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Coup D'Etat

Rated: 0 | 141 Views Released Year: 1980

Genre: Polish Language
About: Director Ryszard Filipski stars as Polish revolutionary Józef Pilsudski in this drama that chronicles Pilsudski's efforts to win his country's independence in 1918 and his subsequent coup that toppled Poland's constitutional government in 1926. Consolidating national power into his own hands and establishing a dictatorship, he struggles to keep mightier European empires at bay. Ignacy Gogolewski, Jerzy Sagan and Andrzej Hrydzewicz co-star.
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In Desert and Wilderness

Rated: 0 | 170 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Polish Language
About: At the end of the 19th century, two Polish kids -- children of engineers working on the Suez Canal -- are kidnapped in the heart of the African continent. The children, along with two African youths, escape from their captors and embark on a journey across the harsh yet breathtakingly beautiful African landscape. Their great adventure is full of danger as they learn about life on their return home.
URL: In Desert and Wilderness

Knife in the Water

Rated: 0 | 122 Views Released Year: 1962

Genre: Polish Language
About: Director Roman Polanski ratchets up the suspense with a story that takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist and his much younger wife. On their way to the lake for a weekend of sailing, the couple invites a young hitchhiker to join them on their boat. But hostility looms as each man tries to humiliate the other in front of the woman.
URL: Knife in the Water

The Saragossa Manuscript

Rated: 0 | 140 Views Released Year: 1965

Genre: Polish Language
About: In Spain, during the Napoleonic Wars, a routed officer takes refuge in a battered inn where he comes across the titular tome. Directed in 1965 by Polish filmmaker Wojciech Has, The Saragossa Manuscript wends from its pages one engrossing tale after another, with offbeat themes that explore paternal tyranny and feature bearded hermits, Muslim sisters, demonically possessed lunatics, philosophers, gypsies and the Spanish Inquisition.
URL: The Saragossa Manuscript

An Angel in Krakow

Rated: 0 | 101 Views Released Year: 2002

Genre: Polish Language
About: Director Artur Wiecek's otherworldly comedy centers on irresponsible, Elvis-loving angel Giordano (Krzysztof Globisz), who's sent back to Earth by his frustrated superiors and ordered to perform a good deed every day. In Krakow, Giordano faces an uphill battle as he struggles to do all the right things in order to return to heaven and reclaim his angel wings. Grzegorz Dyduch and Kamil Bera also star.
URL: An Angel in Krakow

I Love You

Rated: 0 | 130 Views Released Year: 1999

Genre: Polish Language
About: Whether you're in it, searching for it, or getting over it, love will make you do strange things. Polish director Marek Koterski takes a look at life amid -- and without -- the "L" word in different stages of life. From looking at falling in love as adults with families to watching a friend become a fool for love, this film reminds us that there's nothing like the real thing.
URL: I Love You

Ashes and Diamonds

Rated: 0 | 148 Views Released Year: 1958

Genre: Polish Language
About: Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski stars as a killer at a crossroads: He must decide between living a life of crime or opening his heart and soul to the woman he loves. Directed by the acclaimed Andrzej Wajda, Ashes and Diamonds is the third in the director's series of films about World War II, set in small-town Poland as it's being engulfed by two opposing forces -- one that supports communism and one that's fighting it to the bitter end.
URL: Ashes and Diamonds

The Law and the Fist

Rated: 0 | 126 Views Released Year: 1964

Genre: Polish Language
About: At the end of World War II, a group of Poles move to what was once German-occupied territory and must defend their rights and property from opportunistic villains disguised as officials in this modern drama with a classic Western story line. In the end, a lone hero steps up to run the bad guys out of town and save the day. Filmmaker Jerzy Hoffman's drama stars Gustaw Holoubek, Wieslaw Golas and Zofia Mrozowska.
URL: The Law and the Fist

Maria and Napoleon

Rated: 2 | 126 Views Released Year: 1966

Genre: Polish Language
About: Director Leonard Buczkowski chronicles the affair between Polish countess Marie Walewska and Napoleon. In her 20s and already married, Marie throws herself into an affair with the French emperor and manages to influence his treatment of the Poles. Marie does double duty, mixing passion with politics to the benefit her beloved country. Beata Tyszkiewicz, Gustaw Holoubek and Juliusz Luszczewski star in Buczkowski's final directorial effort.
URL: Maria and Napoleon

Jak Rozpetalem II Wojne Swiatowa I

Rated: 0 | 109 Views Released Year: 1970

Genre: Polish Language
About: After oversleeping -- and consequently missing his train stop -- hapless Polish Pvt. Franek Dolas (Marian Kociniak) finds himself behind enemy lines and in the midst of German troops who are about to invade his native land. Taking a brave shot at the Nazis, he fires his gun, forever changing his life. Convinced that he single-handedly started World War II, Dolas hopscotches across Europe, trying desperately to return home safely.
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