Maria Kaniewska Movies

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...

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...

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison....

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by...

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common...

Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.

Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a...

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older...

A man has a day he would rather forget. From the very morning, nothing seems to go his way. Told through pantomime and slapstick, this short film was...

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly...

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the...

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".