Movies: Czesław Piaskowski

  • 1973
    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    7.61973HD

    Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares....

    The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • 1966
    Pharaoh

    Pharaoh (1966)

    Pharaoh

    6.71966HD

    Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country....

    Pharaoh
  • 1974
    The Deluge

    The Deluge (1974)

    The Deluge

    7.21974HD

    During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories....

    The Deluge
  • 1959
    Night Train

    Night Train (1959)

    Night Train

    7.51959HD

    Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in ...

    Night Train
  • 1959
    Lotna

    Lotna (1959)

    Lotna

    5.21959HD

    Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit....

    Lotna
  • 1973
    Copernicus

    Copernicus (1973)

    Copernicus

    5.51973HD

    A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres....

    Copernicus
  • 1948
    The Last Stage

    The Last Stage (1948)

    The Last Stage

    7.11948HD

    Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate....

    The Last Stage
  • 1956
    Shadow

    Shadow (1956)

    Shadow

    6.21956HD

    A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in ...

    Shadow
  • 1952
    Young Chopin

    Young Chopin (1952)

    Young Chopin

    5.71952HD

    Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history....

    Young Chopin
  • 1958
    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    6.81958HD

    Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full o...

    Ewa Wants to Sleep
  • 1959
    Cross of Valor

    Cross of Valor (1959)

    Cross of Valor

    6.41959HD

    Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young wido...

    Cross of Valor
  • 1971
    Operation

    Operation "Brutus" (1971)

    Operation "Brutus"

    01971HD

    Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the...

    Operation
  • 1947
    Forbidden Songs

    Forbidden Songs (1947)

    Forbidden Songs

    7.41947HD

    Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

    Forbidden Songs
  • 1965
    Identification Marks: None

    Identification Marks: None (1965)

    Identification Marks: None

    6.31965HD

    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series o...

    Identification Marks: None
  • 1968
    The Doll

    The Doll (1968)

    The Doll

    6.31968HD

    Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condesce...

    The Doll
  • 1962
    Gold Dreams

    Gold Dreams (1962)

    Gold Dreams

    5.61962HD

    The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible....

    Gold Dreams
  • 1976
    Kazimierz Wielki

    Kazimierz Wielki (1976)

    Kazimierz Wielki

    6.21976HD

    The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great....

    Kazimierz Wielki
  • 1970
    Red Rowan

    Red Rowan (1970)

    Red Rowan

    71970HD

    The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2....

    Red Rowan
  • 1966
    A Cure for Love

    A Cure for Love (1966)

    A Cure for Love

    7.31966HD

    An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides...

    A Cure for Love
  • 1970
    The Taste of the Black Earth

    The Taste of the Black Earth (1970)

    The Taste of the Black Earth

    6.71970HD

    During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands....

    The Taste of the Black Earth