Ryszard Pietruski Movies

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war...

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting...

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and...

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...

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...

A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer...

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves...

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany....

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw...

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of...

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.

The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government...