Films with: Kilar, Wojciech

Pianist

Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.

DVD 1780

Przypadek Blind chance /

Facing an unclear future, Witek, an earnest young Polish medical student, chooses to put his education on hold. What happens next spawns into three successive scenarios in which Witek's catching or missing his train - giving him three different futures. Whether as an idealistic Communist Party member, an ambivalent dissident or a devoted healer and husband. The young Pole's destiny is shaped by a troubled present poised to engulf him.

DVD 3180

Trędowate Leper /

The forbidden love affair between a wealthy young nobleman and a beautiful young high school teacher is the central focus. With the teacher not of the same class, she will never be accepted into high society, she will always be rejected, considered a leper. The townsfolk, including the nobleman's grandmother, try to destroy the feelings between these two lovers who are from two very different social classes.

DVD 3620

Zemsta Revenge /

Czesnik and Rejent are the combative scions of two prominent families fallen on hard times, both of whom have the poor fortune of having homes which share a common courtyard. Czesnik's niece Klara has fallen in love with Waclaw, Rejent's son. However, Rejent has promised his son to Podstolina, a beautiful widow who has attracted Czesnik's eye. Meanwhile, Papkin, a former nobleman short on both cash and courage, hopes to wed Klara, but as a neutral party in the feud between the two clans, Klara thinks she might be able to use Papkin for her own purposes to bring her together with Waclaw.

DVD 3742

Ziemia obiecana The promised land /

"Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair."--Container.

DVD 1046