Movies: Krzysztof Gradowski

On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions are not selfless. Twardowski signs a pact with Hell, unaware of what he is agreeing to. Eighteen years pas...

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland....

Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon....

Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa’s classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is ...

It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen ...

Tomek Milkowski is an comic-books' illustrator. But his chef doesn't like his drawings. He tells Tomek to make up something really cool, if the boy doesn't want to loose his job. The illustrator has a guest. It's a bird Tri-Tri from stories about Mr....

Friends, with the help of the gamekeeper and forester, try to catch the poacher....

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The first of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series....

The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school....

More and more mourners join a queue for the stonemason. He is played by Jan Himilsbach (1931-1988), an untrained actor, ("Rejs" 1970) and prose writer ("Przepychanka" 1974). In the film, he works at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. Some of the people ...

Professor tries to explain his patients's mental anomalies....

Report from the sports parade on July 22....

Krzysztof Gradowski presents the story of Eleonora Tomczyńska from Łódź - beaten and rejected, in the end abandoned by her family and starving to death. The filmmakers skillfully combine features of a shocking intervention reportage with a documentar...

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series....

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held ca...

A series of complaints directed at the camera that nobody wanted to take care of before. It turns out that the complaints focus on policemen, a sergeant, and a master corporal....

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A film portrait of the famous con artist Czesław Śliwa, alias Jack Ben Silberstein, who, posing as the Austrian consul in Wrocław, swindled over half a million zlotys from people in three months. In 1988, Mirosław Bork made a crime comedy based on th...

The earth falls off the titan's arms and breaks into two parts. Those parts turn into two tanks and later into two bombs with smoldering fuses. The elderly gentlemen who travel on the bombs warn each other of an imminent outbreak of the war. Just lik...