Ryszard Straszewski Movies

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her...

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw...

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and...

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks,...

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a...

The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no...

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...

A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He...

An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.

A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture...