Krystyna Janda
7 titles
Filmography
7 results

Kill It and Leave This Town
(2020)Fleeing despair after losing those dearest to him, a man hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and the dead are still alive.

Damaged
(2015)When a professor researches her family home, a filmmaker finds inspiration to make a documentary that unlocks three generations of salacious secrets.

Golem
(1980)Drawing on Jewish legend, this Kafkaesque work of speculative science fiction is the debut feature by one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. From a nightmarish world of gods and monsters, Piotr Szulkin forges a modern Prometheus as a potent allegory for Poland’s Communist experiment.

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
(1985)Conjuring a claustrophobic vision of post-nuclear Poland, Piotr Szulkin lends his satirical eye to the weaponization of religion as a means of social control. A utilitarian triumph of ramshackle world-building, O-Bi, O-Ba is a hallucinatory examination of apocalyptic anxieties in the atomic age.

The War of the Worlds: Next Century
(1981)Pulled from the Cannes competition in the same year that Poland declared martial law, Piotr Szulkin’s tale of alien invasion is a blazing satire of the media machine. Dedicated to H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, this noir-inflected sci-fi is an eerily prescient interrogation of the fake-news era.

Elles
(2011)Małgorzata Szumowska's provocative, adults-only drama stars Academy Award-winner Juliette Binoche as a journalist whose personal life choices are put to the test when she uncovers some discomforting home truths.

How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
(2022)A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.