Movies: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Documentary about polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski...

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors...

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

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the fa...

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher....

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....

Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet....

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One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s...

Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student puts the teacher in an ...

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student....

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management....

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party....

"Legenda" is a document about a famous polish writer Stefan Żeromski. It serves as an interview with people who knew the artist....

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view....

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Two men in a game of chess. One of the players is a country boy who accidentally discovered a chess talent, and the other is a former lawyer who has not played chess for twenty years. The lawyer tells the story of learning to play chess: during World...

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings....

A group of veterans recount a horrifying experience when trapped in a minefield, resulting in each losing their sight....