Krzysztof Penderecki Movies

A Prussian general instructs his soldiers how to get rid of the storks bringing new lives. He turns the conscripts into cannon fodder, and he can't...

In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the...

Seen from the outside, it’s an old arch-windowed house overlooking a field isolated from the center of the village. But the rooms of this dark...

Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.

Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.

A compilation film of historical footage of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. The composition of this "lament" is based on...

Bulandra the miner explores the underground and wins gold from its inhabitant, an old spirit. Little does he know that the Devil will cause mischief...

Persephone combines an excerpt from Penderecki’s “Cello Concerto No 1” with a static image of a shivering cat, emerging from the...

A story illustrating the legend of Bazyliszek who mischief among tenement houses in Warsaw's Old Town.

In this video, with every minute, the artist's body becomes more and more machine, element of a perfectly working clock mechanism, it becomes...

As with so many early films by Sokurov, this film has two dates: the first is the date of its creation (the film was then banned), the second is the...

A film impression showing the Royal Sigismond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle as an interior with a unique and abundant collection of sculptures....