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1) Ida
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Polish
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
2) Red: Rouge
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Language
Français
Description
Final chapter of the Three Colors trilogy.
4) In darkness
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
5) White
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Last in a trilogy of films (Trois couleurs = Three colors) by director Krzysztof Kieslowski, White presents the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
6) EO
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Polish
Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest,...
8) Katyn
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Polish
Description
Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyń in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This film tells the story of a man, captured in the desert by American forces, who finds himself transported to a nameless European country. He manages to escape into the vast frozen woodland, a world away from the desert home he knew. Forced into extreme survival mode, he must kill anyone who strays into his path.
10) Aftermath
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Polish
Description
Two brothers uncover a dark secret that forces them to confront the history of their family, their villagee and their nation. A tense and gripping thriller inspires by actual events.
Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Polish
Description
The suspenseful story of three people isolated for 24 hours aboard a yacht.
13) The Dybbuk
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
Yiddish
Description
Inspired by S. Ansky's ethnographic research among Jews living in the Polish-Russian countryside just before WWI. Describes life in the shtetl, along with its religious and cultural mores.
14) Blue
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
The first of Polish director Kieslowski's "Three Color" trilogy probing life in contemporary France. A woman loses her family in a tragic accident and decides to radically change her life.
15) Man of iron
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Polish
Description
A strike by the Polish union Solidarity takes place at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980. An alcoholic TV journalist is ordered to smear one of Solidarity's key figures, nicknamed the "Man of Iron."
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Polish
Description
Maciek is a young Resistance fighter who is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II. The Soviet leader has arrived in town to establish a new government. A mistake leads him to a beautiful barmaid who shows him what his life could be like and although killing has been easy for him in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow his orders.
Series
Criterion collection volume 896
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Polish
Description
Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", in which the girls' bond is tested and...
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