The best Jerzy Nowak’s movies

Jerzy Nowak

Jerzy Nowak

20/06/1923- 26/03/2013
Today we present the best Jerzy Nowak’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jerzy Nowak’s movies.
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Schindler's List

Schindler's List
9/10
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Three Colors: White

Three Colors: White
7.6/10
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikolah to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 30/08/2001
  • Character: Krispus
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. For Lygia, a Christian, being a pagan's concubine is a severe sin and disgrace. However, when Vinicius is wounded, Lygia cares for him, and starts to reciprocate his feelings. Vinicius, in return, becomes interested in Christian learning and asks Apostle Peter to teach him. In the meantime, Emperor Nero accuses Christians of having started a great fire in Rome. He encourages the imprisonment, torture and murder of his Christian subjects.

Camera Buff

Camera Buff
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1979
  • Character: Stanislaw Osuch
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

The Revenge

The Revenge
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/10/2002
  • Character: murarz I
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On this day, the tongue-tied Cupbearer asks a braggart courtier, Papkin, to sue on his behalf for the hand of the widow Hanna. Papkin succeeds and

The Witcher

The Witcher
3.8/10
The adventures of Geralt of Rivia, commonly known as the Witcher.

The Promised Land

The Promised Land
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/02/1975
  • Character: Zucker
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

Manhunt

Manhunt
6.4/10
Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with his own past...

Alchemik

Alchemik
5.9/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 07/10/1989
  • Character: Książę Kiejstut
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

Julie Walking Home

Julie Walking Home
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/09/2002
  • Character: Mieczyslaw "Mietek" Makowsky
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.

Medium

Medium
6.4/10
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder that took place 36 years earlier

Mystification

Mystification
5.4/10
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.

Rok pierwszy

Rok pierwszy
5.3/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 22/09/1960
  • Character: Mlynarz
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.

Squadron

Squadron
6.2/10
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...

Cała naprzód

Cała naprzód
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/04/1967
  • Character: Bosman na "Rosicie"

Our God's Brother

Our God's Brother
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/06/1997
  • Character: Anthony
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.

Podhale w ogniu

Podhale w ogniu

A Year of the Quiet Sun

A Year of the Quiet Sun
7.1/10
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...

Wściekły

Wściekły
6.3/10
Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.

Wherever You Are...

Wherever You Are...
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 11/09/1988
  • Character: Officer-Interpreter

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