Piotr Szulkin Collection - Gift Set 4 DVD (2009)

Description:
This 4 DVD set contains Piotr Szulkin's Sci-Fi masterpieces:

1. GOLEM (1980)

In this futuristic sci-fi film, based on the legends of the Golem, insane scientists have invented technology that give them total control over the half-human, half-android population of Earth. Trouble ensues when one of the creatures begins showing independent will. He must be destroyed lest he influence the rest. They pursue him, but somehow he continues to elude the evil doctors.

2. THE WAR OF THE WORLD: NEXT CENTURY (1981)
Original title: Wojna Światów - Następne Stulecie

This Polish sci-fier is set in the year 1999. Roman Wilhemi plays a TV reporter who witnesses the Martian invasion of Earth. He tries to spread the news, but the public considers his bulletin a mere replay of the 1938 Orson Welles hoax. The government knows the truth, but publicly derides Wilhemi as a madman so as to avoid widespread panic. This cynical slice of speculative fiction was originally released in Poland as Wojna Swiatow - Nastepne Stulecie.

3. O-BI, O-BA - THE END OF CIVILIZATION (1985)
Original title: O-bi, O-ba: Koniec Cywilizacji

In a murky, sometimes confusing tale about a future dystopia in which people are waiting - and waiting - for a rescue ship called the Ark, there are several good one-liners, but they are outnumbered by the puzzling riddles and symbolism that permeate the story. The flotsam and jetsam of humanity are huddled together in an underground labyrinth after civilization as we know it has been obliterated by the Bomb. The survivors are protected by a dome which a repairman notes is bound to crack before the Ark arrives because it was constructed under a one-year plan. The hero of the film searches for the origins of the myth about the Ark and along the way falls in love with a prostitute. It seems the world's oldest profession has also survived the nuclear holocaust.

4. GA-GA: GLORY TO THE HEROES (1986)
Original title: Ga, Ga: Chwała Bohaterom

The main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world, where he is instead greeted as a "hero" and treated like royalty. He soon finds out that heroism has a price: he has to commit a crime so that he may be publicly executed in a glorious ceremony.

The bonus track features “Kobiety pracujace” (1978) and “Mieso” (1994).