Danuta Szaflarska Movies

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he...

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.

The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the...

At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher...

The story is set in the present day. László Sziráki, a womanizer and chemistry professor, is searching for the secret of making...

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in...

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They...

Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of...

An adaptation of Dorota Masłowska's play. The film satirically portrays post-Communist Polish society through three generations of women, an...

Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense...

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for...

Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in love with his college friend, Maja,...

An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta...

Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only...

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime...

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He...

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

A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to bury...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".