Henryk Bista Movies

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure...

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...

A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a...

A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling

Januszek - the town's Casanova, returns from the army. Waiting for him at home is Blada, the mother of his future child, the daughter of the head of...

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish...

The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and...

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in...

Film based on the book of Viktor Suvorov, a former Soviet military intelligence officer. The story of the strange friendship between the two GRU...

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to...

Young democracy activist is being chased by police in a very funny way.

A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site.

Two death row prisoners willingly confess to more murders to delay their execution. A TV adaptation of Janusz Krasiński's play.