Alina Szpak

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.

II. Dünya Savaşı'nın başlarında, Rus kadın Zinaida, Almanlar tarafından esir alınır ve diğer birçok kadınla birlikte Auschwitz toplama kampına gönderilir. Henüz yürümeyi öğrenen küçük oğlu Gena ile birlikte kampta tutulur. Gena'nın ilk adımlarını bu korkunç kampın karlarında atması trajik bir ironidir. Birkaç yıl boyunca kampta birlikte kaldıktan sonra, önce Auschwitz içinde ayrı düşerler. Almanlar savaşı kaybettikçe, kamptaki tutukluları tahliye etmeye başlar ve bu sırada anne ile oğul bir daha asla kavuşamayacak şekilde ayrılırlar.

A married couple raising a mentally ill son struggles with the thought of putting him in an institution.

Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man.

The protagonists of the film are residents of a nursing home run by nuns. One of the nuns, Maria, wants to introduce discipline, but it is not easy. The elderly residents decide to fight for their independence. Their plans are thwarted by the departure of the leader of the rebellion. But the men will not give up so easily.

A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal.

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.