Movies: Irena Netto

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising....

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times c...

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life....

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Five short stories....

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife....

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories....

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a coope...

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by studen...

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An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator....

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father....

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II....

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search....

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war....

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the aut...

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor....

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo....

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years....