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- The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.
- Pawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
- Adventures of the Italian soldier in a rebellious Warsaw in 1943, between Germans and the Polish resistance.
- The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
- An episodic comedy that follows the lives of four men living in Vienna.
- A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder.
- "Between the Cup and the Lip" is a beautiful polish turn century drama, which is basen on Maria Rodziewiczowna's novel. The action takes place in Berlin, where we meet Count Wentzel, who falls for a beautiful unknown lady. Since then he tries to get close to her, but as we know, a lot of things can happen 'between the cup and the lip'.
- When her daughter unexpectedly gets pregnant, authoritative mother Jadwiga, who is a local government official, starts looking for a fictional husband. To make matters worse, she only finds a guy with a criminal record.
- A successful middle-aged scientist suddenly abandons his family and workplace, and decides to rent a room near the railway station while experiencing a major existential crisis.
- A war drama illustrating the racial purity law established by Hitler, prohibiting foreign workers from any contact with Germans. Polish forced laborers in Nazi Germany and German citizens both faced death, imprisonment, or stigmatization for coming into close contact with each other.
- Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
- WW1: A woman ,whose husband refused to get back on the offensive -for the eleventh time!- and then was shot as an example ,is harassed by her "patriot" neighbors and the Police:she winds up in an insane asylum.
- Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left for Australia.
- Wallbangers is an experimental sports feature film following four Egyptian Squash players around the world during the uncertain and revolutionary times in Egypt from January 2011 to January 2014 highlighting an often neglected and overlooked source of national pride, a rare corner of excellence and dominance in Egyptian culture and history. It shadows the struggles, the beauty of Squash and its gloried history, far and near, in Egypt, as it mirrors and encapsulates the dreams, aspirations and optimism of an entire generation.
- A young engineer tries to choose a wife for himself out of ten women who responded to his newspaper advert. But there is no perfect candidate.
- Stakes Larger Than Life (Polish title: Stawka wieksza niz zycie") is a very succesful Polish black & white Tv-series about the adventures of a secret agent, Hans Kloss. His from Poland, his real name is Stanislaw Kolicki, codename: J-23. Hans acts as a double agent in Abwehr during II World War in occupied Poland. A true life story from the second world war. Stanislaw was a double for the real German officer and was allowed to "escape" back to Germany and take the place of Hans Kloss in the Abwehr where he caused all sorts of trouble and made the Nazis suspect each other of being agents or traiters while never coming under serious suspicion himself. Eventually even gaining a promotion to Captain in the process. All the episodes are excellent and can be watched separately because the plots are not interconnected. The series was filmed since 1967 to 1968 and it had 18 episodes. Directors: Janusz Morgenstern and Andrzej Konic, each directed 9 episodes. Main role: Stanislaw Mikulski as Hans Kloss (lieutenant, later captain Kloss/J-23). Running time: 45-90 min. Original channel: Polish Television. Stakes Larger Than Life became very popular also in other countries, especially in former Czechoslovakia List of episodes: 01 Wiem, kim jestes - I know who you are 02 Hotel Excelsior - Hotel Excelsior 03 Scisle tajne - Top secret 04 Café Rose - Cafe Rose 05 Ostatnia szansa - The last chance 06 Zelazny Krzyz - Iron cross 07 Podwójny Nelson - Double Nelson 08 Wielka wsypa - Great mishap 09 Genialny plan pukownika Krafta - Great colonel`s Kraft`s plan 10 W imieniu Rzeczypospolitej - In the name of Rzeczypospolita 11 Haslo - Password 12 Zdrada - Betrayal 13 Bez instrukcji - Without instructions 14 Edyta - Edyta 15 Oblezenie - Siege 16 Akcja - "Lisc debu" - Action - "Lisc debu" 17 Spotkanie - Meeting 18 Poszukiwany Gruppenfuhrer Wolf - Wanted Gruppenführer Wolf