Ryszard Straszewski Movies

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

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He...

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks,...

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of...

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a...

On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture...

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

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her...

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...

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets...

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and...

A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm,...

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.

Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated...

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.