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REWERS
(REVERSE)
DVD | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Drama/Black Comedy
Director: Borys Lankosz
Year: 2009
Run Time:101 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

The early 1950s. Sabina has recently turned 30. Her mother tries to find her a husband. Her grandmother eagerly judges potential suitors. But Sabina finds none of them interesting. Then one day she meets the charming, intelligent and incredibly handsome Bronislaw. His presence will lead to a series of unexpected events that will forever change the lives of these three lonely women.
Reverse is an ironic tale with a twist; a story of the dark side of the feminine soul.

WSZYSTKO CO KOCHAM
(ALL THAT I LOVE)
DVD | PAL |U
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacek Borcuch
Year: 2009
Run Time:100 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Spring of 1981. A wave of strikes sweeps through Poland. Communist authorities are trying to find ways to destroy Solidarity.
Four 18-year-old kids in a seaside town form a punk rock band. Their leader Janek is the son of a prominent navy officer. The boys have more in common than just their passion for music. They also share a fascination with the mature beauty of Janek's neighbour and wife of communist politician Sokolowski, and a crush on their classmate Basia, daughter of a Solidarity activist.
On December 13, 1981 martial law is imposed in Poland and politics take over the boys' previously carefree life. Sokolowski is appointed military commissar with omnipotent authority over the whole town...

DOM ZŁY
(DARK HOUSE)
DVD | PAL |Region 2
Genre: Thriller
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
Year: 2009
Run Time:105 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

One autumn night in 1978 Edward Srodon finds himself on Mr and Ms Dziabas' farm in the remote parts of Bieszczady Mountains.
The bottle of homemade moonshine breaks the ice, and the initial distrust is replaced with friendship and plans to cooperate on a small business venture. But the passion and desire enter the picture. One winter day, just after martial low is introduced in Poland, Lt. Mróz of the Militia is investigating a four-year-old murder case where the main suspect is Srodon...

ZERO
DVD | PAL |Region 2
Genre: Drama
Director: Pawel Borowski
Year: 2009
Run Time:110 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

A big, modern city. 24 hours glued together from the life scraps of Broad-shouldered Businessman, Scruffy Porker, Some Jerk, Skinny Newsboy, Sweaty Taxi Driver, Petite Blond, Elegant Doc, and others. Sometimes their fates intertwine naturally, but at times, it is simply accidental. We are lead deep down into the history of love, hate, betrayal, sex, violence, and other filth.

SENNOŚĆ
(DROWSINESS)
DVD | PAL |U
Genre: Drama
Director: Magdalena Piekorz
Year: 2008
Run Time:105 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

A story about people in a sate of emotional lethargy.
Róýa is an actress, but she cannot work because she suffers from narcolepsy. She suspects her husband of infidelity but she is afraid to face this challenge. A young doctor, Adam, is torn between remaining loyal to his parents and finding his own life. Robert, a well-known writer, is facing a difficult challenge.Sheer coincidence makes the life paths of our heroes cross and the fate gives them a chance to liberate themselves from the emotional fatigue.

MIASTO Z MORZA
(BORN OF THE SEA)
DVD | PAL |U
Genre: Historical
Director: Andrzej Kotkowski
Year:2009
Run Time:115 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

From 1923-1926, just a few years after Poland regained its independence, impressive investments were completed thanks to the efforts of the Polish Government, engineers and workers. Within three years, a new town and harbour were built in Gdynia. This is a tale about work, friendship and love, about hopes and failures. The main character, Krzysztof Grabien, arrives from the interior of the country together with his friend Wolodia Jazowiecki, to participate in the construction of the Gdynia harbour. Here he meets a Kashubian girl, Lucka Konka...

SNOW WHITE AND RUSSIAN RED
(WOJNA POLSKO-RUSKA)
DVD | PAL |Region 2
Genre: Comedy-drama
Director: Xawery Żuławski
Year:2009
Run Time:108 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

A high energy examination of a man coping with relationships and mortality; Snow White and Russian Red follows Yoddo Wormski, a low level criminal who slides through Warsaw's underbelly finding himself in various Kafkaesque situations. Adapted from Dorota Maslowska's post-modern novel, the film voices the problems and confusion of youth experienced in an urban environment. As we follow Yoddo through Dorota's in-film narration, director Xavery Zulawski challenges narrative convention with highly stylized visuals and special effects that maintain a level of smart, sharp dialogue. Borys Szyc is enthralling as the crass yet overly thoughtful and often comedic Yoddo, moving aimlessly around Warsaw as he worries about his recent break up with the beautiful Magda. The picture has already polarized audiences, and whatever one's verdict may be, this is undoubtedly a film with a clearly articulated vision of the world.

MNIEJSZE ZŁO
(THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS)
DVD | U | PAL |
Genre: Drama
Director: Janusz Morgenstern
Year:2009
Run Time:110 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

1980. Kamil, a student of Polish philology, publishes an experimental poem in a prestigious periodical. The world around is engulfed in the Solidarity revolution; everyone is required to choose on which side of the barricade one stands. The image of a rebellious opposition writer is very tempting, but to maintain this position one has to... write. But the creative inspiration abandons our hero; he does not do his best at his studies either.

In order to avoid being conscripted, Kamil is taken to a psychiatric hospital for observation. There, he comes across the manuscript of an excellent novel left behind by an oversensitive roommate who committed suicide. Nobody but Kamil knows about the existence of the masterpiece...

GALERIANKI
(MALL GIRLS)
DVD | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Drama
Director: Katarzyna Roslaniec
Year:2009
Run Time:82 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.
price: $29.95

Film about growing up. It looks at the trials and pitfalls of adolescence that can occur when moral support is lacking for a young teenager. The film follows Alicia, a shy and mild mannered girl who moves to a new school, only to be seduced by the wild and dangerous ways of a few of her peers. Her problems with her parents and sister send her right into the arms of Milena, another troubled teen who sells her body to men for new clothes and cell phones without any qualms. Soon enough, Milena has Alicia following in her footsteps, and we unfortunately watch as Alicia's youthful innocence is stripped from her. Partly a criticism of today's materialistic youth culture, Mall Girls examines the interplay between lacking familial values and grotesque consumerism. Roslaniec introduces us to a world where these girls look for any sort of sensation just to forget about their own loneliness.

ENEN
(CASE UNKNOWN)
DVD | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Thriller
Director: Feliks Falk
Year:2009
Run Time:100 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Borys Szyc as psychiatrist Dr. Konstaty Grot, leads the investigation of the past of a disturbed amnesiac in Feliks Falk's new thriller Enen. In the process of trying to clean up the aftermath of the 1996 Wroclaw flooding, Dr. Grot comes across a patient in his hospital - Pawel Plocki - with no history and no memory of where he came from or when. As the idealistic Doctor works with Pawel an unlikely friendship develops, and the two try together to piece Pawel's past. Problems arise as this quest interferes with Konstaty's family and position at the hospital. The closer they get to the truth the more Konstaty realizes Pawel has been hidden purposefully and that certain forces would like to keep him that way. An exciting thriller who's protagonist shows the importance of compassion and a sense for human dignity.

DANIEL SZCZECHURA:
Polish Animation
DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Animation
Director: Daniel Szczechura
Run time: 281 min.
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles.


price: $29.95

1 DVD:

HOBBY DANIEL SZCZECHURA, 2002
Several animated films by one author:
CONFLICTS, 1960
THE CHAIR, 1963
A GRAPH, 1966
HOBBY, 1968
THE JOURNEY, 1970
FINGERS ON FIRE, 1975
THE LEAP, 1978
FATA MORGANA I, 1981
FATA MORGANA II, 1983
A BEDTIME STORY, 1997

2 DVD:

THE MACHINE, 1961
FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, 1964
CHARLES, 1966
THE PROBLEM, 1977
THE SOCK, 1978
XYZ, 1986
HENRYK TOMASZEWSKI, 1995

VABANK I & II
(COLLECTORS EDITION)
DVD | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Comedy
Director: Juliusz Machulski
Published:2009
Run Time:203 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $39.95

DVD 1
VABANK I (1981)

DVD2
VABANK II (1984)

WLADYSLAW SLESICKI:
Polish School of Documentary
DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Wladyslaw Slesicki
Run time: 281 min.
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.
price: $25.95

1 DVD:

FAMILY OF MAN, 1966, 25'
AMID PEOPLE, 1960, 14'
A TEAM OF FOREST SPIRIT, 1957, 15'
THE RAFTS SAIL ON, 1962, 20'
THE MOUNTAIN, 1964, 15'
BEFORE LEAVES FALL..., 1964, 28'
SLOPING FIELDS, 1970, 21'

