Henryk Bista Movies

The 8th Plenum of the PZPR is underway. Passengers waiting for a train learn that their traffic has stopped.

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than...

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure...

World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London.

Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge....

During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station in Koluszki. Railway communications are...

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.

After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its...

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his...

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

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the...

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international...

A small town located right in the middle of Europe, but in reality probably at the end of the world. It is dominated by the depressing atmosphere of...

A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl.

Two boys in the Gdańsk City Hall follow the trail of a 15th-century legend about children of city councilors enchanted in sculptures.

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

Januszek – the town's Casanova, returns from the army. Waiting for him at home is Blada, the mother of his future child, the daughter of the...

In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly...

The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out...

A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a...