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- A beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
- Poland, 1939. Painter Marek Wawrowski lives in a small town with his wife and son. He meets young, beautiful Jewish girl, Deborah, immediately falls in love with her and they start a passionate affair. Then the World War II breaks out.
- This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
- The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
- Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices. Tricks and coincidences bring his father back but things go wrong and Stefek tries a very risky trick...
- The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.
- Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
- Disappointed with being a housewife and annoyed by her cheating husband, Maria decides to abandon her family, move to Warsaw and get a well-paid job.
- Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France. Despite being tortured, they refuse to divulge their knowledge of the Enigma to the Germans.
- During second world war, an ingenious station master of a remote Polish railway station uses all his intelligence to save the lives of passengers.
- A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.
- A carter from Bieszczady Mountains is summoned to the local police station, where he has to tell about what had happened last Saturday.
- The action in the film takes place in 1941. Five polish women of different age and an adopted Jewish girl have been exiled to a small Bulgarian town on the Black Sea coast. They do believe they have found a quiet refuge but the war reaches even this remote place.
- While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. Soon she returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women's work is not worse than that of men's.
- Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.
- Film divided into three different episodes. In the first one, a saboteur damages the water pipes, which causes flooding of a cement stock. It turns out that the perpetrator is a member of the brigade of young concrete workers. The second story is about Jacek, who works in a brigade building a dam. He is recalcitrant and undisciplined. The collective tries to influence his behavior, but it has the opposite effect. Only an argument at a village party will change Jacek's attitude. Finally, a man returns to the countryside after completing his Polish Service stay. With the money he earned, he buys his godfather a horse.
- Rafal's wife and two children get killed on the road by a drunk truck driver. When police can't find the killer, Rafal starts to work on his own to punish the perpetrator.
- The agricultural reform of 1945 made peasants landowners and took the land away from aristocracy. In the midst of these social changes, an old dying count listens to the lies of his servant that everything has stayed the same.
- In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
- Staszek Popiel is the star of the Polish cycling team. Unfortunately, he pays more attention to his own career than to team fights. The athlete hides his injury from his friends and, as a result, the Polish team does not do very well in an important race. As part of his strategy, the cyclist intends to damage the bike of his most dangerous rival, a Hungarian named Haranda.
- In the first days after the war has ended, a small town railway station is the place where those coming back from the horrors of war need to get to grips with the past and think about their future.