34 Films & TV Shows Set In Poland During The 1940s
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War and Love
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sThey fought their way out of Hell and found each other. — Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
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Pope John Paul II
🇵🇱 Poland The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sBio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
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The Turning Point
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sIn the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
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The Tin Drum
🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sA savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos. — Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
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The Night of the Generals
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 1960s The 1940sA unique manhunt across the capitals of Europe... across three decades up to today! — An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler
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Major 'Whirlwind'
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sThe Nazis planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Russians to stop the disaster.
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Samson
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sSampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.
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Ashes and Diamonds
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sTouched with the fire and rebellion of a new generation of Polish film makers — It's May 1945, and Nazi Germany has just surrendered. The war is over, but not in Poland. As the German soldiers vacate, the remaining Russian forces and Polish resistance fighters must work out the hierarchies of power in "liberated" Communist Poland. A Polish assassin is given orders to kill a Russian soldier whom he, days before, was fighting alongside, and this moral conflict makes him question the goals for which he has been fighting.
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Frieda
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sThe film that puts the question - Would YOU take Frieda into YOUR Home? — A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
