Must See Movies in Polish?

Yes it is. I just bought at last year at the "Taste of Polonia" in Chicago.

Sara with Bogusław Linda & Cezary Pazura.

I have to admit I tried 5 times. The longest I lasted was 1 hour. I think the whol emovie is over 3 hours


edvd.pl/?v=film&id=7503

"Alternatywy 4"

something about Polish reality in 1980s... satire, very funny...in 9 episodes...

Merged: Polish Movies that are worthwhile watching?

I was just wondering, could anybody give me a list of Polish films that are worthwhile watching? So far I have been only able to watch two: Knife in the Water and Man of Marble. Any suggestions? A list would be appreciated - thanks!

PS: would also be nice to state whether they are subtitled in either English, German or Dutch - I don't dig synchronized movies...

M-G

I've only seen a couple of Polish films so far, the best one called
A Short Film About Killing by legendary director Krzysztof Kieslowski,
which although it's pretty grim subject matter, its actually quite gripping.

HMV in the UK usually have a few in world cinema section or I've just
discovered polishmoviesonline.com who I'm going to try out,
just to practice the language more than anything else.

*It was subtitled in English

Thanks, amacfx! I will have a look at the list - indeed, I saw "a short film..." quite some time ago - great movie! Any more suggestions are welcome, thanks again!

M-G

did this for someone else yesterday and it has disappeared....but here goes again.

The movie "Katyn" is out on dvd the 21st february.

just ordered my copy from Merlin.pl comes with english subtitles.

Cost was 44.99zl pluss postage to england 22zl thought it was resonable...

there's been a thread not so long ago with a similar question, browse the subforum for more recommendations :)

Quite a few movies were discussed here: https://polishforums.com/life/movies-news-subtitles-learn-language-10859/

and also in a more recent thread: https://polishforums.com/archives/2005-2009/life/see-movies-18357/

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me the name of the movie where the old lady starts screaming... "LUDZIE!"

I'm just dying to know :)

I've seen RH+ lately... quite good, actually.

some more information would be helpful :)

Dzień Świra!! 2 b, kurwa, or not 2 be

Killer and Killerów Dwóch
Zróbmy sobie wnuka

Demony Wojny - with Bogusław Linda

Umm, well I think the movie starts off with some injured guy walking into a town and collapsing. Then this old lady starts screaming "ludzie" to call the people from the town to come help him. That's all I can remember from the movie, my memory is kind of bad.

Definitely "Dzien Swira" and "Chlopaki nie placza"

Other films by:

Kieslowski (Decalogue - see what Ebert says about it, Double Life of Veronique,
Three Colours and Kielsowski's earlier stuff and docus).
Kielsowski's screenplay - The Day of the Camel - I think its only in Polish though,
directed by Jerzy Sztuhr.

Wajda - pretty much anything but especially his older stuff - Landscape after the Battle, and other older works. His newest stuff is not as good. His pretty much like Kurosawa I think, great in the beginning but burned out a little now and became too commercialised.

Roman Polanski - The Pianist but also older stuff too. Definately worth seeing.

Other directors:
Krysztof Zanussi
Wojciech Has - Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium (Amazon.fr has this one in French and Polish - I acquired it recently :) ).

Studios: the legendary TOR studio :).

Sadly most modern Polish cinema is not watchable. They try to copy Hollywood too much, while they have some talented actors and directors the screenplays are usually poor and plots completely unbelievable. Avoid!

Dzien Swira - Day of the Whacko was pretty good however it has some racist undertones (Black, Asian). However I wouldn't compare it with the stuff above.

You can buy most DVDs from a Polish store like Astabe.com (it mentions which DVDs have English tracks) or from labels such as Criterion Collection, Artificial Eye or

Tartan Video. Kieslowski, Polanski and Wajda are in the Criterion Collection.

You can find Polish films at:
Astabe.com Ebay.pl (more exp than Astabe) and Merlin.pl
US based DVD retailers eg Amazon.com or DVDpacific.com
some European retailers like Amazon.fr/de/uk
and other rare movie sites like Superhappyfun.com or Sazuma.com

Very Good Polish Comedy - "Ciało"

imdb.com/title/tt0377651/ - Cialo on IMDB.com

An excellent comedy full of black humor, mad props to the writer, director and actors. Funny, good writing, innovative, and definitely watchable.

Polecam! :D

Speaking of Killer, Seksmisja - I am surprised that nobody mentioned both Va Bank movies (I and II) by Machulski. I'd compare them to The Sting.

Old films are great. "Poszukiwany, Poszukiwana" and "Seksmisja" (don't mind the title, the film is not rude at all) are the ones I can think of now that were actually fun to watch. :) I recomend them. I don't know if they are subtitled in English though.

"Sara"
"Que Vadis"

I personally don't like Polish movies, especially the kind of "Psy" or "Sara" where is not one sentence without some swearing.

But there are some good movies not mentioned before:
- Dług (true story)
- Bandyta (with wonderful soundtrack by Michał Lorenc)
- Podwójne życie Weroniki (by Kieślowski)
- Wrota do Europy
and quite good comedy "Nigdy w życiu".
I've also heard many good stuff about "Testosteron" and "Rezerwat".

Pułkownik Kwiatkowski - Marek Kondrat

imdb.com/title/tt0114204/

Must remember to get this on DVD next time I'm in Poland.

My favorite Polish film is Sexmisja, pure genious.
I had the privlage of a friend translating it (including the in between the lines)

My description:

Sex mission is a science fiction parody based in the future.
After the battle of the sexes and when women win. The earth was destroyed, uninhabitable. Two kriogenically frozen men are woken. Women are the only people left and they live underground.....

I am going to stop there, there are many jokes, political views, action, adventure and boobs.

I know a lot of polish good movies that are worthwhile. if u want sum, write 2 me.

i watched this one today "Lepdis" and i didnt have a choice on watching it as the coach did lmao

Lejdis? (which is basically Polish phonetical transcription of "ladies")
It's being advertised as the "feminine response to the Testosteron movie" popular some time ago.

I would recommend Ciało (The Body). Of all the Polish movies my friends have seen this one seems to be liked the most.

And personally I have never really been into Zanussi movies. Definitely wouldn't recommend them as the first sample of Polish cinema to watch.