Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he...

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a...

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely...

A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The...

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

An orchestra of working-class musicians rehearses in this short film, honored at the 1960 Venice Film Festival and among the favorite films of...

Documentary about the beginning of Solidarnosc.

Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life...

A portrait of a traveling circus.

Robotnicy - Nic o nas bez nas tells a story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events...

Dialogue-free short detailing the daily tasks of a man and his wife.

Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz, performed by Daniel Olbrychski. The film presents...

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the...