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- A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.
- "Love at Twenty" unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The directors create their peculiar scenarios with Truffaut revisiting Antoine Doinel, this time finding some meaning to his life while getting involved with a girl; Renzo Rossellini's episode about an abandoned mistress; Ishihara's tale about an obsessive love; Ophüls' story about a pregnant woman trying to plot against the baby's father; and Wajda presenting a confusing relationship between people from different generations.
- While aboard a transatlantic passenger ship, a German woman, Liza, notices someone who looks like Marta, a former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be a guard.
- Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without the true devotion.
- At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
- In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
- Wlodek is a shy man who's afraid of his mother as well as his wife. However, upon meeting Irena, his life takes a new turn.
- Shooting a film on location in Oswiecim makes a young writer see the emptiness of his carefree existence.
- The disappearance of the leading actor from the film's set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor's wife and mistress.
- A rebellious student wants to get total independence and overcome all the barriers in his life: of money, age, status, cults and conventions. However, he meets a girl with completely different ideals.
- The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
- An actress traveling to Paris reflects on her life during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
- A criminal mastermind responsible for a failed robbery and an accidental petty conman meet inside a prison carriage. Soon they are both going to hear the court verdict.
- A Silesian Pole is conscripted into the German military during World War II.
- In 1969s "Wenus z Ille" Majewski returned to the work of Prosper Merimee, specifically his 1835 story "Venus d'Ille", about an accursed statue (a story that was subsequently filmed by Mario and Lamberto Bava in 1979). Said statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue-and can't get it off.
- Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
- A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
- A young drifter arrives at a border mining town in search of money and adventure as well as to run away from his past.
- A young scientist looking for a peaceful place to live rents a room in a house inhabited only by women. Soon he discovers their unusual passions and obsessions.
- Three segments about three Warsaw couples about to get married.
- Oktawiusz de Saville, in love in the countess Labinska, seeks help from a demonic doctor to swap souls with her husband to get closer to her.
- A middle-aged actress comes back to her hometown for her grandfather's funeral after many years of absence. Nothing is the same as it used to be - the places and the people are not familiar to her anymore.
- The story of a racing car driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up.
- The lives of several one room tenants in Warsaw's Old Town. All the young roommates - a poet, a student, a writer, a left-wing activist - have to face difficulties in finding a place for themselves in early 1930s reality.
- Based upon the mining disaster of 1923 in the "Reden" coal mine of Dombrowa Górnicza, Poland: miners in one of the mines in Dombrowa Basin receive new of planned redundancies, and they go on strike, one of the local members of parliament trying to prevent it. The French owner of the mine makes the dangerous decision of requiring the miners to work around hazardous fire. After many miners die in a sudden explosion, they lynch the manager and take to the streets, carrying the bodies of victims of the disaster. They are brutally repressed by the police.
- Two soldiers notice that their comrade is missing before another battle commences.
- 1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
- A man's search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
- During the last days of WWII, an old railroad worker and his assistant guide a train loaded with explosives to the Western front. The journey is a perilous trek through rough terrain, occupied by ruthless German soldiers, desperate deserters, and dangerous gangs seeking easy money.
- Young married woman is spending her vacation by the seaside. She feels affinity for strong, athletic young man. When her husband arrives, she wants him to play ping-pong with her young friend. She wants to discredit her husband, but he wins the match surprisinly...
- Three separate episodes, which are all based on magazine articles, centred on portraying the reality of living in 1960s Poland.
- Famous Polish conductor meets the young student-Polish tourist in Czechoslovakia. She takes him for Czech. When the student learns about the real nationality of her new friend, she breaks off the acquaintance with him.
- A teenage boy, who has some problems at school, persuades an accidental coach driver to pretend to be his father and go meet his teacher.