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 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...

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

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.

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

Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man.

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...

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government...

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 student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.

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...

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.

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

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo,...

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.

A young boy must go to school with his father.

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

The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that...