Movies: Wanda Jakubowska

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town....

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate....

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs....

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a ...

Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft....

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it...

Polish feature film from 1939 , directed by Wanda Jakubowska with a screenplay by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa of the same title. The film was lost during World War II....

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside....

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A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results...

A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet....

Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student....

Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work....

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war....

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in K...

An American officer and a North Vietnamese prisoner of war are stranded and chained together in the jungle during the Vietnam War....

Young Marcin wishes to escape his life in a village and make a career in a city....

The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty)....

The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam....

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