Henryk Bista Movies

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

Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...

Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.

In 1943, Ewa decides to take care of her Jewish neighbour's daughter and brings her home just for a few days. When the ghetto uprising begins, the...

The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by...

Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest...

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the...

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.

A small town located right in the middle of Europe, but in reality probably at the end of the world. It is dominated by the depressing atmosphere of...

Two boys in the Gdańsk City Hall follow the trail of a 15th-century legend about children of city councilors enchanted in sculptures.

In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly...

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...

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and...

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands,...

A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation.

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

The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out...