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.

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

1969 film by Jerzy Passendorfer

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

1961 ZLOTO / GOLD DREAMS - An ensemble cast features in this psychological drama (screenplay by Bohdan Czeszko) that almost seems to be a routine propaganda film. Set on the building site of an energy plant, it centers on a young man who finds it difficult to work in a team and simultaneously harbors a secret. He is running from responsibility for he believes that while driving he hit and killed a pedestrian. In time, it turns out that he in fact it a dog. Has appeared in this film in a bit part, portraying a police officer.

1965 film by Jerzy Skolimowski