Halina Jabłonowska

Forbidden Songs

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

Kraj świata

Two writers comment on the situation of Poland in the period of political transformation.

Elephant

Bartek lives in a village in the Podhale region, where he runs a small farm and takes care of his lonely and possessive mother. One day he meets Dawid, a slightly older man who comes to visit his family after many years of absence. Affection quickly develops between the two, followed by desire that Bartek suppressed for years.

Drewniany różaniec

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

One Summer Afternoon

A forthright make-up artist is pressured by her sister to celebrate her birthday with her mother and the rest of her family as her uninvited girlfriend awaits her back home.

Two Brigades

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.

Cellulose

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Colonel Kwiatkowski

Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.

The Curse

Constant misfortune plagues two sisters until they discover a family curse and go on a comical mission to end it.

Gra o wszystko

Her talent — his unfulfilled ambitions. The story of a duel between a young Polish artist and a Russian sadist. The year is 1939. Marta, always late, lives in two worlds, writing the same symphony. In the New York music world, she develops her talent rapidly. In occupied Poland, in a cattle wagon and during her escape from captivity, she fights a duel with a musically unfulfilled Soviet officer who envies her talent. Although in the other world, Marta has no chance, she fights to save her son and write the work of her life.