Wanda Jakubowska Movies

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...

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting...

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...

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

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

Polish feature film from 1939 , directed by Wanda Jakubowska with a screenplay by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa...

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

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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

Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.