 2015 (Janusz Majewski) 1967 Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo for the Best Actress (Barbara Ludwiżanka) 1967 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomiantion for the Gold Hugo Award (Janusz Majewski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

100 ESCAPE FROM THE ‘LIBERTY’ CINEMA / UCIECZKA Z KINA WOLNOŚĆ WOJCIECH MARCZEWSKI Genre: comedy-drama, psychological

Year of production: 1990

Technical specs: color; 91 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: TOR Film Production

The story is set just before Poland’s communist regime came to an end Rights: and the central character is a provincial censor, a tired, sloppy, lonely man, long since TOR Film Production abandoned by his wife. For him censorship is both an art and a game, but he does not enjoy it. During the screening of a sentimental Polish melodrama called ‘Daybreak’, Distribution: the actors start to rebel and refuse to speak their lines. This is anarchy, and when the TOR Film Production; NOWA FILMKLATKA censor is unable to control the situation, senior party officials are called in. Eventually a DISTRIBUTION film critic notes that the situation reminds of ‘The Purple Rose of Cairo’ by Woody Allen and brings a reel of that film to demonstrate. The officials watch the film with amuse- Restoration: ment until another mix-up occurs: the second projector is turned on accidentally and 2K, 2012 superimposes ‘Daybreak’ onto ‘Purple Rose’.

Awards selection 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Golden Lions Award (Wojciech Marchewski)

1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Critics Award (Wojciech Marczewski) POLISH CLASSICS 1991 European Film Awards – Nomination for the Best Supporting Actor (Zbigniew Zamachowski) 1992 Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival – Grand Prize (Wojciech Marczewski)

101 NIGHTMARES / ZMORY Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1978

Technical specs: color; 105 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original) WOJCIECH MARCZEWSKI WOJCIECH

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Coming of age story of Mikołaj Srebrny. A clash between a smart, sensitive TOR Film Production boy and the authoritarian school, suppressing independent thinking and also with hypocrisy and cruelty of the adults. Although subsequent initiations – including the erotic Distribution: one – happen to be difficult, the youth comes off unscathed. The directorial debut TOR Film Production of Wojciech Marczewski, awarded with the Andrzej Munk Film Award. An adaptation Restoration: of once scandalous novel by Emil Zegadłowicz presenting a heavy autobiographical 2K, 2015 undertone. First of the director’s acquis tales of childhood and its initiations, with a key question returning in later films: how to save oneself and find one’s place in the world?

Awards selection 1979 San Sebastián International Film Festival – OCIC Award (Wojciech Marczewski) 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Silver Lions Award (Wojciech Marczewski) 1979 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomination for Gold Hugo for Best Feature (Wojciech Marczewski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

102 SHIVERS / DRESZCZE WOJCIECH MARCZEWSKI Genre: political, psychological drama

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color; 106 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.43:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: TOR Film Production

March 1955. The 13-year-old Tomek witnesses the brutal house search and Rights: the arrest of his father by the Secret Police UB. The intelligent and sensitive boy is sent TOR Film Production by his school to a training camp for the future leaders organised by the Polish Youth Organisation ZMP. Seeing the hypocrisy of the authorities, he opposes them symboli- Distribution: cally as a member of the secret club of listeners of Radio Free Europe. However, he falls TOR Film Production; NOWA FILMKLATKA prey to the charms of the girl scouts’ leader, an alluring but also motherly impersonation DISTRIBUTION of the system. The shivers continue from the moment the boy arrives until the end of the camp, brought to a premature end due to the Poznań Incidents in June 1956. Restoration: Powerful autobiographical tale of false initiation and the allure of ideology. 2K, 2013 Awarded with the Silver Bear in Berlin, it is one of the most important and the most interesting films dealing with the Stalin era.

Awards selection

1981 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Silver Lions Award (Wojciech Marczewski) POLISH CLASSICS 1981 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actress Award (Teresa Marczewska) 1981 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Editing Award (Irena Choryńska) 1982 Berlin International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize – Silver Berlin Bear Award (Wojciech Marczerwski) 1982 Berlin International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Wojciech Marczewski)

103 AND ALL WILL BE QUIET / POTEM NASTĄPI CISZA Genre: psychological, war film

Year of production: 1965

Technical specs: black and white; 93 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.36:1

JANUSZ MORGENSTERN JANUSZ Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Syrena

Psychological war drama, presenting the political conflicts of the end of the Rights: war – the tragic consequences of mistrust between the former partisans of the Home Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Army (Armia Krajowa – AK) and the People’s Guard (Gwardia Ludowa). (ZEBRA Film Studio) The year 1944, near Lublin, Poland. Lieutenant Kola and the Home Army second lieutenant Olewicz serve in the newly reborn Polish Army. Because of the Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA political situation, the former Home Army soldiers prefer not to disclose their past. The (ZEBRA Film Studio); atmosphere of uncertainty is growing tense due to more and more frequent arrests CRF and prosecutions of the AK soldiers. On the battlefield, however, they fight shoulder to shoulder. Restoration: 2K, 2013 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

104 BACK TO LIFE AGAIN / ŻYCIE RAZ JESZCZE JANUSZ MORGENSTERN Genre: historical, psychological drama

Year of production: 1964

Technical specs: black and white; 98 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Syrena Poland in the Stalinism period. The dramatic story of three people: an honest and idealistic communist, a Polish RAF pilot, and a ZMW (the Rural Youth Association) Rights: activist. Secretary of the Workers’ Party, Jakuszyn, intervenes on the case of Peter, Studio Filmowe ZEBRA a former officer of the British Air Force, unfairly accused of collaboration with bandits. (ZEBRA Film Studio) Peter is sentenced for ten years in prison, and Jakuszyn, for the alleged ‘lack of vigi- Distribution: lance’, loses his post. Anna, a young ZWM activist, also tries to save Peter. All in vain. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Bitter and lonely, she marries a journalist Rydz, an opportunist and careerist. Stalin’s (ZEBRA Film Studio); death and the ‘thaw’ change the situation radically. Jakuszyn gets promoted to a Sec- CRF retary of the Provincial Committee, while Peter – released and vindicated – not only manages to resurrect his military career, but also gets Anna back. Restoration: 2K, 2013 POLISH CLASSICS

105 GOOD BYE TILL TOMORROW / DO WIDZENIA, DO JUTRA Genre: romance, psychological

Year of production: 1960

Technical specs: black and white; 86 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.60:1 JANUSZ MORGENSTERN JANUSZ

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr Jacek, a sensitive and romantic student, meets Margueritte, the beautiful daughter of the French consul. The outburst of affection makes him neglect his friends Rights: and the theatre of which he is actor and director. Jacek believes that Margueritte Studio Filmowe KADR reciprocates his feelings, but she treats their relationship as a brief stop in incessant (KADR Film Studio) travel, another summer adventure... Janusz Morgenstern tells his story with no happy Distribution: end, immortalizing the post-October phenomenon of student cabarets and avant-garde Studio Filmowe KADR theatres. His feature debut is a testament to the times, a record of the post-thaw (KADR Film Studio) atmosphere and a portrait of the milieu of bohemian artists in Gdańsk of the late 1950s centered around the famous student theatre ‘Bim-Bom’. Restoration: 2K, 2011

Awards selection 1961 Melbourne International Film Festival – Silver Boomerang Award for Cinematography (Jan Laskowski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

106 JOVITA / JOWITA JANUSZ MORGENSTERN Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1967

Technical specs: black and white; 95 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Syrena

A young architect and a terrific athlete, Marek Arens, is a very popular man. Rights: He dreams of a great and true love. One day he meets a girl at a costume ball, whose Studio Filmowe ZEBRA face is hidden under a charshaf. Bewitched by her amazing black eyes, Marek falls in (ZEBRA Film Studio) love with her. Jovita becomes his obsession. But Marek, unable to find his unreal Jovita in the real world, gets involved in romances with other women... Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF Awards selection 1967 San Sebastián International Film Festival – Best Director Award Restoration: (Janusz Morgnestern) 2K, 2010 1967 San Sebastián International Film Festival – OCIC Award (Janusz Morgenstern) 1967 Polish Minister of Culture Award (Janusz Morgenstern) POLISH CLASSICS

107 SMALLER SKY / MNIEJSZE NIEBO Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1980

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound:

JANUSZ MORGENSTERN JANUSZ mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa

Artur, a 45-year-old microbiologist, realises that what people consider a Rights: successful life – scientific career, an apartment, beautiful wife, happy children – is no Studio Filmowe ZEBRA longer enough for him. Having secured the future of his relatives, he moves in to a hotel (ZEBRA Film Studio) near a railway station. He spends his days watching people, looking for a new aim in life. This pause in his daily routine should help him find a new direction but people – those Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA near to him as well as strangers – cannot understand why he abandoned his former life. (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF

Awards selection Restoration: 1983 Panama International Film Festival – Best Screenplay Award (Janusz 2K, 2011 Morgenstern) 1983 Poitiers International Film Festival – Grand Prix (Janusz Morgenstern) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

108 TO KILL THIS LOVE / TRZEBA ZABIĆ TĘ MIŁOŚĆ JANUSZ MORGENSTERN Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1972

Technical specs: color; 96 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Iluzjon

Rights: The story of two secondary-school graduates, Magda and Andrzej, and their Studio Filmowe ZEBRA spontaneous love. The young people fail to get to college. She takes a job in a hospital (ZEBRA Film Studio) as a nursing orderly. He struggles to find work and eventually gets it. They move together into a rented room, but soon it turns out that Andrzej has won it owing to an affair with Distribution: his boss’s wife and the theft of an icon. His boss demands the return of the icon or the Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); money. Andrzej finds forgiveness of Magda, but it soon comes to light that he visits her CRF just to steal money from their cash box. Restoration: 2K, 2010 Awards selection 1973 Zbyszek Cybulski Award (Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak) 1973 Festival of Film Debuts ‘The Youth and Film’ in Koszalin – Special Jury Distinction (Janusz Morgenstern) 1973 Festival of Film Debuts ‘The Youth and Film’ in Koszalin – Best Actress Award

(Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak) POLISH CLASSICS

109 TOMORROW’S PREMIERE / JUTRO PREMIERA Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1962

Technical specs: black and white; 85 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

JANUSZ MORGENSTERN JANUSZ Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe Kadr

A theatre director wants to stage a play by an ambitious playwright, because Rights: the theatre’s star is interested in the lead role. They work on the production. However, Studio Filmowe KADR it soon appears that what is happening off stage is more interesting than what is hap- (KADR Film Studio) pening on stage: the star has a secret love affair with a young production designer, who in turn flirts with an aspiring actress, the director’s protegee, and theatre’s leading man Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR sends himself flowers in order to force the directorate to raise his salary. At one point, (KADR Film Studio) art becomes dangerously intertwined with life, resulting in an unexpected debut. Satire on the theatre milieu employing the conventions of boulevard farce. The characters are Restoration: stereotypical – a capricious star, an ambitious playwright, a director-poseur, a prompter 2K, 2012 dreaming of the stage – but played by a star-studded cast, including Gustaw Holoubek, Barbara Krafftówna, Tadeusz Janczar, Wieńczysław Gliński, Edward Dziewoński and Kalina Jędrusik. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

110 EROICA. HEROIC SYMPHONY IN TWO PARTS / EROICA. SYMFONIA BOHATERSKA W DWÓCH CZĘŚCIACH ANDRZEJ MUNK Genre: comedy, drama, war film

