Movies: Wanda Jakubińska

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with...

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there....

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless do...

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war....

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history....

Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country....

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panoram...

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market....

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relations...

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist ...

A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in....

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital....

A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars....

Polish feature film from 1939 , directed by Wanda Jakubowska with a screenplay by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa of the same title. The film was lost during World War II....

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period....

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a coope...

A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school....

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies....

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer....