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Browse 44 movies from Zespół Filmowy "Syrena"
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Oct 1958
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Feb 1964
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.
Feb 1967
A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
Oct 1961
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Jan 1985
Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
Aug 1963
Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.
Feb 1957
Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.
Jan 1966
The story of a worker who was dismissed for inconvenience to management for making justified and necessary criticisms of the factory's operations.
Jul 1964
Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka.
Sep 1967
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
Nov 1962
Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809.
Mar 1959
An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Jun 1965
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
Oct 1957
The fifth of the six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 14 and 15.
Oct 1969
A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.
Dec 1963
Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.
Jan 1961
A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.
Apr 1961
The fourth of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 8 and 9.
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Jan 1964