Summary: Set in pre-World War II Poland, a man visits the sanatorium where his father is dying and enters the surreal world where he relives some of his past and encounters strangeness at every turn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mr. Bongo Worldwide 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HOUSummary: A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda, the final film in his celebrated war trilogy, entwines the story of one man's moral crisis on the final day of World War II with the fate of a nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ASHSummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURSummary: Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTSummary: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Green Border immediately drew controversy from the Polish government for its depiction of the European migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border. Shot in stark black-and-white, this riveting thriller explores the intractable conflict from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEWSummary: Return to the hiding place (2014, 103 min.): Discover the untold secret of Corrie ten Boom's Teenage Army that rescued over 800 condemned Jews as seen through the eyes of young teenager Hans Poley and his brave band of resistance fighters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: The thrilling and epic drama series tells the story of three young Polish women who band together to fight against the Nazi occupation of their country during the outbreak of World War II. Irka, Ewa and Marysia each come from very different backgrounds and social standings: Irka was raised by well-educated parents in a patriotic family, Ewa was brought up by petty criminals, and Marysia is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023