In 1943 Stanisława Leszczyńska was arrested by the Gestapo as a result of helping Łódź getto prisoners and sent down to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau together with her three children. There she went through the dreadful trial. Stanisława worked as a midwife facing inhuman conditions, on the edge of exhaustion, she delivered 3000 labours not losing even one child. Her name – as »
Tadeusz Kościuszko is the first hero of contemporary Poland and Lithuania. The film shows his biography in a dynamic arch between the tension of the times in which he lived and the character of the protagonist. The viewer will find in this story an attempt to answer the question asked by generations of Central Europeans – how to survive in the "bloody »
It is a film about love for motherland, freedom, and human solidarity, for which one often has to pay a high price. It tells the story of marriage of Andrzej and Joanna Gwiazda, whose extraordinary lives are strongly intertwined with the contemporary history of Poland. They participated in the events of 1956, 1968, the bloody December of the 1970. With a handful of friends »
This is a story about an outstanding artist – actor and director – Ryszard Peryt. The close and co-workers of Peryt meet to talk about the life and achievements of this great man. The film raises a question – what remains after the artist's life? »
It is the story of the theft of Polish works of art during WWII. The authors present two priceless antiquities lost during the war – Veit Stoss Altarpiece and the Portrait of a Young Man by Rafael Santi’s. Karol Estreicher, thanks to the extraordinary determination, regained the altar for Poland. Unfortunately, the fate of the portrait, the most valuable work stolen from »
10 years ago a plane with the Polish President and 95 VIPs on board crashed just outside a Russian airport. The dramatic events of the first few minutes right after the tragedy are retold by special services officers, diplomats and pilots of another Polish plane, which landed at the Russian airport 1.5 hours earlier. Due to contradictory information regarding the course of »
