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Browse 44 movies from Zespół Filmowy "Syrena"
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Mar 1965
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
A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Dec 1959
An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Jun 1965
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 of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Mar 1958
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.
Feb 1967
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
A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
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 second of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 2 and 4.
Jun 1969
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
Sep 1963
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
Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809.
Mar 1959
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Jul 1966
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Jul 1964
Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
Aug 1963
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Feb 1964
Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.
Sep 1962
Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
Dec 1961
A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.
Jan 1963