Five great films tracing the fiercely political work of the Polish filmmaker who, more than anyone, has managed to reconcile social engagement and artistic integrity. The “man of iron” of Polish cinema died on October 9, 2016. A politically engaged artist, he kept his finger on the pulse of his country’s turbulent history throughout the 20th century. He had a lasting interest in the...
The continuation of Man of Marble (1976), this feature film, winner of the 1981 Palme d’Or, is based on the famous struggle for workers’ rights that emerged in Poland with the birth of the Solidarnosc...
Feature film , Drama
POLAND | 156 minutes | 1981
Wajda looks back on the Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Russian army in 1940 — an event that saw the murder of his father, an infantry captain. Through the eyes of three women, this lyrical yet...
POLAND | 122 minutes | 2007
A sensitive tribute to the life and work of the physician who flouted Nazi rule to champion children’s rights, Korczak transcends the gravity of the situation to recount, with infinite restraint and a...
Feature film , Biography
POLAND | 118 minutes | 1990
A flagship film in the legacy of the unforgettable Polish filmmaker, The Promised Land traces the dawn of industrial capitalism in Eastern Europe and its accompanying erosion of values like solidarity and...
POLAND | 179 minutes | 1975
The docudrama TO MY FATHER of acclaimed documentary-maker Liliana Komorowska in collaboration with Diana Skaya, is the untold story of Adam Bandrowski, a man from the Polish borderlands, seen...
Short film , Documentary
POLAND | 25 minutes | 2016
A jubilant backlash to the obscurantism inflicted by Communist diktat of the 1980s. A biopic tribute to the leader of the Gdansk shipyard workers’ uprising, violently suppressed by the Communist...
POLAND | 127 minutes | 2013
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