Daniel è un giovane che si trova in riformatorio per reati non solo di poco conto. Avrebbe voluto diventare sacerdote ma la sua fedina penale ora glielo impedisce. Quando però viene inviato, per un permesso lavorativo, in un paese lontano dal riformatorio viene creduto un prete e lui non fa nulla per smentire questa credenza diventando anche momentaneo sostitut...
Polonia, 1962. Anna ha diciotto anni e sta per farsi suora nel convento dove vive, orfana, sin da bambina. Prima di prendere i voti, scopre di avere una zia ancora in vita, Wanda, la sorella di sua madre. Insieme, le due donne affrontano un viaggio alla scoperta l'una dell'altra e del loro passato. Anna viene infatti a sapere che la zia è un ex pubblico minist...
Realized by Polanski as his final project at the State Film School in Lodz, Poland. The short film, told mostly in flashback, portrays a washroom attendant who reminisces about her former life: her first love, her newborn child and the war.
The vicissitudes of the main character, Witek, are told in three different ways, according to how his destiny could have been: three different lives, three different attitudes towards reality and history, three different politics choices and moral consequences: political activist, militant, "peacefull man" dealing with scientific research and not politics. The provocatory en...
Kieslowski's diploma film tells about some young girls, workers at one of Lodzi's large textile factories, protesting against the break-up of a band of old style mandolin players. The film shines a peculiar and enchanting light on the daily life in an unusual and decadent city.
The film features two men, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths. Finally, they go back to the beach and then disappear in the sea.
An elderly dollmaker works in his shop by the light of an oil-lamp.
Two men, a sledge, a barren winter landscape and the eternal struggle for existence and power.
During a battle in Saragossa, a French officer finds a large book with strange drawings that capture his attention. While he is looking at it, an enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him. The second officer recognize its author as his own grandfather. The book and the movie tell about the life of Alfonso Van Worden, who was a captain in the...
One man gets stabbed while he is sleeping in his bed. Polanski's first short movie.
