Jan Nowicki Movies

Fresh out of prison, a seasoned poker hustler finds himself teaching the trade to a young cab driver chasing his first big win.

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel...

Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with...

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...

Returning from Rome, Warsaw writer Wacław Kisielecki's car breaks down late one evening on a country road, forcing him and his chauffeur,...

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a...

The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital,...

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to...

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...

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of...

On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back...

The second part of a story about young people entering adulthood in the harsh reality of predatory capitalism. The action takes place in 1994, a few...

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of...

The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of...

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

A sophisticated conman starts a foundation helping the victims of drunk drivers. In reality, all the money goes to his own pocket.

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.

The plot is a series of unfortunate events happening to unremarkable characters. The father of the main character, Sigismund, unexpectedly decides to...