Year of production: 1957

Technical specs: black and white; 84 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.56:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr ‘Eroica. Heroic Symphony in Two Parts’ is the most eloquent film by Andrzej Munk, and an ironic polemic with Polish mythology and a masterpiece of the Polish Rights: Film School. The tragicomic ‘Scherzo alla Polacca’ is a story about Dzidziuś Górkiewicz, Studio Filmowe KADR a Warsaw hotshot, who takes part in the Warsaw Uprising against his will and innate (KADR Film Studio) rationality. Despite the fact that during his tragicomic odyssey, as a pragmatist, he Distribution: recognizes absurdities of the insurgency and the nonsense of the struggle, he finally Studio Filmowe KADR comes back to the burning Polish capital. The action of the second novella, dark (KADR Film Studio) ‘Ostinato lugubre’, takes place in a POW camp, where Lieutenant Kurzawa and Second Lieutenant Szpakowski land after the Uprising. Here they meet officers who have been Restoration: there since the time of the September defeat and survived by sticking to the pre-war 2K, 2011 rules and hierarchy, and learn the legend of Lieutenant Zawistowski, the only one who managed to escape and thereby save ‘the honor of a Polish officer’. In fact, however, that life-saving myth is a hoax... POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Andrzej Munk) 1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival - Best Screenplay Award (Jerzy Stefan Stawiński) 1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival - Critics Grand Prize (Andrzej Munk)

111 MAN ON THE TRACKS / CZŁOWIEK NA TORZE Genre: drama, thriller

Year of production: 1956

Technical specs: black and white; 85 min. ANDRZEJ MUNK

Aspect ratio: 1.36:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Orzechowski, a retired engineer, dies under the wheels of a train – did he try Rights: to derail it or stop it? A special commission addresses the question. Three witnesses Studio Filmowe KADR sketch the portrait of the old railway man. Their complementary ‘truths’ help to solve the (KADR Film Studio) mystery of the old specialist, who was faithful to professional ethic. One of the greatest achievements of the cinema of Polish October, inspired by Italian Neorealism and the Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR experience of Munk, the documentarist, breaking out of the Socialist – Realist strait- (KADR Film Studio) jacket. A great performance of Kazimierz Opaliński and a symbolic finale: the words ‘It’s stuffy in here’ and opening the window as a sign of the ‘thaw’, and – with the benefit of Restoration: hindsight – the forerunner of the Polish Film School. 2K, 2012

Awards selection 1957 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Best Director Award (Andrzej Munk) 1957 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Nomination for the Cristal Globe (Andrzej Munk) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

112 KROLL / KROLL WŁADYSŁAW PASIKOWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1991

Technical specs: color; 101 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zebra Film Studio; National Film Archive, Television and Theatre Marcin Kroll, a soldier serving compulsory military service, deserts from the School army unit when he finds out his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Kroll’s move coincides with a suicide of a soldier who could not endure persecution by sadistic Rights: officers. Officers are afraid of a scandal: the suicide and desertion is too much for one Studio Filmowe ZEBRA army unit. They resolve to find the deserter on their own before the military prosecutor (ZEBRA Film Studio) starts the investigation. Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); Awards selection CRF 1991 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Cinematography Award (Paweł Edelman) 1991 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Directorial Debut Award Restoration: (Władysław Pasikowski) 2K, 2015 1991 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Supporting Actor Award (Cezary Pazura) 1991 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Award of the President of the Polish Radio

and Television Committee (Cezary Pazura) POLISH CLASSICS 1991 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Award for Outstanding Performance (Bogusław Linda) 1991 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Special Prize of the Jury (Władysław Pasikowski) 1991 Warsaw Mermaid Award of the Club of Film Critics of the Polish Journalists Association – in the category of Feature Film (Władysław Pasikowski)

113 PIGS / PSY Genre: crime, political thriller

Year of production: 1992

Technical specs: color; 122 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original) WŁADYSŁAW PASIKOWSKI WŁADYSŁAW

Production: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio)

The year 1990. A group of former SB (the secret police in communist Poland) Rights: officers after positive vetting is incorporated into the Police force. Franz Maurer is Studio Filmowe ZEBRA one of them. The policeman, who’s been through a lot, abandoned by his wife, finds it (ZEBRA Film Studio) difficult to pull himself together in the new reality. His friend, Olgierd, who did not pass the vetting process, ends up out of work. During one of the first operations against an Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA international criminal group, the Police squad led by Franz unexpectedly meets with (ZEBRA Film Studio); armed resistance from criminals – two policemen are killed in the shooting. Maurer CRF suspects that such a daring action could have only been endeavored by former SB officers. He swears revenge for the death of his colleagues. He also intends to help Restoration: Olgierd to return to active duty. However, he does not know that Olgierd has already 2K, 2013 been recruited by the criminal group of the former SB members...

Awards selection 1992 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Director Award (Władysław Pasikowski) 1992 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Leading Actor Award (Bogusław Linda) 1992 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Supporting Actress Award (Agnieszka Jaskółka) 1992 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Score Award (Michał Lorenc) 1992 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Editing Award (Wanda Zeman, Zbigniew Niciński) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

114 THE DEPOT OF THE DEAD / BAZA LUDZI UMRŁYCH CZESŁAW PETELSKI Genre: psychological drama, social drama

Year of production: 1958

Technical specs: black and white; 104 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy A film adaptation of Marek Hłasko’s novel ‘Następny do raju’. Stefan Zabawa STUDIO is sent to „the depot of the dead”, a unit which transports wood and is practically closed off from the rest of the world. It consists of criminals who work in dangerous conditions Rights: to avoid a sentence. Zabawa starts to work with a difficult group of employees, among Filmoteka Narodowa whom any unadvised gesture may lead to conflict… (National Film Archive)

Distribution: Filmoteka Narodowa (National Film Archive)

Restoration: 2K, 2010 POLISH CLASSICS

115 MARCH CARESSES / MARCOWE MIGDAŁY Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 89 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33 (DCP); 1.78 (HDTV)

Sound:

RADOSŁAW PIWOWARSKI RADOSŁAW mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe DOM

Rights: Small town, somewhere in Poland, the year 1968. Teenagers from the local WFDiF grammar school live on what most people aged 17-18 do: popular music, parties, first loves. Not for long… Distribution: It’s March and they’re reached by the news about pacifying University of War- WFDiF saw students’ protest against authoritarian communist politics of Polish authorities and about anti-Semitic campaign started by nationalist camp. Secondary school students Restoration: 2K, 2014 face the events not understanding their full meaning, at first treating it as some kind of game or with disbelief. However, these are the events that in the end force them to reach maturity sooner – so different than the one they’ve hoped for. ‘March Caresses’ is thus far the only film by Radosław Piwowarski, where his beloved provincial world, captured by him also in ‘Yesterday’ or ‘A Train to Hollywood’, clashes with politics; and warm, comedy-nostalgic atmosphere, so symptomatic for his work, is replaced by a gloomy one. Piwowarski’s picture is partially based on experiences of March 1968 that his school colleagues had had, which was confirmed in the sad credits ending the film. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

116 SELF-PORTRAIT WITH THE MISTRESS / AUTOPORTRET Z KOCHANKĄ RADOSŁAW PIWOWARSKI Genre: drama

Year of production: 1996

Technical specs: color; 84 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: stereo

Production: TVP Polish Public Television

It is July 1995. Kuba Mitura attends with his little daughter Zuza a charity Rights: concert. The father reminisces the story of his youth. In 1988, Kuba is a rebellious TVP Polish Public 19-year-old boy with two-color hair. He neither works nor studies and lives with his Television father, a retired military officer. One day Kuba meets Diana, a beautiful and eccentric woman, much older than him. The two hit it off, but when Kuba introduces Diana to his Distribution: TVP Polish Public father as his fiancé, the father throws Kuba out of his house. Diana and Kuba get mar- Television ried, but soon Kuba is taken to the army. While attending military oath ceremony Diana confesses to Kuba that she is pregnant and wants to give birth to their child. Kuba, Restoration: however, does not want to become a father. A few months later, Kuba’s superior in the HD, 2009 army informs him about the birth of his daughter and his wife’s death. After a few years, Kuba returns home and finds his daughter taking care of his elderly father. After years of careless living Kuba has to reconcile with the adult world.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1996 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Actor in Supporting Role Award (Jerzy Trela) 1996 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Child Actor Award (Marcelina Zjawińska)

117 A TRAIN TO HOLLYWOOD / POCIĄG DO HOLLYWOOD Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1987

Technical specs: color; 92 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66 (DCP); 1.78 (HDTV)

Sound:

RADOSŁAW PIWOWARSKI RADOSŁAW mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe RONDO

Poland, 1980’s. Mariola, also known as Marylin (Katarzyna Figura) is a young Rights: girl selling lager in trains, who makes money on the side as an extra in movies. Since WFDiF she’s been charmed by Billy Wilder’s films starring Marylin Monroe, she keeps writing letters to the famous director hoping he’s going to cast her to be the successor of Distribution: the great star she resembles. Nevertheless ‘Some Like it Hot’ author doesn’t reply. The WFDiF train-travelling dreamer meets her soulmate Piotr (Piotr Siwkiewicz) who is a would-be Restoration: film school student. 2K, 2014 They are typical characters of Radosław Piwowarski’s movies: people of provincial towns aspiring for better life, chasing their own desires. This is a typical convention for this director’s work: poetic cinema combining comedy and drama. Humour mixes with lyric, nostalgia and melancholy. ‘A Train to Hollywood’, dedicated to Wilder whose not appearing in the film cannot be blamed on the makers, has nowadays not only the artistic but also historical value: in the era of high-speed trains like Pendolino, it’s a reminder of how the journey in the time of People’s Republic of Poland looked like.

Awards selection 1987 Orléan International Film Festival – Grand Prix Journees Cinematographiques d’Orleans 1987 Orléan International Film Festival – Audience Award POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH 1987 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Supporting Actor Award (Jerzy Stuhr)

118 CRUISE / REJS MAREK PIWOWSKI Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1970

Technical specs: black and white; 68 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.77:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

A grotesque-experimental satirical comedy. It would have been another Rights: boring cruise on the Vistula river if it wasn’t for the mistake of the captain who takes the TOR Film Production stow-away for the culture-education instructor. The involuntarily instructor, jittery at first, gradually begins to identify with his new role. He establishes ‘the council of the cruise’ and Distribution: forces the passengers to perform more and more grotesque activities. The events that TOR Film Production; NOWA FILMKLATKA follow – preparing the show for the captain, vocal and gymnastic rehearsals, brainpower DISTRIBUTION quiz – make everyone, including the fake instructor himself, lose the sense of reality. The sketchy script by Janusz Głowacki and Marek Piwowski, the cast of Restoration: non-professional actors attracted by the freaky advertisement (‘We’re looking for the 2K, 2012 people to play in the movie. We invite anyone who can sing, play or do anything’) and surrealistic sense of humor blended together created one of the most original and legendary Polish comedies. POLISH CLASSICS

119 KNIFE IN THE WATER / NÓŻ W WODZIE Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1961

Technical specs: black and white, 95 min.

ROMAN POLAŃSKI ROMAN Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kamera The sports journalist and his wife plan to spend Sunday on their yacht. On their way to the marina they give a ride to the young hitch-hiker. On the boat the two Rights: man start playing a game which reveals, that contrary to appearances – the self-confi- KADR Film Studio; dent 40-year-old conformist and the 20-year-old rebel – are both alike and unified in TOR Film Production; the same desire of power, subjugation and the urge to possess. The woman wants her ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive piece of cake too… Roman Polanski’s legendary directorial debut surprises with the precision of Distribution: screenplay, the maturity of directing, the masterful mise- en-scene (that Polanski owes Studio Filmowe KADR partly to his DoP Jerzy Lipman), and leading the actors. Plus the atmospheric score by (KADR Film Studio) Krzysztof Komeda.

