Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. At one stage of the filming, Wajda planned to include all the documentary material shot by Ziarnik in his film. Ultimately, however, he changed the concept.

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.

Following the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising, brothers Piotr and Wojtek escape from a labour camp in Germany and set out on a perilous journey back to Warsaw, hoping to find their parents. Alone in unfamiliar territory, they must rely on their own resourcefulness and learn to trust no one as they struggle to make their way home.

Joseph Malesa is a former party activist, labor leader, and mason. The documentary describes his career and life through ups and downs.

Warsaw, September 1944. On the eastern bank of the Vistula, a group of civilians live in a house cut off from the fighting across the river. Tadeusz, a young poet who has lost both legs, struggles with his helplessness as the Warsaw Uprising continues. His younger brother Witek dreams of crossing the river to join the fight, while Tadeusz grows closer to Katarzyna. As soldiers, refugees and resistance fighters pass through the house, its inhabitants confront the devastation of war and the uncertain future of a country caught between two worlds.

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.

A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

A documentary devoted to the paintings of Nikifor Krynicki, who was a representative of primitivism.

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.

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 factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

A record of the three-day burial ceremony of Jan Piwnik "Ponury" (1912-1944), which took place in June 1988 in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. The funeral rituals consisted of Christian, Slavic and military customs.

Szczepan Zadra, a Polish expatriate living permanently in Sweden, maintains close ties with his homeland while working as a representative for an international transport company. Meanwhile, the Polish militia receives reports of a smuggling operation involving valuable icons being transported to Sweden. Szczepan meets Agata, a Polish woman on a business trip to Sweden, who agrees to deliver a small package to Stockholm for an antique dealer in Warsaw. Unbeknownst to her, the package contains a valuable icon.

Documentary about everyday life in the funeral business, dealing with a funeral home and targets bureaucracy, corruption and dispassionate attitudes toward sorrowful fellow citizens.

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.

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

Recording the preparations and selection process for the best employee of the year in one of Warsaw's companies through a vote.

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works.

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 participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.