Franciszek Pieczka Movies

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to...

Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic...

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe...

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian...

Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified...

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist...

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and...

A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain...

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

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...

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.

In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Captain Neustroev's company is selected to hoist the...

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides...