BEZMIAR SPRAWIEDLIWOŚCI
(IMMENSITY OF JUSTICE)

DVD | Region: 2 | PAL
Genre: Drama
Director: Wieslaw Saniewski
Year:2007
Run Time:123 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles

price: $24.95

Lukasz, a young law school graduate, doesn't intend to work in his profession. His interest is photography instead. His father wants him to be a defense lawyer and sends his son to an old pal Wilczek, nowadays a successful attorney. Wilczek, however, is not going to persuade him to anything, just telling him some story of a case from years ago which he participated.

Year 1990. Young TV reporter, eight months pregnant, is assaulted. Soon, her co-worker and lover for over a year Jerzy Kuter is arrested and accused of the crime. Jerzy, much older than the victim, has wife and two kids. He claims his innocence. Despite a lack of tangible proofs, Kuter is sentenced for prison.

Lukasz is fascinated with the story. He begins digging in the archives, analyzing the file. Unexpectedly, he discovers that Wilczek lied to him...

PLAC ZBAWICIELA
(SAVIOR'S SQUARE)

DVD | PAL
Genre: Drama
Director: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Year:2006
Run Time:94 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles


price: $24.95

After selling his flat, and before his new home has been completed, Bartek, heavily in debt, asks his mother if he and his family can come and stay for a while. He has no idea that he is being conned and that he will be dependent on his mother's income. The differing interests and needs of the central characters, forced into co-existence, give rise to unpleasant conflicts. Lack of privacy demoralises Bartek's wife Beata, in particular, who has to look after her small children and put up with the selfishness of her family. Animosity grows between the two women and Bartek, fed up with the constant squabbling, takes off. In the heat of the moment, desperate Beata does something very foolhardy, and the legal outcome begs the question: "Who is guilty?" The filmmakers took the socio-ethical dimension of their drama from real life, hence the broadcasting style of their testimony about the ordinary ambitions of their contemporaries, their attitudes and destinies. The film is also about unscrupulous behaviour and lack of responsibility, today all too common phenomena - without the effort or will to show love and compassion.

PERSONA NON GRATA

DVD | PAL
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Year:2005
Run Time:117 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $21.95

Wiktor, a Polish ambassador to Uruguay, is mourning the sudden death of his beloved wife. When he returns to Poland, he meets with Oleg, a Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs who was his friend twenty years ago. Wiktor was then an activist in the political underground and Oleg was beginning a career as a Soviet diplomat in Poland. Their friendship is not free of suspicions. Wiktor thinks Oleg infiltrated the Polish underground and was his wife’s lover…

OGNIEM I MIECZEM
(WITH FIRE AND SWORD)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Year:1999
Run Time:176 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language. English, French Russian, Ukrainian Spanish subtitles.

price: $24.95

"This grand drama is set in 17th century Poland during the Cossack uprising against the Polish nobility. While the violent confrontation builds, there is also a battle for the heart of a beautiful girl between a dashing Pole and a brutish Ukrainian." Based on a novel (first part of Trilogy) by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Directed by jerzy Hoffman.

STARA BAŚŃ-KIEDY SŁOŃCE BYLO BOGIEM (WHEN THE SUN WAS GOD)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Year:2003
Run Time:107 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language. English, Spanish subtitles.

price: $21.95

Film by Jerzy Hoffman based on the book "Stara Basn" written by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. "The story of 'When the Sun was God An Ancient Tale' is happening one hundred years before the christening of Poland in the world of magic and pagan witchcraft, where the gods take active parts in the lives of ordinary men. In the land of Polan people, the power belongs to the cruel prince Popiel, who according to a legend was finally eaten by mice... He is set to ensure the succession of his son and will do it by all means including plotting, scheming and murdering. When Popiel's actions cause people to revolt, he asks the Vikings for help... At the same time, the young huntsman and warrior Ziemowit Piast has fallen in love with the daughter of the wealthy serf Wisz. But the beautiful Dziwa is meant for the gods... In this powerful tale, the fates of the characters interlace in an everlasting fight between the good and the evil and in the human passions of love, hatred and the greed for power."

