Jerzy Trela Movies

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

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

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

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 reporter, Alicja Tabor, after many years returns to her hometown of Wałbrzych to write a report about kidnapped children and also to face her...

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his...

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

"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...

Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a...

"Miss Wet T-Shirt" is a humorous and thought-provoking story of a widowed man in his fifties who rebels against the degradation of the world around...

The year is 1946 – a Poland plunged into chaos, with the new government yet to stabilize. The protagonist, Andrzej Kmita, is a young lieutenant...

Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. A group of Zomovniks, smashing union security, drags...

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...

A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.

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...

A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in south­east...

Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to...

A group of students of the last year of the local motor technical school is slowly entering adult life. An atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness...

Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After...