Movies: Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica....

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....

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

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

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view....

Despite the fact that the film is a documentary, its lead character and his life story are fictitious, though very probable. It is one of the best examples of creative documentary film-making of Wojciech Wiszniewski....

On the cusp of adulthood and in search of work qualifications and a better life, Franciszek Wróbel - a baker from a small village on the Czech border of south-western Poland - emigrates to industrial Silesia to join the Voluntary Labour Corps. There ...

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...

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

The outbreak of World War II separates Ola and Aleksander Wat's marriage....

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management....

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

A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in philosophy...

Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get to know some charges of the Rehabilitation Center in Konstancin....

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Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life through ups and downs...

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty....

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings....

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

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