Movies: Mieczysław Waśkowski

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera....

The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3....

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his p...

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder....

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works....

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law....

Three stories centered around sports....

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Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman....

In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam Nurzyński – produced in cooperation with Tadeusz Kantor the short film Somnambulists. The colourful, painting-like moving image was an attempt at t...

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Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rathe...

Intended as a documentation of Polish artist and theatre-maker Tadeusz Kantor’s “informal painting”, Mieczysław Waśkowski’s film develops a hectic experimental life of its own. The gestural application of paint is staged on changing spatial levels by...

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A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and jud...

A father takes his son to a truly magical toy store....