75 years of the WFO Film Studio

8 films
With 4500 films, over 1200 Polish and international awards, and a prestigious place in the history of cinematography, it’s hard to imagine Polish documentary filmmaking without the involvement of the WFO Film Studio in Łódź.
  • A Girl With a Devil (Dziewcę z ciortem)

    dir. Piotr Szulkin
    fab1975

    The ballad ‘A w niedzielę z porania...’ , one of the oldest relics of Polish folk culture, is the plot of the film. The ballad tells the story of a village girl, Kasia, who led a promiscuous lifestyle and murdered her three illegitimate children.

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  • A Lump of Sugar (Kostka cukru)

    dir. Jacek Bławut
    dok1987
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  • Elementary (Elementarz)

    dir. Wojciech Wiszniewski
    dok1976

    A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

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  • Frost Is Coming (Idzie Mróz)

    dir. Piotr Andrejew
    dok1973
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  • Glory of the Bull (Bykowi chwała)

    dir. Andrzej Papuziński
    dok1971

    Award-winning film about the work of Franciszek Starowieyski, one of Poland's most outstanding artists, painter, stage designer, graphic artist and creator of the theatre of drawing.

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  • Hockey (Hokej)

    dir. Bogdan Dziworski
    dok1976
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  • Rat Pack (Szczurołap)

    dir. Andrzej Czarnecki
    dok1986
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  • The Catastrophy (Katastrofa)

    dir. Marek Drążewski
    dok1986

    A film interpretation of an interesting theory by French scientist Rene Thom, concerning certain events occurring in biology, physics, economics in an abrupt manner, involving a change in structure or state. This theory allows us to better understand the phenomena occurring in the world around us.

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