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People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he...

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

An orchestra of working-class musicians rehearses in this short film, honored at the 1960 Venice Film Festival and among the favorite films of...

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a...

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the...

One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

Little heroine, a music school student, wanders through the backstreets of Warsaw's Old Town and discovers a world to which others have no access. It...

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi...

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

The photographs of a member of the Gestapo, with narration from the captions he left in his album. Film released in 1964.

Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life...

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain...