Baza ludzi umarlych (The Depot of the Dead), directed by Czeslaw Petelski, 1959
Jak byc kochana (How to Be Loved), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, 1963
Kwiecien (April), directed by Witold Lesiewicz, 1961
Matka Joanna od aniolów (Joan of the Angels), directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961
Petla (The Noose ), directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, 1958
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Action Animation (Akcja Animacja) - The Anthology of Contemporary Polish Animation (2-DVD) The selection of titles reflects the diversity of techniques used by the contemporary film artists in Poland: a classical and computer animation, the stories painted directly into the camera - on the glass and canvas, collages and drawings, and the live cutouts. "Action Animation" is also a record of changes that have taken place in the Polish animation in the last two decades, as seen from the perspective of young artists.
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Agnieszka Holland - The Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (4-DVD) Four masterpieces from one of Poland's most prominent filmmaker: Zdjecia próbne (Screen Tests), Aktorzy prowincjonalni (Provincial Actors), Goraczka (The Fever), and Kobieta samotna ( A Woman Alone).
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Andrea Centazzo - Einstein's Cosmic Messengers Einstein's Cosmic Messengers DVD is a stunning, vertiginous journey through magnificent visions of the Universe, through Einstein's genius and obsessions, and through LIGO's advanced technology and breathtaking scope. Centazzo's music synthesizes the mystery of Oriental percussive vibrations with the timbral harmonic understanding of contemporary music, and the soul of jazz and rock post-culture.<
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Andrzej Munk - Polish School of Documentary Movies (2-DVD) "Munk's style", A. Jackiewicz wrote in his book, having EROICA and BAD LUCK in mind, "clearly dissociated itself from the lyricism of almost the entire 'school'. In terms of genre his films evoke associations with an 18th-century philosophical tale rather than, as Wajda's works do, with an epic poem. The tissue of Munk's new films was a realistic tissue, with a tendency for quasi-documentary figures... when metaphors were used in Munk's works, the technique was like the surrealism in the comedies of Chaplin rather than - as was the case with Wajda - Bunuel".
A major figure in the world of post-World War II Eastern European cinema, Polish director Andrzej Wajda has chronicled his country's political and social evolution with sensitivity, fervor, and a refusal to make compromises in dealing with his difficult subjects. Once dubbed a symbol for his besieged country, Wajda has repeatedly drawn from Poland's history to suit his tragic sensibility, crafting an oeuvre of work that devastates even as it informs. (Hal Erickson)
This 10-DVD's set includes ten movies:
Pan Tadeusz (The Last Foray in Lithuania ), 1999
Czlowiek z marmuru (Man of marble), 1977
Czlowiek z zelaza (Man of steel), 1981
Ziemia obiecana (The Promised Land ), 1975
Danton, 1983
Zemsta (The Revenge), 2002
Korczak, 1990
Panny z Wilka (Young Girls of Wilko), 1979
Krajobraz po bitwie (Landscape After Battle), 1970
A major figure in the world of post-World War II Eastern European cinema, Polish director Andrzej Wajda has chronicled his country's political and social evolution with sensitivity, fervor, and a refusal to make compromises in dealing with his difficult subjects. Once dubbed a symbol for his besieged country, Wajda has repeatedly drawn from Poland's history to suit his tragic sensibility, crafting an oeuvre of work that devastates even as it informs. (Hal Erickson)
This 4-DVD set includes four movies:
Kanal (Canal), 1957
Popiól i diament (Ashes and diamonds), 1959
Lotna (Speed), 1959
Wesele (Wedding), 1973
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Andrzej Zulawski - The Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (3-DVD) In his films Zulawski explores spiritual boundaries and moral capacities of man, society and religion, and the restrictions of liberty of the individual human being in confrontation with the society. This set includes three Zulawski's movies made in Poland: Trzecia czesc nocy (The Third Part of the Night, Diabel (The Devil), Na srebrnym globie (On the Silver Globe).
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Anthology of Polish Animated Film (2-DVD) Twenty-eight best Polish animated films on two DVD's do not have enough room to contain all the outstanding Polish animated films of the last six decades, nor present all the makers worthy of attention. We do hope, however, that the selection is representative enough to let those viewers, who are not very well familiar with the history of Polish animation, get to know it better, while to its enthusiasts, it will bring back almost thirty of its gems.
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Czarna Seria (Black Series) - Polish School of Documentary Movies (2-DVD) "Czarna Seria" 2-DVD set from the series "Polish School of Documentary Movies" consists of social issues oriented documentaries from directors like Roman Polanski, Jerzy Hoffman, Edward Skórzewski, Kazimierz Karabasz, Władyslaw Slesicki, Włodzimierz Borowik, Jerzy Ziarnik, Jerzy Bossak, Jarosław Brzozowski, Maksymilian Wroclawski, Jerzy Dmowski, Bohdan Kosiński, Andrzej Brzozowski, and Bohdan Poreba.
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Ferdydurke (30 Door Key) Based on Witold Gombrowicz's cult novel and a masterpiece of European modernism, the movie focus on an existential problems of a young writer (Crispin Glover) in 1930s Warsaw on the brink of World War II.
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Gryczelowska/Halladin/Kamienska - Polish School of Documentary Movies (3-DVD) Without the films of these three filmmakers, we cannot really talk about the Polish School of Documentary, thanks to which we have a deep and movingly real image of Poland in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Mikolaj Jazdon analyses it in an interesting way in the guide attached to the carefully prepared films' presentation, the films which today are legend.
KRONOS QUARTET - Polish Quartets Four masterly and extremely different string quartets by Polish composers: from the cornerstones of the sixties by Witold Lutoslawski and Krzysztof Penderecki to the recent Kronos Quartet commissions - works by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki and Pawel Mykietyn - in a visionary performance by the Kronos Quartet.
KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI - Persona non grata In 2005, Wiktor's wife, Helena (Halina Golanko), has just died suddenly of a stroke in Poland. Wiktor (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), the Polish ambassador to Uruguay, arrives to see her too late. An old Russian friend, Oleg (Nikita Mikhalkov), shows up briefly at the funeral for Helena...
Krzysztof Zanussi - Serce na dloni (And a Warm Heart) A godless Polish capitalist has his blood pump in the wrong place in "And a Warm Heart," a labored comedy-drama in which a cardiac transplant is a medical and symbolic necessity.
