Ryszard Pietruski Movies

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war...

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting...

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and...

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves...

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of...

The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love...

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.

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

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called...

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government...

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small...

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.

The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.