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....

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the fa...

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

The "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker during rehearsals. The stars of Polish acting could be seen on stage, accompanied by excellent songs ...

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

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...

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

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from a film studio to join a project proposed by the Germans: what do teenagers in your country do on Sat...

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....

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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 ...

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....

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

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...

The photographs of a member of the Gestapo, with narration from the captions he left in his album. Film released in 1964....

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

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....

A documentary film composed of private photographs taken from prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The authors use them to build a story, full of carelessness but also growing tension, about the end of the 1930s, the last days before the outbreak of war....

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