Edward Żebrowski - The Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (3-DVD)

The Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
Edward Żebrowski

Studio: Tim Film Studio
Number of disks: 3
Condition: Brand New, Sealed, Mint
Total time: 256 minutes
Language version: Polish
Subtitles: English
Picture Format: 4 x 3
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Region: 2 (PAL). European or multi-system DVD player is required to see this DVD.

Content:

DVD 1
Ocalenie (1972)
Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Maja Komorowska and Aleksander Bardini
Plot: A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribound patient whose kideny may be used for the transplant.

DVD 2
Szpital Przemienienia (1979)
Cast: Piotr Dejmek, Jerzy Binczycki and Henryk Bista
Plot: The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then the German Gestapo arrives. The commandant asks for the list of patients, sorts out the "Aryan" doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the Nazi soldiers appear.

DVD 3
W biały dzień (1981)
Cast: Michal Bajor, Krystyna Janda and Gustaw Holoubek
Plot: Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organization. Student reports his suspicions back to the organization, but in response is given a new hit mission, aimed at a Polish writer believed to be collaborating with the Russians. The killer comes to Cracow where the writer lives and comes to a conclusion that perhaps the writer is innocent, since there is no conclusive evidence.

About the director:

Edward Zebrowski (born July 26, 1935 in Warsaw) - Polish writer and film director, actor.

He graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film in Lodz (1965). In the years 1979-1984 and 1989-1991 he lectured at the Department of Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice, also cooperated with foreign universities (in West Berlin, Copenhagen and Bern). He was president of the Polish Federation of Film Discussion Clubs.

The creator of documentaries and feature films, the author of film scripts.