Restoration: 4K, 2014 Awards selection 1962 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Roman Polański) 1964 Oscar Academy Awards – Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category 1964 BAFTA Awards – Nomination in the Best Film from any Source category POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

120 SLEEPWALKERS / LUNATYCY BOHDAN PORĘBA Genre: drama

Year of production: 1959

Technical specs: black and white; 88 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy KAMERA Tolek is the leader of a group of hooligans, Roman is one of the group’s members. They are both involved in the beating up of a man who may lose his sight. Rights: Because of a misunderstanding, Roman is taken for a hero who had saved the man. Filmoteka Narodowa Basia, a journalist, becomes interested in the story and while she gathers information (National Film Archive) for her article she begins to have feelings for Roman. Roman is publicly called a hero, Distribution: however he knows that he may lose everything when the victim regains his sight. Tolek Filmoteka Narodowa and his group are also afraid of their victim getting better. They plan a mystification… (National Film Archive)

Restoration: 2K, 2010 POLISH CLASSICS

121 BIRTH CERTIFICATE / ŚWIADECTWO URODZENIA Genre: war-drama film

Year of production: 1961

Technical specs: black and white; 104 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 STANISŁAW RÓŻEWICZ STANISŁAW Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Three novels that reveal a tense atmosphere of life under enemy occupation, Rights: seen through the eyes of children. The novel ‘On the Road’ shows a lost boy and a TOR Film Production soldier carrying no longer necessary documents of his squad that has been defeated. Finally he makes a decision to continue fighting an uneven struggle. The story ‘Letter Distribution: from the Camp’ shows three young brothers assisting their mother in the hard time TOR Film Production under the German occupation. They care especially for the officer’s uniform belonging Restoration: to their father who has been detained in the POW camp. When a Soviet prisoner of war 2K, 2014 escapes the camp and appears in their house, they give him their father’s shoes and coat. The story ‘Drop of Blood’ depicts a Jewish girl hiding in an orphanage. Gestapo officers identify typical Arian features in her face.

Awards selection 1961 Venice Children and Youth International Film Festival – Lion of St. Mark (Stanisław Różewicz) 1962 Cannes International Film Festival of Youth – Grand Prix (Stanisław Różewicz) 1962 Cannes International Film Festival of Youth – FIPRESCI Award (Stanisław Różewicz) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

122 THE LYNX / RYŚ STANISŁAW RÓŻEWICZ Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color; 86 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.72:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: A young guerrilla ‘Rys’ enters a small town church. He has been ordered TOR Film Production to perform an execution, but first he wants to make sure that he will be forgiven. His confession confuses the priest. Wanting to save the boy`s soul, the priest decides to Distribution: take the sin onto himself: the execution will be performed by him, although he has TOR Film Production doubts as to its righteousness. There is an increasing number of arguments suggesting Restoration: that ‘Rys’ may be… a tool of Satan`s. Or maybe the devil himself? 2K, 2015 POLISH CLASSICS

123 WESTERPLATTE RESISTS / WESTERPLATTE Genre: war film

Year of production: 1967

Technical specs: black and white, 96 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.59:1 STANISŁAW RÓŻEWICZ STANISŁAW Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Rytm

A screen reconstruction of the legendary defence of Westerplatte. The crew Rights: commanded by Major Sucharski, defends the outpost for 7 days, despite the unequal TOR Film Production forces. The supplies of ammunition and food are running out, the wounded pour in, thus the commander, burdened with the responsibility for his people, decides to surrender Distribution: Westerplatte, as the fatherland needs the living more than the dead heroes. On the 7th TOR Film Production; NOWA FILMKLATKA of September 1939 the capitulation act is signed. DISTRIBUTION ‘Westerplatte Resists’ is one of the most acclaimed and most interesting Polish war films: the military victory is replaced with the hopeless, uneven struggle; Restoration: manly adventure – with the war-time everyday reality, toil and suffering, and the black 2K, 2012 and white schemes – with respect for the enemy. Therefrom emerges the key question: what is that we owe to our fatherland- care of those who survived or fight at any price, to the last drop of blood?

Awards selection 1967 Moscow International Film Festival – Silver Prize (Stanisław Różewicz) 1967 Moscow International Film Festival – Nomination for Grand Prix (Stanisław Różewicz) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

124 CUSTODY / NADZÓR WIESŁAW SANIEWSKI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1983

Technical specs: color; 118 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85 (DCP); 1.78 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe K. Irzykowskiego

The year 1967. A young woman, Klara Małosz, begins her life sentence for Rights: conversion of funds in a collective cell in women’s prison. She’s pregnant. Resocializa- WFDiF tion of the inmates is in the hands of two guards – cold and despotic Kinga and Beata who’s more kind. Kinga and one of the brutal guards consider resocialization to be no Distribution: more than the titular supervision: psychological and physical violence towards female WFDiF inmates. In that form, it’s not the only degeneration of prison life that is watched from a Restoration: certain distance by Klara, who at the same time strives for her family’s well-being. 2K, 2015 A completely new attitude is brought into the prisoners’ community by Justyna, a former student, sentenced for taking part in the events of March 1968 which were the way of contesting the authorities. ‘Custody’ is a realistic prison drama but at the same time it’s a general metaphor for the repressive system, thus reaching the viewers was difficult for this movie during the Polish People’s Republic period. As far as its artistic values are concerned, it shows great directorial work of Wiesław Saniewski and splendid acting of female cast,

including Ewa Błaszczyk (Klara), Grażyna Szapołowska (Kinga), Teresa Sawicka (Beata) POLISH CLASSICS and Justyna Kulczycka (Justyna).

Awards selection 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Audience Award (Wiesław Saniewski) 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Cinematography Award (Witold Adamek) 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Leading Actress Award (Ewa Błaszczyk) 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Debut Director Award (Wiesław Saniewski) 1985 Mannheim International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award 125 SCREAM / KRZYK Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 93 min. BARBARA SASS

Aspect ratio: 1.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: Marianna, a petty thief, after being released, wants to start a new life; she Studio Filmowe KADR cuts off from the notorious Prague district and from her home with a constantly drunken (KADR Film Studio) mother and her aggressive partner. Her chance for the new beginning is the work in a retirement home and the relationship with an orderly, Marek. The girl begins to change Distribution: and starts to believe in the future, especially since Marek is to be granted a small Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) apartment. Subsequent events show, however, that the keys to the apartment – and to a better life – are beyond their reach. What remains is solely a scream, the embodiment Restoration: of anger and helplessness. A third part of an informal trilogy by Barbara Sass, featuring 2K, 2012 Dorota Stalińska in the lead role. Dramatic clashes, an emotional tone and yet another full blooded heroine. One of the most interesting film comments on the events of 1981 in Poland and the unsolved problems of ‘the season of freedom.’

Awards selection 1983 San Sebastián Film Festival – CAALA Award (Barbara Sass) 1983 San Sebastián Film Festival – CAALA Award (Dorota Stalińska) 1984 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Leading Actress Award (Dorota Stalińska) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

126 HANDS UP / RĘCE DO GÓRY JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI Genre: political

Year of production: 1967 (1981)

Technical specs: color & black and white; 80 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Syrena It is the fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski himself plays his alter-ego, Andrzej Leszczyc. The movie was originally made in 1967 in Rights: monochrome. In a twenty minute section, filmed in colour, added by Skolimowski in KADR Film Studio; 1981, he explains how the original was withheld by Polish censors of the time, and that TOR Film Production; this was a principal cause of his leaving his country. ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive The introduction includes, apart from some fictional apocalyptic passages, shots of Beirut ruined by the civil wars of the 1970s, and also shots of London featur- Distribution: ing demonstrations in favour of the Polish ‘Solidarity’ movement as well as Speaker’s Studio Filmowe KADR Corner, and an exhibition of Skolimowski’s own paintings. (KADR Film Studio) The original film is a surrealistic reunion of Leszczyc and his student colleagues that takes place after the years. They refer to themselves by the makes Restoration: of the cars they own – Leszczyc owns Zastawa, one owns the Wartburg, the others 2K, 2014 own more upmarket models such as Opel Record or Alfa Romeo. It turns out that their dreams as well as personal and professional ambitions remained unfulfilled. They forgot

about their ideals. POLISH CLASSICS

Awards selection 1981 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Critics Award (Jerzy Skolimowski)

127 IDENTIFICATION MARKS: NONE / RYSOPIS Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1964

Technical specs: black and white; 75 min.

Aspect ratio:

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI 1.81:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa i Teatralna The directorial debut of Jerzy Skolimowski and the first part of his diptych im. Leona Schillera of the lot of Andrzej Leszczyc – a young, sensitive man lost in the modern world, desperately seeking the way out of the hopeless and pointless daily routine. One morning Rights: Andrzej wakes up, leaves his sleeping girlfriend in bed and appears before the draft KADR Film Studio; board. To the surprise of the members of the board he insists on the immediate calling TOR Film Production; ZEBRA Film Studio; him in the army. For this purpose he gave up his studies the day before. He thinks that National Film Archive only the military service can show him what the life of a grown-up really means. With the conscript card in his pocket and a few more hours as a civilian ahead, he goes back Distribution: to his girlfriend and his duties. A movie opening the new aesthetics perspectives in Studio Filmowe KADR Polish cinema and an original manifesto of the generation of Poles who entered their (KADR Film Studio) adulthood in the mid-1960s. Made of just 29 shots ‘Identification Marks: None’ sketches an exquisite portrait of a young man who feels unable to experience any strong feelings. Restoration: 2K, 2014 He wants something badly, but he doesn’t know what it is. Scattered between various possibilities, inconsequent in his actions and frustrated he tries to find his place in life.

Awards selection 1965 Arnhem Film Festival – Best Director Award (Jerzy Skolimowski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

128 WALKOVER / WALKOWER JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1965

Technical specs: black and white; 74 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.69:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Syrena

The continuation of ‘Identification Marks: None’, Jerzy Skolimowski’s brilliant Rights: debut. 30-year-old Andrzej Leszczyc gets off the train. A moment ago a young girl KADR Film Studio; died hit by the very same train. A girl, with whom Leszczyc had spent the last moments TOR Film Production; before going to the army. But now he doesn’t recognize her, or doesn’t want to. Instead, ZEBRA Film Studio; he sees a familiar face among his fellow travelers. It’s Teresa – his colleague from Uni- National Film Archive versity, because of whom he was once relegated. She graduated and is now a valued Distribution: scholar. Andrzej – on the contrary – still cannot find his place in life, despite the two Studio Filmowe KADR years in the army. The only thing he does well is boxing. He tours small towns to take part (KADR Film Studio) in mini boxing competitions. One of those takes place in a factory where Teresa works. Andrzej gets to the final, but this time he has to face a much more experienced and Restoration: stronger adversary. The score of the boxing game is prejudged. Leszczyc stands in front 2K, 2013 of the dilemma whether to take up the fight or throw a match? Some film critics com- pared Skolimowski’s style to the acclaimed films by Antonioni. The director convincingly pictures the inner struggles of the grown-up man who never really wanted to choose.

This time, however he feels that he can no longer default. There are many possibilities. POLISH CLASSICS And Leszczyc finally makes a choice.

Awards selection 1965 Arnhem Film Festival – Best Director Award (Jerzy Skolimowski)

129 THE BIG ANIMAL / DUŻE ZWIERZĘ Genre: drama

Year of production: 2000

Technical specs:

JERZY STUHR black and white; 70 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: stereo, 5.1

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Studio Mr. Zygmunt Sawicki is a respected citizen. One day he finds a camel in his Filmowe Perspektywa yard and decides to keep the animal as a pet. The camel starts to arise many controver- sies. The authorities want to impose a special tax on Sawicki, other citizens hold pro- Rights: tests in front of Zygmunt’s house. The Sawicki family starts to feel more and more lonely TVP Polish Public and trapped with the camel. One day a letter is delivered to Sawicki’s house. Zygmunt is Television summoned to a special session of the City Council, where the councillors want to judge Distribution: Sawicki and his weird affection to the camel. The mayor gives him the last chance. If TVP Polish Public he agrees to give the camel back, the city will give funds to open a mini-zoo, in which Television the camel will be the main attraction. Sawicki leaves the session without saying a word. Restoration: HD, 2008

Awards selection 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Special Prize of the Jury 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Award of Ecumenical Jury 2000 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Score (Abel Korzeniowski) 2000 Wiesbaden goEast – Golden Lily (Jerzy Stuhr)

POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

130 GOLEM / GOLEM PIOTR SZULKIN Genre: fantasy film

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 93 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa

Totalitarian system several dozen years after a nuclear catastrophe. Scientists Rights: try to improve the humanity under the authority’s careful tutelage. They perform Studio Filmowe ZEBRA medical experiments on socially unadjusted individuals. Pernat is such an ‘upgraded’ (ZEBRA Film Studio) man, deprived of memory and limited to only working function. Yet, after some time he rebels against his guardians. Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF Awards selection 1980 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Debut Director Award (Piotr Szulkin) Restoration: 1980 Festival of Film Debuts ‘The Youth and Film’ in Koszalin – Critics Prize (Piotr 2K, 2015 Szulkin) POLISH CLASSICS

131 KING UBU / UBU KRÓL Genre: burlesque, musical

Year of production: 2003

Technical specs: color; 93 min. PIOTR SZULKIN PIOTR Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Euro-Film

Rights: A loose adaptation of the play by Alfred Jarry from 1888. Ubu, adulating the Euro-Film riff-raff and the influential people, organizes a bloody upheaval and takes over power under the pretext of the battle of liberty and democracy. His hapless and cruel regime Distribution: servers only one thing: tamping his purse. The introduced reforms are preposterous, the CRF citizens are growing poor, and the treasury turns out to be empty. Ubu, surrounded by Restoration: flatterers escalates the terror. Incited by the ambassadors of foreign powers hedeclares 2K, 2014 war to the Russian Tsar. His war expedition ends up with a disaster. The victorious Tsar enters the capital with his troops, while Ubu and his wife flee to France. At the end, the crown of Foland accidentally gets in the hands of a blind florist whom the crowd acclaims the queen, to the surprise of Tsar, the court and the ambassadors... It is no secret that despite the passage of time ‘King Ubu’ does not lose any of its timeliness. Jarry, setting the action of his play in Poland, about which he knew almost nothing, accidentally located it in a country, where the subsequent ruling parties prove that Ubu is not merely a product of the imagination of the 15-year-old writer, but unfortunately, a flesh and blood personage. The warning against people like Ubu and the society that allows them to exercise authority is the main and universal message of Piotr Szulkin’s picture.

Awards selection 2003 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Actress Award (Katarzyna Figura) 2005 Polish Film Awards – Best Costume Design Award (Magdalena Biedrzycka) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH 2005 Polish Film Awards – Best Actor Award (Jan Peszek) 2005 Polish Film Awards – Nomination for the Best Actress (Katarzyna Figura) 2005 Polish Film Awards – Nomination for the Best Editing (Elżbieta Kurkowska) 132 O-BI, O-BA. THE END OF CIVILIZATION / O-BI, O-BA. KONIEC CYWILIZACJI PIOTR SZULKIN Genre: fantasy film

Year of production: 1984

Technical specs: color; 90 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.71:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa

A vision of the world after a nuclear war with no winners. A concrete capsule Rights: gives shelter to eight hundred of hungry and sick people. They wait for a miraculous Studio Filmowe ZEBRA ark coming to their rescue, although it is just a myth created by the authorities to calm (ZEBRA Film Studio) the crowd. In reality, the crypt has limited endurance and is inevitably going to collapse. The community’s days are numbered. Everyone passively awaits a miracle, even when Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA the leaders disclaim the information about the arrival of the ark. The only person who (ZEBRA Film Studio); can repair the capsule is the constructor, however, no one can find him. The construction CRF of the ark like the one in the Bible, also ends in failure. The capsule breaks. The crowd rushes towards the light, sharing the false belief that the miraculous ark has just come. Restoration: 2K, 2013

Awards selection 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Production Design Award (Andrzej Kowalczyk)

1985 European Films Festival in Lille – Federation of European Film Directors POLISH CLASSICS Award (Piotr Szulkin)

133 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS – NEXT CENTURY / WOJNA ŚWIATÓW – NASTĘPNE STULECIE Genre: fantasy film

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color; 97 min. PIOTR SZULKIN PIOTR Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa

The Martians rule the Earth. The society subjugated by the ‘Aliens’ is Rights: controlled by a huge television machine, whose supreme slogan says: ‘It is us who Studio Filmowe ZEBRA create reality’. Television imposes all the standards and values upon the society. (ZEBRA Film Studio) There is, however, someone who wants to stop this course of events: a popular TV presenter, Iron Idem. In his independent television program he calls to stand up to the Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA invaders from the outer space. (ZEBRA Film Studio); CRF

Awards selection Restoration: 1982 International Fantasy Films Festival, Porto – Main Award 2K, 2013 1982 International Fantasy Films Festival, Avoriaz – Special Award 1982 International Fantasy Films Festival, Madryt – Grand Prix: ‘Monolit’ Award 1982 International Fantasy Films Festival, Madryt – Best Screenplay Award (Piotr Szulkin) 1982 International Fantasy Films Festival, Madryt – Best Director Award (Piotr Szulkin) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

134 A HAPPY MAN / SZCZĘŚLIWY CZŁOWIEK MAŁGORZATA SZUMOWSKA Genre: drama

Year of production: 2000

Technical specs: color; 85 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: stereo

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Studio Filmowe Indeks The film tells the story of Maria Sosnowska and her 30-year-old son Jan, who live in a poor neighbourhood of a big city. They family have financial problems, Rights: because Jan does not have a steady job. When Maria gets a job offer, she must first go TVP Polish Public through medical examinations. It turns out that she cannot work because she is suffer- Television ing from lung cancer and is likely to pass away in a few months. She cannot hide this Distribution: fact from her son. Meanwhile, Jan wants to fulfil his dreams and at the same time reward TVP Polish Public Maria for her years of suffering. He meets a girl and is about to marry her. Television

Restoration: Awards selection HD, 2013 2000 Thessaloniki Film Festival – Special Artistic Achievement Award (Małgorzata Szumowska) 2001 European Film Awards – European Discovery of the Year Nomination (Małgorzata Szumowska)

2002 Polish Film Awards – Best Actress Nomination (Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak) POLISH CLASSICS

135 THE ASHES / POPIOŁY Genre: historical drama

Year of production: 1965

Technical specs: black and white; 236 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA (I part: 107 min.; II part: 128 min.)

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Traveling across Italy in the summer of 1798, duke Jan Gintułt encounters Rytm Film Productions Polish soldiers enfeebled by war, singing their national anthem – ‘Mazurek Dąbrowskiego’. Soon the aristocrat returns to his homeland. There, by chance, he meets a young Rights: nobleman, Rafał Olbromski, who becomes his secretary. Intelligent, but somewhat naive Studio Filmowe ZEBRA and hypersensitive Rafał accompanies duke Gintułt on his journeys, getting involved in (ZEBRA Film Studio) love affairs – first with the duke’s sister, and then with Helena de With. In Warsaw he gets Distribution: introduced in Freemasonry circles centered around prince Poniatowski; he joins the Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Napoleon’s army and takes part in the subsequent bloody battles. (ZEBRA Film Studio); ‘The Ashes’ is a narrative film adaptation of one of the greatest prose works CRF of Stefan Żeromski. Restoration: 2K, 2014

Awards selection 1971 Moscow International Film Festival – Golden Prize (Andrzej Wajda) 1971 Moscow International Film Festival – Best Actor Award (Daniel Olbrychski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

136 ASHES AND DIAMONDS / POPIÓŁ I DIAMENT ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: political, psychological drama

Year of production: 1958

Technical specs: black and white; 103 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.63:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr The last day of the war, the last night of captivity. And the morning of the first day of peace, 8 May 1945. During these ten or so hours Maciek Chełmicki, a young Rights: Home Army soldier, who received an order to kill a communist activist, will fight with Studio Filmowe KADR himself. Having been until then formatted for heroic dying for ideals, he will experience (KADR Film Studio) his first love, and will face doubts for the first time. Will he remain faithful to the soldier’s Distribution: oath – or to a woman? Will he continue to kill, although he is so eager to live now? Studio Filmowe KADR At the victory banquet, Soviet comrades occupy the places of honor, though one can (KADR Film Studio) still sing ‘Red poppies on Monte Cassino’ in public; one of his Home Army colleagues is trying to find his fortune with the new government, and the son of a communist Restoration: activist is fighting in armed anti-communist underground. The film, which became a 2K, 2009 legend of the Polish Film School, launched some great individuals among actors, most of all, Zbigniew Cybulski, who, thanks to his ultra-modern performance as Maciek – the Romantic rebel – became a symbol of the generation of the 50s. POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1959 Venice Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Andrzej Wajda) 1960 BAFTA Awards – Nomination in Best Film from Any Source category (Andrzej Wajda) 1960 BAFTA Awards – Nomination in Best Foreign Actor category (Zbigniew Cybulski)

137 THE BIRCH WOOD / BRZEZINA Genre: drama, psychological

Year of production: 1970

Technical specs: color, 95 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: The movie takes place in a pre-war Poland. A tubercular young man comes to TOR Film Production; stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930’s music TVP Polish Public on a piano. He gets involved with his brother’s problems and also becomes the lover of Television a simpleminded farm girl. The brother’s dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl. His daughter will not confirm his suspicions. But the Distribution: TOR Film Production brother’s death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wife’s memory and

making up with his little daughter. Restoration: 2K, 2014

Awards selection 1970 Milan International Documentary and Television Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award 1971 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Golden Prize for Direction (Andrzej Wajda) and for Best Male Actor (Daniel Olbrychski) 1971 Moscow International Film Festival – Golden Prize for Best Actor (Daniel Olbrychski) 1973 Finnish Film Association Award Filmaur – honorary diploma 1975 Milan International Film Festival – Golden Seal POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

138 A CHRONICLE OF AMOROUS INCIDENTS / KRONIKA WYPADKÓW MIŁOSNYCH ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: romance, drama

Year of production: 1985

Technical specs: color; 120 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Perspektywa

Vilnius and its surroundings, summer of 1939, the eve of the outbreak of Rights: the Second World War. Witek falls in love for the first time, with Alina, the daughter of Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Colonel Nałęcz. Slowly, he manages to overcome her reluctance and win her heart. (ZEBRA Film Studio) The couple plan to escape together after school-leaving exams. Unfortunately, Witek fails the exams and, to make matters worse, he finds out that Alina is to go abroad. They Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA arrange to meet for the last time and the girl comes on the date wearing a white ‘wedding’ (ZEBRA Film Studio); dress. They spend all night together, eventually falling asleep on the river bank. What CRF wakes them up is the sound of sirens which rend the air signaling the outbreak of war. Restoration: 2K, 2015 POLISH CLASSICS

139 THE CONDUCTOR / DYRYGENT Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 102 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: The dramatic story of three people, for whom music became their lifelong Studio Filmowe ZEBRA fascination. A young violinist Marta, studying on a grant in New York, meets John (Zebra Film Studio) Lasocki – a famous orchestra conductor, who long ago felt a deep affection for Marta’s mother. Old memories of the feeling revive in Lasocki’s heart. He decides to come to Distribution: Poland, to Marta’s home town, to conduct a local orchestra performing Beethoven’s Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (Zebra Film Studio); Fifth Symphony. The orchestra’s conductor is Marta’s husband, Adam, who initially sees CRF a chance for himself in the visit of the great master. On the other hand, however, he is afraid of a confrontation with an artist of such considerable stature. With time, Adam Restoration: discerns also the fascination Lasocki awakens in Marta, as well as his modesty, kindness 2K, 2016 and a deep understanding of music. Consequently, a sense of vague insecurity and jealousy starts creeping into Adam’s life, little by little developing into envy, aggression, and even hysterics. Then Lasocki dies suddenly. Marta stays with her husband, but harshly judges his conduct and character.

Awards selection 1980 Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear Award (Andrzej Seweryn) 1980 San Sebastián Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award 1980 San Sebastián Film Festival – Basque Cultural Society’s Award 1980 San Sebastián Film Festival – OCIC Award (Catholic Film Office) 1981 FEST International Film Festival in Belgrade – Grand Prize POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

140 DANTON / DANTON ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: historical drama

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 136 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Gaumont, TF1.Films Productions, S.F.P.C., T.M., Les Films The year 1794, the French Revolution. Terror is raging in France. At the du Losagne, Zespół meeting of the Committee of Public Safety Billaud Varenne accuses Danton and his Filmowy X friends of counter-revolutionary activities. At the same time the Dantonists’ journal Vieux Cordelier gets confiscated. Soon Danton receives a secret warning that the gov- Rights: ernment is going to arrest him. On the initiative of Robespierre the two leaders meet, Gaumont, Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (Zebra but they fail to reach an agreement. In the Committee of Public Safety Robespierre Film Studio) makes a demand for arresting Danton... Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (Zebra Film Studio); Awards selection CRF 1982 Louis Delluc Award 1982 Unifrance Film Award Restoration: 1982 César - Award of French Academy of Film Art - Best Director (Andrzej Wajda) 2K, 2016 1983 Montréal World Film Festival - Best Actor Award (Wojciech Pszoniak)

1983 Montréal World Film Festival - Best Award (Gérard Depardieu) POLISH CLASSICS 1984 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Critics Award

141 EVERYTHING FOR SALE / WSZYSTKO NA SPRZEDAŻ Genre: drama, psychological

Year of production: 1968

Technical specs: color; 99 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.77:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kamera

During the shooting of a film the leading actor fails to turn up on the movie Rights: set. The director replaces him in the scene of jumping onto a moving train. Ela – the Studio Filmowe ZEBRA actor’s wife and former director’s mistress, together with Beata – the director’s wife and (ZEBRA Film Studio) former actor’s love make efforts to find him. In the course of this search, they realize that he died in the accident jumping off the moving train. The director does not know what Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA to do with the unfinished film... (ZEBRA Film Studio); ‘Everything for Sale’ is a film inspired by the tragic death of Zbigniew Cybulski CRF (very popular Polish actor, called ‘The Polish James Dean’). The director depicts his own creative explorations and intersperses truth with fiction, thus creating aninseparable Restoration: whole. A moving testimony of unrest and absence. Andrzej Wajda’s most personal 2K, 2013 picture.

Awards selection 1969 Polish Journalists Association Film Critics Club – ‘Warsaw Mermaid’ Award in Feature Film category POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

142 A GENERATION / POKOLENIE ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: psychological, war film

Year of production: 1954

Technical specs: black and white; 88 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.38:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych One of the most important pictures of the Polish post-war cinema that, – Wrocław among others, initiated the Polish Film School. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a generation of youth comes of age. Rights: Stach and his friends from the Home Army start with spontaneous acts of defiance, KADR Film Studio; which can prove deadly, but have no organized purpose. Then, while at work as an TOR Film Production; ZEBRA Film Studio; apprentice, he learns elementary Marxian economics from a shop steward. When he National Film Archive sees the valiant and beautiful Dorota, a leader of the communist Youth Underground, he volunteers. He recruits his friends, and they become a cell in the resistance, tasting Distribution: courage, discipline and tragedy. In the background lies the potential conflict between Studio Filmowe KADR the Communists and the Home Army partisans, both anti-Nazi, both Polish, and on their (KADR Film Studio) own collision course... Andrzej Wajda succeeded in a very difficult task: he managed, by skillfully Restoration: dosing the lyricism and pathos, to picture the protagonists as people morally clean, but 2K, 2014 not ridiculous, naïve, but not infantile. He portrayed young people living in their daily

apocalypse, aware of the barbarity that surrounded them and experiencing suffering POLISH CLASSICS and everyday tragedies.

143 HOLY WEEK / WIELKI TYDZIEŃ Genre: drama, war film

Year of production: 1995

Technical specs: color; 93 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: stereo

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, Heritage Films, TVP Film One week before Easter of 1943, the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto is on Production Agency, its way. A young Jewish girl Irena is hiding at her friends’ house. One day she is caught Les Films du Losange by the Gestapo and after bribing them to let her go, the girl wanders around Warsaw not knowing where to go or what to do. Then she meets Jan, a former fiancé of hers. Rights: The man takes her to his house where Irena meets Jan’s wife Anna. The couple decide TVP Polish Public Television, Les Films to help the poor girl. Everything is going well, however, Piotrowska the neighbour of du Losange (France, the people is afraid that Irena with her Jewish type of beauty would bring doom to Germany) the whole tenement house. If Gestapo found out that a Jewish girl was hiding in the house the whole building could be executed. On top of that Piotrowska’s husband starts Distribution: showing interest in the pretty young Jew. Driven by fear and jealousy the neighbour TVP Polish Public decides to denounce Irena to the Germans. Television, Les Films du Losange (France, Germany)

Awards selection Restoration: 1996 Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear Award for an outstanding HD, 2013 artistic contribution (Andrzej Wajda) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

144 HUNTING FLIES / POLOWANIE NA MUCHY ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: comedy, psychological

Year of production: 1969

Technical specs: color; 109 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Zespoły Filmowe PRF

Rights: Thirty something Włodek, a would-be graduate of Russian philology and a Studio Filmowe ZEBRA modest bookstore employee leads a boring, flat life with his wife Hanka, his son and (ZEBRA Film Studio) the in-laws. He lacks any professional ambitions and interests. Włodek feels completely dominated by his wife and her mother. One day, on the pretext of buying cigarettes he Distribution: leaves the house with the intention never to come back. By chance, he meets a Polish Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); philology student Irena and gets involved in an affair with her. Irena is determined to CRF make him the man of her dreams. Almost against his will, she tries to promote him as a translator and writer, the fortune’s favorite and the highlight of Warsaw society. But her Restoration: efforts are in vain. 2K, 2013 ‘Hunting Flies’ is a satire on the progressive changes in a society where women are becoming more and more imperious and dominant, while men get weaker and gradually lose their masculine identity.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1969 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Andrzej Wajda) 1970 ‘Summer of Films’ Film Festival in Łagów – Best Supporting Actress Award (Hanna Skarżanka)

145 INNOCENT SORCERERS / NIEWINNI CZARODZIEJE Genre: slice of life, psychological

Year of production: 1960

Technical specs: black and white;

ANDRZEJ WAJDA 87 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.36:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr The artists of three different generations – Andrzej Wajda, director; Jerzy Andrzejewski and Jerzy Skolimowski, screenwriters – create a portrait of the young Rights: people of the 1950s, who mask the need for closeness and genuine affection with cyn- Studio Filmowe KADR icism and nonchalant poses. Andrzej, a sports physician and a drummer in a jazz band, (KADR Film Studio) likes to live comfortably and without obligations. A girl he has just met in a music club Distribution: seems destined to be another episode of no great importance in his biography. At night, Studio Filmowe KADR in Andrzej’s room, both of them under fictional names of Bazyli and Pelagia, play a kind (KADR Film Studio) of game, during which they assume different masks. A seemingly simple scenario – from a conversation to getting laid – gradually becomes more complicated... Restoration: 2K, 2011

Awards selection 1961 Edinburgh International Film Festival - diploma POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

146 KANAL / KANAŁ ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: war film

Year of production: 1956

Technical specs: black and white; 97 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

The Silver Palm won in Cannes ‘protected my film from Polish critics and Rights: audience. I do not blame the latter – they were in large part the uprising participants Studio Filmowe KADR or families who lost their loved ones in Warsaw. This film could not satisfy them. They (KADR Film Studio) have already licked their wounds, mourned the loved ones and now they wanted to see their moral and spiritual victory, and not their death in the sewers.’ – wrote Andrzej Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR Wajda about his first and most important success. ‘Kanal’ is one of the most important (KADR Film Studio) films of the Polish Film School and Polish cinema in general. The tragic end of one of the insurgent units, who, surrounded by the Germans in the Mokotów district, decide to Restoration: walk downtown through the sewers, is Dante’s inferno in Wajda’s vision, transferred to 2K, 2013 the twentieth century. The tormented people’s struggle to survive, turns out to be the way to death. Almost unreal subterranean scenery becomes the place where death is miserable, not heroic; where neither courage, nor love or sacrifice are rewarded.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICS 1957 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Special Prize (Andrzej Wajda) 1957 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Andrzej Wajda) 1959 BAFTA Film Awards – Nomination in the Most Promising Newcomer to Film Category (Teresa Iżewska)

147 KORCZAK / KORCZAK Genre: war film, biographical film

Year of production: 1990

Technical specs: black and white;

ANDRZEJ WAJDA 118 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Perspektywa Film The year 1936. Dr. Korczak, a host of a popular radio talk, is summoned to his Studio; superior’s office to find out that his program has been taken off the air. Disappointed Regina Ziegler with this manifestation of anti-Semitism, he totally dedicates himself to educational work. Filmproduktion; He runs an orphanage for Jewish children and gives lectures at the Medical Academy. Telmar Film In September 1939 the war breaks out. During a defense of Warsaw Korczak International Ltd.; Erato Films; ZDF; BBC serves as a military doctor. After the surrender of the city he returns to his orphanage, Films which is soon after moved to the ghetto. Doctor Korczak stays with ‘his’ children to the end, up to the deportation to the Treblinka concentration camp. Rights: The film is a biographical story of Janusz Korczak, a Polish pedagogue of Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Jewish origin, whose name, owing to his life and heroic death in Treblinka, went down (ZEBRA Film Studio) in history. Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); Awards selection CRF 1990 Cannes International Film Festival – Jury’s Special Mention 1991 The Filmmaking Committee Chairman’s Award for filmmaking output in the Restoration: feature film category (Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Pszoniak) 2K, 2016 1991 The Filmmaking Committee Chairman’s Award for best score in the feature film category (Wojciech Kilar) 1991 German Film Awards - Film Award in Gold for Best Cinematography (Robby Müller) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

148 LANDSCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE / KRAJOBRAZ PO BITWIE ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: historical, psychological drama

Year of production: 1970

Technical specs: color; 105 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.68:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Wektor American troops liberate the concentration camp in Germany and transform it into a refugee camp. The liberated prisoners, though, are still not allowed to leave. One Rights: of them is a young Pole, Tadeusz. He writes poems and reads zealously, experiencing a Studio Filmowe ZEBRA strong psychological and ideological crisis due to his stay in the camp. Is it possible for (ZEBRA Film Studio) a man who survived the hell of a concentration camp ever to forget? Distribution: The atmosphere in the camp is tense, with constant disputes and rows Studio Filmowe ZEBRA breaking up. Tadeusz is unable to communicate with his Polish inmates, who embody (ZEBRA Film Studio); national vices and mutual envy. One day women come to the camp. Tadeusz makes CRF friends with one of them – a young Polish Jew named Nina. The girl encourages him to run away with her. Restoration: 2K, 2013

