Movies: Henryk Bąk

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who b...

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape ...

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The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great....

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers....

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck....

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon....

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

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Three stories about life problems....

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love....

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 muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his m...

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him....

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by ...

When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal....

Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rathe...

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences....

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter....

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies....