5 Films & TV Shows Set In Poland During The 17th Century

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  With Fire and Sword

  🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 17th Century

  In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...

  Released in 1999 • 175 minutes
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  The Deluge

  🇵🇱 Poland The 17th Century

  Compassion blooms in a sea of human wretchedness and malice. — A dashing warrior fights for the heart of a young gentlewoman as war rages across 17th century Poland in an adaptation of the second part of Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical trilogy of warfare, romance, and derring-do.

  Released in 1974 • 315 minutes
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  Invasion 1700

  🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 17th Century

  Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish military officer and a gorgeous Slavic princess. The princess' vengeful lover cuts a path of death and destruction throughout the land.

  Released in 1962 • 112 minutes
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  Mother Joan of the Angels

  🇵🇱 Poland The 17th Century

  Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly possessed by demons. A local priest have been burnt for creating this condition by sexual temptation of the nuns, especially the Mother superior who bring on the collective hysteria of the group. There is another young priest who is to help with the exorcism. His first meeting with the convent head, Mother Joan of the Angels, has her seemingly possessed by Satan - she yells blasphemies and incites the priest. She begs the priest to save her and to help her to be a saint.

  Released in 1961 • 110 minutes
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  The Monastery of Sendomir

  🇵🇱 Poland The 17th Century

  When two riders come to the monastery seeking shelter for the night they inquire from one of the monks about the founding of the monastery. The old monk reluctantly recounts the story of Count Starschensky, a nobleman of wealth and property. Starschensky is blessed with domestic happiness, however, he later finds that his young wife, Elga, has been sneaking her lover into the castle in evenings when he is away, and that their only child is not his, but a product of this affair. Tragedy ensues and the count sells his estates and establishes the monastery as part of his penance.

  Released in 1920 • 54 minutes