Ryszard Pietruski Movies

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war...

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting...

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and...

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

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...

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love...

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small...

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.

The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government...

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

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

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz...

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany....

A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer...