Movies: Czesław Piaskowski

  • 1973
    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

    The Hourglass Sanatorium

    7.61973HD

    Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares....

    The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • 1966
    Pharaoh

    Pharaoh (1966)

    Pharaoh

    6.61966HD

    Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country....

    Pharaoh
  • 1974
    The Deluge

    The Deluge (1974)

    The Deluge

    7.31974HD

    During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories....

    The Deluge
  • 1959
    Night Train

    Night Train (1959)

    Night Train

    7.51959HD

    Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in ...

    Night Train
  • 1960
    Bad Luck

    Bad Luck (1960)

    Bad Luck

    6.71960HD

    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....

    Bad Luck
  • 1965
    Identification Marks: None

    Identification Marks: None (1965)

    Identification Marks: None

    6.51965HD

    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series o...

    Identification Marks: None
  • 1966
    Don Gabriel

    Don Gabriel (1966)

    Don Gabriel

    01966HD

    The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict....

    Don Gabriel
  • 1967
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1967)

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    01967HD

    A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble....

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
  • 1966
    A Cure for Love

    A Cure for Love (1966)

    A Cure for Love

    7.31966HD

    An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides...

    A Cure for Love
  • 1964
    Rachunek sumienia

    Rachunek sumienia (1964)

    Rachunek sumienia

    01964HD

    The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life....

    Rachunek sumienia
  • 1956
    Shadow

    Shadow (1956)

    Shadow

    6.21956HD

    A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in ...

    Shadow
  • 1968
    The Doll

    The Doll (1968)

    The Doll

    6.31968HD

    Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condesce...

    The Doll
  • 1948
    The Last Stage

    The Last Stage (1948)

    The Last Stage

    7.11948HD

    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 interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate....

    The Last Stage
  • 1959
    Lotna

    Lotna (1959)

    Lotna

    5.21959HD

    Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit....

    Lotna
  • 1947
    Forbidden Songs

    Forbidden Songs (1947)

    Forbidden Songs

    7.41947HD

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

    Forbidden Songs
  • 1970
    The Taste of the Black Earth

    The Taste of the Black Earth (1970)

    The Taste of the Black Earth

    6.71970HD

    During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands....

    The Taste of the Black Earth
  • 1958
    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

    Ewa Wants to Sleep

    6.81958HD

    Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full o...

    Ewa Wants to Sleep
  • 1968
    Komedie pomyłek

    Komedie pomyłek (1968)

    Komedie pomyłek

    01968HD

    Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically...

    Komedie pomyłek
  • 1961
    The People from the Train

    The People from the Train (1961)

    The People from the Train

    61961HD

    A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the sta...

    The People from the Train
  • 1966
    Cooked Doves

    Cooked Doves (1966)

    Cooked Doves

    6.31966HD

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

    Cooked Doves