Witold Dederko Movies

The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of...

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the...

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling...

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small...

The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and...

A journalist is preparing to take a train trip, when he is confronted by the spirit of professor Ryszpans who tells what happened to him. When he...

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering...

A young penniless woman comes to a small town with her newborn baby. She goes to work but because her child has no father, life is hard for her....

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.

When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike...

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman...

A coming of end story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.

A disturbed woman, still reeling over the death of her lover finds solace in a Swedish sailor amidst the regional conflicts of the late nineteenth...

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.

Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.