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Browse 30 movies from Zespół Filmowy "Silesia"
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
Dec 1973
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.
Jan 1979
1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
Jul 1982
The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.
Nov 1976
The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region.
Aug 1975
Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime.
May 1973
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
Dec 1983
A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
Apr 1983
Małgosia, a medical student, is expecting a child with Paweł, a doctor at the clinic. She is unsure whether to terminate the pregnancy. Her older sister, Ewa, urges her to do so. Ewa was once Paweł's lover. She terminated her pregnancy and is now unable to have children.
Oct 1982
A reimagination of the classic fairy tale into the reality of 1970's Poland.
Feb 1974
A young lab technician, threatened by a blackmailer, descends into madness.
Oct 1977
Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother.
Oct 1987
Friends, with the help of the gamekeeper and forester, try to catch the poacher.
Aug 1984
A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up her boyfriend for his sentence of death. In the end, he loses out to a collaborator living next door.
Sep 1980
A group of teenagers dream of adventures and experiencing something unusual, mysterious and romantic. The boys play treasure hunters and detectives in an old park adjacent to a modern housing estate. By accident, the heroes find the trail of a youth gang that stole the documentation of a sensational preparation that can be used in the preparation of animal feed. The gang members manage to suspect the inventor of the preparation, the engineer Tyc. His son, Andrzej, and his friends decide to expose the real criminals and find maps that are to indicate the place of the hidden treasure.
Dec 1984
With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.
Sep 1983
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
Dec 1977
The end of the 1930s. Wilek Lizoń, a true-blue Silesian, together with his troupe of actors and circus performers, stages a play in the courtyards of miners' tenement houses. The main character is Franciszek Buła, a figure from folk tales. Buła's story begins during the Silesian Uprisings. The courtyard artists present vivid images of Frank's school years, his work in the mine, his communist activities, his imprisonment, and his constant poverty. Fantasy mixes with reality.
Patients of the holiday and treatment center take part in trying to overcome the tobacco addiction by singing.
Mar 1984