"Actor: Tadeusz Lomnicki"

• The Andrzrej Wajda War Trilogy | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.26

  Contains: A Generation (a.k.a Pokolenie): Set against the German occupation of Poland during World War Two this is the story of a group of youths and their coming of age. Canal (a.k.a Kanal): Set during the last days of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 this is the story of a company of men who are forced to say goodbye to their families and retreat to the sewers in a bid to flee the advancing deadly battle. Ashes And Diamonds (a.k.a Popiol i Diament): On the last day of World War Two a young Resistance fighter is ordered to kill a Communist leader. However his conscience is telling him not to obey knowing the consequences could be deadly he must decide whether to follow his orders for the last time.

• Blind Chance | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Poland in the politically turbulent late 1970s: Witek is running to catch a train. From this banal event Krzysztof Kieslowski the director of 'Dekalog' and the 'Three Colours' trilogy imagines three different possible outcomes in the young man's life. In the first scenario Witek catches the train on which he meets some hard line communists and joins the party. In the second as Witek runs for the train his path is blocked by a ticket inspector; the ensuing struggle leads to hi

• Man of Marble: 2-Disc Special Editon | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £14.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (12.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Often described as 'the Polish Citizen Kane' Wajda's Man Of Marble is about the attempts of a determined young woman filmmaker Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) to make a documentary about the Polish national hero Mateusz Birkut a labourer who in the early days of the Communist revolution was hailed for his productivity feats and became as famous as any film star only to disappear from the record books in 1952. Through interviews with his former wife colleagues friends and enemies who knew him Birkut emerges as a man who believed in the socialist ideals and the workers revolution. Unlike many of his colleagues and compatriots Birkut refused to forgive and forget. His disappearance became in effect the unrelenting conscience of the revolution. However the young filmmaker's hard-driving style and the content of her film unnerve the authorities who thinks it's getting too close to a political nerve... Not only regarded as one of the greatest most important films in the history of Polish cinema it is also one of the key films of the 1970s and one of the most compelling attacks on government corruption ever made. This ground-breaking feature is presented in an all new HD digital restoration and features exclusive newly filmed interviews with director Andrzej Wajda lead actress Krystyna Janda and renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland who was Assistant Director on Man Of Marble. Special Features: Exclusive Interviews: With Director Andrzej Wajda With Star Krystyna Janda With Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland New HD transfer Booklet essay by Michael Brooke

• Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje) | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following his renowned War Trilogy, Andrzej Wajda made this provocative film from a script co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End).A commentary on the lives of young people who grew up in the new, post-war communist Poland, Wajda chronicles a bohemian milieu of motor-scooters, love, sex and jazz with great vitality and humour. The rebellion the film depicts is social and moral, not political - and the film angered both Communist and Church authorities by showing its young characters' explicit rejection of any ideological affinity.With an outstanding cast headed by Tadeusz Lomnicki and including Polish superstar Zbigniew Cybulski and a young Roman Polanski in one of his earliest acting roles, this is a key film in its director's output - and one that has substantially grown in stature over time.