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1) Nina
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
NiNA and Wotjek are a married (but mismatched) couple; They’re eager to have a child, but NiNA can’t conceive. When a chance encounter introduces them to Magda, Wotjek believes they may have found a suitable surrogate. But meeting the fiercely independent, single-minded Magda awakens a repressed desire in NiNA, causing events to spiral out of everyone’s control.
Author
Series
Literatura na obcasach volume 9
Publisher
G+J Gruner + Jahr Polska
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
Polish
4) Sankcja
Author
Series
Publisher
Amber
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
Wyd. 1.
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Polish
Author
Series
Literatura na obcasach volume 8
Publisher
G+J Gruner + Jahr Polska
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
222, [1] s. ; 20 cm.
Language
Polish
7) Polish
Series
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] p. ; 16 cm.)
Language
Polish
10) Ida
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Publisher
Mr. Bongo Films
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (182 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Enter a dazzling, mysterious world of the supernatural. A magical text is discovered during the Napoleonic Wars by a pair of opposing soldiers. Capt. Worden lives out the book's intricate, devilish story as he embarks on a journey across scenic Spain.
Publisher
Polart Distribution
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Romance and class struggles clash against a background of the 1863 uprising against Russian occupation. Based on the classic Polish novel The River Niemen by Eliza Orzeszkowa.
14) Blind chance
Series
Criterion collection volume 772
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Formats
Description
A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek₂s journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
15) Corpus Christi
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest,...
16) Aftermath
Publisher
Menesha Films
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Two brothers uncover a dark secret that forces them to confront the history of their family, their villagee and their nation. A tense and gripping thriller inspires by actual events.
Publisher
Polar Distribution Inc.[distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 205 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
The historical background is the 17th century. Poland was the largest, the most democratic, and the most tolerant country in Europe. However, the tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic.
18) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
19) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
Series
Criterion collection volume 359
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (57 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
Polish
Formats
Description
Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond.
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