Krzysztof Zanussi Movies

Six women from three generations of one family live in an old villa on the outskirts of a provincial Polish town. All of them have lost their...

An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various...

A brilliant but troubled professor confronts his fears while working on his design of a space rocket.

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human...

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he...

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's...

A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis.

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story...

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former...

May 13, 1981, afternoon. A general audience with the head of the Church is taking place in St. Mark's Square in Rome. Suddenly, the joyful buzz...

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Director Krzysztof Zanussi's collaboration with Wojciech Kilar was a worldwide phenomenon. The artists' paths had already converged in the 1960s, and...

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

On August 1, the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, two young people, lost and alone, are looking for happiness and their way in life.

The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to...