Forbidden Songs 1947 POL SUB ENG, POL 1080p WEB-DL x264

Year: 1947
Country: Poland
Director: Leonard Buczkowski
Cast: Danuta Szaflarska, Janina Ordezanka, Jerzy Duszynski, Jan Swiderski
IMDB: Link

Language : Polish
Subtitles : English,Polish






Forbidden Songs' is a unique film for several reasons. Originally, the film, which was the fruit of a collaboration between scriptwriter Ludwik Starski and director Leonard Buczkowski was intended to be just a short documentary, featuring a collection of Polish songs that were often performed to boost the morale during the years of German occupation. In this form, the film was made in 1945. However, soon a decision was made to turn it into a full-length feature film.

It became the story of the wartime experiences of a musician who founded a street orchestra in occupied Warsaw, but at the same time, he was also active in an underground resistance. The film was shot in 1946 and released in January 1947. Interestingly, a large part of the footage was recorded not in Warsaw, but in Lódz, where both the scriptwriter and director lived.

Despite the huge interest, the film did not meet with critical acclaim, and viewers themselves were rather sceptical about the storyline. The main complaint was that the message it conveyed seemed too light-hearted. It did not sufficiently portray the drama of the occupied capital and the brutality of the German perpetrators, and it didn’t emphasise enough the role of the Red Army in the 1944 Battle of Warsaw and the capture of the Polish capital, which posed a serious problem for the communist authorities and its official propaganda.

As a result of general discontent about half an hour of footage was removed and re-shot. In this way, “Forbidden Songs” received its third premiere in November 1948. Changes included a stronger emphasis on the brutality of the occupying German forces and the inclusion of documentary footage presenting the soldier of 1st Tadeusz Kosciuszko Infantry Division, from the Soviet-controlled 1st Polish Army, entering the city in January 1945.

However, it was possible to preserve the original character of the film as an anthology of Polish songs popular in German-occupied Warsaw. In effect, the footage was not perceived by the general public as a communist propaganda product. "Forbidden Songs" was the most watched Polish feature film until "Krzyzacy" [“Knights of the Teutonic Order”] entered cinemas in the 1960s.

[ About file ]

Name: Forbidden Songs.Leonard Buczkowski.1947.WEB-DL.NiTK.mkv
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:45:00 +0200
Size: 3,036,098,326 bytes (2895.448996 MiB)

[ Magic ]

File type: Matroska data
File type: EBML file, creator matroska

[ Generic infos ]

Duration: 01:39:21 (5960.981 s)
Container: matroska
Production date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:12:59 +0200
Total tracks: 4
Track nr. 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) {und}
Track nr. 2: audio (A_AAC) {pol}
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[ Relevant data ]

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Width: multiple of 32
Height: multiple of 8
Average DRF: 26.471796
Standard deviation: 3.858572
Std. dev. weighted mean: 3.062873

[ Video track ]

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Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frame aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777778
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Sampling frequency (bs): 48000 Hz
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Weighted prediction: No
Weighted bipred idc: No
8x8dct: Yes
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I-slices: 2981 ( 2.000 %)
SP-slices: 0 ( 0.000 %)
SI-slices: 0 ( 0.000 %)

[ DRF analysis ]

average DRF: 26.471796
standard deviation: 3.858572
max DRF: 41

DRF<12: 0 ( 0.000 %)
DRF=12: 43 ( 0.029 %)
DRF=13: 8 ( 0.005 %)
DRF=14: 41 ( 0.028 %)
DRF=15: 1076 ( 0.722 %)
DRF=16: 1013 ( 0.680 %)
DRF=17: 1557 ( 1.045 %)
DRF=18: 2464 ( 1.653 %)
DRF=19: 1403 ( 0.941 %)
DRF=20: 2696 ( 1.809 %)
DRF=21: 4385 ( 2.942 %) #
DRF=22: 7390 ( 4.959 %) #
DRF=23: 10074 ( 6.760 %) #
DRF=24: 12112 ( 8.128 %) ##
DRF=25: 12927 ( 8.674 %) ##
DRF=26: 11042 ( 7.410 %) #
DRF=27: 12073 ( 8.101 %) ##
DRF=28: 16311 ( 10.945 %) ##
DRF=29: 17170 ( 11.522 %) ##
DRF=30: 16436 ( 11.029 %) ##
DRF=31: 10210 ( 6.851 %) #
DRF=32: 4980 ( 3.342 %) #
DRF=33: 1946 ( 1.306 %)
DRF=34: 699 ( 0.469 %)
DRF=35: 480 ( 0.322 %)
DRF=36: 242 ( 0.162 %)
DRF=37: 60 ( 0.040 %)
DRF=38: 28 ( 0.019 %)
DRF=39: 47 ( 0.032 %)
DRF>39: 111 ( 0.074 %)

P-slices average DRF: 23.327544
P-slices std. deviation: 2.998836
P-slices max DRF: 36

B-slices average DRF: 28.231266
B-slices std. deviation: 3.098749
B-slices max DRF: 41

I-slices average DRF: 23.621603
I-slices std. deviation: 3.003474
I-slices max DRF: 36

This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 16-10-2026 00:08:14