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A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works.
Short propaganda film. Warsaw's post-war reconstruction as seen through the eyes of the passengers of a red bus.
A young music student strolls through Warsaw’s Old Town as the city’s everyday sounds—children, traffic, machinery, music, and passing jets—shift from background noise into a spontaneous outdoor concert.
In October 1949, when socialist realism was imposed on Polish artists, a presentation of the achievements of art schools took place in Poznań. The report of the event called ‘shows’ was made by students of the Film School in Łódź.
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.
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 of one of their own.
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.
This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.
Modern work tools are created thanks to the development of science, as a result of the transfer of knowledge between generations. A review of the tradition of Polish science from the times of Nicolaus Copernicus to the establishment of the Polish Academy of Sciences. [35mm online]