Zygmunt Konieczny Movies

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the...

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who...

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands,...

Budny, a secret service officer, secretly surveils Bishop Karol Wojtyla for 20 years. An unreciprocated bond forms between Budny and the unaware...

An unexpected guest shows at the door of an apartment of a working-class family, at first asking just for a glass of water.

Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a...

The action takes place somewhere among fields, meadows, and forests. The protagonists are simple but extraordinary people: Janka, a dwarf; Morka, a...

A haunting, austere ballad about a knight’s quest for a gold-stringed harp whose sound is said to bring peace and harmony. The film’s...

On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the...

A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The local inhabitants confront the German occupation.

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various...

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

A surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his parents' encouragement, decides to take his...

Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.

The story of three people and their complicated emotional relationship. A mother and her 30-year-old son live in a poor neighborhood in a big city....

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria,...

A young, well-off engineer decides to leave his current life and seek what he deems a "manly" adventure.