2 DVD:

THE GYPSY CAMP, 1955, 13'
ROAD STORY, 1958, 19'
A WALK IN BIESZCZADY, 1958, 6'
PORTRAIT OF A SMALL TOWN, 1961, 9'
PEOPLE AND FISH, 1962, 13'
THE TWENTY-FIRST, 1964, 13'
A MOMENT OF SILENCE, 1965, 18'
DAYS MONTHS YEARS..., 1966, 16'
ENERGY, 1967, 18'
SUGAR MILL IN MOROCCO, 1964, 18'

PAWEL LOZINSKI:
Polish School of Documentary
DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Pawel Lozinski
Run time: 338 min.
Year: 2009
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.
price: $25.95

1 DVD:

STRUCTURE, 1989
100 YEARS AT THE CINEMA, 1995
SLAWOMIR MROZEK PRESENTS, 1997
THE SISTERS, 1999
A WOMAN FROM UKRAINE, 2002
KITTY, KITTY, 2008

2 DVD:

BIRTHPLACE, 1992
THE WAY IT IS, 1999
CHEMO, 2008

TADEUSZ KONWICKI - BOX
DVD | Region 0
Director: Tadeusz Konwicki
Published:2009
Run Time:324 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $49.95

Issa Valley (Dolina Issy) - 1982, 102 min.
How Far, How Near (Jak daleko stad, jak blisko) - 1971, 93 min.
Lava (Lawa) - 1989, 129 min.

Passerby (Przechodzień) - 1984, 36 min, dir. Andrzej Titkow

CZTERY NOCE Z ANNA
(FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA)
DVD | U | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Year:2008
Run Time:101 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Leon Okrasa works a hospital in a small city in Poland. He once witnessed a brutal rape. The victim, Anna, is now a young nurse in the same hospital. Leon spends his time spying on Anna day and night. It becomes an obsession. One night, he climbs into her apartment through a window she has left open. Leon sits on her bed, watching her in her sleep, immersing himself in her world. How far will he go?

33 SCENY Z ZYCIA
(33 SCENES FROM LIFE)
DVD | U | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Drama
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Year:2008
Run Time:95 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Young Julia is happy and fulfilled, both personally and professionally: her career as a photographer is going from strength to strength, she is close to her sister, her successful artist parents - father is a filmmaker, mother a writer - and her loving husband who is a contemporary music composer. Love and mutual esteem bind this family together: spending long summer evenings under the stars, talking about each others' work and future projects, in a warm and festive atmosphere. However, this idyllic period comes to an end when Julia's mother learns she has cancer. This disease, the outcome of which remains in doubt for a long time, has a profoundly disturbing effect on them all, and Julia, whose career begins to suffer, sees those around her, those who used to protect her, collapse one after another.

MALA MOSKWA
(LITTLE MOSCOW)
DVD | U | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Drama
Director: Waldemar Krzystek
Year:2008
Run Time:119 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

The love story between the Russian wife of a Soviet military pilot and a young Polish lieutenant. Viera and Michal meet in 1967 in Legnica (the Polish city with the largest Russian army), during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.

BOISKO BEZDOMNYCH
(THE OFFSIDERS)
DVD | U | PAL | Region 2
Genre: Feature
Director: Kasia Adamik
Year:2008
Run Time:126 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Jacek is a former player of National Polish soccer team and a current homeless inhabitant of the Cental Station. Against all odds he decides to establish a football team with his fellow misfits.

KATYN
Blu-Ray Disc | Region 2
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year:2007
Run Time:125 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $49.95

As a result of Soviet Union invasion on Poland on September 17, 1939, 4500 of Polish officers and cadets were taken captive and imprisoned in P.O.W. camp in Kozielsk in USSR. By the order of Stalin, most of them were executed in Katyn near Smolensk in April and May 1940. All together about 22 thousand of officers, soldiers and policemen imprisoned in three camps: Kozielsk, Ostaszkowo, and Starobielsk were murdered. In 1943 Germans announced that they discovered the graves of murdered by NKVD in Katyn. Soviets denied and accused Germans of this crime. Soviets deliberately fabricated evidence to authenticate their lie. In communist Poland telling the truth about Katyn resulted in persecution by Secret Police. "Katyn" does not tell the story of Katyn massacre. The film tells about Katyn lie. Families of the victims had to live with awareness of not only a great harm, but also a cynical lie.

TESTIMONY
DVD | U | NTSC
Genre: Documentary
Director: Pawel Pitera
Year:2008
Run Time:90 min.
Country: Poland
Language: English

price: $24.95

TESTIMONY is a groundbreaking feature film documentary event that chronicles the untold story of Pope John Paul II, a man who touched the lives of billions, and was one of the 20th Century's most influential leaders.

