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- Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.
- In the Carpathian mountains, a man becomes an outlaw who helps his people.
- In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
- A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
- A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
- The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
- A film adaptation of the book by the same name written by Günter Grass. Pilenz, the narrator, revisits places of his World War II childhood in Germany, going through memories regarding his relationship to Mahlke, an old "friend" of his.
- After a three-year sentence, a man tries to start a new life.
- A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
- In a new political situation of 1989, just as Communism crumbles and the Berlin Wall collapses, a middle-aged Polish woman and a German man need to face their memories, feelings, and stereotypes while meeting in Gdansk.
- Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
- The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
- A story about the struggle against the totalitarian regime in Poland, about the victory as well as the expectations and disappointments related to it, as an example the history of the Gdansk Shipyard (named after Lenin at the time). Film Director Jarmo Jääskeläinen interviews three employees on the lawn of the Gdansk Shipyard in August 1980 who played key roles to launch the strike. Solidarity, the trade union which overthrew the totalitarian regime was just about emerging. 25 years later Jääskeläinen looked up these same men. In the orations Solidarity is still living. This became visible in the amazing 25th anniversary of "S", but what has happened to the shipyard and its workers? How much room for solidarity is in today's liberal capitalism?
- Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado documents the lives of the working class around the world.
- The courage and dedication of one American documentary filmmaker, Julien Bryan, altered the course of human history. Due to Bryan's relentless dedication to the defenders of Warsaw, the world first learned of Hitler's wretched plans of war and complete world domination, one country at a time.
- The documentary about the life of Chinh Do Xuan, a Vietnamese immigrant in Poland who opened a bar in Gdansk in the 80s - and it still operates to this day.
- Segments: "Poland and War," "Dogs for Sale," and "U.S. Dust Bowl."
- A journey through the city of Gdansk as seen by an agent who must complete his secret mission there.