Polish Movies 1989
polish films made in 1989
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- DirectorRoman ZaluskiStarsGrazyna Blecka-KolskaDariusz SiatkowskiKatarzyna LaniewskaKasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.
- DirectorMaciej DejczerStarsWojciech KlataRafal ZimowskiKama KowalewskaBased on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.
- DirectorMiroslaw BorkStarsPiotr FronczewskiMaria PakulnisKrzysztof ZaleskiThis film is based on the life of a swindler called Jack Silberstein who was active until the end of 1960s.
- DirectorMarek KoterskiStarsZbigniew RolaAgnieszka WojcikIwona Katarzyna PawlakMiddle aged man lies sleeplessly in bed, recalling his numerous sexual encounters. The various couplings are haphazard, loveless affairs in which most of the women are as anxious to release sexual tension as he is. He fails to find fulfillment and is left with feelings of despair and hopelesness.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsJerzy StuhrVladimir GolovinWojciech WysockiDuring the Prohibition, Chicago mob send a hitman after a traitor. The only problem is that his traces lead to Odessa, and no one hitman can overcome the hardcore Soviet bureaucracy.
- DirectorMagdalena LazarkiewiczStarsZbigniew SuszynskiAgnieszka KowalskaAleksander BednarzAs high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
- DirectorTadeusz KonwickiStarsGustaw HoloubekJolanta Pietek-GóreckaArtur ZmijewskiIn the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
- DirectorJacek BromskiStarsPiotr MachalicaJoanna TrzepiecinskaAnna RomantowskaThe lives of a famous sexologist Olgierd Pasikonik and his avid reader Anna intertwine when she runs away from the altar following the advice from his press column.
- DirectorWaldemar KrzystekStarsKrzysztof KolbergerAgnieszka KowalskaDorota SegdaEvents are set in December of 1981: mobs of buyers descend on an already depleted supermarket. Most of the film happens on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise. Most passengers, however, have already decided to jump ship when it docks in Hamburg. One of the passengers is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is carrying addresses of underground printing offices, contact points, etc. to sympathizers abroad in case the labor union is banned in Poland. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info. When the ship is in the middle of the Baltic sea, martial law is declared and the ship is militarized. The captain announces he will turn and return the home port. Many anguished passengers put the life vests on and jump into the sea, where they are picked up by two German ships. The teacher, however, decides to return to Poland and continue the struggle for freedom.
- DirectorRadoslaw PiwowarskiStarsMalgorzata PiorunMonika BollyRobert KowalskiYoung people in Poland of the late 1960s have to face life-changing dilemmas and make tough choices. Some of them are forced to leave their country for having Jewish origins. Others are persecuted for political reasons.
- DirectorKrzysztof NowakStarsKrzysztof KowalewskiWojciech PokoraDorota KaminskaPiotr is left by his wife and tries to kill himself, but his best friend Marek, convinced that only a new woman can bring back happiness to Piotr's life, saves him and persuades Piotr to go together to a summer resort.
- DirectorFeliks FalkStarsPiotr MachalicaGabriela KownackaJakub JablonskiPiotr gets back to Poland after two years in America. He tries to invest the money he earned on the local market but that seems quite a challenge.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsKrystyna JandaArtur ZmijewskiMaja KomorowskaDifficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
- DirectorFilip BajonStarsZbigniew ZamachowskiHanna PolkHenryk BistaWinter age immobilizes trains at stations. Passengers of one of the organization New Year's ball.
- DirectorJacek SkalskiStarsDorota PomykalaMiroslaw BakaAlicja JachiewiczA young student, expelled from university for taking part in strikes, and a middle-aged married woman, whose husband is abroad, fall madly in love during the tumultuous times of 1980s martial law.
- DirectorJanusz KijowskiStarsJerzy AtlasBoguslaw AugustynPiotr BajorRealistic account of the 1981 events in Poland during the martial law. The plot takes place in a theater company and revolves around a mysterious briefcase, contents of which are never revealed. The set painter hands it over to the actor, who is then seized by the police. Submitted to the interrogation, he insists he knows nothing about it. He escapes from the police station and goes into hiding in an apartment occupied by a young girl with whom he falls in love. The actor is apprehended once again, jailed and to be released years later.
- DirectorRyszard BerStarsJerzy KryszakKrzysztof JasinskiKrzysztof KolbergerThe year is 1575 when Transylvanian prince Stefan Batory sends his loyal servant, Szymon Mroczek, to Warsaw. The mission is to gain support for him to become the next king of Poland.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsRoland BlancheVernon DobtcheffFrançois BerléandOn the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.z Francją
- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsOlaf LubaszenkoPetr CepekAnna Majcher19-year-old Ludwik joins a secret anti-Austria organization.
- DirectorZbigniew RebzdaStarsTadeusz ParadowiczJana SvandováHanna StankównaAfter the accident in which the protagonist's daughter dies, he ends up in a town dominated by punks. The mayor urges them to abide by their laws and customs. Soon a series of crimes takes place, and the punks are under suspicion.
- DirectorStanislaw RózewiczStarsJacek MikolajczakEwa DalkowskaHenryk MachalicaBiographical film based on the short story 'A Lodging for the Night' by Robert Louis Stevenson.z Czechosłowacją
- DirectorCzeslaw PetelskiStarsSylwia WysockaRobert InglotLidia KorsakównaEarly 1939. Hanna goes to a ball accompanied by Lieutenant Biesiekierski and engineer Leszek Oleszkiewicz. August 1939: a requisition of horses takes place in Powilanice.
- DirectorVladimír DrhaStarsGrzegorz EmanuelPiotr RzymyszkiewiczMarkéta HrubesováThe Kingdom of the hawks is suffering under the rule of a tyrant. A prophecy says that his own son will free the Empire.z Czechosłowacją