Polish auteur cinema

The Łódź film school, founded in 1948, trained for forty years film-makers who learned to say the essential under censorship. Wajda opened the way with a young resistance fighter charged with an assassination on the last day of the war, Munk filmed a camp guard facing her former prisoner, Zanussi set science before moral questions. Kieślowski, who came from documentary, drew from the ten commandments ten stories in a single Warsaw housing block. Polanski, trained there, went to build a career elsewhere after a first film aboard a sailing boat.

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• CinemaAshes and DiamondsPopiół i diamentAndrzej Wajda · 1958On the last day of the war, a young resistance fighter charged with an assassination hesitates between the order he has received and the life opening before him.Cinema
• CinemaKnife in the WaterNóż w wodzieRoman Polański · 1962A couple and a hitchhiker on a sailing boat: three characters and the rivalry of two men.Cinema
• CinemaPassengerPasażerkaAndrzej Munk · 1963A former Auschwitz guard believes she sees one of her prisoners again on an ocean liner.Cinema
• CinemaIlluminationIluminacjaKrzysztof Zanussi · 1973A physics student expects science to explain the world to him, then looks elsewhere for the meaning of his life.Cinema
• CinemaThe DecalogueDekalogKrzysztof Kieślowski · 1989The Decalogue transposed into ten stories about neighbours, in the Warsaw of the late eighties.Cinema