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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1963
    Kryptonim Nektar

    Kryptonim Nektar (1963)

    Kryptonim Nektar

    5.51963HD

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

    Kryptonim Nektar
  • 1975
    Nights and Days

    Nights and Days (1975)

    Nights and Days

    7.11975HD

    A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. Th...

    Nights and Days
  • 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
  • 1952
    Gromada

    Gromada (1952)

    Gromada

    51952HD

    The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers....

    Gromada
  • 1967
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1967)

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    01967HD

    A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble....

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
  • 1986
    Axiliad

    Axiliad (1986)

    Axiliad

    7.11986HD

    A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect....

    Axiliad
  • 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
  • 1954
    Five Boys from Barska Street

    Five Boys from Barska Street (1954)

    Five Boys from Barska Street

    5.41954HD

    In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss....

    Five Boys from Barska Street
  • 1966
    Lenin in Poland

    Lenin in Poland (1966)

    Lenin in Poland

    5.31966HD

    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 ...

    Lenin in Poland
  • 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
  • 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