Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Most Popular Jerzy Kawalerowicz Trailers

Total trailers found: 24

Death of a President Trailer (1977)

10 October 1977

After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president.

Why? Trailer (1996)

18 April 1996

A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality.

Austeria Trailer (1983)

28 March 1983

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Night Train Trailer (1959)

06 September 1959

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast.

Chance Meeting on the Atlantic Trailer (1980)

11 September 1980

Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations.

The Last Stage Trailer (1948)

28 March 1948

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family.

Quo Vadis Trailer (2001)

14 September 2001

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for his concubine.

Mother Joan of the Angels Trailer (1961)

09 February 1961

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Powrót Trailer (1991)

30 April 1991

A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991.

Pharaoh Trailer (1966)

11 March 1966

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.

Maddalena Trailer (1971)

19 November 1971

The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.

Forbidden Songs Trailer (1947)

08 January 1947

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

The Game Trailer (1969)

20 May 1969

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband.

The Hostage of Europe Trailer (1989)

29 September 1989

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.

Gromada Trailer (1952)

29 April 1952

The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.

Under the Phrygian Star Trailer (1954)

30 October 1954

Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".

Cellulose Trailer (1954)

27 April 1954

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

The Real End of the Great War Trailer (1957)

10 October 1957

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp.

Devil's Ravine Trailer (1950)

01 January 1950

Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West.

The Steel Hearts Trailer (1948)

10 May 1948

In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine.

Shadow Trailer (1956)

01 May 1956

A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.

Polish School Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

The documentary talks about the origins, development and achievements of the Polish film school. People from the environment of the "Filmówka" in Łódź, among others.

Bronstein's Children Trailer (1991)

05 December 1991

East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained there—employed when Hans’s father Arno and his friends were prisoners.

Whisky z mlekiem Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

A documentary about a Polish film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz.