Krzysztof Zanussi Movies

A chance encounter in a doctor’s waiting room draws a vulnerable, much older woman into the life of a young man. Their growing attachment...

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

May 13, 1981, afternoon. A general audience with the head of the Church is taking place in St. Mark's Square in Rome. Suddenly, the joyful buzz...

A group of German medical students is discussing the influence of various factors on the human psyche. Pharmacological agents can not only restrict...

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...

A brilliant but troubled professor confronts his fears while working on his design of a space rocket.

A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with...

How does a computer work? It’s easy! This educational film vividly explains the principles of the binary system, which is the underlying...

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.

The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that...

A rainy-night clash in a boarding-school dorm forces a swaggering teen to confront his insecurities and the price of rebellion.

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.

Here we see short scenes from a random day at the airport. We have flying planes, landings, passport checking scenes, passengers waiting for their...

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and...

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he...