赞努西打开国际影坛大门的早期代表作，以繁复而疏离的形式和内省的命题著称。 藉由一心进入知名学府物理系就读的男主角，日后恋爱、辍学、逃离尘世到回归体制的过程，不断从生活、精神、 思想上发掘冲突与辩证，游走在性灵与现实、自由与责任的拉据。不仅反映了当时波兰青年知识份子的心境， 也确立赞努西日后作品的内在主题。

阿贝尔是个性格谨小慎微的单身男子，他妈妈则性格与之相反，热情奔放又浪漫至极。阿贝尔的妈妈爱上了一个刚出狱的魅力老男人米歇。米歇动用谜之关系帮阿贝尔妈妈开了梦想中的花店。阿贝尔感到这背后定有隐情。阿贝尔暗恋着自己的同事兼好朋友克莱门。喜欢冒险的克莱门跟阿贝尔一起暗中调查西尔维，果然发现各种可疑线索……克莱门追求刺激渐渐沉迷其中，阿贝尔为了心上人不得不铤而走险，平淡人生从此翻天覆地。

故事讲述前海洛因瘾君子丹尼尔·莱格参与了一项毒品交易，以错误的理由为错误的人提供帮助。 当交易失败时，丹尼尔被扔进泰国监狱，并被判处100年徒刑。 当他试图在曼谷被监禁时幸存下来时，他被定罪的消息引起了环球邮报记者维克托·马拉雷克的注意，他决定追捕负责对丹尼尔进行错误指控的阴暗卧底警察。

Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness.

1989年夏天，东德。亚当做裁缝，伊芙林做女招待。他们正计划一起度假，当伊芙琳发现亚当对她不忠时，她决定独自去度假。她跟随亚当去了匈牙利。随着与奥地利的边界逐渐缩小，匈牙利的一切都发生了变化。随着亚当和伊夫林决定在哪个世界——东方还是西方——他们想要建立幸福生活的新可能性的到来，世界的边界是开放的。亚当·德·伊夫林改编自英戈·舒尔茨的同名小说，被翻译成十多种语言。