The best Stanisław Niwiński’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Stanisław Niwiński’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Stanisław Niwiński.
The Night of the Generals
7.2/10
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler
Hubal
6.8/10
The Gorgon Case
7.1/10
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Kazimierz Wielki
6.4/10
Westerplatte Resists
7/10
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdansk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig/Gdansk. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. It was the first obstacle to Hitler's predatory march across Europe. The first shots of World War II were fired here. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Virtuti
Jarosław Dąbrowski
The Last Witness
5.3/10
Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" is arriving to Poland trying to find a treasure hidden by Nazis.
Where is the General?
6.7/10
Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second problem. Waclaw's platoon had to find deserter. Polish Soldier close to the castle.
A Lady from the Window
6.2/10
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
Black Feet
6.5/10
A group of Boy scouts who name themselves Black Feet learn lessons about honor and brotherhood in a camp.
Rendes-Vous with a Spy
6.4/10
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Olympic Fire
5.7/10
A Polish war film from 1969 based on a short story by Cezary Chlebowski Nocne Szlaki.
I Died So I Could Live
6.9/10
Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
Heads and Tails
4.5/10
In spring of 1954, thanks to amnesty, Marcin Nowak - a political prisoner - get released from prison and tries turn his life back to normal
Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
6.9/10
"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.
