Movies: Bogusław Sochnacki

A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder....

A man has a mysterious power which causes the death of each person he condemns....

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the in...

Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself....

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma....

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Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde....

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts....

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....

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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 laundress working at the doctor's house agrees to take her daughter out of the ghetto for a fee and get her settled with her family in the countryside. The old woman's attitude to the Jews is ambivalent but the action is unambiguous....

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan R...

Three stories centered around sports....

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine....

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution....

The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers wh...

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Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health....

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turn...