Jan Nowicki Movies

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a...

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under...

The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital,...

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of...

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens...

The second part of a story about young people entering adulthood in the harsh reality of predatory capitalism. The action takes place in 1994, a few...

The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of...

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for...

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...

On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back...

As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family.

Just before the end of an 18-month-long journey from Africa, a fishing ship is sent on another 2-month cruise. The crew members miss their loved ones...

Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has...

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The...

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.

An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a...

A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she is just a heroine in the movie and nothing really...

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...