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- In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- An ordinary factory worker buys a camera on the occasion of the birth of his child. The authorities order him to make documentaries about the factory's success. But his endeavor to be truthful leads him to opposition against censorship.
- The life and times of a sensitive, poetic Polish boy who watches his country strive towards the liberation movement.
- Shot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes. Each episode is a separate entity, revealing another riddle crime that quickly and reliably solve Sherlock Holmes. Have the reputation of an excellent detective Sherlock Holmes is an apartment in the house on Baker Street. He would like to take a roommate. When winter 1881. Dr. John Watson returns from the war in Afghanistan and is looking for an apartment in London, a friend advised him to Holmes took advantage of the offer. Both men quickly became friends and since Watson accompanied Holmes in his remarkable work, admiring his ability to deduction and clear facts. Full of praise for the insight and perception Holmes is also Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
- Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
- 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 and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
- The film is set in 1943 in an unusual mental asylum in the country. There are several incurable schizophrenic cases, the staff is bit strange, and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. The Gestapo arrives and the commander asks for the list of patients, sorts out the Aryan doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the German soldiers appear.
- The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
- A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
- Polish schoolboy Janek and his fellow traveler, the Russian girl Tanya, are on the journey to South America. The plane they are flying on is hijacked by a gang of drug dealers led by a former Nazi criminal.
- A Polish journalist, Maj, who collaborates with a Parisian economic magazine similar to the UN press agencies, finds a trace of the activities of the secret organization "W", established by Nazi criminals who remained at large. The activities of this organization boil down to sabotage, attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, murder or drug smuggling. After the first contact in Vienna and Budapest with the activities of the "W" organization, May continues its trail, discovering new connections and carefully prepared actions. The titles of individual episodes are the names of the cities around which the action described in a given episode focuses.
- Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France. Despite being tortured, they refuse to divulge their knowledge of the Enigma to the Germans.
- A young Austrian lieutenant Alfred Kiekeritz, who is stationed in a small Galician town, wants to give some meaning to his life in the last phase of WWI. He starts to collect works of art.
- A factory night watchman, who is a fanatic of total control, shares his opinions on various topics.
- Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately as he does. His adversary is a possessed sports instructor, gaining growing control over the students and authorities. His methods are questionable and his influence dangerous, but the handball team's prospects look good and the school needs success...
- Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.
- Hero, is a polish former partisan and random unrelated scenes from his life of a realistic and surreal character are shown. Because of war his powerlessness, unbelief, self-irony, and difficulty in communicating are becoming apparent.
- "Mirror crumbs" is a story of a 15-year-old suffering from scoliosis who goes to the hospital in Konstancin, where she stays in a children's hospital among other patients dealing with various conditions.
- A young factory worker takes up on boxing as a way to find himself and advance his chances for the future. But the difficulties of sorting himself out in the crooked boxing environment hold him back in the beginning, until he arrives for tournament in Chicago, where he can prove himself. In the end, he wins over his Yank opponent, an amateur below his ranking, and is back in the factory.
- Krakow - the peculiarities of this city that can be provincial and modern at the same time, conservative and avant-garde. A city where artists, like nowhere else, feel like a salt of the earth. Wandering around the city enriched with interviews with outstanding Cracovians: prof. Karol Estreicher, Krzysztof Penderecki, priest Józef Tischner, Stanislaw Lem, count. Zofia Potocka.
- Although neither his wife nor his friends can understand him, a Varsovian architect leaves the hustle bustle of Warsaw to find peace and make new friends while living in a small village.
- Depicts the life of the socialist underground in Poland during World War II. Devotion, loyalty, suspicion, betrayal, and double agents.
- When renowned revolutionary Ludwik Warynski is visited in his prison cell by a Tsarist general, he starts reminiscing his tumultuous past.
- A young country woman emigrates to Canada in order to help her beloved son buy a house in the city.
- Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
- Piotr Plaksin, a lonely, 30-year-old man, who temporarily works as a milkman, constantly dreams of sailing to the Easter Islands on a yacht, that he has been building with a few close friends. Suddenly, he gets a phone-call from hospital. To his amazement, the nurse congratulates him for becoming a father. At first, thinking that it was a joke, he doesn't care about it. But then he realizes that a few months ago he went on a holiday with a girlfriend and the silly joke might be true. Now he has to decide whether to fulfill his greatest dreams and go to the Easter Islands or become a father. He goes to his family house hoping that there he will find an answer. But there are a lot of difficulties for him to achieve this.
- A marital argument between Marek and Halina is suddenly interrupted by a telephone call. An unknown woman cries for help and that makes the couple work things out together again.
- Barbara is a young mother of two in Hungary whose everyday life is abruptly collapses when a friend in Poland dies. Barbara travels to the funeral and meets an actress and experiences an intense love story.
- Pawel Sarnawski returns from Switzerland after years to an estate in Greater Poland, where he intends to upgrade his declining farm.
- After being fed with vitamines, a china elephant named Dominic becomes a real elephant and with his friend - Pinio heads up for new adventures.