# The best Polish films of the 1970s

From The Hourglass Sanatorium and The Promised Land to Camouflage, Camera Buff and The Deluge: Polish cinema of the 1970s according to Film.org.pl's ranking.

- 29 votes · 12 items
- Apr 26, 2022 · frame24_trojmiasto
- https://even.best/en/l/4608/the-best-polish-films-of-the-1970s

## Top 12

1. **The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Wojciech Jerzy Has. A dreamlike journey based on Bruno Schulz's stories. Number one.
2. **Camouflage (1976)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Krzysztof Zanussi. A linguistics summer camp and academic cynicism.
3. **Top Dog (1977)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Feliks Falk. Jerzy Stuhr as a social climber who hosts dances.
4. **The Promised Land (1975)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Andrzej Wajda. Three partners build a factory in 19th-century Łódź.
5. **How Far, How Near (1971)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Tadeusz Konwicki. A reckoning with memories and with the past.
6. **The Third Part of the Night (1971)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Andrzej Żuławski. Occupied Lwów and the lice feeders of the Weigl institute.
7. **Camera Buff (1979)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Krzysztof Kieślowski. A factory worker buys a camera and starts filming everything around him.
8. **Aria for an Athlete (1979)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Filip Bajon. A wrestler's career at the turn of the 20th century.
9. **The Deluge (1974)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Jerzy Hoffman. Kmicic and the Swedish invasion, from Sienkiewicz.
10. **Hotel Pacific (1975)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Janusz Majewski. A young bellboy in an elegant restaurant in interwar Kraków.
11. **Through and Through (1972)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Grzegorz Królikiewicz. A crime born of poverty, told in an unconventional way.
12. **Golem (1979)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Piotr Szulkin. A dark vision of the future and an artificially created man.

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