Movies: Lech Grzmociński

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protest...

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total...

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by ...

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A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide....

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]...

A disturbed woman, still reeling over the death of her lover finds solace in a Swedish sailor amidst the regional conflicts of the late nineteenth century....

Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders....

The second of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 2 and 4....

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

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet....

A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation....

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it...

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II....

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission....

A young sea rescuer tries to find his place in the difficult world of his work....

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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...

December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV jo...

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