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| Title: | Author: | Description: |
|---|---|---|
| The Story of Sin | ||
| Director: Borowczyk, W., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Interrogation | Based on a true story reflecting the Stalinist terror of the early 1950s, Ryszard Bugajski’s harrowing film was banned under martial law in Poland and only became available on underground VHS through a copy smuggled out by the director at great risk. | |
| Director: Bugajski, R., Certificate: 18, Colour, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Knights of the Teutonic Order | Considered as one of the greatest and most popular Polish films of all time, this epic is a spectacular historical romance and war film set in the Middle Ages. Based on the best-selling book by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz (Quo Vadis), the epic scope of Knights compares with the best in Hollywood epics and is a film for viewers of all ages. | |
| Director: Ford, A., Certificate: PG, Colour, Price: £12.99 | ||
| The Saragossa manuscript | ||
| Director: Has, W., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £17.99 | ||
| Mother Joan of the Angels | One of the landmarks of Polish cinema, this film is based on the documented story of the ‘possession’ of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634. | |
| Director: Kawalerowicz, J., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Blind Chance | Poland, in the politically turbulent late 1970's: Witek is running to catch a train. From this banal event, Krzysztof Kieslowski, the director of "Dekalog" and the "Three Colours" trilogy, imagines three different possible outcomes in the young man's life. | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Camera Buff | Filip, a clerk in a small Polish town, buys an 8mm camera to film the baby his wife is expecting. His bosses take an interest in it and commission him to film the company's 25th anniversary celebrations. | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 1-5 | The ten hour-long films, loosely based on the Ten Commandments, are all equally captivating and powerful. | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £24.99 | ||
| Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 6-10 | The stories are set around the same modern Warsaw apartment block and focus on the complexities of human relationships. The themes are the universal ones of love, marriage, infidelity, parenthood, guilt, faith and compassion. | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £24.99 | ||
| No end | A highly original blend of ghost story, political drama and meditation on the nature of love. | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| A Short Film About Killing | Krzysztof Kieslowski, the director of the "Three Colours" trilogy, expanded two episodes of his BAFTA winning cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments, "Dekalog', into full-length features. The results are the haunting "A Short Film About Love" and this brutal story based upon the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill.' | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 18, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| A Short Film about Love | A young man falls in love with an older woman who lives across the courtyard in the same Warsaw apartment block. He watches her and her succession of lovers until she becomes aware of his spying and confronts him with a sexual invitation. | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 18, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Three Colours: White | Polish and French dialogues | |
| Director: Kieslowski, K., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Passenger | ||
| Director: Munk, A., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| Knife in the Water | ||
| Director: Polanski, R., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| The Pianist | English dialogues | |
| Director: Polanski, R., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £17.99 | ||
| Andrzej Wajda war trilogy | Three DVD set comprising "A generation", "Canal" and "Ashes & diamonds". | |
| Director: Wajda, A., Certificate: 12, B&W, Price: £29.99 | ||
| Ashes and Diamonds | A young Polish Resistance fighter is ordered on the last day of WWII to assassinate an incoming Russian commissar. However, a mistake leads to him having an encounter with a beautiful barmaid. | |
| Director: Wajda, A., Certificate: 12, 1958, Price: £17.99 | ||
| Leben Fur Leben - Maximilian Kolbe | ||
| Director: Zanussi, K., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| The Third Part of the Night | Set during the time of the Nazi-occupation of Poland and rich with multilayered symbolism and apocalyptic imagery, it shows one of Europe's most uncompromising and visionary directors at his best. Considered to be one of the best Polish films of the 1970s, this is its first-ever release on DVD anywhere in the world. | |
| Director: Zulawski, A., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
