Movies: Ludwik Benoit

  • 1973
    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    7.51973HD

    Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares....

    The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • 1992
    Priest Daens

    Priest Daens (1992)

    Priest Daens

    7.11992HD

    In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few colu...

    Priest Daens
  • 1955
    A Generation

    A Generation (1955)

    A Generation

    6.91955HD

    Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fig...

    A Generation
  • 1968
    The Doll

    The Doll (1968)

    The Doll

    6.21968HD

    Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condesce...

    The Doll
  • 1963
    Kryptonim Nektar

    Kryptonim Nektar (1963)

    Kryptonim Nektar

    5.51963HD

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

    Kryptonim Nektar
  • 1958
    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    6.81958HD

    Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full o...

    Ewa Wants to Sleep
  • 1970
    How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

    How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape (1970)

    How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

    7.61970HD

    On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion...

    How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
  • 1965
    The Saragossa Manuscript

    The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

    The Saragossa Manuscript

    7.91965HD

    During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....

    The Saragossa Manuscript
  • 1961
    Ostrożnie yeti

    Ostrożnie yeti (1961)

    Ostrożnie yeti

    3.21961HD

    Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into pris...

    Ostrożnie yeti
  • 1979
    Placówka

    Placówka (1979)

    Placówka

    51979HD

    The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant doe...

    Placówka
  • 1986
    Big Bang

    Big Bang (1986)

    Big Bang

    6.21986HD

    A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests....

    Big Bang
  • 1986
    Zátah

    Zátah (1986)

    Zátah

    01986HD

    A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a long time, even managing to infiltrate Polish territory. They head for the coast, from where they in...

    Zátah
  • 1960
    Knights of the Teutonic Order

    Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)

    Knights of the Teutonic Order

    7.31960HD

    A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights...

    Knights of the Teutonic Order
  • 1963
    Good Sins

    Good Sins (1963)

    Good Sins

    81963HD

    A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way....

    Good Sins
  • 1989
    Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice

    Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice (1989)

    Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice

    6.51989HD

    A Polish criminalist specialises in various historical mysteries. He is aided by a miraculous car, with the help of which he also reaches Prague, where he unravels ancient cabalistic mysteries....

    Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice
  • 1967
    Kochajmy syrenki

    Kochajmy syrenki (1967)

    Kochajmy syrenki

    5.81967HD

    Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impre...

    Kochajmy syrenki
  • 1979
    Aria for an Athlete

    Aria for an Athlete (1979)

    Aria for an Athlete

    6.31979HD

    Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his ...

    Aria for an Athlete
  • 1961
    Rzeczywistość

    Rzeczywistość (1961)

    Rzeczywistość

    01961HD

    The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc....

    Rzeczywistość
  • 1974
    Janosik

    Janosik (1974)

    Janosik

    7.51974HD

    In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants....

    Janosik
  • 1991
    Milky Way

    Milky Way (1991)

    Milky Way

    6.51991HD

    An elderly man looks to a mysterious old woman to help him regain his youth, but the woman has her own agenda....

    Milky Way