JASMINUM

DVD | PAL
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 2005
Run time: 103 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $19.95

JASMINUM is a Latin word for Jasmine. The plot is set in a monastery in our times. Apart from Prior Kleofas and Brother Sanitas, three other monks who reside there have their own particular body scents. The prior is dead bent on finding portents of the soon-to-come fulfillment of Prophet Barnabas' prophecy while Brethren Plum, Cherry and Birdcherry issue body odors, each one according to his name. One day a young art restorer Natasha arrives to the monastery, commissioned for a conservation of the sacred paintings. She brings in her five year old daughter Gienia whose charm and inquiring mind wreak havoc in the monks' monotonous life. And there starts a mysterious and magical story filled with sensuous scents and love?

THE BLACK SERIES
Polish School of Documentary

DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2007
Run time: 233 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles

price: $24.50

The importance of these films lies (...) not only in the sharp and critical tone they adopt, nor in the function of direct social intervention they perform. These films show some kind of rehabilitation of a social documentary's general sense. For the first time in years viewers are brutally and provocatively attacked, which makes them forget that they are sitting in front of the screen. They are treated with a highly meaningful piece of reality, presented with passion and with no resistance, in an observant and intelligent way. (...) The projection room becomes filled with strong excitement. Polish film has not long been able to unleash so many powerful feelings and shrewd thoughts in the spectators. (...) Such is the signal that we are witnessing a significant event in the history of Polish cinema. Boleslaw Michalek, "Polish Documentary" 1956

LOOK OUT, HOOLIGANS!, 1955, 12 min.
THE CHILDREN ACCUSE, 1956, 10 min.
WHERE THE DEVIL SAYS GOODNIGHT, 1956, 11 min.
PEOPLE FROM AN EMPTY ZONE, 1957, 15 min.
PARAGRAPH ZERO, 1957, 16 min.
ROCKY SOIL, 1956, 16 min.
LITTLE TOWN, 1956, 10 min.
WARSAW`56, 1956, 7 min.
PLACE OF RESIDENCE, 1957, 16 min.
ARE YOU AMONG THEM?, 1954, 8 min.
THE LUBLIN OLD TOWN, 1956, 5 min.
THE CITY ON ISLANDS, 1958, 9 min.
FROM POWIÚLE, 1958, 10 min.
GREAT GATHERING. Special Edition of Polish National Newsreel, 1956, 9 min.
VIII PLENUM. Special Edition of Polish National Newsreel, 1956, 3 min.
SOPOT`57, 1957, 16 min.
JAZZ TALKS, 1957, 13 min.
BREAK UP THE DANCE, 1957, 8 min.
STS 58, 1959, 8 min.
A DAY WITHOUT THE SUN, 1959, 19 min.
ISLAND OF GREAT HOPES, 1957, 14 min.

POLISH ANIMATION ANTHOLOGY

DVD | PAL
Genre: Animation
Year: 2007
Run time: 236 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French subtitles

price: $29.95

"...These are sheer numbers and prizes that bear testimony to the past significance of Polish animation: 162 films exported in 1963 alone, 1974 proceeds from animated film exports higher than these from sales of feature films, dozens of highest prizes at most important festivals and competitions, Oscar for Zbigniew Rybczyński for "Tango", and so on, and so forth. The present anthology is the firs attempt to make at least a part of the extremely extensive output of Polish animators available to wider audiences. (...) The two DVDs which we present to cinema lovers, did not have enough room to contain all the outstanding Polish animated films of the last six decades, nor present all the makers worthy of attention. We do hope, however, that the selection is representative enough to let those viewers, who are not very well familiar with the history of Polish animation, get to know it better, while to its enthusiasts, it will bring back almost thirty of its gems."
Marcin Gizycki

DVD 1:
1. The Hause, 1958 r. Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
2. The Changing of The Guard, 1958 r. Wlodzimierz Haupe, Halina Bielińska
3. The School, 1958 r. Walerian Borowczyk
4. The Labyrinth, 1961 r. Jan Lenica
5. Playthings, 1962 r. Kazimierz Urbański
6. The Red and The Black, 1963 r. Witold Giersz
7. The Armchair, 1963 r. Daniel Szczechura
8. Cages, 1966 r. Miroslaw Kijowicz
9. Everything is a Number, 1966 r. Stefan Schabenbeck
10. The Horse, 1967 r. Witold Giersz
11. Stairs, 1968 r. Stefan Schabenbeck
12. The Journey, 1970 r. Daniel Szczechura
13. The Son, 1970 r. Ryszard Czekala
14. The Roll-Call, 1970 r. Ryszard Czekala

DVD 2:
1. The Road, 1971 r. Miroslaw Kijowicz
2. Soup, 1974 r. Zbigniew Rybczyński
3. Banquett, 1976 r. Zofia Oraczewska
4. Reflections, 1979 r. Jerzy Kucia
5. A Highly Committed Movie, 1979 r. Julian Antonisz
6. Tango, 1980 r. Zbigniew Rybczyński
7. Unfaitthful Portrait, 1981 r. Ewa Bibańska
8. Solo in a fallow Field, 1981 r. Jerzy Kalina
9. Littre Black Riding Hood, 1983 r. Piotr Dumala
10. Gentile Spirit, 1985 r. Piotr Dumala
11. The Race, 1989 r. Marek Serafiński
12. Tuning The Instruments, 2000 r. Jerzy Kucia
13. The Cathedral, 2002 r. Tomek Bagiński
14. Ichthis, 2005 r. Marek Skrobecki

WOJCIECH WISZNIEWSK:
Polish School of Documentrary

DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Wojciech Wiszniewski
Run time: 162 min.
Year: 2007
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.50

Actually, the genre i work within is of secondary importance to me. I am interested in the diverse expressions of polish reality and their historical and cultural roots. I do not divide subject matter into contemporary and historical. [...] The reality which surrounds us is anchored in the past. I, for example, being a part of the process, am continuously growing out of the past. In my films, i try to make the viewer aware of this continuity. I believe that we can communicate on this level. I express my feelings in a lyrical, grotesque, exalted and ironic way. [...] I try to construct each piece so that the viewer can choose the tonality to suit his temperament, mood and experience. Because it is only time that can tell the truly tragic from the comical. [wojciech wiszniewski, "cinema", 1978/8]

DVD 1
1. Heart Attack, 1967
2. Trace, 1969
3. Tomorrow. April 31 - May 1, 1970, 1970
4. Wilkasy 70, 1971
5. A Story of a Man Who Filled 552% Of The Quota, 1973
6. Wanda Goúcimińska. A Weaver, 1975
7. The Primer, 1976
8. The Carpenter, 1976
9. Foreman On A Farm, 1978

DVD 2
1. Random Love Story, 1974

MAREK PIWOWSKI:
Polish School of the Documentary

DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Marek Piwowski
Run time: 183 min.
Year: 2007
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.50

Perhaps some scenes in my films suggest that I treat people like an entomologist when examining his insect specimens. [...] Stupidity is more flavoursome food for artistic matter, than correctness and norm. As for the human species...

I have done a TV play based on a short story by Lem. The plot evolves around the fact that the all-universe organization of united planets refuses our - people's - accession on account of the shortcomings intrinsic to mankind. (Profiles, 1980/10)

DVD 1
1. The Overture, 1965
2. A Compartment For a Hundred People and More, 1965
3. The Fly Killer, 1966
4. Kirk Douglas (Welcome Kirk), 1966
5. Fire! Fire! At Last Something's Going On, 1976
6. Success, 1968
7. Psychodrama, 1969
8. Corkscrew, 1971
9. Hair, 1971

DVD 2
1. A Knife in Dino Baggio's Head, 1999
2. Gurgle, 1983
3. The Parade Step, 1977

ANDRZEJ MUNK: Polish School of the Documentary

DVD |Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Andrzej Munk
Run time: 225 min.
Year: 2007
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.50

One should look for the sources of the legend that surrounds the person and work of Andrzej Munk (1921-1961) in his untimely and tragic death and, above all, in the belief that what he did create as filmmaker and what he had no time to create contains a mystery. This belief stems from the experience of his films and the feeling that his sudden death put an end to an important current in the history of Polish cinema; a separate phenomenon deprived of spiritual partners and followers. (...) He was fascinated with experiment in art. This is, after all, how his early documentaries have to be seen. In the 1950s, fictionalizing the documentary form - or to put things in the opposite way - employment of the documentary film poetics to depict fictional events, was the mark of his experimental approach, his search for new forms of expression. However, Munk treated formal experiments in a special way. One can safely assume that in most cases - which is particularly evident in the first, documentary period of his work - these formal experiments opposed, in moral terms, the imposed propaganda goals, standardized ideology and aesthetic norms. These became de-mythologized through revealing the presence of real people in the ideologically-programmed un-reality, as well as through his search for forms of cinematic imaging able to destroy certain binding conventions. Andrzej Munk, the rebellious documentary filmmaker, remained one even when he had moved away from the documentary towards feature films.
Ewelina Nurczyńska-Fidelska

Polish School of the Documentary. Andrzej Munk, 2 DVDs

1. "Destination Nowa Huta!" 1952
2. "Peasant diares" 1952
3. "The railwayman`s word" 1953
4. "The stars must burn" 1954
5. "The men of the blue cross" 1955
6. "One Sunday morning" 1955
7. "A walk in the old town of Warsaw" 1958
8. Polish Newsreel No. 52/1959 A-B, No. 39/1961 B

MARCEL ŁOZIŃSKI: Polish School of the Documentary

DVD | PAL
Genre: Documentary
Director: Marcel Łoziński
Run time: 330 min.
Year: 2007
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.50

Marcel Loziński about his work:
Why do I shoot documentaries?
-Cause there are things going on around, in me, too, and I try to roll them into one.
-Cause I like asking questions about joy, fear, pain, hope.
-Cause I want to understand how it feels.
-Cause I don't believe in objective recording.
-Cause I value God's whim more than my imagination.
-Cause I am curious if others feel the way I do.
-Cause it's my chosen profession; I didn't want to work as an engineer.
-Cause I like to solidify reality, but only in such a way as not to distort it.
-Cause I gotta earn.*

* excerpt from "Chelmska 21", a book published to commemorate 50th anniversary of Documentary and Feature Film Studios in Warsaw, 2000.

DVD 1:
1. "Happy End", 1972
2. "The King", 1974
3. "The visit", 1974
4. "Front collision", 1975
5. "How to live", 1977
6. "The touch", 1978
7. "Matriculation", 1978

DVD 2:
1. "Microphone's test", 1980
2. "Practise exercises", 1984
3. "My place", 1985
4. "Witnesses", 1987
5. "89 mm from Europe", 1993
6. "Anything can happen", 1995
7. "So it doesn't hurt", 1998

MACIEJ DRYGAS: Polish School of the Documentary

DVD | PAL
Genre: Documentary
Director: Maciej Drygas
Run time: 219 min.
Year: 2006
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.50

"A particularly vital question that they raise, concerns the relation between the historical and the universal. The reason why Drygas's films enjoyed success throughout Europe, was not a tremendous interest of international audiences in the picture of life under Communist rule in Poland. The universal, the commonly understood, is hidden right in the historical detail, in the non-simplified truth of life at a concrete time and place, one that is easily convertible into other people's experience of the human fate. This is what all Maciej Drygas's films talk about in their widest, and perhaps most important, sense."
Andrzej Werner

DVD 1:
1. "Hear my cry", 1991
2. "State of weightlessness", 1994

DVD 2:
1. "Voice of hope", 2002
2. "One day in people's Poland", 2005

KAZIMIERZ KARABASZ: Polish school of the Documentary

DVD | PAL
Genre: Documentary
Director: Kazimierz Karabasz
Run time: 315 min.
Year: 2006
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French subtitles

price: $24.50

"I believe that the documentalist's profession consists in looking for tiny particles, which constitute - immodestly speaking - the truth about the man. Close observation and collection of the details that make up life, can make one grasp this truth. If only parts of it, if only just a flash... If one treats the documentary film seriously, quest for these details is the only vital reason to take up the documentary. I cannot see any others."
Kazimierz Karabasz

DVD 1:
1. "Day in day out...", 1955
2. "The musicians", 1960
3. "People on the road", 1960
4. "Railway junction", 1961
5. "On the treshold", 1965
6. "A year in the life of Franek W.", 1967
7. "Krytsyna M. portrait sketches", 1973

DVD 2:
1. "Material test", 1981
2. "Portrait in a drop of water", 1997
3. "Encounters", 2004.

KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI: Polish School of the Documentary

DVD | PAL
Genre: Documentary
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Run time: 240 min.
Year: 2006
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles.

price: $24.50

Polish Audiovisual Publishers have initiated publication of "Polish School of Document", a DVD series edited by Tadeusz Sobolewski and devoted to the Polish documentary film. Each record is dedicated to a different documentary filmmaker, and contains selected works from his output. The review presents directors both well-known and forgotten, mature as well as beginners. The first record features documentaries by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

DVD 1:
1. From the City of Lodz (1969)
2. I was a Soldier (1970)
3. Refrain (1972)
4. A Bricklayer (1973)
5. X-Ray (1974)
6. A Curriculum Vitae (1975)
7. Slate (1976)

DVD 2:
1. First Love (1974)
2. Hospital (1976)
3. A Night Porter's Point of View (1977)
4. Seven Women of Different Ages (1978)
5. Talking Heads(1980)

MÓJ NIKIFOR (MY NIKIFOR)

DVD | PAL
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Krauze
Year: 2004
Run time: 96 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $19.95

In an extraordinary cross-gender performance, actress Krystyna Feldman becomes the curmudgeonly Polish folk artist Nikifor, a naive painter whose prolific talent and sheer stubbornness brought him national fame. Based on a true story, My Nikifor (crystal globe award, Karlovy Vary 2005) unfolds in mid-20th-century Poland across a gray winter landscape further oppressed by Communist party politics and perpetual shortages. The sickly beggar Nikifor, a cantankerous troll who dismisses everything and everyone, freely invades other people's homes uninvited in order to paint. When he claims the studio of state-employed painter Marian Wlosinski, Wlosinski's life begins to unravel. He can't figure out where Nikifor came from or where he belongs, can't get rid of him and, ultimately, can't help but adopt him at the expense of his own comfort and family. This vivid character study presents Nikifor as the necessary grit that upsets complacency, leaving us to ponder the Nikifors in our world today.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA: 4 DVD's package

DVD | PAL

Four movies directed by Andrzej Wajda:

WESELE

POPIÓŁ I DIAMENT

KANAŁ

LOTNA

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $29.95

DEKALOG (THE DECALOGUE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Year:1988-89
Run Time: 562 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $79.95

MIŚ (TEDDY BEAR)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanislaw Bareja
Year:1980
Run Time:111 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

A comedy from Poland, the story of a divorced couple who compete with each other for the money they share in a joint account in a London bank. With Stanislaw Tym, Bronislaw Pawlik.

OPERACJA SAMUM
(OPERATION SIMOOM)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Action
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Year: 1999
Run Time: 90 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?

ŻUREK (THE WHITE SOUP)

DVD | NTSC
Genre:Drama
Director:Ryszard Brylski
Year: 2003
Run Time: 72 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language, English subtitles

price: $15.00

The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The grandmother (played by Katarzyna Figura) becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of the man who fathered her daughter's child.

The naive daughter (played by Natalia Rybicka) is of little help with her mother with the search, which turns into a dangerous journey, filled with unexpected events. The mother is forced to face and overcome her own dark secrets and deepest fears, and her struggles provide her daughter with a new sense of hope and understanding of her own life.

EDI

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
Year: 2002
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

A winner of many awards at international film festivals and the Polish submission the Academy Awards, Edi is a touching and highly involving portrait of marginal characters who manage to confront their misery and -at least, briefly- somehow triumph over it. The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused by some local thugs of seducing their sister, and made to take care of her little baby.

WIEDŹMIN (THE HEXER)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Science-Fiction
Director: Marek Brodzki
Year: 2002
Run Time: 129 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

Geralt, The White Wolf, is the perfect warrior - a weapons expert who knows magic and will fight any opponent. But he is also a human being who struggles for recognition of his own humanity while battling the monsters and villains that threaten his people. With the help of his friends he defends the inhabitants of his world, each day drawing nearer to his Destiny... although he does not know it.

In the style of "The Lord of the Rings ", "The Hexer" is based on the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski, Poland's most talented fantasy / sci-fi author.

SZABLA OD KOMENDANTA
(LEGACY OF STEEL)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 1996
Run Time: 102 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

Jan Jakub Kolski, director of the acclaimed films, "Pornografia," "Wonderful Place" and "Plate Players," directs the story of a famed military officer nearing the end of life, who, before he can rest in peace, must fulfill the traditional obligation of passing his sword on to his grandson. The problem is, his only son is unmarried, there is no grandson, and its looking pretty grim. After much scheming, a potential mate for the son moves into the neighborhood.

