Movies: Andrzej May

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict....

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relations...

The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life....

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances. This causes the industrialist to rethink his life choices....

The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3....

One night noble married couple Fabiusz and Waleria find that their long-estranged friend Mucjusz has returned from his travels of distant lands. During dinner, he presents them with mysterious and exotic gifts....

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the sta...

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success....

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal....

The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participati...

A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club....

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young wido...

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 wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up....

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war....

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera....

A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue....

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period....

The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century....

Two handed chamber piece about a middle aged woman who returns from the camps after WWII and meets the mother of her deceased husband. Unable to explain the truth about her husband’s death, Joanna weaves a web of lies to comfort the old woman. In tim...

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