Movies: Janusz Michałowski

A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution....

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher in Wrze...

It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate....

Set in 1944. A shepherd boy enters an abandoned palace he has seen only from the distance since he was a boy. Once he enters the palace, strange things begin to happen as though he was dreaming the events rather than living them....

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding...

Christmas is coming. Little Ania dreams of a doll she saw in a shop window....

A seemingly exemplary housewife and mother, she cares about the family's good image. In reality, she is hypocritical and ruthless, tolerating wickedness and covering up scandals in the name of "higher values." Zapolska exposes bourgeois hypocrisy and...