Jan Ossowski Movies

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's...

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality...

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to...

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends...

Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security...

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

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now...

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the...

A young boy must go to school with his father.

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.