Movies: Henryk Borowski

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights...

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

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. Th...

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Po...

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic int...

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres....

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold....

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704....

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities....

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital....

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A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a coope...

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside....

The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness....

A 12-year-old boy and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her boyfriend after a quarrel, the father invites her along on the trip. The boy's hopes of a father-and-son ret...

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition....

A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women....

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 potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site....

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...