Movies: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer....

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is...

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defen...

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police...

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens....

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search....

August 1980, Strikes break out on the coast. The famous writer cannot decide whether to take the side of the oppositionists or wait for the course of events to unfold. A few months later, he meets an SB agent who followed him as a writer in the 1950s...

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until ...

A documentary in which a picture of pre-war Poznan is reconstructed with the help of archival materials from regional collections and staging. The structural axis of the film is a radio broadcast from August 1939 with the participation of well-known ...

On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed....

A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice....

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom....

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry....

Ditto is an idealist. He does not, unlike Lina, his life companion, attach importance to the things around him. Lina, on the other hand, is captivated by objects and all her attention is focused on collecting them. One day all things revolt against D...

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life....

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works....

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland....

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps....

Jerry arrives in New York alone to escape his painful divorce and, penniless, meets Giselle, a free-spirited dancer with unfulfilled dreams. A single phone call sparks a passionate romance, but their love is tested by shifting affections and the ling...

In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German “Zachęta” cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema....