This film is an adaptation of one of Maria Rodziewiczówna’s best-known novels of manners. This seven-episode series tells a story about love, honour and family, intertwined with the lives of people from lower and higher social classes whose lives changed after the January Uprising. Marek Czertwan is faced with a new duty imposed on him by his dying father – he has »
Hania studies at the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw. One day, she attends a theatrical premiere of Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve) by Adam Mickiewicz, a literary work that is an expression of the deepest patriotic feelings, an image of the nation’s suffering in captivity and an image of the struggle against an invader. The then government believed that “Dziady” was an »
Warsaw 1905. A young girl, entangled with independence activists, gets out of prison and is sold to the high-end brothel of Franciszka Szlimakowska. She takes the name “Yvette” and decides to earn money working as a prostitute to go to her beloved in Siberia. She wants to take her life into her own hands, hoping fortune will smile upon her. However, she »
The Jagiellonians is a new season of a smash historical period drama The Crown of the Kings. Its action starts in the year 1399 and it tells the story of the Jagiellonian dynasty, which reigned in no fewer than 14 present-day states in Renaissance Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries. The dynasty comprised of Kings of Poland, Grand Dukes of Lithuania, »
Two Eagles House is a historical series depicting the tragically intertwined fates of Poles, Germans and Ukrainians, whose paths cross in an old, post-German villa built in Breslau, now Wrocław. The action starts in 1997, the day before the historic flood that hit Wrocław. A full of joy and talented student of architecture Marianna Szablewska, together with her American fiancé Paul, returns »
A crime series based on the short stories by Marek Krajewski, the setting of which are pre- and postwar Lviv and Wrocław. The main character is Edward Popielski, a detective inspector of extraordinary intellect and physical strength, who is tormented by visions caused by epilepsy attacks, which he uses to his advantage in investigations. He works as an officer of the law »
