Movies: Wacław Jankowski

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full o...

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend....

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A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991....

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals....

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men...

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

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The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp....

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the p...

Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy....

A mother is looking for a missing child with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp....