The best Zygmunt Bielawski’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Zygmunt Bielawski’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 Zygmunt Bielawski.
Our Folks
7.9/10
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Shivers
6.9/10
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
7.1/10
The film is set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos), a tired, sloppy, lonely man, whose wife has long since left him. For him, censorship is both an art and a game, but he does not enjoy it. During a screening of a sentimental Polish melodrama called "Daybreak" at the Liberty cinema across the road from the censor's office, the actors start to rebel and refuse to speak their lines. There is anarchy and when the censor is unable to control the situation, senior party officials are called in. Eventually a film critic notes that the situation reminds of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" by Woody Allen and brings a reel of the film to demonstrate. The officials watch the film with amusement until another mix-up occurs: the second projector is turned on accidentally and superimposes "Daybreak" over "Purple Rose".
Take It Easy
7.5/10
The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
The Curse of Snake Valley
5.4/10
The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Tibetian jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.
Zaraza
5.6/10
Kornblumenblau
6.7/10
Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.
Leprosy
6.9/10
When Stanislaw Czermien is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real perpetrator. He suspects him to be his own brother, Witold.
Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
6.6/10
Quiet Is the Night
7.3/10
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Sobótki
5.7/10
Zwolnieni z życia
6.6/10
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left for Australia.
I Like Bats
5.4/10
Izabella works at her aunt's shop in a small town in Poland. Police are after a man who rapes and kills women in the woods. The serial killer attacks her and when he asks for a kiss, she'll give him the kiss of death with pleasure..because she's actually a vampire woman!
The Red and the Gold
6.9/10
An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
