OGNIEM I MIECZEM
(WITH FIRE AND SWORD)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Year:1999
Run Time:176 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language. English, French Russian, Ukrainian Spanish subtitles.

price: $24.95

"This grand drama is set in 17th century Poland during the Cossack uprising against the Polish nobility. While the violent confrontation builds, there is also a battle for the heart of a beautiful girl between a dashing Pole and a brutish Ukrainian." Based on a novel (first part of Trilogy) by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Directed by jerzy Hoffman.

 

STARA BAŚŃ-KIEDY SŁOŃCE BYLO BOGIEM (WHEN THE SUN WAS GOD)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Year:2003
Run Time:107 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish language. English, Spanish subtitles.

price: $21.95

Film by Jerzy Hoffman based on the book "Stara Basn" written by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. "The story of 'When the Sun was God An Ancient Tale' is happening one hundred years before the christening of Poland in the world of magic and pagan witchcraft, where the gods take active parts in the lives of ordinary men. In the land of Polan people, the power belongs to the cruel prince Popiel, who according to a legend was finally eaten by mice... He is set to ensure the succession of his son and will do it by all means including plotting, scheming and murdering. When Popiel's actions cause people to revolt, he asks the Vikings for help... At the same time, the young huntsman and warrior Ziemowit Piast has fallen in love with the daughter of the wealthy serf Wisz. But the beautiful Dziwa is meant for the gods... In this powerful tale, the fates of the characters interlace in an everlasting fight between the good and the evil and in the human passions of love, hatred and the greed for power."

JASMINUM (Special Edition)

DVD | PAL
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 2005
Run time: 103 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $29.95

JASMINUM is a Latin word for Jasmine. The plot is set in a monastery in our times. Apart from Prior Kleofas and Brother Sanitas, three other monks who reside there have their own particular body scents. The prior is dead bent on finding portents of the soon-to-come fulfillment of Prophet Barnabas' prophecy while Brethren Plum, Cherry and Birdcherry issue body odors, each one according to his name. One day a young art restorer Natasha arrives to the monastery, commissioned for a conservation of the sacred paintings. She brings in her five year old daughter Gienia whose charm and inquiring mind wreak havoc in the monks' monotonous life. And there starts a mysterious and magical story filled with sensuous scents and love?

 

JASMINUM

DVD | PAL
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 2005
Run time: 103 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

price: $19.95

JASMINUM is a Latin word for Jasmine. The plot is set in a monastery in our times. Apart from Prior Kleofas and Brother Sanitas, three other monks who reside there have their own particular body scents. The prior is dead bent on finding portents of the soon-to-come fulfillment of Prophet Barnabas' prophecy while Brethren Plum, Cherry and Birdcherry issue body odors, each one according to his name. One day a young art restorer Natasha arrives to the monastery, commissioned for a conservation of the sacred paintings. She brings in her five year old daughter Gienia whose charm and inquiring mind wreak havoc in the monks' monotonous life. And there starts a mysterious and magical story filled with sensuous scents and love?

 

MÓJ NIKIFOR (MY NIKIFOR)

DVD | PAL
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Krauze
Year: 2004
Run time: 96 min.
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles

 

price: $19.95

In an extraordinary cross-gender performance, actress Krystyna Feldman becomes the curmudgeonly Polish folk artist Nikifor, a naive painter whose prolific talent and sheer stubbornness brought him national fame. Based on a true story, My Nikifor (crystal globe award, Karlovy Vary 2005) unfolds in mid-20th-century Poland across a gray winter landscape further oppressed by Communist party politics and perpetual shortages. The sickly beggar Nikifor, a cantankerous troll who dismisses everything and everyone, freely invades other people's homes uninvited in order to paint. When he claims the studio of state-employed painter Marian Wlosinski, Wlosinski's life begins to unravel. He can't figure out where Nikifor came from or where he belongs, can't get rid of him and, ultimately, can't help but adopt him at the expense of his own comfort and family. This vivid character study presents Nikifor as the necessary grit that upsets complacency, leaving us to ponder the Nikifors in our world today.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA: 4 DVD's package

DVD | PAL

Four movies directed by Andrzej Wajda:

WESELE

POPIÓŁ I DIAMENT

KANAŁ

LOTNA

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $29.95

 

DEKALOG (THE DECALOGUE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Year:1988-89
Run Time: 562 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $80.00

 

MIŚ (TEDDY BEAR)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanislaw Bareja
Year:1980
Run Time:111 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

A comedy from Poland, the story of a divorced couple who compete with each other for the money they share in a joint account in a London bank. With Stanislaw Tym, Bronislaw Pawlik.

OPERACJA SAMUM
(OPERATION SIMOOM)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Action
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Year: 1999
Run Time: 90 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?

ŻUREK (THE WHITE SOUP)

DVD | NTSC
Genre:Drama
Director:Ryszard Brylski
Year: 2003
Run Time: 72 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language, English subtitles

price: $15.00

 

 

The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The grandmother (played by Katarzyna Figura) becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of the man who fathered her daughter's child.

The naive daughter (played by Natalia Rybicka) is of little help with her mother with the search, which turns into a dangerous journey, filled with unexpected events. The mother is forced to face and overcome her own dark secrets and deepest fears, and her struggles provide her daughter with a new sense of hope and understanding of her own life.

EDI

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
Year: 2002
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

 

A winner of many awards at international film festivals and the Polish submission the Academy Awards, Edi is a touching and highly involving portrait of marginal characters who manage to confront their misery and -at least, briefly- somehow triumph over it. The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused by some local thugs of seducing their sister, and made to take care of her little baby.

WIEDŹMIN (THE HEXER)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Science-Fiction
Director: Marek Brodzki
Year: 2002
Run Time: 129 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

 

Geralt, The White Wolf, is the perfect warrior - a weapons expert who knows magic and will fight any opponent. But he is also a human being who struggles for recognition of his own humanity while battling the monsters and villains that threaten his people. With the help of his friends he defends the inhabitants of his world, each day drawing nearer to his Destiny... although he does not know it.

In the style of "The Lord of the Rings ", "The Hexer" is based on the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski, Poland's most talented fantasy / sci-fi author.

SZABLA OD KOMENDANTA
(LEGACY OF STEEL)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 1996
Run Time: 102 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

 

Jan Jakub Kolski, director of the acclaimed films, "Pornografia," "Wonderful Place" and "Plate Players," directs the story of a famed military officer nearing the end of life, who, before he can rest in peace, must fulfill the traditional obligation of passing his sword on to his grandson. The problem is, his only son is unmarried, there is no grandson, and its looking pretty grim. After much scheming, a potential mate for the son moves into the neighborhood.

ZAKOCHANY ANIOŁ (ANGEL IN LOVE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Artur Wiecek
Year: 2005
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish

price: $15.00

 

Angel in Love" is a sequel to "Angel of Cracow." The Angel Giordano begins to seriously contemplate life on Earth since he cannot return to Heaven. He finds that with a little optimism and faith in God's ways, he can live happily despite the sadness around him. When it's time for his final conversion into a human, Giordano is struck not by what he is going to lose, but by what he will gain - becoming male.

The shock is enough to fray his nerves. Fortunately, Heaven doesn't abandon its angels and the powers-that-be arrange a meeting between Giordano and the only other person who can bring him Heaven on Earth. A man in love can be happier on Earth than an angel in Heaven!

MATKA KRÓLÓW (MOTHER OF KINGS)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Janusz Zaorski
Year: 1982
Run Time: 126 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish

price: $15.00

 

The 1982 Polish Film was released in 1987, when Communists censorship was relaxed in Poland. This highly acclaimed film is the dramatic story of a poor, widowed housecleaner and mother, living during the worst times of Poland's history: World War II, followed by the harsh rule of Stalin. Filmed in black-and-white, to incorporate actual newsreel footage from the times, the film won the Grand Prize at the 1988 Gdansk Festival.

