Danuta Szaflarska Movies

The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from...

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees...

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.

Using the backdrop of the banality and ordinariness of everyday life in a small provincial town, the film analyses the relationship between two women...

An adaptation of Dorota Masłowska's play. The film satirically portrays post-Communist Polish society through three generations of women, an...

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.

The fate of a local orphanage is at stake before Christmas. According to the plans of a local businessman, the home is to be liquidated and its place...

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.

Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense...

Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only...

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for...

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime...

Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in love with his college friend, Maja,...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He...

A simple story of a meeting between two completely different and distant people. By chance, they spend a few days together.

Outstanding actress Danuta Szaflarska, in a colorful and humorous way, tells about her experiences from the old years.

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion -- not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this...