Movies: Janusz Majewski

Markheim impulsively kills an elderly antique dealer during an attempted robbery. From there Markheim’s sense of reality steadily dissolves in a morass of guilt and shame, until a spectral dog leads him to a shadowy figure who seems to know an awful ...

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” updated to the modern world....

The main character of "Żyłem siedemnaście razy" reflects on his childhood in Gwoździec and tells a story about the beginning of his career as a filmmaker....

An adaptation of the “An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce....

About Jazz in Poland...

A documentary record of the stage performance of the piece titled "Piętawka" played by the Zbigniew Namysłowski quartet: the leader (alto saxophone), Włodzimierz Gulgowski (grand piano), Tadeusz Wójcik (double bass), Czesław Bartkowski (drums). The m...

A man enters a restaurant and, after trying and failing to attract the attentions of the waiter, an absurd battle of wills commences....

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A surrealistic portrait of restaurant guests as seen by an otherworldly visitor who has the ability to read people’s subconscious....

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"Duel" describes the clash of two athletes, shot putters David Davis and Alfred Sosgórnik....

Documentary of the Kurylewicz Quintet rehearsing a jazz piece in a recording studio. After a few fits and starts the band finally hits its stride....

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Documentary short subject based on the photo souvenirs of a German officer who traveled to different fronts during World War II....

A boy plays alone in a well of a big city yard. His mother, being in their tenement flat, passes him an empty bottle using a string. The boy has to go to a shop. His alcohol fun begins – at an off-licence shop, at a purchasing centre, at a gate....

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