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Summary: Poland in the Stalin period. This is the dramatic story of three people: an honest and idealistic communist, a Polish RAF pilot, and a ZMW (the Rural Youth Association) activist. Secretary of the Workers' Party, Jakuszyn, intervenes on behalf of Pioter, a former officer of the British air force, unfairly accused of collaboration with bandits. Pioter is sentenced to ten years in prison, and Jakuszyn, for the alleged 'lack of vigilance', loses his post. Anna, a young ZWM activist, also tries to save Pioter. All in vain. Bitter and lonely, she marries a journalist Rydz, an opportunist and...

Director : Janusz Morgenstern

Production Year : 1964

Duration : 93

Language : Polish

Fugitive

Documentary about Kazimierz Piechowski - the organizer of the most daring escape from Auschwitz. For belonging to the Army was also imprisoned by the authorities after the war. Story of an ordinary man who became the victim of two totalitarian systems: Nazism and communism.

Director : Marek Tomasz Pawłowski

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 56

Language : Polish

Encounters in the Dark

A psychological drama: the Polish pianist tour to West Germany produces memories of forced labor in the Reich during the war. Poland pianist, Magdalena, going on tour to West Germany. This invokes memories of the journey. The days she spent the war forced on forced labor in Germany. Satisfy himself as unconcerned with impunity and war criminals are living here.

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1960

Duration : 107

Language : German, Polish

The Portraitist

On September 31, 1940 Wilhelm Brasse, a prewar portrait photographer, was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp where, on orders of SS, he was in charge of secret photographic documentation in the reconnaissance commando of the political unit. A day before the camp evacuation, risking his life, he saved most of the photographs known today which document the Nazi crimes in Auschwitz.

Director : Irek Dobrowolski

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 60

Language : Polish

The Last Stage

Film drama, depicting Auschwitz, in an almost documentary manner, centers around the women's camp and the conditions under which they lived. Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed. Martha, who sees the brutal crimes, the sham of clean-up for the Red Cross, tries to escape under orders from the underground. Captured, she is tortured and dies as Allied planes fly overhead. The two Polish women who wrote and directed this film were themselves prisoners in the Birkenau women's...

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 99

Language : German, Polish, Russian

A Love in Germany

Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW and Paulina a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 132

Language : German

Landscape After Battle

דרמה המבוססת על שני הסיפורים Battle of Grunwald ו- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen מאת טדאוש בורובסקי (Tadeusz Borowski), סופר פולני-יהודי ניצול אושוויץ. הסרט מתחיל בסצינת שחרור של מחנה ריכוז נאצי שאסיריו הם פולנים-פוליטיים. במהומה שפורצת, אחד האסירים, טדאוש (Daniel Olbrychski), משורר צעיר ואינטלקטואל, מנסה להוציא ספרים מתוך השריפה. המשך הסיפור מתרחש במחנה עקורים אליו מועברים האסירים ועוסק באהבתו של טדאוש לנינה (Stanislawa Celinska), ניצולה יהודיה מפוכחת. "נוף אחרי המלחמה" מציג את החברה הפולנית של אחר מלה"ע ה-2 כחברה של ניכור, אובדן, פסימיות, ברבריות, וריקבון מוסרי. טדאוש בורובסקי, משורר, סופר...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1970

Duration : 101

Language : Polish

The Champion of Auschwitz

A feature film. The story of the pre war boxing champion, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp. There, camp officers force him to fight for his and other prisoners' lives. However, with every win, he strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. The camp authorities subject the boxer to a final fight, the stake of which is not only his life and freedom, but also the dignity and hope for the survival of the prisoners. The film is based on story of the boxer Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski.

Director : Barczewski, Maciej

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 91

Language : Polish

Kantyna SS. Ucieczka więźniów z KL Auschwitz

A short ducumentary. On February 27, 1943, seven Poles escaped from the camp's Kitchen / Canteen Kameradschaftsheim der Waffen SS KL Auschwitz/ this film tells their escape story : Tadeusz Klus (camp number 416), Adam Klus (camp number 419), Roman Lechner (camp number 3505), Bronisław Staszkiewicz (camp number no. 1225) and Włodzimierz Turczyniak (camp number 5829) as well as Kazimierz Albin (camp number 118) and Franciszek Roman (camp number 5770).

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 5

Language : Polish