Irena Laskowska Movies

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi...

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to...

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by...

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment...

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small...

This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of...

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the...

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual,...

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins...