Top Polish Movies 1992
The best and the most popular Polish movies of 1992.
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- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaMarek KondratCezary PazuraIn the good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from the secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to a new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz will soon find out that some of his friends are on the other side.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsRafal KrólikowskiAdrianna BiedrzynskaCezary PazuraA young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMax von SydowLothaire BluteauSarah MilesHenry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
- DirectorRobert GlinskiStarsEwa SkibinskaKrzysztof GlobiszAdam SiemionWhen the war breaks out, renowned Polish-Jewish poet Aleksander Wat leaves German-occupied Warsaw with his wife Ola and their son. In Lviv, however, they are arrested by the Soviets and separated. Ola and her son are sent to Siberia.
- DirectorWaldemar KrzystekStarsWojciech AsinskiMariusz BenoitZygmunt BielawskiSet in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left for Australia.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsAleksander BednarzGrzegorz DamieckiBernard-Pierre DonnadieuA young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
- DirectorKrzysztof LangStarsGary KempJoanna TrzepiecinskaRita TushinghamA young and pretty Polish woman arrives in Newcastle to marry a British doctor she met in Poland, only to find that he's changed his mind. Not wanting to return to Poland and in need of Indefinite Leave to Remain Citizenship, she proposes marriage to the astonished patient who happens to be in the doctors office at the time. Since he desperately needs cash to pay a mob debt, he later accepts.
- DirectorJanusz KijowskiStarsLambert WilsonHanna SchygullaJulie DelpyIn the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.
- DirectorJan LomnickiStarsJan EnglertKrzysztof WakulinskiMarzena TrybalaHow to make big money after the communism collapses in Poland.
- DirectorJacek GasiorowskiStarsZbigniew ZamachowskiJule JaphetMonika BollySet in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.