ŻÓŁTY SZALIK (THE YELLOW SCARF)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Janusz Morgenstem
Year: 2000
Run Time: 64 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language, English subtitles

price: $15.00

 

 

A melancholic story, set during a joyous Christmas season, follows an older man's hopeful attempt to repair his history of relationships damaged by his drinking. The yellow scarf, a magical gift from his mother, reveals the outcome of this man's struggle to overcome the grip of alcoholism.

CHŁOPAKI NIE PLACZĄ
(BOY'S DON'T CRY)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Olaf Lubaszenko
Year: 2000
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language, English subtitles

price: $15.00

 

Teenagers in modern Warsaw: Kuba Brenner wants to become a violinist. Kuba wants to help his very shy friend, Oskar, to meet some girls. Through a series of complicated (and very humorous) accidents, Kuba finds himself in the middle of a meeting of the local Polish Mafia. Events go from bad to worse for Kuba when some men attempt to rob the gangsters: shots are fired, and two of the bandits, Grucha and Bolec, are wounded.

When the smoke clears, the gangsters' suitcase, stuffed with cash, has vanished, and the boy is missing as well. Kuba suddenly has a new, bigger problem to solve: the Mafia really wants to find him, and we all know what that means for our young friend.

One of the best Polish comedies of the late 1990's, "Boys Don't Cry" is a satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them. The humor is black, sometimes vulgar, and always hilarious. The cast comes from the new generation of Polish actors, and all are very talented.

W PUSTYNI I W PUSZCZY
(IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Family
Director: Gavin Hood
Year: 2001
Run Time: 111 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.00

From the Nobel Prize winning author of "Quo Vadis?" comes this critically acclaimed and award-winning film about two children lost deep in the African continent. After escaping from kidnappers, they set off on a great adventure, full of obstacles, dangers, and fun as they learn about life on their return home.

QUO VADIS

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Year: 2001
Run Time: 270 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish

price: $15.00

 

Quo Vadis is a grand historical epic based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz running four and a half hours in length. Although this is long by most standards, it really does allow the plot to fully develop and be brought to a conclusion. We get a glimpse of many parts of life in Rome, from wild drunken parties with plenty of topless women, a gruesome close up of lions eating Christians in the coliseum, and even the burning of Rome itself.

The story has several elements that are all dovetail each other. We have a young patrician named Marcus Vinicius (Pawel Delag) who falls in love with Lygia (Magdalena Mielcarz), a Christian woman. At first she is not interested in him, but soon returns his love. Petronius (Boguslaw Linda), who is one of Nero's advisors, tries to help him physically capture his love as he has influence with Nero. Matters are complicated as Nero is out of control and is most concerned about his insane self-interests, which leads to trouble for many others.

Boguslaw Linda was one of the best performers in the film. As he was the middleman between Marcus and the crazed Nero, his position from the start was precarious. He portrayed the patrician who was calm and collected in moments of confusion, sincere with his feelings, and often had witty remarks. Linda's acting was fantastic.

Quo Vadis is perfect for those who enjoy historic epics. Overall, I thought the underlying message was about forgiveness and love, something we can all relate to and topics that would not hurt us to reflect upon. With nearly all of its characters experiencing moments of triumph and suffering, we witness and experience a wide range of emotions in this story that takes place about two thousand years ago.

PAN TADEUSZ

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Romance
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1999
Run Time: 150 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish, with English subtitles

price: $15.00

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in a poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families, as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives to unite simply as Poles, and begin a heroic effort to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.

ZEMSTA (REVENGE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 2002
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English subtitles.

price: $15.00

 

Andrzej Wajda's latest - a costume comedy. After fourty-three years of his absence as an actor, Polanski returned to Wajda as an actor in the production of Zemsta. The hilarious tale of two 17th century families divided by love, greed ... and a crumbling stone wall that runs through the middle of their castle. The feuding noblemen try to outwit one another in a bid for romance and control over their humble realm. Based on Aleksander Fredro's epic poem.

WSZYSTKO NA SPRZEDAŻ
(EVERYTHING FOR SALE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1969
Run Time: 94 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.00

 

Inspired by the tragic death of the great Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski, this Andrzej Wajda film focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of a director and his actors when they are disrupted by the mysterious death of their leading man.

PANNY Z WILKA
(YOUNG GIRLS OF WILKO)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1979
Run Time: 118 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles.

price: $15.00

This Oscar nominated Andrzej Wajda film is an unsentimental but poetic exploration of the ironies of love and hope. After 15 years away, Wiktor returns to his hometown of Wilko where he encounters five sisters who are forced to reconsider their complicated lives and personal failures.

CZŁOWIEK Z MARMURU
(MAN OF MARBLE)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1976
Run Time: 153 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish language. English subtitles

price: $15.00

 

Agnieszka is a film school student whose final film centers around Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer from Nowa Huta, who was considered a great hero and a leader at work. Later - like many others - he was fired without any pity . In examining the truth about his life, Agnieszka discovers a more general truth about the bitter years of the 50s and about the difficult fate of the Polish nation.

ZIEMIA OBIECANA (PROMISED LAND)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Year: 1974
Run Time: 138 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language. English, French & Spanish subtitles

price: $15.00

 

Andrzej Wajda's 1974 19th century epic about the sweeping changes in values brought about by the industrial revolution. Praiseworthy for its physical scope, masterful direction, and fine acting, this new version of Andrzej Wajda's masterpiece has been re-edited by the director himself. Both picture and sound have been re-mastered for enhanced quality.

GRY ULICZNE (STREET GAMES)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Thriller
Director: Krzysztof Krauze
Year: 1995
Run Time: 100 min.
Country: Poland

Language:
Polish, with English Subtitles

price: $15.00

 

 

A political thriller, based on the 1978 death of Stanislaw Pyjas, a student protester who helped inspire Poland's Solidarity movement. While covering a politician's mid-90's campaign for Prime Minister, a reporter uncovers the popular candidate's earlier connection to Pyjas' death, facts missing from the official police report. Now, only the reporter's "street smarts" can protect him from the forces trying to stop the release of his story.

ZMRUŻ OCZY (SQUINT YOUR EYES)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Year: 2002
Run Time: 88 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language

price: $15.00

 

The film goes beyond the story of an adult man and a teenage girl's friendship. Just like early Kustorica or Tanovic, in his "No Man's Land," Polish director Jakimowski is a master of balancing the borderline between gravity, irony and comedy.

Gala of Polish Film Awards took place on the 6th March in Warsaw Royal Castle. Eagles 2004 are given by the members of Polish Film Academy. And who won in 2004? Five eagles flight to "Squint Your Eyes," by Andrzej Jakimowski, in four categories: for the best movie, for the best director, for the best actor, for the best script and the best-liked film by the viewing audience.

Congratulations for Andrzej Jakimowski - we wish you continuing success.

E=mc2

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: Olaf Lubaszenko
Year: 2002
Run Time: 93 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language

price: $15.00

 

JANCIO WODNIK (JOHNNY AQUARIUS)

DVD | NTSC
Genre: Comedy
Director: jan Jakub Kolski
Year: 1993
Run Time: 101 min.
Country: Poland

Language: Polish language

price: $15.00

 

Kolski's films are mysterious and strange fairy-tales, where the bizarre seems perfectly natural, all taking place in a timeless, rural fantasy-land. A peasant is endowed with miraculous powers; Johnny can make it rain, he heals the sick, raises the dead, and causes water to flow uphill. To answer his critics, Johnny decides to prove his great powers by turning time backwards.