Andrzej Wajda Movies

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right...

Andrzej Wajda's first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it shows the actual process of creating all the...

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first...

Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred...

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

A documentary about the sculptor Xawery Dunikowski, shot in his workshop. Director paid a tribute to the artist - a recluse without the artistic...

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car...

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the...

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

A ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century...

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

After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.

A documentary about the night life in a city. While some sleep, others work.

In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later,...