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- The inspiring love story of Joseph Bau, artist, forger, holocaust survivor. Using his artistic skills, humor and hope in the camps, Joseph stays alive and helps hundreds to escape. Miraculously, he finds love in the midst of despair.
- This film is the story of the cold and calculated slaughter of 22,000 Polish Army Officers and civilian professionals at the hands of the Soviet NKVD, predecessor of the dreaded KGB ... the attempts to place the blame on the Nazis ... the overwhelming evidence pointing to Moscow and Stalin ... the cover-up ... ...and the silence. These are the contours of a crime incomprehensible among so-called civilized nations and the complex conspiracy of three governments to conceal it.
- Decrescendo quietly observes the unexpected and rich friendship that develops between young psychologist, Tomasz, and his elderly patients in a State retirement home. While each patient reveals a story of personal tragedy it is Tomasz's own obsession with beauty and youth that is challenged, not only through his proximity to death and aging, but as he comes to appreciate and embrace their passionate will to live.
- Standing near the Western Wall in Jerusalem Avner says: 'This is the moment when I claim victory over the Nazis'. Two brothers, three mothers - a saga shrouded in fog for almost six decades - the unique narrative of a voyage tracing the roots of a shadowy past. Brothers Avner and Itzik live in Israel. As toddlers, their lives were saved first by their aunt, later by another young woman. Their past included three women who would become their mothers. But all this remained hidden - even from close family and friends. Now 70 year-old, Itzik and Avner journey into that past, seeking their true identity to piece together the incredible story of their survival.
- A portrait of a portraying portraitist. For 4 decades the photographer Krzysztof Gieraltowski portrays eminent figures, thus creating a testimony, what the Poles are like. This time his "victims " are well-known natives of Cracow: STANISLAW LEM, one of the most brilliant, versatile,and unapologetically cerebral authors on the planet, author of SOLARIS, KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, one of the most esteemed and widely discussed composers of our time, WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, poet awarded on 1996 Nobel prize in literature. Szymborska is one of the few woman poets who have received the prize. Gieraltowski assumes a role of a legendary thinker - clown, prophesying on the historical Polish Republic in his dramatic conviction that the history annihilated the intellectual elite of this nation and the future will bring awe and destruction.
- A true to life story of Blessed Sister Faustina as played by Donita Rose. She is a Polish girl named Helen who left home despite the disagreement of her parents in order to follow her heart. She entered the monastery of nuns and there, she tried to fulfill the mission given to her by Jesus Christ through apparitions. Everyone did not believe her at first and even thought that she's beginning to lose her sanity but in the end, truth has no way to go... the message of God about His infinite mercy was made known to the whole world through Sister Faustina. The prayer that we are now reciting popularly called the 3 o'clock habit started and spread out in all corners of the world.
- In Fatima, Portugal heaven made one of the most important and explicit interventions on earth since biblical times; in 1917 Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children, and gave them, prophecies, messages and a warning for mankind.
- The Buchenwald Ball is a film that celebrates survival. Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, it tells the story of 45 orphans who escaped the Holocaust and found their way to Australia after their liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp. These child survivors came to be known as the Buchenwald Boys, a group of friends who drink hard, argue with gusto, sustain one another, and dance to live. The film documents their struggles, their humor, and ultimately the tenacity of their human spirits in the aftermath of unimaginable tragedy. Whether they are debating how to celebrate the 60th ball or the existence for God, the Boys are full of vigor and humor. Four of the Boys-Szaja Chaskiel, Sam Michalowicz, Henry Salter, and Joe Szwarcberg-now in their seventies and eighties, share stories from before and after their liberation, revealing memories of childhood homes, the last moments with murdered parents, surviving Nazi ghettos, camps and death marches, and their emigration to Australia. The film follows Chaskiel on his first visit to Poland and Germany since his liberation. Accompanied by his son, Mark, Chaskiel visits the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, where he visits Block 66, the children's block, where he and most of the Boys were imprisoned. Every year on April 11, the anniversary of their liberation, the Buchenwald Boys hold a ball filled with music, dancing, and an energy that defies their advancing ages. The ball is a defiant celebration of life, friendship, family, and love.
- Stories of 6 young people of various lifestyles just before Poland's EU entry.
- The band's second DVD presents the concert recorded in Kraków, Poland in January 2004, as well as an acoustic performance with a string quartet at the picket in Liverpool in February 2004.
- 2016–20182h 24m7.7 (8)TV Episode
- 2011–8.1 (8)TV EpisodeThe six teams continue the leg as they travel from Kutná Hora, Czech Republic to Niedzica, Poland, battling fatigue along the way. One team is robbed of their money and passports while they are on board a train for Poland. One person from each team heads underground in one of the world's oldest salt mines at the Road Block, while herding sheep frustrates some of the teams at the Detour. The final challenge ends in disaster for more than one team.
- 2011–7.6 (8)TV EpisodeThe five remaining teams travel from Niedzica, Poland to Masada, Israel, where they face a daunting journey through the Middle Eastern heat to a desert fortress. One team fails to make it to the Pit Stop.
- Set in the 16th century, the film deals with the so-called Confederation of Warsaw of 1573, a groundbreaking document conceived by Polish Protestants to promote religious tolerance, equal rights and protection for various denominations.
- Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages; people conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls; parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, the Jewish Community Council, and several schools convey the vitality of this age-old Jewish community.
- A writer and his translator girlfriend are trapped in an enigmatic book translation mystery.
- There are 13 streetcar stops from the place where Boguslaw Schaeffer lives to the center of Krakow. The composer assumes that he ought to work out 13 ideas during the ride. In the streetcar he sits along with a notebook and composes as the trip goes. "Solo" is a journey with Schaeffer through surrounding world of Today to the roots of his unusual art.
- Is a documentary movie really able to present reality as it is? Or does it rather create a new kind of fiction?
- In face of various problems in both his professional and family life, a young scientist has to decide whether to pursue his career or take care of his own health.
- Violette knows that she will go and one night, she goes. Once away from her home,she will make good on her innermost wish, to walk in the steps of Rosa, the Rosa to whom she feels intimately attached, her Rosa, Rosa Luxembourg. Just eleven, but Violette, thinks of herself as Rosa's heir, the guardian of her memory. In the energy and the courage of this revolutionary figure, she finds her own identity. She feels herself transported by the utopia vision of the letters which Rosa wrote from her prison cells in 1917.
- A story of evil evolving in a human being, of human nature and of social isolation. Two teenage boys, Michal and Kid, plan to commit a random murder.
- Marta and her teenage children, twins Marysia and Maks and her husband Kris live in Gdansk. Krzysztof "Kris" is a famous former footballer. Their lives may seem happy, they have fame and money. However, the reality is quite different. Martha endures the humiliation of her husband, who abuses alcohol and drugs, and is also a victim of his violence. The children are witnesses of the domestic quarrels - Soon, bandits with whom the man has debts come to Kris. Kris pledges the house to get the money, but Marta can't come to terms with it. When Marta catches Kris having sex with her friend, she demands a divorce from her husband. Kris attacks Marta, has a weapon that fires during a scuffle - Meanwhile, in Krakow, the grandchild of a well-to-do family, Adam Kowalczyk, enjoys his life and does not intend to submit to his grandfather's will, who expects Adam to settle down and marry. Only then will he hand over the family development company to him.
- Two ecological activists engage in lonely struggle with air pollution in Cracow and try to comprehend the method of concepts systematisation.
- Hipolit and Dziunia escape from the travelling actors group visiting Galician towns in the 19th century. Soon they try to establish their own acting troupe.
- Unique series of the 20th century history of the Balkans - through the exciting biography of the only Serbian and Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner - Ivo Andric. His life encompasses the most turbulent period in the history of Balkans and Europe: the twentieth century with its two World Wars, crashes of empires and the previous world order, the emersion of communism - Ivo Andric was an active participant of these large and bloody turmoil that has determined world history and created the world as we know it today. In his work, he described the agonizing history of the Balkans and with his life he showed how one can remain a man in times when people turn into beasts. In a documentary - narrative form, the series simultaneously follow Andric's life path and the history of the Balkans, with numerous archival footage, personal photos, animated maps, kinetic typography, animation, as well as footage of key cities of the former Yugoslavia and Europe (which determined the life and work of this great writer). One of the people talking in the series is the film director Emir Kusturica, to whom Andric has been a role model and artistic inspiration for decades. The great director has raised a city "Andriccity" ("Andricgrad") - in honour of Andric - where some segments of the series were recorded. Besides Kusturica, the director of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy - Odd Zschiedrich also talks in the series, as well as eminent historians, writers and diplomats from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The documentary series follows Andric's life chronologically, while at the same time it tracks the history of Yugoslav people, Europe and the world in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
- A story of a crippled, ex-steelworker at the Nowa Huta plant near Cracow, now living in Szczecin. He returns to Nowa Huta to receive an award on the plant's 30th anniversary, but it turns out that his name is omitted on the recipients list. Meanwhile his son is fighting the eviction from the apartment belonging to his father and the family over the years.
- A holocaust survivor's journey, combined with the younger generations' one. Two parallel stories with a common destination. Auschwitz.
- Told he only had a short time to live, Joshua Belinfante sought out dedicated talents around the world striving their best at what they always wanted to do as kids; trying to find what he would do if given a second chance.
- Calm and safe world of Michal Kunicki collapsed with disappearance of his wife and son. Solving the mystery of their vanishing becomes obsession that completely ruins his life.
- Six lives collide in a flash of sunshine, bullets and jewels.
- Film devoted to the tragically deceased outstanding actor, Zbigniew Cybulski; the installation of fragments of films with his participation consists of a specific biography of the character created by the actor, which became a symbol of the "tragic generation" of war youth. Cybulski was often compared to James Dean.
- The mythical shipping company Red Star Line transported about 2 million European people to the Americam Dream