The best Zbigniew Cybulski’s war movies

Zbigniew Cybulski

Zbigniew Cybulski

03/11/1927- 08/01/1967
Today we present the best Zbigniew Cybulski’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 Zbigniew Cybulski’s movies.

Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds
7.7/10
It's May 1945, and Nazi Germany has just surrendered. The war is over, but not in Poland. As the German soldiers vacate, the remaining Russian forces and Polish resistance fighters must work out the hierarchies of power in "liberated" Communist Poland. A Polish assassin is given orders to kill a Russian soldier whom he, days before, was fighting alongside, and this moral conflict makes him question the goals for which he has been fighting.

A Generation

A Generation
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/01/1955
  • Character: Kostek
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.

The Killer Leaves a Trace

The Killer Leaves a Trace
7.1/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 18/08/1967
  • Character: Rodecki
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

Giuseppe in Warsaw

Giuseppe in Warsaw
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomanceWar
  • Release: 07/08/1964
  • Character: Staszek, Maria's brother
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of funny events, Giuseppe falls in love, and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

Cross of Valor

Cross of Valor
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/03/1959
  • Character: Zootechnik Wiecek
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.

The Codes

The Codes
7.2/10
A father searches for his son, who has been missing since WW II, in post-war Poland. In his quest for the truth about his son, the father is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.

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