ZAKOCHANY ANIOŁ (ANGEL IN LOVE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Artur Wiecek
Year: 2005
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish

price: $15.00

Angel in Love" is a sequel to "Angel of Cracow." The Angel Giordano begins to seriously contemplate life on Earth since he cannot return to Heaven. He finds that with a little optimism and faith in God's ways, he can live happily despite the sadness around him. When it's time for his final conversion into a human, Giordano is struck not by what he is going to lose, but by what he will gain - becoming male.

The shock is enough to fray his nerves. Fortunately, Heaven doesn't abandon its angels and the powers-that-be arrange a meeting between Giordano and the only other person who can bring him Heaven on Earth. A man in love can be happier on Earth than an angel in Heaven!

MATKA KRÓLÓW (MOTHER OF KINGS)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Janusz Zaorski
Year: 1982
Run Time: 126 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish

price: $15.00

The 1982 Polish Film was released in 1987, when Communists censorship was relaxed in Poland. This highly acclaimed film is the dramatic story of a poor, widowed housecleaner and mother, living during the worst times of Poland's history: World War II, followed by the harsh rule of Stalin. Filmed in black-and-white, to incorporate actual newsreel footage from the times, the film won the Grand Prize at the 1988 Gdansk Festival.

ŻÓŁTY SZALIK (THE YELLOW SCARF)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Janusz Morgenstem
Year: 2000
Run Time: 64 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language, English subtitles

price: $15.00

A melancholic story, set during a joyous Christmas season, follows an older man's hopeful attempt to repair his history of relationships damaged by his drinking. The yellow scarf, a magical gift from his mother, reveals the outcome of this man's struggle to overcome the grip of alcoholism.

CHŁOPAKI NIE PLACZĄ
(BOY'S DON'T CRY)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Olaf Lubaszenko
Year: 2000
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language, English subtitles

price: $15.00

Teenagers in modern Warsaw: Kuba Brenner wants to become a violinist. Kuba wants to help his very shy friend, Oskar, to meet some girls. Through a series of complicated (and very humorous) accidents, Kuba finds himself in the middle of a meeting of the local Polish Mafia. Events go from bad to worse for Kuba when some men attempt to rob the gangsters: shots are fired, and two of the bandits, Grucha and Bolec, are wounded.

When the smoke clears, the gangsters' suitcase, stuffed with cash, has vanished, and the boy is missing as well. Kuba suddenly has a new, bigger problem to solve: the Mafia really wants to find him, and we all know what that means for our young friend.

One of the best Polish comedies of the late 1990's, "Boys Don't Cry" is a satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them. The humor is black, sometimes vulgar, and always hilarious. The cast comes from the new generation of Polish actors, and all are very talented.

W PUSTYNI I W PUSZCZY
(IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Family
Director: Gavin Hood
Year: 2001
Run Time: 111 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.00

From the Nobel Prize winning author of "Quo Vadis?" comes this critically acclaimed and award-winning film about two children lost deep in the African continent. After escaping from kidnappers, they set off on a great adventure, full of obstacles, dangers, and fun as they learn about life on their return home.

QUO VADIS

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Year: 2001
Run Time: 270 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish

price: $15.00

Quo Vadis is a grand historical epic based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz running four and a half hours in length. Although this is long by most standards, it really does allow the plot to fully develop and be brought to a conclusion. We get a glimpse of many parts of life in Rome, from wild drunken parties with plenty of topless women, a gruesome close up of lions eating Christians in the coliseum, and even the burning of Rome itself.

The story has several elements that are all dovetail each other. We have a young patrician named Marcus Vinicius (Pawel Delag) who falls in love with Lygia (Magdalena Mielcarz), a Christian woman. At first she is not interested in him, but soon returns his love. Petronius (Boguslaw Linda), who is one of Nero's advisors, tries to help him physically capture his love as he has influence with Nero. Matters are complicated as Nero is out of control and is most concerned about his insane self-interests, which leads to trouble for many others.

Boguslaw Linda was one of the best performers in the film. As he was the middleman between Marcus and the crazed Nero, his position from the start was precarious. He portrayed the patrician who was calm and collected in moments of confusion, sincere with his feelings, and often had witty remarks. Linda's acting was fantastic.

Quo Vadis is perfect for those who enjoy historic epics. Overall, I thought the underlying message was about forgiveness and love, something we can all relate to and topics that would not hurt us to reflect upon. With nearly all of its characters experiencing moments of triumph and suffering, we witness and experience a wide range of emotions in this story that takes place about two thousand years ago.

PAN TADEUSZ

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Genre: Romance
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1999
Run Time: 150 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish, with English subtitles

price: $15.00

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in a poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families, as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives to unite simply as Poles, and begin a heroic effort to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.

ZEMSTA (REVENGE)

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Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 2002
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

Andrzej Wajda's latest - a costume comedy. After fourty-three years of his absence as an actor, Polanski returned to Wajda as an actor in the production of Zemsta. The hilarious tale of two 17th century families divided by love, greed ... and a crumbling stone wall that runs through the middle of their castle. The feuding noblemen try to outwit one another in a bid for romance and control over their humble realm. Based on Aleksander Fredro's epic poem.

WSZYSTKO NA SPRZEDAŻ
(EVERYTHING FOR SALE)

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Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1969
Run Time: 94 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.00

Inspired by the tragic death of the great Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, this Andrzej Wajda film focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious death of their leading man.

PANNY Z WILKA
(YOUNG GIRLS OF WILKO)

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Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1979
Run Time: 118 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.00

This Oscar nominated Andrzej Wajda film is an unsentimental but poetic exploration of the ironies of love and hope. After 15 years away, Wiktor returns to his hometown of Wilko where he encounters five sisters who are forced to reconsider their complicated lives and personal failures.

CZŁOWIEK Z MARMURU
(MAN OF MARBLE)

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Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1976
Run Time: 153 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles

price: $15.00

Agnieszka is a film school student whose final film centers around Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer from Nowa Huta, who was considered a great hero and a leader at work. Later - like many others - he was fired without any pity . In examining the truth about his life, Agnieszka discovers a more general truth about the bitter years of the 50s and about the difficult fate of the Polish nation.

ZIEMIA OBIECANA (PROMISED LAND)

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Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1974
Run Time: 138 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles

price: $15.00

Andrzej Wajda's 1974 19th century epic about the sweeping changes in values brought about by the industrial revolution. Praiseworthy for its physical scope, masterful direction, and fine acting, this new version of Andrzej Wajda's masterpiece has been re-edited by the director himself. Both picture and sound have been re-mastered for enhanced quality.

GRY ULICZNE (STREET GAMES)

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Genre: Thriller
Director: Krzysztof Krauze
Year: 1995
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish, with English Subtitles

price: $15.00

A political thriller, based on the 1978 death of Stanislaw Pyjas, a student protester who helped inspire Poland's Solidarity movement. While covering a politician's mid-90's campaign for Prime Minister, a reporter uncovers the popular candidate's earlier connection to Pyjas' death, facts missing from the official police report. Now, only the reporter's "street smarts" can protect him from the forces trying to stop the release of his story.

ZMRUŻ OCZY (SQUINT YOUR EYES)

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Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Year: 2002
Run Time: 88 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language

price: $15.00

The film goes beyond the story of an adult man and a teenage girl's friendship. Just like early Kustorica or Tanovic, in his "No Man's Land," Polish director Jakimowski is a master of balancing the borderline between gravity, irony and comedy.

Gala of Polish Film Awards took place on the 6th March in Warsaw Royal Castle. Eagles 2004 are given by the members of Polish Film Academy. And who won in 2004? Five eagles flight to "Squint Your Eyes," by Andrzej Jakimowski, in four categories: for the best movie, for the best director, for the best actor, for the best script and the best-liked film by the viewing audience.

Congratulations for Andrzej Jakimowski - we wish you continuing success.

E=mc2

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Olaf Lubaszenko
Year: 2002
Run Time: 93 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language

price: $15.00

JANCIO WODNIK (JOHNNY AQUARIUS)

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Genre: Comedy
Director: jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 1993
Run Time: 101 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language

price: $15.00

Kolski's films are mysterious and strange fairy-tales, where the bizarre seems perfectly natural, all taking place in a timeless, rural fantasy-land. A peasant is endowed with miraculous powers; Johnny can make it rain, he heals the sick, raises the dead, and causes water to flow uphill. To answer his critics, Johnny decides to prove his great powers by turning time backwards.