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A persistent police officer leads various investigations in communist Poland.

From Joseph Conrad's great novel comes the story of a young seaman trying to helm a damaged boat to Singapore and dealing with many unfortunate events. While on command of the situation, he also devotes himself to help his failing crew and some of the boat's many passengers, some of them who are in poor health conditions.

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.

After a three-year sentence, a man tries to start a new life.

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet. He is trying to escape the destiny, but to no avail...

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad story of young man who climbs up the social ladder.

A nine part adaption of Aleksander Minkowski's novel, filmed in the area of Lake Luknajno. A teenage girl named Majka (pronounced Mika) falls out with her father who she believes has treated one his work colleagues unfairly. She runs away from home and hides out in the reeds on the shore of a large lake. She manages to evade the local MO Station commander and his deputy who regularly patrol the lake in a motor boat. Ariel, the commander's son, soon finds Majka's hiding place but keeps it a secret. Like Majka, Ariel also has a strained relationship with his father. His mother died when he was young and he disapproves of his father's blossoming affair with local doctor Badowska. Ariel and Majka find themselves sharing common ground. Ariel does his best to supply shelter and food for Majka but the pair are constantly at risk of being found out as the commander is involved in other investigations around the lake. Ariel and Majka begin to develop a restrained romance. Ariel visits Majka's father in the city and attempts to mend the divisions between father and daughter. Majka, who is now staying in an abandoned old cruiser on a remote part of the lake becomes sick. Ariel is forced to seek help from doctor Badowska who tends to majka on board the boat. Ariel starts to feel that perhaps the doctor is not so bad after all. It becomes apparent that the situation is approaching the point at which a resolution is needed. This is a story about growing up. It's about the realisation that life situations are rarely straightforward, people have different perspectives and compromise is often necessary in order to reach an adequate solution.

Several generations of one family, in different years, from the beginning of the 20th century until the mid-1970s, meet for a family dinner in the living room of the family home. And each meeting ends with an unexpected outcome.

The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.

World War II as seen through the eyes of soldiers and ordinary people in German occupied Poland. It begins in September 1939 when young Ensign Niwinski is ordered to protect a mysterious transport; in four parts.

A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.

Set at the end of the XIX-th century. Madame Dulska is the sole and absolute ruler of her house in Cracow. She is ruthless, greedy and oversensitive of the reputation of her family. To protect his son from temptations she overlooks the affair he is having with the maid. Young Dulski first wants to marry the girl, but then yields to his mother demands and turns his interest to a cousin. Everything returns to normal: his father has his habitaul visits to a brothel, his son to a cabaret and Madame Dulska safeguards her reign.

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.

It is the story and adventures of Margo, a little mouse who lives in a large tree made chalet. Small Margo has as neighbors Eliana, a squirrel who lives on the top floor; and Dennis, a dormouse that lives in the basement.

A story of a monster which, moving at an enormous speed, devours whatever comes across on its way: people, animals, cars, buildings.

ABBA visited Poland to do this television special, in which they lip-sync their songs in the TV studio.

Jerry is looking for a place for himself after parting with his wife. He timidly makes acquaintance with Gizela, who is also lonely after parting with her partner.

The story is told using a still shot that divides the screen in nine equal parts, where all of the parts form a continuum in space.

In 1370, as he feels the end of his life is coming, one of Poland's greatest kings, Casimir the Great, reflects on his past. He looks back on the memories of his youth, when he was crowned after the death of his father Ladislaus the Short.

A 40-year-old engineer Stefan Karwowski falls in love with a famous singer Irena Orska. The problem is that he's married and has got two children. What will he choose - his new lover or his family?

Seven different stories tells us about interesting life of people in Poland. First tells us about romance, second about young actress, third about girl who escape from home with music band, fourth about divorce, five about quarrel of two girls about the man, sixth about stolen soups, seventh about false writer.