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Lubitsch's Warsaw actors outwit the Gestapo; a comedy about the Nazis made in 1942.

Ten films for the Ten Commandments in one Warsaw housing estate; Kieslowski's TV masterpiece.

A Polish hairdresser humiliated in Paris rebuilds himself in Warsaw for revenge; equality as black comedy.

Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.

A widow, a dead lawyer and martial-law Poland; the first film written with Piesiewicz.

The feature cut of Dekalog 5: a murder and an execution, shot through green filters; it helped end the Polish death penalty.

The feature cut of Dekalog 6, with a gentler ending: a boy watches a woman through a telescope, and she finds out.

A commandant's family keeps a tidy garden on the other side of the Auschwitz wall.