Awards selection 1970 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Andrzej Wajda)

1971 Cineteca Italiana Milan International Film Festival – ‘Golden Globe’ Award POLISH CLASSICS (Andrzej Wajda)

149 LOTNA / LOTNA Genre: war drama

Year of production: 1959

Technical specs: color; 88 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Kadr

Rights: A film adaptation of Wojciech Żukrowski’s short story ‘Lotna’. September of Studio Filmowe KADR 1939. The Polish Ulan squadron receives a beautiful, white mare – Lotna. They establish (KADR Film Studio) an order of who gets to ride her. The Ulan’s commander, cavalry captain Chodakiewicz, receives Lotna first. From then on the tragic fate of the squadron and the beautiful Distribution: horse is connected… Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio)

Restoration: 2K, 2010 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

150 THE MAIDS OF WILKO / PANNY Z WILKA ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color; 116 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X; Pierson Production – Les Films Moliere Wiktor Ruben, a man just under forty, comes to the countryside and visits his (France) aunt and uncle’s house, as well as a nearby manor house where he spent his youthful years accompanied by the young girls living there. A lot has changed since then. His Rights: aunt and uncle have aged. The life of the once young girls of Wilko is also different now: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Julia is a mother of twin daughters, Jola, who had always been so emancipated, got (ZEBRA Film Studio) married, Fela died unexpectedly, Zosia and Kasia have also changed and little Tunia has Distribution: blossomed into a beautiful young woman. The presence of Ruben, his memories and Studio Filmowe ZEBRA desire to revive the past, disturb the illusively peaceful life of the residents, reveal their (ZEBRA Film Studio); complicated fate, tragedies and failures. Ruben leaves the place and resolves never to CRF come back. Restoration: 2K, 2011

Awards selection 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Special Jury Prize

1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Production Design Award (Allan Starski, POLISH CLASSICS Maria Osiecka-Kuminek) 1980 Oscar Academy Awards – Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category

151 MAN OF IRON / CZŁOWIEK Z ŻELAZA Genre: political drama

Year of production: 1981

Technical specs: color, 153 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: The continuation of Wajda’s picture of 1976 – ‘Man of Marble’ (‘Człowiek z Studio Filmowe ZEBRA marmuru’). The year 1980. Workers of the Gdańsk Shipyard are on strike. The son of (ZEBRA Film Studio) Mateusz Birkut, Maciek Tomczyk, is one of the shipyard workers and also an activist of the strike committee. Winkel, a radio reporter, is given an assignment to make a report Distribution: which would disgrace Tomczyk and the strike committee. However, after the conver- Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); sation with Agnieszka – now Tomczyk’s wife – imprisoned for supporting the strike, he CRF changes his view on the demands of the workers. He decides never to make the report. Restoration: 2K, 2012 Awards selection 1981 Cannes International Film Festival – Palme d’Or (Andrzej Wajda) 1981 Cannes International Film Festival – Ecumenical Jury Award (Andrzej Wajda) 1981 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – ‘Solidarity’ Award (Andrzej Wajda) 1981 New York Film Critics Circle Film Awards – Special Award (Andrzej Wajda) 1982 The Oscar Academy Awards – Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

152 MAN OF MARBLE / CZŁOWIEK Z MARMURU ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: political, historical drama

Year of production: 1976

Technical specs: color; 160 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

The year 1976. In the corridor of the television building Agnieszka – an almost Rights: graduate filmmaker – is persuading an ‘important’ editor into making a movie about Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer and labor leader, whose brilliant career ended suddenly (ZEBRA Film Studio) and unexpectedly sometime around 1952. After many negotiations the girl finally gets the tape and necessary equipment. Private ‘investigation’ begins, aiming at determining Distribution: Studio Filmowe ZEBRA the causes of the success and fall of Birkut. While learning the history of his dramatic (ZEBRA Film Studio); life, Agnieszka finds out and discloses the bitter truth about the 1950s – the period of CRF Stalinism in Poland. Restoration: 2K, 2013 Awards selection 1977 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Critics Award (Andrzej Wajda) 1978 Cannes International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award (Andrzej Wajda) 1979 Brussels Film Festival – Best Actor – Crystal Star Award (Jerzy

Radziwiłowicz) POLISH CLASSICS 1979 FEST International Film Festival in Belgrade – Grand Prize (Andrzej Wajda) 1980 Cartagena Film Festival – Special Jury Prize (Andrzej Wajda)

153 PAN TADEUSZ. THE LAST FORAY IN LITHUANIA / PAN TADEUSZ. OSTATNI ZAJAZD NA LITWIE Genre: drama, history, romance

Year of production: 1999

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Technical specs: color; 154 min.

Aspect ratio: 2.39.1

Sound: 5.1

Production: Heritage Films, Canal+ Polska, Les Films du The adaptation of Adam Mickiewicz’s 12-book national epopee, written Losagne, Le Studio in Paris in 1832-1834. The work, filled with lyricism and longing towards the land of Canal+, Wizja TV, the writer’s childhood days, tells of hopes for overcoming the Russian invader and TVP Polish Public reclaiming one’s own country, which were briefly awakened in Poles by the Napoleon Television, Vision Film Bonaparte, the Emperor of the French. Production, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, The title hero of Mickiewicz’s work is Tadeusz Soplica. He is in love with the Państwowe Instytucje young Zosia, granddaughter of Stolnik (Pantler) Horeszko, and at the same time – he is Filmowe being seduced by Telimena, senior to them both. The key character in Andrzej Wajda’s lm adaptation, though, is Jacek Soplica. Stolnik’s killer, turned penitent and secret Rights: emissary, who as Father Robak cloaked in the Benedictine habit prepares an armed Heritage Films, Les uprising against the invader in Soplicowo, Lithuania. Realized with extraordinary care Films du Losagne, for the epoch’s detail, this historical spectacle is another of Wajda’s meetings with great Studiocanal, TVP Polish Public national literature. In the words of Wajda himself, “‘Pan Tadeusz’ was filmed out of the Television necessity to show where we came from, who we are, what we are called, what we like, what human characters are born within us.” Distribution: Heritage Films

Awards selection 2000 Polish Film Awards - Best Actress (Grażyna Szapałowska)

POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH 2000 Polish Film Awards - Best Cinematography (Paweł Edelman) 2000 Polish Film Awards - Best Editing (Wanda Zeman) 2000 Polish Film Awards - Best Production Design (Allan Starski) 154 THE PROMISED LAND / ZIEMIA OBIECANA ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: historical drama

Year of production: 1974

Technical specs: color; 169 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.68:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: The end of the 19th century. The city of Łódź – the cradle of Polish textile Studio Filmowe ZEBRA industry. Three friends: a Pole – Karol Borowiecki, a German – Max Baum and a Jew – (ZEBRA Film Studio) Moritz Welt, want to set up a textile factory. They use various tricks enforced by ruthless cotton magnates. After the fire consumes their brand new factory, their paths diverge. Distribution: Karol compromises noble ideals and breaks off the engagement with Anka to marry Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); Mada Müller, a daughter of the richest manufacturer Müller, which enables him to come CRF into possession of the greatest capital in Łódź. A film adaptation of the novel by Władysław Reymont is an epic image of the Restoration: conflicts of the 19th century capitalist Łódź, and a testimony of the changes brought by 2K, 2012 the Industrial Revolution.

Awards selection 1975 Chicago International Film Festival – Grand Prix: ‘Golden Hugo’ Award

1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Grand Prix: Jury Grand Award ‘Golden Lions’ POLISH CLASSICS 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor in a Leading Role (Wojciech Pszoniak) 1975 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Production Design (Tadeusz Kosarewicz) 1976 The Oscar Academy Awards – Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category

155 THE REVENGE / ZEMSTA Genre: comedy

Year of production: 2002

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 2.35.1

Sound: 5.1

Production: Arka Film, Vison Film Production, Telewizja Polska S.A Raptusiewcz, residing in one half of a castle, with the other half inhabited by a despised notary, Milczek, wants to marry the widowed Podstolina. Perfectly aware of Rights: his shortcomings regarding looks and savoir-faire, Raptusiewicz asks Papkin to arrange Akson Studio the marriage for him. Papkin quickly comes to his aid. However, although he acts like a hero and a lady-killer, Papkin actually turns out to be a coward and an escapist. Distribution: Akson Dystrybucja

Restoration: Awards selection 2K, 2016 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Actor Nomination (Janusz Gajos) 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Actress Nomination (Katarzyna Figura) 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Supporting Actor Nomination (Daniel Olbrychski) 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Supporting Actress Nomination (Agata Buzek) 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Director Nomination (Andrzej Wajda) 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Editing Nomination (Wanda Zeman) 2003 Polish Film Awards - Best Film Score Nomination (Wojciech Killar) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

156 ROUGH TREATMENT / BEZ ZNIECZULENIA ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1978

Technical specs: color; 115 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.35:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: A well-known political correspondent, Jerzy Michałowski, on his return Studio Filmowe ZEBRA from abroad finds out that his wife has left him. Not knowing the reasons behind her (ZEBRA Film Studio) decision, he is unable to accept it. In addition, his professional life starts complicating: his television appearance, as well as the publications for the press receive a cool Distribution: reception, his lectures at the university get suspended, and his long-planned trip Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); abroad is unexpectedly cancelled. CRF ‘Rough Treatment’ is one of the most important films of the ‘cinema of moral concern’. Restoration: 2K, 2013

Awards selection 1978 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Andrzej Wajda) 1979 Cannes Film Festival – Ecumenical Jury Award (Andrzej Wajda)

1979 Cannes Film Festival – Nomintation for the Palme d’Or (Andrzej Wajda) POLISH CLASSICS

157 THE SHADOW LINE / SMUGA CIENIA Genre: historical, psychological drama

Year of production: 1976

Technical specs: color; 105 min. ANDRZEJ WAJDA Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: X Film Production; Thames Television The year 1886. A young British navy officer Conrad-Korzeniowski, a Pole of origin, after several years of service is about to come home. Unexpectedly, he gets a pro- Rights: posal to take command of a merchant ship Otago, captain of which had died suddenly. Studio Filmowe ZEBRA Conrad’s task is to take the ship from Bangkok into Singapore. The ship turns out to be (ZEBRA Film Studio) neglected and the crew undisciplined. A cholera epidemic breaks out and, to cap it all, Distribution: a dead calm causes the ship to stall in the ocean. Despite all these obstacles, Conrad Studio Filmowe ZEBRA succeeds in bringing Otago to its destination. (ZEBRA Film Studio); A film adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad ‘The Shadow Line’. The film CRF is a Polish-British co-production. Restoration: 2K, 2016

Awards selection 1976 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Jury’s Main Prize 1978 International Seafaring Film Review in Szczecin – Golden Frigate (Audience Award) 1979 Cartagena International Marine Film Festival – Silver Caravel POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

158 THE WEDDING / WESELE ANDRZEJ WAJDA Genre: poetical drama

Year of production: 1972

Technical specs: color; 106 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

Rights: A wedding procession sets off from the St Mary’s Church, and, passing Studio Filmowe ZEBRA by the surrounding villages finally reaches the house of the Host. What follows is the (ZEBRA Film Studio) wedding reception of the newlyweds – an intellectual and a peasant girl. Consequently, the wedding guests also represent both social ranks. Soon the party is in full swing. Distribution: An aura of the supernatural seeps imperceptibly into the merriment of the feast... Studio Filmowe ZEBRA (ZEBRA Film Studio); In this masterly screen version of a play by Stanisław Wyspiański the CRF atmosphere of the bygone era and the cheerful mood of the wedding party are created through richness of colors, set design, folk music, excellent filming and perfect cast Restoration: featuring the actors who created unforgettable characters that became their lifetime’s 2K, 2010 performances.

