Movies: Henryk Borowski

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights...

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 a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Po...

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic int...

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results...

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. Th...

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a coope...

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704....

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold....

Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One...

The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness....

A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women....

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end....

A 12-year-old boy and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her boyfriend after a quarrel, the father invites her along on the trip. The boy's hopes of a father-and-son ret...

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him....

In the spring of 1945, in bombed-out Budapest, a powerful boy, young István Kovács, recently arrived from the mountains, and a girl from Pest, Juli Szandál, who has lost everyone, meet. They fall in love and move into a hut in the suburbs. Juli is fr...

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....

A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site....

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition....