Movies: Ludwik Benoit

  • 1958
    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    6.81958HD

    Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full o...

    Ewa Wants to Sleep
  • 1965
    The Saragossa Manuscript

    The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

    The Saragossa Manuscript

    7.91965HD

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

    The Saragossa Manuscript
  • 1966
    Lenin in Poland

    Lenin in Poland (1966)

    Lenin in Poland

    5.31966HD

    The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist ...

    Lenin in Poland
  • 1965
    The Holy War

    The Holy War (1965)

    The Holy War

    51965HD

    To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski)....

    The Holy War
  • 1963
    Good Sins

    Good Sins (1963)

    Good Sins

    81963HD

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

    Good Sins
  • 1978
    Proszę słonia

    Proszę słonia (1978)

    Proszę słonia

    6.51978HD

    Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures....

    Proszę słonia
  • 1974
    Padalce

    Padalce (1974)

    Padalce

    01974HD

    An old farmer comes into conflict with his daughter and son-in-law, who value the teaching profession more than farming....

    Padalce
  • 1962
    The Two Who Stole the Moon

    The Two Who Stole the Moon (1962)

    The Two Who Stole the Moon

    4.61962HD

    Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. T...

    The Two Who Stole the Moon
  • 1992
    Priest Daens

    Priest Daens (1992)

    Priest Daens

    7.11992HD

    In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few colu...

    Priest Daens
  • 1966
    Sobótki

    Sobótki (1966)

    Sobótki

    01966HD

    Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father....

    Sobótki
  • 1988
    Sonata marymoncka

    Sonata marymoncka (1988)

    Sonata marymoncka

    01988HD

    Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland....

    Sonata marymoncka
  • 1961
    Rzeczywistość

    Rzeczywistość (1961)

    Rzeczywistość

    01961HD

    The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc....

    Rzeczywistość
  • 1984
    Fetysz

    Fetysz (1984)

    Fetysz

    5.51984HD

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    Fetysz
  • 1973
    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    7.51973HD

    Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares....

    The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • 1979
    Placówka

    Placówka (1979)

    Placówka

    51979HD

    The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant doe...

    Placówka
  • 1960
    The Knave of Spades

    The Knave of Spades (1960)

    The Knave of Spades

    6.61960HD

    A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals....

    The Knave of Spades
  • 1954
    Cellulose

    Cellulose (1954)

    Cellulose

    5.61954HD

    Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panoram...

    Cellulose
  • 1966
    Hell and Heaven

    Hell and Heaven (1966)

    Hell and Heaven

    61966HD

    A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos....

    Hell and Heaven
  • 1954
    Under the Phrygian Star

    Under the Phrygian Star (1954)

    Under the Phrygian Star

    5.51954HD

    Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose"....

    Under the Phrygian Star
  • 1988
    Swan Song

    Swan Song (1988)

    Swan Song

    41988HD

    After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ew...

    Swan Song