Movies: Krzysztof Komeda

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the in...

A dancer and a Danish student meet on a train; she is going on tour to Rio, and he decides to follow her. Based on the novel by Jens August Schade....

Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable ...

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her....

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble....

A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve....

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet....

A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers....

A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once tried to seduce Rike. This leads to an explosive situation at the workplace....

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II....

After years of working in the city, Róża returns to the countryside. The property she has accumulated draws the attention of local bachelors....

Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. This documentary follows the life story...

A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music....

A feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda....

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous....

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there....

The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant....

An allegory of the hopeless relationship between a prisoner and his jailer, representing the dependence of mankind upon authoritarianism....

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it....

A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them....