Movies: Piotr Łazarkiewicz

It promises to be quite an ordinary day. A day during which viewers have the opportunity to peep into the lives of seven couples. It may seem that the camera captures snatches of the lives of random characters. This is an illusion. These people, alth...

A small town located right in the middle of Europe, but in reality probably at the end of the world. It is dominated by the depressing atmosphere of the Stalinist era, the still vivid memory of wartime atrocities, and bitter ethnic conflicts. Above a...

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater....

Hilda and Augusta - mother and daughter - live in a nursing homei. Daughter feels Pole, and mother - German. Thus they are not liked by surrounding people. Augusta decides to return home after many years. But it is not so easy......

A period film, set in 19th century China in the Polish community who are there building the railway. A woman enters into an extramarital affair with a painter....

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland....

At the end of the 1980s, high school students watch fragments of a congress of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers that took place in 1949. During the congress, socialist realism and pictures representing the imposed aesthetics were proclaimed....

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated...

In the documentary Magdalena Łazarkiewicz used a lot of archive material with her husband, who talks about his professional path and his true fascination with cinema. The first film he ever saw was Teutonic Knights, and this love was already born the...

Twenty years old prostitute and drug addict, Jola, by chance meets Andrzej, a "railway station gay". They try to stay together, in spite of numerous diffculties. They both are carriers of the HIV virus. At the end of their travels they find themselve...

A documentary about the rock festival in Jarocin, seen through the eyes of its participants, city authorities and representatives of social organizations....

An event, which main attraction is the dance marathon, has gathered crowds at the market square of the provincial Polish town. Impressive prizes compete with another attraction: the concert of the star singer Jessica. A local outsider Christian falls...

A film about the 5th International Film Festival of Cinematographers "Camerimage '97," which was held traditionally in Toruń from November 30 to December 6 last year. The author attempts to present the psychological and technical conditions of the ci...