Charlatan (2020)
Drama based on the life of herbalist Jan Mikolášek
Copying Beethoven (2006)
The last year in the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, seen through the eyes of a young copyist.
Franz (2025)
The life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
Green Border (2023)
Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.
In Darkness (2011)
A self-centred, anti-Semitic, Catholic sewer worker shelters Jews from the Nazis, at first for money but gradually because he comes to care about them as a human being.
Olivier, Olivier (1992)
The mystery of the boy who disappeared.
Spoor (2017)
An elderly woman is convinced she knows what lies behind a spate of mysterious crimes... but nobody will believe her.
Washington Square (1997)
A doctor tries to stand in the way of his daughter's romance.
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