Joanna Szczerbic

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.

A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.

Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.