Told through never-before-seen archival footage, historical recreations, and key interviews with
the Pontiff’s trusted advisor of 40 years, TESTIMONY is an unprecedented look at the private spiritual life and public persona of Karol Wojtyla, a man whose lifelong devotion to God and humanity eventually earned him the title of Pope John Paul II.

Lovingly narrated by MICHAEL YORK (Omega Code, the Bible Series), and featuring music by OscarŽ winning composer Vangelis, TESTIMONY was filmed in secret, off-limits corners of the Vatican, and is full of new and fascinating revelations about the Pope.

50 LAT POLSKIEJ SZKOLY FILMOWEJ 3
(50 YEARS OF POLISH FILM SCHOOL 3)
5 DVD

DVD | U | PAL

price: $75.00

This box included:

EWA CHCE SPAC (EWA WANTS TO SLEEP)
dir. Tadeusz Chmielewski
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

ZIMOWY ZMIERZCH (WINTER TWILIGHT)
dir. Stanisław Lenartowicz
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

PIGULKI DLA AURELII (PILLS FOR AURELIA)
dir. Stanisław Lenartowicz
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

ZAMACH (ANSWER TO VIOLENCE)
dir. Jerzy Passendorfer
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

SWIADECTWO URODZENIA (BIRTH CERTIFICATE)
dir. Stanisław Różewicz
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

50 LAT POLSKIEJ SZKOLY FILMOWEJ 2
(50 YEARS OF POLISH FILM SCHOOL 2)
5 DVD

DVD | U | PAL

price: $75.00

This box included:

ZEZOWATE SZCZESCIE (BAD LUCK)
dir. Andrzej Munk
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

EROICA
dir. Andrzej Munk
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

POCIAG (BALTIC EXPRESS)
dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

KRZYZ WALECZNYCH (CROSS OF VALOUR)
dir. Kazimierz Kutz
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

NIKT NIE WOLA (NOBODY'S CALLING)
dir. Kazimierz Kutz
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

50 LAT POLSKIEJ SZKOLY FILMOWEJ
(50 YEARS OF POLISH FILM SCHOOL)
5 DVD

DVD | U | PAL

price: $75.00

This box included:

KANAL (KANAL/THEY LOVED LFE)
dir. Andrzej Wajda
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

POPIOL I DIAMENT (ASHES AND DIAMONDS)
dir. Andrzej Wajda
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

LOTNA
dir. Andrzej Wajda
Language: Polish language with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

OSTATNI DZIEN LATA (LAST DAY OF SUMMER)
dir. Tadeusz Konwicki
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

DO WIDZENIA DO JUTRA (GOODBYE TILL TOMORROW)
dir. Janusz Morgenstern
Language: Polish language with English, French, German subtitles.

AGNIESZKA HOLLAND-4 DVDs Box

DVD | Region 0
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Published:2008
Run Time:404 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $49.95

"SCREEN TESTS" (ZDJECIA PROBNE, 1976, 99'),
"PROVINCIAL ACTORS" (AKTORZY PROWINCJONALNI, 1978, 104'),
"FEVER" (GORACZKA, 1980, 110'),
"A LONELY WOMAN" (KOBIETA SAMOTNA, 1981, 91')

CHILDREN IN EXILE

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Documentary
Director: Chris Swider
Year:2007
Run Time:60 min.
Country: USA
Language: English

price: $24.95

Polish survivors of Soviet deportation to Siberia during the Second World War describe their experiences as the youngest victims of the deadly Soviet system. Combining interviews with archival photographs, archival film footage, and artwork created by survivors, the film reveals a poignant picture of how these extremely difficult circumstances were experienced by children and teenagers. The film's director is also beginning on a companion work, Women in Exile about the fate of women in Soviet labor camps.

PRZEDWIOSNIE
(THE SPRING TO COME)

VHS | NTSC (LIMITED EDITION)
Genre: Drama
Director: Filip Bajon
Year:2001
Run Time:146 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $14.95

A story of rebellion, love and the confusion of growing up, of the search for meaning and a place in a changing world, based on the famed novel by Polish writer Stefan Zeromski. Prior to the outbreak of war, the protagonist, Cezary Baryka, lives with his parents in the multiracial city of Baku. At the time of his first falling in love, Russian revolutionaries invade the town. His friends and his beloved Armenian girl, Aida, are murdered, and his mother is arrested and dies in a work camp. His father, who returns home secretly, convinces his son to leave for Poland and to look up a family friend when he gets to Warsaw. War breaks out and on the battlefield Cezary saves the life of his friend Hipolit. The young aristocrat later invites him to visit his family estate in Nawloc. But then love enters Cezary's life once more. His inner voice warns him what he should not do, but it no longer suggests what is most important in life. Only tragic events can lead this young man to the threshold of maturity.

