Movies: Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych

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

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....

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....

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...

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 ...

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....

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....

The final stages of alcohol addiction are juxtaposed with the official attitude of Polish authorities towards the success of the ever-growing national alcohol industry....

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...

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

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

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

A cinematic nativity scene with songs performed by Polish Highlanders....

Documentary record of the first shift in Wujek coal mine in Silesia in 1962. We observe the course of events from the perspective of the mine's dispatcher at a modern desktop. We see one man, but the whole first shift crew is working....

Dialogue-free short detailing the daily tasks of a man and his wife....

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