Henryk Bąk Movies

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

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW...

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a...

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new...

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure...

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker...

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the...

The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12...

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.

The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba.

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's...

An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey,...