Movies: Henryk Bąk

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape ...

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 released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who b...

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck....

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Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England throug...

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

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love....

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance ...

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by ...

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma....

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager....

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated....

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers....

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An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war....

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way....

When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal....