Movies: Jan Ossowski

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, 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....

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp....

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away h...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared....

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart....

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland....

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom....

The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the ghost of the former owner....

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor....

A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels....

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life....

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv repo...

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it....

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together....

A young boy must go to school with his father....

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon....

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen....

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search....

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

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 ag...