Films presented within the "Polish films in Polish" cycle are mainly intended for foreign-language audience, but also for people learning English, and everybody else who is hungry for good Polish productions on big screen.
Screenings – on Mondays, tickets – 10 zł

12.07 godz. 19.00
CAMERA BUFF/ AMATOR – reż. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polska 1979, 117 min.
26.07 godz. 18.00
NIGHT TRAIN/ POCIĄG – reż. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polska 1959, 93 min.

02.08 godz. 18.00
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING/ KRÓTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU
– reż. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polska 1987, 84 min.
16.08 godz. 18.00
BAD LUCK/ ZEZOWATE SZCZĘŚCIE – reż. Andrzej Munk, Polska 1960, 107 min.
30.08 godz. 18.00
ALL FRIENDS/ SAMI SWOI – reż. Sylwester Chęciński, Polska 1967, 78 min.

06.09 godz. 18.00
A SHOTR FILM ABOUT LOVE/ KRÓTKI FILM O MIŁOŚCI
– reż. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polska 1988, 83 min.
20.09 godz. 19.00
I DON’T LIKE MONADY/ NIE LUBIĘ PONIEDZIAŁKU
- reż. Tadeusz Chmielewski, Polska 1971, 98 min.

12.07. 2010
CAMERA BUFF/ AMATOR – reż. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polska 1979, 117 min.

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

26.07.2010
NIGHT TRAIN/ POCIĄG – reż. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polska 1959, 93 min.
A man, Jerzy, enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something. He has to share sleeping-compartment with a woman who also seems to be on the run. Eventually we get to know that the police are looking for an escaped murderer. Is it really Jerzy they are looking for?
02.08.2010
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING/ KRÓTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU – reż. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polska 1987, 84 min.

A youth randomly, and brutally, murders a taxi-driver. Piotr has just passed his law exams and been admitted to the bar. He is to defend Jacek, the young murderer. There is no evidence for the defence and no apparent motive. Jacek is put on trial, found guilty and executed by hanging. Piotr, after his first case, is leftwith the bitter doubt – does the legal system, in the name of the people, have the right to kill with cold blood.

16.08.2010
BAD LUCK/ ZEZOWATE SZCZĘŚCIE – reż. Andrzej Munk, Polska 1960, 107 min.

The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero’s childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer’s uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.

30.08.2010
ALL FRIENDS/ OUR FOLKS/ SAMI SWOI – reż. Sylwester Chęciński, Polska 1967, 78 min.

Two quarreling peasant families, expatriates from the Eastern part of Poland, after war homelessness are settled by accident on two neighbouring farms.

06.09.2010
A SHOTR FILM ABOUT LOVE/ KRÓTKI FILM O MIŁOŚCI – reż. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polska 1988, 83 min.

 Tomek, a young post office worker, is obsessed with Magda, the promiscuous woman who lives in the tower block opposite. He spies on her through a telescope and finally declares his love. She initiates him into the basic fact of life – there is no love, only sex. Tomek, shattered, tries to commit suicide but doesn’t succeed. When he returns from hospital, it is Magda who becomes obsessed with him.

20.09.2010
I DON’T LIKE MONADY/ NIE LUBIĘ PONIEDZIAŁKU – reż. Tadeusz Chmielewski, Polska 1971, 98 min.

The story takes place in Warsaw on one very unlucky Monday. Few people deal with some very complicated and irrational events, while the plots eventually get put together. "I don’t like Monday" shows the "real socialism" in Poland with all it’s absurd. The jokes are set in a very specific background, yet still universal and understandable for everybody. One of the funniest Polish comedies!