Movies: Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych

A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble recorded at its headquarters – the palace in Karolina (a part of the village of Otrębusy near Warsaw). The repertoire includes: Bandoska, K...

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People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life....

An impressionistic film about bidding farewell to departing army recruits and the end of freedom....

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real parti...

A record of the first days of the so-called ‘Polska Lubelska’. The camera focused on life in Lublin and other Polish pieces of land conquered in 1944 as a result of the July offensive of the Polish and Red Army. This documentary was made from the per...

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf....

An official falls victim to hooligans. He recognizes one of the attackers at a party organized by his director....

A TV musical featuring the appearances of famed actor Bogumił Kobiela and the most popular Polish musicians of the time....

Documentary of the Kurylewicz Quintet rehearsing a jazz piece in a recording studio. After a few fits and starts the band finally hits its stride....

Every year, on June 13, for the past thirty-two years, the villagers have gathered to remember one of their neighbors who left his home on that day in 1939 and never returned. His nearest and dearest did not receive information about his death....

Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. At one stage of the filming, Wajda planned to include all the documentary material shot by Ziarnik in his film. Ultimately, however, he changed the co...

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Documentary about the life of farmers in Poland....

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses....

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour....

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A record of the three-day burial ceremony of Jan Piwnik "Ponury" (1912-1944), which took place in June 1988 in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. The funeral rituals consisted of Christian, Slavic and military customs....

A passenger train on its daily route, a winter landscape can be seen through the window. Passengers are deep in their own thoughts and some of them have a conversation. Hidden lyricism of the gray everyday life and the constant flow of life....

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