Awards selection 1973 San Sebastián International Film Festival – Silver Seashell (Andrzej Wajda) POLISH CLASSICS

159 KORNBLUMENBLAU / KORNBLUMENBLAU Genre: drama, war film

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color & black and white; 88 min. LESZEK WOSIEWICZ LESZEK Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe During the World War II, young Polish musician Tadeusz Wyczyński finds K. Irzykowskiego himself in Nazi concentration camp. At first he goes through hell. But then the sadistic and homosexual block supervisor has his eye on him and wants to listen to him play his Rights: favourite melody ‘Kornblumenblau’ on accordion, thus the musician’s life in the concen- WFDiF tration camp gets better. He uses this chance to help his fellow prisoners but his stance Distribution: of kind of cooperation with the oppressor raises their doubts anyway. One time the WFDiF protagonist decides to rebel and plays Chopin’s music to the SS members but they are drunk at the time and don’t pay any attention to it. Tadeusz seems to be soaking with Restoration: opportunism. Even worse, his attitude continues after he crosses the gate of the camp, 2K, 2015 which is proved by the last scene of the movie that constitutes its meaningful summary. Shocking occupation drama filmed by Leszek Wosiewicz based on ‘To Ease the Sleep’ by Kazimierz Tymiński poses questions about acceptability and price of certain human behaviours in extreme situations, as well as about relationship between art and morality. At the same time its artistic dimension is very extraordinary – sometimes even controversial.

Awards selection 1989 Locarno International Film Festival – Bronze Leopard (Adam Kamień) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Director Award (Leszek Wosiewicz) 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Cinematography Award (Krzysztof Ptak) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH 1990 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Editing Award (Wanda Zeman, Jarosław Wołejko)

160 THE GATEWAY OF EUROPE / WROTA EUROPY JERZY WÓJCIK Genre: historical film

Year of production: 1999

Technical specs: color; 74 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: stereo PL, lector, mono – MM

Production: TVP Polish Public Television, In January 1918, three volunteer nurses set off for a field hospital near the Filmcontract Ltd., frontier. They treat their decision not only as the fulfilment of a patriotic duty, but also as Komitet Kinematografii a romantic adventure. The 17-year-old Zosia has additional motivation. She hopes she finds her brother Paweł somewhere near the front. When the girls reach the hospital, Rights: they soon find out about the very difficult conditions in which they are about to work. TVP Polish Public Television Already on the first day they are sent to a nearby town to collect missing dressings. Taking advantage of the situation Zosia feverishly looks for Paweł. Unfortunately, as a result Distribution: of the increasing artillery fire, the sisters have to return to the hospital. Panic-struck TVP Polish Public preparations for evacuation begin. The nurses decide to stay in place and do not return Television to the hospital. They do not know yet that with the coming of the Bolsheviks they will have to face perhaps the heaviest struggle in their entire lives. Restoration: 4K, 2016

Awards selection

1999 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Cinematography Award (Witold POLISH CLASSICS Sobociński) 1999 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Costume Design Award (Magdalena Tesławska, Paweł Grabarczyk) 1999 Polish Film Awards – Best Cinematography (Witold Sobociński) 1999 Polish Film Awards – Best Costume Design (Magdalena Tesławska, Paweł Grabarczyk) 1999 Polish Film Awards – Best Production Design (Janusz Sosnowski)

161 KARATE POLISH STYLE / KARATE PO POLSKU Genre: drama, action

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: color; 88 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 WOJCIECH WÓJCIK WOJCIECH

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy ZODIAK

Two young artists, Piotr and Michał, come to a small town in Masurian Lake Rights: District to paint a fresco on a wall of a renovated church. The newcomers soon get Filmoteka Narodowa into trouble with local hooligans and their leader Roman. Piotr, who is a karate cham- (National Film Archive) pion, doesn’t want to use force towards the opponents and stops Michał, who is more impulsive, from doing that either. However once his beautiful wife Dorota comes to town Distribution: Filmoteka Narodowa the conflict escalates and hooligans become even more aggressive. Confrontation is (National Film Archive) inevitable… Restoration: 2K, 2015 POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

162 EGGNOG / KOGEL-MOGEL ROMAN ZAŁUSKI Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Oko

Rights: Kasia Solska, a girl from the country, escapes from her own wedding in Studio Filmowe KADR order to study pedagogy in Warsaw she has always dreamt of. An accidental meeting (KADR Film Studio) with the grandmother of the spoilt boy Piotruś in an advertising agency, allows her to practice her pedagogic skills as a baby-sitter in the house of her university professor Distribution: and his hysterical wife, even before she starts her studies. Kasia’s plans for her life and Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) education change, however, when she meets the handsome Paweł.

Restoration: 2K, 2008 POLISH CLASSICS

163 RIGMAROLE OR EGNOGG 2 / GALIMATIAS, CZYLI KOGEL-MOGEL 2 Genre: comedy

Year of production: 1989

Technical specs: color; 83 min.

ROMAN ZAŁUSKI ROMAN Aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Oko

Rights: The further lots of the protagonists of ‘Eggnog’ Kasia and Paweł. After their Studio Filmowe KADR wedding it turns out that the newly-married couple has conflicting plans for the future: (KADR Film Studio) he dreams of becoming a father, she wants to go back to University. Meanwhile professor Wolański gets the away-from-home fellowship, and taking his wife with him, Distribution: asks Kasia to accommodate Piotruś and Grandma at her country home. The guests from Studio Filmowe KADR (KADR Film Studio) the big city will become the object of interest of the locals and the subject of rumors, and the poodle Pusia – the cause of a pretty good snafu. Restoration: Sequel of the popular comedy: martial and family argy-bargy half seriously, 2K, 2009 the city people seen by the peasants and vice versa, and the beginning of the 1990s transformations of Polish society as the background. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

164 CAMOUFLAGE / BARWY OCHRONNE KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1976

Technical specs: color; 100 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: ‘All people are conformists just like you and I’ – this is one of the lessons TOR Film Production given to the young assistant lecturer Jarek Kruszyński by a senior colleague, asso- ciate professor Jakub Szelestowski during the linguistics camp which both scientists Distribution: participate in. Jarek, an idealist, on one hand immediately learns how corrupted and TOR Film Production; intellectually shallow is the academia, on the other – discovers that he himself is not TV CO Srl Vincenzo Mosca (world sales) free from hypocrisy… One of the greatest works of the ‘cinema of moral concern’ with brilliant performance of Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as a contemporary Mephistopheles. Restoration: This film, despite being set in the Polish People’s Republic realities, remains universal 2K, 2011 because, as the director himself remarked years later, ‘the reality presented on screen only in a few details has become dated’.

Awards selection 1977 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Grand Prix – Golden Lions Award (Krzysztof

Zanussi) POLISH CLASSICS 1977 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Screenplay Award (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1977 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Actor Award (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) 1977 Teheran International Film Festival – Best Directing Award (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1978 Rotterdam International Film Festival – Critics Award (Krzysztof Zanussi)

165 CONSTANT FACTOR / CONSTANS Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1980

Technical specs: color; 90 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI KRZYSZTOF Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Witek Partyka dreams about following in his late father’s footsteps and TOR Film Production climbing the Himalayas. A family friend fixes him up with a job in a company organising international exhibitions which may help him to fulfill his desire. His new job reveals the Distribution: contrast between main character’s downright dogmatic honesty and the pragmatism of TOR Film Production; his colleagues. Soon he encounters yet another challenge, namely his beloved mother’s TV CO Srl Vincenzo Mosca (world sales) terminal illness… One of the most significant and the best films by Krzysztof Zanussi posing Restoration: a still relevant – despite the passage of time – question about the price of being 2K, 2010 uncompromisingly true to oneself in a world encouraging to agree on a compromise.

Awards selection 1980 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1980 Cannes Film Festival – Prize of Ecumenical Jury (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1980 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1980 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Special Jury Prize (Krzysztof Zanussi) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

166 FAMILY LIFE / ŻYCIE RODZINNE KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1970

Technical specs: color; 93 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.68:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: An intimate family drama. Vit, 30, works for an architectural design studio TOR Film Production in Silesia. One day he receives a cable from home, urging him to visit his sick father. He arrives in the failing country estate with his friend Marek. The sickness turns out to Distribution: be an excuse. The father wants Vit to take responsibility of the family. Vit however refus- TOR Film Production; es to be the savior for his relatives whose lifestyle he despises. His father is an alcoholic, TV CO Srl Vincenzo Mosca (world sales) his sister Bella – a nymphomaniac, and his aunt is slovenly and extravagant. Vit leaves, failing to meet their expectations. The question of whether one has the right to cut away Restoration: from one’s family if they threaten one’s individuality and prevent one from achieving 2K, 2011 important personal goals provoked a slashing debate in the press.

Awards selection 1971 Cannes Film Festival – Nomination for the Palme d’Or (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1971 Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo (Krzysztof Zanussi)

1972 Valladolid International Film Festival – San Gregorio Prize (Krzysztof Zanussi) POLISH CLASSICS

167 ILLUMINATION / ILUMINACJA Genre: psychological

Year of production: 1972

Technical specs: color; 92 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI KRZYSZTOF Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Franciszek Retman is the Everyman of the 1960s. Young man from a TOR Film Production provincial town comes to the capital to study physics, hoping that science can answer his questions. A sequence of experiences – unhappy love, tragic death of a friend, mar- Distribution: riage, fatherhood, work – makes him lose his belief in the power of science. TOR Film Production; One of the most interesting works of the Polish cinema of the 1970s. A philo- TV CO Srl Vincenzo Mosca (world sales) sophical essay written with a camera. The plot is intertwined with fragments of lectures and scientific debates concentrating on the search for boundaries of knowledge. Restoration: The title alludes to a concept proposed by St Augustine. The protagonist 2K, 2012 never achieves illumination in the sense of intellectual and spiritual enlightment.

Awards selection 1973 Locarno International Film Festival – Grand Prix - Golden Leopard (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1973 Locarno International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1973 Locarno International Film Festival – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1974 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Special Jury Prize (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1975 International Film Festival, Figueira da Foz – Golden Medal POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

168 THE SPIRAL / SPIRALA KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1978

Technical specs: color; 87 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.67:1

Sound: mono (original); 5.1

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Tomasz Piątek suddenly discovers that he is terminally ill and attempts sui- TOR Film Production cide in the mountains. He is saved and taken to hospital. His illness interrupts a successful professional career. Tomasz is only 30; he has always believed in his unrestrained Distribution: vitality. He has never thought about death before. He cannot accept the situation. He TOR Film Production cannot live aware of imminent demise. He prefers to commit suicide. Has he the right Restoration: to do so? The film reflects on the meaning of life in view of the dramatic situation of 2K, 2015 a terminal illness. It is also a poignant study of a man dying in the prime years of his creativity; a man who overcomes his fear of death by committing suicide as he wants to be the forger of his own fate till the very end.

Awards selection 1978 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk - Best Score Award (Wojciech Kilar) 1978 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk - Critics Award (Krzysztof Zanussi)

1978 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Krzysztof Zanussi) POLISH CLASSICS 1979 Panama International Film Festival – Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography Awards

169 STRUCTURE OF CRYSTAL / STRUKTURA KRYSZTAŁU Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1969

Technical specs: black and white; 78 min.

