Andrzej Hrydzewicz

How to Be Loved

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

Życie na gorąco

Free City

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

The Doll

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.

The Killer Leaves a Trace

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

Two from the Big River

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.

The Sun Rises Once a Day

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.