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The summer of 1945. Tadeusz, a former Home Army (AK) soldier who lost everything in the war, is journeying across Masuria. He arrives at the home of a German soldier's widow. Rose, who lives alone on a large farm, gives him a cool welcome but lets him stay the night. Tadeusz repays her by helping around the farm. Though she won't admit it, Rose needs protection from looters who keep coming to the farm. Gradually Tadeusz discovers the reasons for her solitude. Amidst a landscape ravaged by war, an impossible love is born between two people from distant worlds.

Director : Wojciech Smarzowski

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 94

Language : Polish

Cross of Valor

Summary: Three unrelated stories. The film was a voice in the national discussion about the experience of World War II. The first story - "Medal of Valor" is the story of a Catholic Polish villager soldier who was drafted to the army in 1939 and towards the end of the war, along with the Red Army arrived to liberate Poland from the Germans. He receives the highest military decoration of Poland after conducting a daring military operation. Following this he won a four-day vacation with his family, and arrives to find his native village completely destroyed and all the residents except for one, killed. The...

Director : Kazimierz Kutz

Production Year : 1958

Duration : 84

Language : Polish

Zbrodnia Bez Kary

Documentary film dealing with the “Massacre in Katyn Forest” – Approximately 4,000 Polish officers, captured by the Soviets, were killed. The massacre was carried out in 1940 by the NKVD in Katyn Forest which is situated west of Smolensk. It was verified by the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave by the Germans in 1943. This caused accusations of guilt to be exchanged between the Soviets and the Germans. An investigation by US Congress in the 1950s revealed that the massacre was carried out by the secret Soviet police under instruction from the Soviet Government. Only in 1989, during the rule of...

Director : Anna Teresa Pietraszek

Production Year : 2010

Duration : 51

Language : Polish

Invitation

Film starts with a flashback, showing us a young couple, celebrating their engagement. But the war disrupts their love. He becomes a soldier, she finally finds herself in Auschwitz. The following flashbacks, the memories of Anna, the main character are triggered, when her old flame Piotr, who now lives in the US, comes to visit Poland in the 1980s.

Director : Wanda Jakubowska

Production Year : 1985

Duration : 92

Language : Polish

Birth certificate

Threes short- stories (On the road, Letter from the camp, Blood drop) presenting full of tension atmosphere of every day occupation life, From the children's perspective.

Director : Stanislaw Rozewicz

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 99

Language : Polish

The Katyn Lie

A documentary film about the Katyn massacre: about 4,000 Polish officers that were killed on Stalin's command by the NKVD in Katyn forest, not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the start of 1940. The Polish soldiers were captured by the Russians when Germany overtook Poland in September 1939. When the mass graves were discovered by the German forces in April 1943, the exiled Polish Government demanded an investigation into who had carried out the murders. An American investigation by Congress discovered that the NKVD was responsible. As a result of Gorbochev's "Glasnost" policy, the Soviet Union released...

Director : Michael Kloft, Bengt Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1993

Language : Hebrew

Canal

This is the 2nd in famed Polish Andrzej Wajda WWII trilogy (preceded by “A Generation” [55] and followed by “Ashes and Diamonds” [58]). Set in Warsaw during the last days of the Polish uprising in the summer of 1944, the film tells of Polish civilians and soldiers who were no more capable of pursuing the resistance to the Nazi occupation and retreat from a certain death to a relative liberty through the city’s sewers for the “last hours of their lives” as declared in the early in the film by the voice over, hours of suffering, treason, despair, suicide and death. Wajda was awarded the “Special Jury Prize” at the...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1957

Duration : 96

Language : Polish

In the Forest of Katyn

Documentary film by the director Andrzej Vejda that deals with the massacre of around 4,000 Polish officers who were murdered on Stalin's orders by the NKVD in the Katyn forest not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the beginning of 1940. Includes testimonies by the wives of the victims and archival photographs.

Director : Marcel Lozinski, Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 54

Language : Polish

German Newsreels no. 471 (14/9/39), 472 (20/9/39), 473 (27/9/39).

Newsreel no. 471 (14 September, 1939): At Berlin's Rheinmetall Borsig Works field Marshal Hermann Goering enjoins a crowd of factory workers to display their loyalty to the Fuehrer. German infantry advances ever deeper into Poland, troops round up civilian prisoners, including Polish Jews, and insurgents are taken to large camps. Footage shows worshipping German soldiers exiting the Jasna Gora Church, belying Allied claims that Germans had destroyed it. German tanks cross bridges repaired by combat engineers. Stukas deliver long rolls of surveillance film, which are developed and studied in the field....

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

German Invasion of Poland

A Nazi propaganda film about the German invasion of Poland.

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 53

Language : German

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