Aspect ratio:

KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI KRZYSZTOF 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Jan, a physicist, works as a meteorologist in a small village. His wife Anna Rights: is a local teacher. Marek, a promising scientist, Jan’s colleague from the University, TOR Film Production pays a visit. He tries to persuade Jan to return to the University. Unexpectedly, his suggestions meet with strong resistance. It is Zanussi’s first full-length feature film and Distribution: it was considered an exceptionally interesting debut. It pictures two life strategies. One TOR Film Production; TV CO Srl Vincenzo is to use one’s intellect to the utmost, a thrilling path that leads to wealth and respect; Mosca (world sales) the other is to consciously seek the meaning of existence in refuting everything. By rejecting all amenities of civilization, Jan gets immersed in a simple, biological life, and Restoration: submits to the passing of time that enables him to sustain a harmony between his 2K, 2012 own existence and the nature, of which he is a part. In the beginning, Marek fails to comprehend why a talented physicist would seek refuge in the countryside; he can hardly imagine a life without intellectual struggle and victory; later, he acknowledges his friend’s choice. The director seems to incline towards Jan’s position. Jan’s house and his village exist far from modern civilization, amidst wilderness the harsh beauty of which is nevertheless enthralling. The vast snowy landscape with its black dots of houses and people is reminiscent of Breugel; Jan’s wife is like the women painted by the Flemish masters. The debut film seems particularly mature and original, both in the intellectual and the visual plane.

Awards selection POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH 1970 Mar del Plata Film Festival – Best Screenplay Award (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1970 Valladolid International Film Festival – Award of the City of Valladolid (Krzysztof Zanussi) 170 A YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN / ROK SPOKOJNEGO SŁOŃCA KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI Genre: romance, drama

Year of production: 1984

Technical specs: color; 110 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.72:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production

Rights: Poland. The year 1946. Emilia, 40, has lost her husband in the war. She lives TOR Film Production with her mother in a small town near Zielona Góra. There she meets an American, Norman, who falls in love with her. Norman came to Poland with an American military Distribution: commission looking for tombs of allied forces air pilots. Emilia would like to go to the TOR Film Production United States with Norman but she feels obliged to take care of her ill mother. The war Restoration: has changed Emilia: she can no longer fully take in positive emotions. She will never 2K, 2014 leave with Norman, maybe she would even be unable to share her life with him; she is burnt out as a woman, even though she has always nurtured love inside her, both fulfilled and unfulfilled. Maybe that way she will be better off...

Awards selection 1984 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion Award (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1984 Venice Film Festival – Pasinetti Award for the Best Film (Krzysztof Zanussi)

1984 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomination in the Best Feature POLISH CLASSICS category (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1986 Golden Globes, USA – Nomination in the Best Foreign Film category (Krzysztof Zanussi)

171 A BARITONE / BARYTON Genre: psychological drama

Year of production: 1984

Technical specs: color; 92 min.

JANUSZ ZAORSKI JANUSZ Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 (DCP); 1.78:1 (HDTV)

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe Perspektywa Last days of January 1933. World famous opera singer Antonio Domagała vel Antonio Taviatini (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) visits his native town in Poland to give his Rights: long awaited recital. He’s accompanied by his wife Sophie (Małgorzata Pieczyńska) and WFDiF the whole crew with its leader, dynamic artist’s secretary Artur Netz (Piotr Fronczewski), who is applying for the director’s post in the opera house that Taviatini is getting built Distribution: WFDiF in Strasburg. The marriage of the singer comes down to keeping up appearances and he Restoration: himself is a focus of different interests and morally dubious means are being used – 2K, 2014 blackmail, bugging – concealed under the mask of refinement and convention. Suddenly there is a question mark over the artist’s performance and atmosphere becomes even more tense because of the news about Hitler soon taking over the power in Germany. Brilliant film in retro style, the work of two outstanding directors, Janusz Zaorski and Feliks Falk (here: also the author of script and dialogues). Fast-paced action, splendid cast and beautiful visual side are just some more of this drama’s assets, which is as pleasant to watch as a good crime fiction.

Awards selection 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Silver Lions Award 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Screenplay Award (Feliks Falk) 1985 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Cinematography Award (Witold POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH Adamek)

172 THE MOTHER OF KINGS / MATKA KRÓLÓW JANUSZ ZAORSKI Genre: political drama

Year of production: 1982

Technical specs: black and white; 127 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe X; RONDO The Solidarity movement, started in August 1980 in Poland, was an independent of communist authorities representation of society and started the period Rights: of liberalization that ceased the next year, in December, with introduction of martial law WFDiF in Poland. However, the filmmakers managed to take advantage of this period and sum up Stalinism. Distribution: WFDiF One of the examples is ‘The Mother of Kings’ by Janusz Zaorski which was partially filmed during the martial law period (the authorities thought it was going to be Restoration: an adaptation of the old historical novel under the same title) and released no sooner 2K, 2011 than in 1987. 30 years earlier, after the downfall of Stalinism, the novel by Kazimierz Brandys was published which Zaorski’s movie is based on: a very moving story of a simple cleaning lady Łucja King (outstanding performance of Magda Teresa Wójcik) and her sons. That exceptional picture show how Stalinist dogmatism used to poison minds and subordinate authorities crashed even devoted members of the left wing. POLISH CLASSICS Awards selection 1987 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Grand Prix - Golden Lions Award (Janusz Zaorski) 1987 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Best Leading Actress Award (Magda Teresa Wójcik) 1987 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia – Critics Award (Janusz Zaorski) 1988 Berlin International Film Festival – Silver Bear Award 1988 Berlin International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize (Janusz Zaorski) 1988 Chicago International Film Festival – Nomination for Best Feature 173 THE SOCCER POKER / PIŁKARSKI POKER Genre: comedy, action film

Year of production: 1988

Technical specs: color; 101 min.

JANUSZ ZAORSKI JANUSZ Aspect ratio: 1.33:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Studio Filmowe DOM

Rights: The decline of communism in Poland. Football is infected with cancer of WFDiF corruption, setting the results of the matches, unhealthy competition of the almighty presidents of the teams, etc. Game is on – in the pitches and at the villas of sport Distribution: activists, where the ball is replaced by big money. ‘I’m one honest referee – they’ve paid WFDiF me for 3:0 and they’ll have 3:0’, says one of the referees. The protagonist of ‘The Soccer Poker’, bitter comedy by football fan Janusz Restoration: 2K, 2012 Zaorski, which can be enjoyed not only by football fans, is another referee called Jan Laguna (outstanding Janusz Gajos on top of the cast full of stars). He’s a good man, with a flaw on his career though. Now he faces the choice: he can comply with the unfair rules of the game once again and lose self-respect or deny them and bury his own future. After it had been released, ‘The Soccer Poker’ was interpreted as a metaphor for degeneration in Poland right before the political transformation. It proved to be pro- phetic, because even after the transformation Polish football was unfortunately shaken by corruption scandals. Additionally, the comedy was and still is a decent and enjoyable piece of entertainment. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

1 74 TRANSFIGURATION HOSPITAL / SZPITAL PRZEMIENIENIA EDWARD ŻEBROWSKI Genre: psychological, war film

Year of production: 1979

Technical specs: color & black and white; 94 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: TOR Film Production Stefan, a graduate of medicine, starts his first internship in a psychiatric hospital in September of 1939. He quickly learns the local hierarchy and the views of Rights: his more experienced colleagues, who would like to make him their apprentice. At the TOR Film Production time of the real test, when under the Nazis’ decision, the hospital is to be liquidated, the protagonist makes his own choice in an attempt to save at least one human life. Distribution: TOR Film Production The director’s own adaptation of the novel by Stanisław Lem. A film parabola presenting – by means of the pars pro toto – a collective behaviour in an extreme Restoration: situation. A historic guise, but still a valid question of how to be humane in inhumane 2K, 2015 conditions.

Awards selection 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk - Silver Lions Award (Edward Żebrowski) 1979 Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk – Best Sound Award (Małgorzata Jaworska)

1979 Locarno International Film Festival – Special Mention (Edward Żebrowski) POLISH CLASSICS 1981 Brussels International Film Festival – Crystal Star for Best Performance (Piotr Dejmek) 1981 Varna Red Cross and Health International Film Festival – Special Jury Award

175 THE DEVIL / DIABEŁ Genre: horror, psychological drama

Year of production: 1972

Technical specs: color; 125 min.

Aspect ratio: ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy X

1793. Prussian troops enter Greater Poland under the partition treaties. Rights: A Stranger arrives at a convent-prison to take Jakub, an epileptic and failed regicide, Studio Filmowe KADR with him. From now on the mysterious man guides Jakub’s fate and, having supplied him (KADR Film Studio) with a razor for ‘cleansing’, will persuade him to commit a series of crimes. Another example of the director’s auteurial, creative cinema, with a distinctive Distribution: Studio Filmowe KADR combination of symbolism and extreme naturalism, a nervous rhythm of narration and (KADR Film Studio) overacting. A tale of a conspiracy as a story of Polish Romanticism, madness of history but also a film allegory of March ’68 with an excellent performance fromWojciech Restoration: Pszoniak. One of the Polish films ‘arrested’ by censors and not authorised for 2K, 2015 distribution, used in political party games aiming at removing liberals from power, it actually initiated the director’s international career. POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

176 ON THE SILVER GLOBE / NA SREBRNYM GLOBIE ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI Genre: fantasy, Sci-Fi

Year of production: 1987

Technical specs: color; 157 min.

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Pryzmat, Zespół Filmowy Kadr A spaceship crashes on a planet similar to Earth. The survivors establish a settlement by the sea, the eldest of them, Jerzy, records the history of the budding Rights: civilisation including the blooming cult of his own person. A generation after a generation Studio Filmowe KADR is born trying to defeat the Cherns who rule the planet awaiting a messiah who finally (KADR Film Studio) appears... An unfinished adaptation of Jerzy Żuławski’s visionary ‘The Lunar Trilogy’. Distribution: The story of a human civilisation started on the Moon by four astronauts. Ages later the Studio Filmowe KADR colony established on the Silver Globe will turn out to be a civilisation repeating all the (KADR Film Studio) sins of the one on Earth. Restoration: 2K, 2015 POLISH CLASSICS

177 THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT / TRZECIA CZĘŚĆ NOCY Genre: war drama, psychological film

Year of production: 1971

Technical specs: color; 143 min.

Aspect ratio: ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI 1.78:1

Sound: mono (original)

Production: Zespół Filmowy Wektor Andrzej Żuławski’s directorial feature debut was one of the most fervently discussed movies of the year 1971. Against the then Polish cinema it shocked with the Rights: original narrative structure, baroque- like splendor of the mise-en-scene and a daring KADR Film Studio; blend of the brutal naturalism and phantasy. It has also brought the new reading of TOR Film Production; the occupation period, so much distant from what the Polish Film School proposed. ZEBRA Film Studio; National Film Archive In the ‘Third Part of the Night’ Żuławski pictured the ‘time of contempt’ deprived of the national mythology and political subtexts. In his perspective the occupation is, Distribution: above all, ‘the period of deconstruction of the existing order and rules, the period of Studio Filmowe KADR the deathly chaos, the period of creation of the new resistance, new laws, and new (KADR Film Studio) structure of being; the period of annihilation but also a test, because only those will survive who are able to carry the new burden of the epoch.’ For Żuławski the war is a Restoration: pointless nightmare of almost apocalyptical dimensions. It is no coincidence that the 2K, 2014 loop opening and ending his picture is a quotation from the St. John’s Apocalypse.

Awards selection 1972 Adelaide International Film Festival – Award of Recognition (Andrzej Żuławski) 1973 Festival of Film Debuts ‘The Youth and Film’ in Koszalin – Award ‘for an original take issues of war and evocative visual expression’ (Andrzej Żuławski) POLISH CLASSICSPOLISH

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