Barbara Krafft Movies
- 1966
In this pacifistic drama, a Polish Army officer who fled to London after the war returns home when he learns his wife is ill. She has never recovered from the disappearance of the couple's 12 year-old son. When the father returns, he discovers that not only is his son very much alive, but he also has mystic tendencies. The officer is disturbed when he learns his wife may have been a partisan and his son may have turned in his own mother to the authorities. Although the war is over, all the characters bear the permanent scars inflicted by the conflict. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Zbigniew Cybulski
- 1962
This symbolic drama follows a young man after he leaves his village. Believing he has killed a man in an auto accident, he skips town and takes a job in a power plant where he meets a variety of characters. Old war veterans use their experiences as excuses not to work. Free-spirited dancing girls turn on the charm until a richer man comes along. A dying man befriends the younger man for personally selfish reasons. The young man gets a belly full of the adult world, complete with the lying, pettiness and general distrust of his fellow so-called human beings. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Wladyslaw Kowalski, Krzysztof Chamiec, (more)
- 1961
This wartime drama by Polish director Jan Rybkowski is most successful in its suspense-filled first half, beginning when a Polish prisoner in a concentration camp is taken to be transported to Dachau. The desperate prisoner seizes an opportune moment and gets away from the Gestapo -- and the chase is on. As he hides and runs, and then hides some more, the man ends up in Dresden just before the Allied fire-bombing of that city. At that point, the drama becomes a chronicle of the destruction of Dresden in all its terror and ignominy. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andrzej Lapicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz, (more)
This is the last film in the trilogy that began Andrzej Wajda's career as a director. Preceding this wartime drama are Pokolenie (1955) and Kanal (1957). Once again, Wajda presents a strong anti-war statement, this time in the personae of two men who are given orders on the last day of World War II in Poland to murder a leading communist. The orders come from the part of the resistance that opposes the new communist regime. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend, Zbigniew Cybulski, plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader -- and the results are not what he expected. In 1959, Popiol I Diament won in competition at the British Academy Awards and at the Venice Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Zbigniew Cybulski, Eva Krzyewska, (more)
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