Jerzy Nowak Movies

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the...

Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in...

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the...

A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business...

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...

Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a...

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.

The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the...

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a...

The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced...

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to...

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is...

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new...

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press...

One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home...