Películas de Andrzej Szenajch

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to...

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.

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 image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude...

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and...

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international...

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to...

Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly...

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly...

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

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...

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.

To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school...

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a...

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He...

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase...

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in...

A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.

TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the...

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various...

After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its...

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by...

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not...

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the...

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law,...

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves...

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress'...

During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and...

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping...

Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a...

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...

A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband,...

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she...

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the...

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...

Polish film directed by Wieslaw Saniewski.

A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in...

A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality.

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman...

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi...

An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.