Polish Movies 1961

Auf dem Weg zu einem Segeltörn laden ein älterer Mann und seine Frau eine emphatische junge Anhalterin aus reiner Bevormundung heraus dazu ein, mit ihnen zu kommen.

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.

Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film recounts the adventures of a Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground, and Ukrainian nationalists.

Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collect people who was born on 29 of February. One day he see that in his colection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begin investigation.

Three episodes dealing with the harsh situation of children at the time of war. They stay at orphanages, wait for their parents to come back, help the soldiers, hide in the forests and do their best to survive.

Film inspired by true events. Roman Jacenko (played by Jerzy Kozakiewicz), a small village local photographer, lives in a shabby garret, which serves also as his lab and studio. He loves Beata, nice clerk in a nearby bank. Having often observed established procedures of money transport to and from the bank, and having received some information unawarely revealed by Beata, he decided to rob the car with cash. To make an alibi he recorded sounds of footsteps, whistling and typical lab actions, turned the tape player on while going out to rob, and locked the room door. In a camouflage of a road crash survivor (face covered with bandage), he stopped the car with money, shot dead the security guards and badly wounded Beata. The bag with robbed money was temporarily hidden in a waste dump. He's shocked and surprised when police officer soon knocked at his door... explaining that the police's staff photographer was ill and asking him to make photographs of the crime scene. That looked for him as opportunity to obliterate the traces of the crime and create false evidence...

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

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 pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.

During the last days of WWII, an old railroad worker and his assistant guide a train loaded with explosives to the Western front. The journey is a perilous trek through rough terrain, occupied by ruthless German soldiers, desperate deserters, and dangerous gangs seeking easy money.

Jacek is imagining that he receives visits from "The President," a man who looks and acts just like his father before he remarried and started to ignore him. Concerned parents are now seeking psychiatric care for him due to his obsession.

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

A young drifter arrives at a border mining town in search of money and adventure as well as to run away from his past.

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

In the poor suburbs of Warsaw in 1934 several groups of boys are dreaming of pursuing sports careers and trying to find a proper playing field.

A poor country boy is at odds with the other villagers, gets a job as a geologist and finds a wife.

A reporter and his wife are trying to adopt the young son of an alcoholic single mother.

Hipolit and Dziunia escape from the travelling actors group visiting Galician towns in the 19th century. Soon they try to establish their own acting troupe.