MALA WIELKA MILOSC
(EXPECTING LOVE)

DVD | U | PAL
Genre: Fiction
Director: Lukasz Karwowski
Year:2008
Run Time:107 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Ian is a successful lawyer from Los Angeles with great social and professional perspectives. Suddenly he is thunderstruck with the news about the pregnancy of Joanna, a girl from Poland he had a short affair wit...

WSZYSTKO BEDZIE DOBRZE
(ALL WILL BE WELL)

DVD | U | PAL
Genre: Fiction
Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski
Year:2008
Run Time:98 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

12-years-old boy Pawelek decides to run through half of Poland to miraculous portrait of Holy Mary to beg for recovery of his gravely ill mother. An alcoholics sports teacher decides to join him, yet not entirely selflessly. For both of them the pilgrimage will be a trial of character.

SZTUCZKI
(TRICKS)

DVD | 2 | PAL
Genre: Fiction
Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Year:2007
Run Time:95 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

6-years-old Stefek has his head in the clouds. The bit of reality he needs, he imagines it. He closes small deals with destiny and does not shy away from white lies either. He loves to hang out at the train station and to accompany his 17-years-old sister Elka wherever she goes. Sometimes he shows up at her dates or squeezes himself in between her an her admirer on the motorbike. He observes a man on the platform who always just manages to catch the train. Stefek assumes that this man is his father whom he never met. He almost manages to lure him to his mother's shop using one of his tricks. But sometimes tricks simply fail. Is it really his father anyway? What is he going to do with the bouquet of red roses? Is it possible to just wish to have a father and to conjure one up like in a fairy tale? Which train do you need to take to get to your destination? A laconic and relaxed film about the power of a child's imagination. And a poetic portrait of the Polish province.

HANIA

DVD | 2 | PAL
Genre: Fiction
Director: Janusz Kaminski
Year:2007
Run Time:100 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

It's Christmas Eve. Ola and Wojtek, a young and childless couple, invite Kacper, a kid from the orphanage, to spend the holidays together. Wojtek recalls his own childhood which was a nightmare because of his authoritative father. That special day spent with a resolute boy of a great imagination allows Wojtek to overcome his own fears, relax and to open himself for love. Kacper, like Jesus, brings young protagonists the Good News along with hope for profound and meaningful lif...

Beautiful and poignant story of love by the two-time Oscar winning cinematographer.
A smashing role of Agnieszka Grochowska, one of the most talented young European actresses.

PORA UMIERAC
(TIME TO DIE)

DVD | 0 | PAL
Genre: Fiction
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska
Year:2007
Run Time:100 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

Aniela, an old lady owns once beautiful wooden villa which is now heavily devastated. After many years she gets rid of a last and long time tenant who was placed there by the communist authorities. Now finally the lady is able to make her dreams come true by renovating the villa and restoring its original splendor. Yet her son is not going to help her with any renovation efforts and secretly plans to sell the house. Aniela is determined to take matters into her hands…

KOROWOD
(TWIST OF FATE)

DVD | U | PAL
Genre: Fiction
Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Year:2008
Run Time:112 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $24.95

The relationship between two generations of contemporary Poles: students and their parents, and a look at one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary Polish politics, lustration: the rediscovery of dark times in the past in a mood of widespread suspicion.

LEJDIS

DVD | U | PAL
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tomasz Konecki, Andrzej Saramonowicz
Year:2008
Run Time:134 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $29.95

In the smash hit Testosteron, directed with Andrzej Saramanowicz, Tomasz Konecki took a hilarious look at men, machos and muscle... In this follow up comedy, it's young independent ladies who get the comedy treatment, standing up for each other in a constant battle against the weaker sex.

THE CROSS-WAY CAFE

DVD | U | PAL
Genre: Drama
Director: Leszek Wosiewicz
Year:2005
Run Time:112 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language with English subtitles.

price: $24.95

A contemporary story about a group of young and ambitious people from the country who commit a serious crime to improve their financial status. Musician Kazik Staszewski narrates the film. He sings about people in doubt who try to find their way in the deceitful and devoid of ideals world.

THE ANTHOLOGY OF POLISH EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION

DVD: REGION: 0
Genre: Animation
Year: 2008
Run time: 259 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $34.95

"Experimental animation is a broad notion that can be applied to many genres of animated film that break with formal and narrative conventions. The present anthology is a selection of some forty productions that do not quite fit into the mainstream of film animation. On the three discs the viewer will find abstract films, films composed of photographic images subjected to manipulation, as well as animations drawn in unconventional fashion. Some of these are works by well-known artists from beyond the cinematic milieu - writer Stefan Themerson and his painter wife Franciszka, for example, the designer Andrzej Pawlowski, or the photographer Tomek Sikora. There are also works by leading Polish contemporary artists like Jozef Robakowski and Jerzy Kalina. There is no lack of work by world-renowned animators like Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Zbigniew Rybczynski or Jerzy Kucia. The choice of films included in the Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation is so varied that every viewer is sure to find something of great interest".
Marcin Gizycki

1 DVD:
- The Eye and The Ear, 1944/45, Franciszka i Stefan Themersonowie
- Once Upon a Time..., 1957, Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
- Cinéforms, 1957, Andrzej Pawlowski
- Here and There, 1957, Andrzej Pawlowski
- The Banner of Youth, 1957, Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
- Somnambulists, 1958, Mieczyslaw Waskowski
- The Dynamic Rectangle, 1971, Jozef Robakowski
- Test I, 1971, Jozef Robakowski
- Demons, 1980, Kazimierz Urbanski
- Stomp, 1984, Maciej Cwiek
- Muka, 2003, Natalia Wilkoszewska
- III, 2003, Jakub Lech
- 1-39-C, 2004, Olga Wroniewicz

2 DVD:
- Sweet Rhythms, 1965, Kazimierz Urbanski
- Oneself at the Helm, 1971, Katarzyna Latallo
- Replica, 1975, Kazimierz Bendkowski
- New Book, 1975, Zbigniew Rybczynski
- Oh, I Can't Stop!, 1975, Zbigniew Rybczynski
- Portrait, 1977, Stanislaw Lenartowicz
- Dead Shadow, 1980, Andrzej Klimowski
- Line, 1981, Grzegorz Rogala
- The First Film, 1981, Jozef Piwkowski
- Block, 1982, Hieronim Neumann
- Splinters, 1984, Jerzy Kucia
- Video-Disc, 1986, Maciej Cwiek
- Zoopraxiscope, 2005, Hieronim Neumann

3 DVD:
- Beach, 1964, Edward Sturlis
- COPYRIGHT BY FILM POLSKI MCWLXXVI, 1976, Piotr Szulkin
- Sun: A Non-Camera Film, 1977, Julian Antonisz
- What Do We See After Closing Our Eyes and Stopping Our Ears?, 1978, Julian Antonisz
- Bermuda Wheel, 1979, Jerzy Kalina
- Cinéma Vérité, 1979, Andrzej Warchal
- An Unforgettable Night, 1996, Janek Koza
- Family Business, 1996, Janek Koza
- Death to Five, 2002, Mariusz Wilczynski
- Unfortunately, 2004, Mariusz Wilczynski
- Bark, You Mongrel, Raise Hell, My Pearl, 2006, Wojciech Bakowski
- Spoken Movie 1, 2007, Wojciech Bakowski
- Cap, 2007, Tomek Sikora
- Cakes, 2007, Tomek Sikora

ANTOLOGY OF POLISH CHILDREN'S ANIMATION

DVD: REGION: 0
Genre: Animation
Year: 2008
Run time: 357 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $29.95

Polskie Wydawnictwo Audiowizualne has released the long-awaited DVD album "Anthology of Polish Children's Animation". Thirty-seven best Polish animated films on three DVD records complete with texts by the series editor, Marcin Gizycki.

An Anthology of Polish Children's Animation includes almost forty shorts chosen from amongst several hundred award-winning or critically well-received films from the last 60 years. Although it does not include selections from the most popular animated series (they deserve a separate release), some of those characters, like Bolek and Lolek or Rexie are represented here, as they had previously appeared in separate films. The works presented here contain no violence, but are intended not only for younger viewers, but also for lovers of art film, who will value their unusually high artistic quality and innovative form. Among the directors included are some of the most famous names in Polish animation, among them Zenon Wasilewski, Witold Giersz, Daniel Szczechura, Julian Antonisz, and Academy Award-winner Zbigniew Rybczyński. Marcin Gizycki.

DVD 1
- ZA KRÓLA KRAKUSA [In the Time of King Krakus] (1947) directed by Zenon Wasilewski
- CYRK [Circus] (1954) directed by Wlodzimierz Haupe
- MYSZKA I KOTEK [Cat and Mouse] (1958) directed by Wladyslaw Nehrebecki
- BULANDRA I DIABEL [Bulandra and the Devil] (1959) directed by Jerzy Zitzman, Lechoslaw Marszalek
- PYZA [Dumpling] (1959) directed by Lucjan Dembinski
- MALY WESTERN [A Little Western] (1960) directed by Witold Giersz
- PRZYGODA W PASKI [An Adventure in Stripes] (1960) directed by Alina Maliszewska
- ZA BOREM, ZA LASEM [Beyond the Wood, Beyond the Forest] (1961) directed by Wladyslaw Nehrebecki
- SCYZORYK [The Pocket-Knife] (1961) directed by Leszek Lorek
- KUSZA [Crossbow] (1963) directed by Wladyslaw Nehrebecki
- DINOZAURY [Dinosaurs] (1963) directed by Witold Giersz
- KWARTECIK [The Little Quartet] (1965) directed by Edward Sturlis

DVD 2
- MALUCH [Maluch The Little Car] (1965) directed by Lucjan Dembinski
- NIESPODZIANKA [The Surprise] (1965) directed by Teresa Badzian
- REKSIO POLIGLOTA [Rexie the Polyglot] (1967) directed by Lechoslaw Marszalek
- CZARNE CZY BIALE [Black or White] (1967) directed by Waclaw Wajser
- PIESEK W KRATKE [The Little Checked Dog] (1968) directed by Zofia Oldak
- KUNDELEK [The Little Mongrel] (1969) directed by Lidia Hornicka
- MIKI MOL [Miki Mol] (1975) directed by Ryszard Antoniszczak
- ZADYMKA [The Blizzard] (1976) directed by Piotr Szpakowicz
- SMOK BARNABA [Barnaby the Dragon] (1977) directed by Tadeusz Wilkosz
- NIELOTEK [The Little Flightless Bird] (1984) directed by Lucja Mróz-Raynoch
- O NAJWIEKSZEJ KLOTNI [The Biggest Quarrel] (1999) directed by Zbigniew Kotecki
- KRAWIEC NITECZKA [Tailor Thin-as-a-Thread] (2005) directed by Andrzej Gosieniecki

DVD 3
- GUZIK [Button] (1964) directed by Teresa Badzian
- OSTATNIE ZERO [The Last Zero] (1965) directed by Alina Maliszewska
- BAJKA [A Tale] (1968) directed by Ryszard Kuziemski
- JAK TO SIE DZIEJE [How Is It That...?] (1970) directed by Julian Antonisz
- JAK NAUKA WYSZLA Z LASU [How Learning Came Back Out of the Woods] (1970) directed by Julian Antonisz
- WSPANIALY MARSZ [The Wonderful March] (1970) directed by Witold Giersz
- JESLI UJRZYSZ KOTA [If You Spot a Cat Flying Through the Air] (1971) directed by Daniel Szczechura
- CZARODZIEJSKIE TROJKATY [Enchanted Triangles] (1972) directed by Stefan Janik
- ZEGNAJ PARO [Farewell to Steam] (1974) directed by Ryszard Antoniszczak
- LOKOMOTYWA [Locomotive] (1976) directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski
- KULE I KOLA [Balls and Wheels] (1988) directed by Lucja Mróz-Raynoch
- DOBRANOCKA [The Bedtime Story] (1997) directed by Daniel Szczechura
- KOSMICZNA GRA [The Cosmic Game] (2000) directed by Robert Turlo

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: $24.95

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: $24.95

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

GRYCZELOWSKA/HALLADIN/KAMIENSKA: Polish School of Documentary

DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 342 min.
Year: 2009
DVD: 3 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.95

Gryczełowska, Kamieńska and Halladin are three great individualities of the Polish Documentary School. Each of them, disparately, paints a vision of Poland in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It is difficult to imagine Polish documentary cinema without their films, (...) they never created films together, neither were their achievements linked through a common denominator, nor were they brought together, like they have in this compilation. Nevertheless, the output of these three documentary filmmakers does have plenty in common. Against the background of other films, these stand out thanks to their very specific vantage points. The authors adopt the attitude of a "delicate observer", who looks at the world penetratingly and warmly".

Mikołaj Jazdon

DVD 1 - Krystyna Gryczełowska:
1. Siedliszcze /1960/ 7'
2. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays /1965/ 10'
3. His Name is Blazej Rejdak, He Lives in Roznica in the Jedrzejowski Powiat /1968/ 16'
4. The 24 Hours of Jadwiga L. /1967/ 14'
5. 90 days a Year/1968/ 14'
6. Our Friends from Lodz/1971/ 16'
7. ...In February 1971 /1971/ 10'
8. The Well /1986/ 14'

DVD 2 - Danuta Halladin:
1. First Grade /1960/ 10'
2. My Street/1965/ 9'
3. The Family /1971/ 15'
4. To Go Amongst People /1973/ 13'
5. The Thershold /1975/ 17'
6. A Lodz Life, reż. wspólnie z Lidią Zonn /1984/ 19'

DVD 3 - Irena Kamieńska:
1. Good Morning, Children /1966/ 12'
2. The Dam /1976/ 16'
3. A Beautiful Freezing Polish Winter /1978/ 17'
4. Workwomen /1981/ 16'
5. Day After Day /1988/ 16'
6. Missionaries of Charity, reż. wspólnie z Jadwigą Zajicek /1991/ 31'
7. Fog /1993/ 20'
8. The Church on Mount Zion /1996/ 30'

JACEK BLAWUT: Polish School of Documentary

DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jacek Blawut
Run time: 333 min.
Year: 2009
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.95

DVD1
1) Without Title /1980/ 4'
2) View /1984/ 9'
3) A Slide to the Sky /1985/ 15'
4) Lump of Sugar /1986/ 9'
5) The Abnormals /1990/ 75'
6) Rugged Souls /1995/ 57'

DVD2
7) Skalski's Circus /1986/ 21'
8) I Was a General of Wehrmaht /1988/ 18'
9) Your Native Country /2002/ 26'
10) Born Dead /2004/ 52'
11) Rat in the Crown/2005/ 47'

MARIA ZMARZ-KOCZANOWICZ:
Polish School of Documentrary

DVD | Region: 0
Genre: Documentary
Director: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
Run time: 362 min.
Year: 2009
DVD: 2 DVDs
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English, French, German, Russian subtitles.

price: $24.95

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.

DVD 1

1) "Everyone Knows Who They Are Standing Behind", 1983
2) "I Am a Man", 1985
3) "The Office", 1986
4) "Major, or the Revolution of the Gnomes", 1989
5) "Hanky Panky", 1996
6) "Gdanski Station", 2007

DVD 2

1) "Generation 89", 2002
2) "Dziennik.pl", 2004
3) "I Love Poland", 2007

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: $24.95

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: $24.95

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: $24.95

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: $24.95

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: $24.95

"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: $24.95

"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: $24.95

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)

KRÓTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU
(A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Year: 1987
Run time: 81 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $29.95

Polish icon Krzysztof Kieslowski takes his famed European TV series, "Decalogue," and uses it as inspiration for this film about life in a modern and exceedingly random time. Three Warsaw residents, a cab driver, a nomad and a lawyer are on a heartbreaking collision course that exposes the vindictive, competitive and ultimately cruel side of humanity.

NÓŻ W WODZIE
(KNIFE IN THE WATER)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 1962
Run time: 94 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $29.95

Based on Jerzy Kawalerowicz's script, Polanski's first feature film is considered one of the most significant cinematic achievements of Eastern European cinema during the Communist era. It is a simple, intimate story involving a couple on a yachting weekend who participate in an intricate-and dangerous-emotional game with a young, attractive hitchhiker. With just three characters, a boat, and a huge expanse of sea, the film descends into dramatic convolutions that build an ambiguous tension while revealing the deep psychological complexities of the characters.

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

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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: $15.95

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

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

Language:
Polish, with English subtitles

price: $15.95

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)

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

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.95

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)

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

Language: Polish language. English & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.95

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)

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

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

price: $15.95

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)

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

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles

price: $15.95

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)

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

Language: Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles

price: $15.95

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)

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

Language:
Polish, with English Subtitles

price: $15.95

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)

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

Language: Polish language

price: $15.95

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: $15.95

JANCIO WODNIK (JOHNNY AQUARIUS)

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

Language: Polish language

price: $15.95

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.