Krzysztof Zaleski Movies

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.

Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately as...

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

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

A new PE teacher arrives at a neglected provincial high school and turns it around with a handball team—until his obsessive control, blackmail,...

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

As Poland prepares for a presidential election, the country is consumed by political campaigning and media spectacle. Among the candidates is Jan...

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...

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show...

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with...

The provincial seaside town of Cierpie Dolne. Magda, a journalism student, arrives as part of her internship to conduct broadcasts on the local radio...

A mysterious loner rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw. But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the...

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...

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing...

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.

Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very...

The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on...

Roberto is a young Cuban who is visiting Poland. And times are not merry - the Cuban conflict is about to begin. His stay is not successful, so...