Henryk Bista Movies

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

Warsaw, 1909. Arthur Herling makes an assassination attempt on a Russian police official and his family. During the action, the officer's daughter is...

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young...

The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by...

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to...

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish...

Twenty years old prostitute and drug addict, Jola, by chance meets Andrzej, a "railway station gay". They try to stay together, in spite of numerous...

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar...

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site.

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, ...

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them.

Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After...

Two death row prisoners willingly confess to more murders to delay their execution. A TV adaptation of Janusz Krasiński's play.

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and...