Jan Ossowski Movies

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

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show...

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man.

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality...

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the...

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now...

Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security...

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends...

After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.

A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.