A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects... > more

A stowaway, of all people, is the activities co-ordinator who rules a cruise ship with a rod of iron. His activities reflect the behavioural stereotypes and ideologies of the communist system. The mood is grotesque, the dialogue surreal, the... > more

Twenty-nine shots from the life of Andrzej Leszczyc, a youngnon-conformist on the threshold to adulthood and at sea in his world. Jerzy Skolimowski, who also plays the lead, edited his debut feature from films made as part of his training at the... > more

Dr. Margarete Wach: Cinematic East-West Divan: the children of Marx and Coca-Cola, poètes maudits, coincidentia oppositorum, or “Nouvelle Vague Polonaise“ three times over.

Prof. Dr. Andrzej Gwózdz: A New Wave in Poland or the Will to Modern Cinema

An old man, a young woman, a baby. The precise nature of their connection remains unexplained. They spend their days together, but their life is not so much shared as conducted along parallel lines. A factory dominates the man’s dreams in his... > more

After completing his military service (if not his university degree), Leszczyc is getting by as a boxer in show tournaments. Aware he doesn’t stand a chance of winning the final, Leszczyc ponders whether to give up and concede a walkover, i.e.... > more

The nameless young hero attempts to overcome the barriers separating him from the world about him: barriers of age, of money, of old rituals, conventions and hierarchies. He drops out of college, moves out of his student hostel, stops... > more

Dr. Iwona Kurz: Confusion of Languages. Cult Films of Marek Piwowski and Janusz Kondratiuk and their Contexts

Prof. Dr. Ewa Mazierska: The Polish New Wave between the East and the West

Ten years after graduating in medicine, the former students meet up again. One face is missing – and a group of friends decide to visit its owner, who is now a physician in the countryside. Travelling by freight train they joke about the... > more

The meeting between two men who were students together – one has made a career as a scientist, the other has withdrawn to the countryside – demonstrates two attitudes to life: one is active, the other contemplative. The latter’s... > more

Stations in the life of a fledgling natural scientist in search of the meaning of life and death: this initiation process enables Franciszek to break out of his self-imposed isolation and repair his familial bonds. But no sooner has he done so... > more

Dr. Jakub Mikurda: The “Polish New Wave“ as Phantasmatic Criticism – Zuławski, Królikiewicz, Skolimowski

Dr. Elzbieta Ostrowska: Transgressions and Regressions. Gender images in Polish Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s

Was there a “Nouvelle Vague Polonaise“? And if so, how many?
with Krzysztof Zanussi, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Tadeusz Lubelski, Dr. Magarete Wach

A stowaway, of all people, is the activities co-ordinator who rules a cruise ship with a rod of iron. His activities reflect the behavioural stereotypes and ideologies of the communist system. The mood is grotesque, the dialogue surreal, the... > more

A socially disadvantaged couple murders two old-age pensioners on impulse. The protagonists’ sense of futility, of being despised by the world around them, rouses an unquenchable desire to perpetrate a crime that calls to mind the resolute... > more

A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects... > more

This apocalyptic vision set in Lviv (Lemberg) under German occupation offers a highly idiosyncratic take on the authentic experiences of a writer who, recruited to play host for lice, contributes to the occupiers’ development of a vaccination... > more

A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects... > more

January 1793. The Prussian army marches into Greater Poland. After a massacre in a convent a young nun and the would-be regicide Jakub are led to safety by a stranger. Jakub now becomes both witness to and agent of the collapse of any residual... > more