Tadeusz Kalinowski

Akademi Onur Ödülü ile ödüllendirilmiş Polonyalı yönetmen Andrzej Wajda'nın yönettiği filmin senaryosunu 1948 tarihli aynı adlı kendi romanından Jerzy Andrzejewski uyarlayıp yazmıştır. Filmin adı, filmin kahramanının bombardımanda yıkılmış bir kilisenin duvarında gördüğü 19. yy'da yaşamış Polonyalı şair Cyprian Norwid'a ait bir şiirden gelmektedir. Şiirin dizelerinde, kömürün yüksek ısı ve basınç altında elmasa dönüşmesi olgusuna bir gönderme yapılmaktadır. Filmde, Polonya'da Nazi işgalcilere karşı bir zamanlar zorunlu olarak işbirliği yapmış olan Milliyetçi güçlerin ve Komünistlerin aralarındaki bu ittifakın artık çatırdamaya başladığı 2. Dünya Savaşı'nın son günlerinde, taşralı Milliyetçi bir militan olan Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) etkili bir Komünist lideri öldürmekle görevlendirilir. Görevi sırasında kaldığı otelde hayata dair farklı şeyler hissetmeye başlar, bir seçim yapıp sonuçlarına da katlanmak zorunda kalacaktır.

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2. “The plot follows the adventures of the heroic crew of the Soviet tank “Rudy” and their loyal dog Szarik as they fight across the Eastern Front in World War II, blending thrilling battles with moments of friendship, compassion, and youthful innocence.

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).

Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades.

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.