Movies: Jan Kurnakowicz

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history....

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like....

Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry....

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs....

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival....

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend....

Bielecki (Gregori Chmara) becomes determined to become a famous writer, but the means he employs in achieving his goal are far from ethical. Bielecki discourages his friend Jerzy Gorski (Artur Socha) by telling him his new work is rather poor, drivin...

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...

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A woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same....

An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers....

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Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka"....

Sygnaly is a 1938 Polish drama directed by Joseph Lejtes about a pair of jewel thieves. A older man and a young woman, with the elder manipulating the frail one into the world of crime....

A young locksmith, Jerzy, builds an airplane. By chance, he meets the Brazilian millionaire Tomasz Kotlica and his daughter Janina. Witold Siemacki, an aviator, stands in the way of Jerzy's career and happiness....