Matylda is a story about a young rebel, the daughter of a participant in the January Uprising exiled to Siberia. Dozen years passed after the Uprising – a guerrilla war that influenced the history of the Polish nation. Less than eighteen-year-old Matylda Bilińska is a restless soul, curious about the world, who is unsatisfied with the teachings instilled in girls at boarding »
Gdynia, the year 1940. Franz Neumann, a young Nazi Abwehr officer discovers his Polish origins. It turns out his real father was a Pole. As a result of an elaborate intrigue, Franz decides to become a spy for the Allies with the code name “Got”. His task is to obtain information about the activities of the “Kriegsmarine”, primarily about the flagship German »
This film is an adaptation of one of Maria Rodziewiczówna’s best-known novels of manners. This seven-episode series tells a story about love, honour and family, intertwined with the lives of people from lower and higher social classes whose lives changed after the January Uprising. Marek Czertwan is faced with a new duty imposed on him by his dying father – he has »
Hania studies at the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw. One day, she attends a theatrical premiere of Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve) by Adam Mickiewicz, a literary work that is an expression of the deepest patriotic feelings, an image of the nation’s suffering in captivity and an image of the struggle against an invader. The then government believed that “Dziady” was an »
Warsaw 1905. A young girl, entangled with independence activists, gets out of prison and is sold to the high-end brothel of Franciszka Szlimakowska. She takes the name “Yvette” and decides to earn money working as a prostitute to go to her beloved in Siberia. She wants to take her life into her own hands, hoping fortune will smile upon her. However, she »
The Jagiellonians is a new season of a smash historical period drama The Crown of the Kings. Its action starts in the year 1399 and it tells the story of the Jagiellonian dynasty, which reigned in no fewer than 14 present-day states in Renaissance Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries. The dynasty comprised of Kings of Poland, Grand Dukes of Lithuania, »
