
Birthday:
01-05-1909
Deathday:
10-26-1987 (78 years)
Birthplace:
Moskwa, Russia
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Wózek
Act like Spanish Prisoner
event1965
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A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
Kalosze szczęścia
Act like Italian with a cat
event1958 star_border 4.8
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Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
A Cure for Love
Act like Man in the Cafe (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 7.3
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An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Late Afternoon
Act like "Tempo" Club employee
event1965 star_border 4.5
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Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
The Knave of Spades
Act like Musician in the cinema (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.5
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A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Unloved
Act like Captain Engineer
event1966 star_border 5.2
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The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Mansarda
Act like Jew
event1963
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After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
Czarne skrzydła
Act like Martyzel
event1963 star_border 4
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The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
Bitwa o Kozi Dwór
Act like Nejman
event1962
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A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square.
Decyzja
Act like (uncredited)
event1960
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A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
Komedianty
Act like Officer (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 4
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Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Portfel
Act like High School Headmaster
event1971
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The professor loses his wallet. Thinking that he has fallen prey to a thief, he takes it from the man whom he suspects of theft.
Rzeczywistość
Act like Saturnin Czepulonis
event1961
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The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Act like Doctor
event1972
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A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.
Album polski
Act like Repatriate Clerk
event1970
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University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Tysiąc talarów
Act like Professor
event1960 star_border 4
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An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Jadą goście jadą...
Act like Wołczek (Segment 3)
event1962 star_border 7
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Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Kapelusz
Act like Xawery, ojciec Leopolda
event1961
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A Silent broad comedy about upper class life
Quiet Is the Night
Act like Seller (uncredited)
event1978 star_border 5.8
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A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
The Leaves Have Fallen
Act like Niemiec wzięty do niewoli przez partyzantów
event1975 star_border 5
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Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
Free City
Act like German in a Pub (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.8
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The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
I Hate Mondays
Act like Folk Band Member (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 7.4
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An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Hell and Heaven
Act like French Devil (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6
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A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Trzy kroki po ziemi
Act like Ticket Controller (segment 3)
event1965
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Three stories about life problems.
The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Act like Witness
event1969 star_border 6.7
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A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Act like German Court Chairman
event1970 star_border 7.6
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Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
Dom
Act like Man In Town (uncredited)
event1970 star_border 6.3
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A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.
Nuremberg Epilogue
Act like The Accused
event1971 star_border 9
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Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
The Gorgon Case
Act like Naczelnik więzienia
event1977 star_border 5.8
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In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Cooked Doves
Act like Water Pump Company Director
event1966 star_border 6.3
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A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Otello z M-2
Act like Chrupek's Lawyer
event1968
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A man believes his wife is cheating on him.
Their Everyday Life
Act like Ticket Collector
event1963 star_border 4
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After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
Carmilla
Act like Zandarm
event1980 star_border 6.5
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Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
Nights and Days
Act like Szymszel
event1975 star_border 7.1
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A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Hospital
event1962 star_border 8
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1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people
Venus of Ille
Act like Police Commissioner
event1969
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A statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue - and can’t get it off.
Wściekły
event1980 star_border 7.5
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Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
The Holy War
Act like Manager Stronciak
event1965 star_border 5
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To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
Lighter
Act like Professor
event1970 star_border 5
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A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.
Crystal
Act like Principal
event1971
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Before his son's matura exam a father tries to bribe the exam committee.
Passion
event1978 star_border 5
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The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Nights and Days
Act like Szymszel, Żyd-pachciarz (5 ep.)
event1978 star_border 9
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Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, and Bogumił Niechcic, against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Janosik
Act like kupiec włoski (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 7.2
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Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor.
The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer.
There are 13 1-hour episodes.
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