 The Double Life of Veronique 1991  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Aleksander Bardini, Sandrine Dumas, Chantal Neuwirth, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Jerzy Gudejko, Janusz Sterninski, Louis Ducreux
Irene Jacob plays the roles of two women–Veronika is Polish, and Veronique is French–who appear linked in their parallel, yet separate, lives. Both suffer from heart problems, and both have singing talents and aspire to have careers in music. Veronika ignores her health, but Veronique does get treatment for her heart problems. Veronika wins a singing competition, and later is scheduled to perform with a symphony. But on the night of her performance, she suffers a heart attack and dies. Now, the scene shifts to Veronique who gives up her singing ambitions and becomes a school teacher–as if she unconsciously learned from Veronika's mistakes.
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Katyn 2007 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka, Magdalena Cielecka, Jan Englert, Agnieszka Glinska, Pawel Malaszynski, Maja Komorowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Antoni Pawlicki, Wiktoria Gasiewska
Set during the early days of World War II, this story centers on the massacre of captured Polish officers that took place in the Katyn Forest and the subsequent attempts to cover-up the truth concerning whether it was the Soviets or Nazis who performed the massacres. The director Andrzej Wajda's father, Captain Jakub Wajda, was one of those murdered during that massacre. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Love at Twenty 1962  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Francois Darbon, Rosy Varte, Nami Tamura, Barbara Lass, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Cristina Gajoni, Geronimo Meynier, Koji Furuhata, Barbara Frey, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Vera Tschechowa, Werner Finck
This episode of the story of Antoine Doinel's (Jean-Pierre Leaud) life, which began with "The 400 Blows" (1959), presents five stories that are told to reflect love among the younger generation. Five directors–Francois Truffaut, Renzo Rossellini, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, and Andrzej Wajda–present the stories, which are each set in a different country (France, Italy, Japan, West Germany, and Poland).
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Samson 1961 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sampson
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Jan Ciecierski, Elzbieta Kepinska, Tadeusz Bartosik, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irena Netto, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Jan Ibel, Bogumil Antczak, Alan Steel
Director Wajda again returns to the Nazi occupation of Poland that occurred in World War II during his youth. A young, Jewish man (Serge Merlin) is imprisoned during World War II, but he escapes. Now, the quiet man is trapped in a world on non-Jews as he tries to survive.
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| 1. The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
2. Katyn (2007)
3. Love at Twenty (1962)
4. Samson (1961)
aka: Sampson
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