Jerzy Trela Movies

In Tompkins Square Park on Manhattan's Lower East Side, two homeless men—a Jew and a Pole—find themselves caught up in a modern...

The film tells the story of the creation of the First Division of the Polish Army. The First Division undergoes its baptism of fire in the Battle of...

This downbeat, grim drama about three brothers who are reunited at their mother's funeral is actually visually as dark as its story, making it...

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński is secretly abducted from the Primate’s Palace and sent into solitary confinement at Stoczek Warmiński,...

1958, Budapest. Gerencsér is a skilled worker at the abattoir, his wife left in 1956. They falls in love with the beautiful Mrs. Hász...

Two friends, eighteen-year-olds Kaśka and Magda, are graduating from a film high school. Between having fun and enjoying life, they still have...

A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.

"History of Highlander Philosophy" by Fr. Tischner is a warm and humorous praise of thinking, freedom and the joy of life. The film was made at the...

After a spate of mysterious disappearances in 1950s Kraków, young investigator Karski believes he's on the trail of a vicious serial killer....

The well-known and respected actor Adam has a sudden and widespread stroke. He loses his health and the tool necessary for the performance of his...

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a...

A theatrical attempt to reconstruct the last, lost play by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. An amalgam of themes permeating the author's oeuvre.

Set today against the backdrop of a charming, mysterious and mystical city in which we follow the fate of its inhabitants: a young politician who...

This film is based on Hasek's unfinished novel about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who pretends to be enthusiastic to serve...

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly...

Pyotr, a Polish boy from Budapest, has been obsessed with books since childhood, especially one in particular. According to Jewish legend, this book...

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing...