Ryszard Straszewski Movies

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He...

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw...

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a...

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks,...

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of...

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.

A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm,...

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets...

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her...

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and...

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.