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1) Ida
Language
Polish
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A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
Language
Polish
Description
Army officer finds a magical manuscript in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. He begins to live out the intricate store lines of the book and embarks on a journey across time and space. Many interesting characters weave in and out of the story, and the officer keeps ending up back in the same place.
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Polish
Description
From Jan Jakub Kolski comes the story of a famed military officer nearing the end of his own life. Before he can rest in peace, he must fulfill the traditional obligation of passing his sword on to his grandson. The problem is, his son is unmarried and there are few prospects. After much scheming, a potential mate moves into the neighborhood."--Polishflix.com website.
Language
Polish
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Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. Over the course of his incarceration he has found Christ, and aspires to join the clergy - but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for...
7) Ajlawju
Language
Polish
Description
A romantic comedy about two mismatched people trying to forge a relationship in Poland's challenging socio-political conditions.
11) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Language
Polish
Description
"A sweeping, delirious romance [that] begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he escapes, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged...
12) EO
Series
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
14) Rejs
Series
Language
Polish
Description
Absurd comedy featuring a group of picturesque characters. Two stowaways board the river boat at Torun. The ship's captain hires one of them as an organizer of cultural and social activities for the passengers. He appoints the committee to work out a special program in honor of captain's birthday. Rehearsals are arranged and passengers display their talents.
15) Edi
Language
Polish
Description
Tells the story of two scrap metal pickers, Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused of raping the sister of a local thug which leads to tragedy and joy as Edi is made to care for her little baby.
19) Nóż w wodzie
Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Language
Polish
Description
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 896
Language
Polish
Description
Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", in which the girls' bond is tested and...
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