Ryszarda Hanin Movies

Murs Kulgawcowa was a servant for rich Jewish people for many years, and the necessity for her to kow-tow and take orders from them was galling to her. Still, at their request, she goes to see them where they now are, in the Warsaw ghetto. They want her to take their youngest child with them "until its safe." She sees an opportunity to get some revenge for the humiliation she suffered and is very rude and difficult with them. All the same, they give her so much money and so many valuable things that she finally relents and takes the girl with her. The two odd companions travel for some time together and grow friendly, so that when it looks like it might be necessary for her to do so, the former washerwoman is willing to die to protect her young charge. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Lynx is an adaptation of a short story ("The Church at Skaryszew") by Polish writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, originally about the 1863 uprising in the Ukraine against the Russians, but changed in this film to the time of the German Occupation. The "lynx" of the title is Satan himself, incarnate as an assassin out to eliminate a collaborator - and his counterpoint in the priest in the village church who first encounters the "lynx" in the confessional. From that point on, the priest's own mettle is sorely put to the test - and the adversary is not one to back down easily. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Playwrighting is not a particularly lucrative profession, so the playwright in this movie must stay with a hospitable family when he visits a city in which his play is being shown. The family consists of a sparring mother and daughter. Even the ever-aloof writer is drawn into their genteel squabbles, and he also has a brief romance with the daughter. However, he wisely returns to his hometown, leaving the two to their ceaseless struggle. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi