Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.

Krzysztof Kieslowski's protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career and life through ups and downs

This documentary wants people to stop armament. Instead of that, we should focus on humanitarian aid, education and healthcare. There is no commentary in the film, some images of the modern world spread the message. On the one hand, it is industry; on the other hand – famine.

A portrait of a working man - Stefan Piętowski, a craftsman who, at the age of 85, sums up his professional life. In order to do so, he organizes "The History of One Working Life" exhibition.

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

A portrait of a traveling circus.

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.

A "Polityka" weekly journalist Marta Wesolowska and photo-reporter Erazm Ciolek visit Urszula Flis, who runs a country farm. A young woman living on her own, Flis is an untypical villager in that she is interested in culture, corresponds with writers, etc.

At the end of the 1980s, high school students watch fragments of a congress of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers that took place in 1949. During the congress, socialist realism and pictures representing the imposed aesthetics were proclaimed. Viewers will learn about the attitude of young people to the communist system and the art of those times.

Despite the fact that the film is a documentary, its lead character and his life story are fictitious, though very probable. It is one of the best examples of creative documentary film-making of Wojciech Wiszniewski.

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.