Películas de Franciszek Pieczka

The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of...

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist...

A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is...

This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year...

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.

Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.

The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all...

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with...

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who...

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...

On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the...

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified...

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe)...

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain...

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The...

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed...

A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.

A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.

A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage...

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to...

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and...

Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to...

During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact,...

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he...

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple...

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly...

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a...

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, portrayed by Maya Komorowska is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She...

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian...

The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best...

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar...

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this...

When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike...

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St....

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he...

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's...

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his...

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to...

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior, who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying...

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides...

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is...

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily...

One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but...

A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with...

Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic...

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a...

A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien...

The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter...

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase...

The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who...

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his...

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and...

The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of...

One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home...

A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol.

Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.

Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.

Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper...

A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.

A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.

Professor Montresor, being the object of his friends' jokes, prepares his revenge.

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

Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and...

Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.

Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family...

Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants...

Greek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.

1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to...

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.

The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the...

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the...

The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman...

Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a...

A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he...