
Birthday:
06-06-1936
Deathday:
11-03-1991 (55 years)
Birthplace:
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
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Husband Under the Bed
Act like Man under the Bed
event1970 star_border 1
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A jealous husband follows his wife, but accidentally ends up in a strange apartment.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Act like Pierre
event1961 star_border 7
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An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
The Curse of Snake Valley
Act like Captain Bernard Traven
event1988 star_border 6
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The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Tibetian jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.
The Moth
Act like Jan
event1980 star_border 6.4
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This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan is the host of a nightly talk show in which he counsels people who call in with their problems. He is dedicated to helping these lonely souls but becomes increasingly disturbed when his co-workers and supervisors at the radio station do not appreciate his program; they seem unable to grasp the importance of what he is doing. Aside from that, Jan's private life is frayed around the edges. His wife is a heavy drinker and his mistress has no comprehension about who he is or what he is doing. Jan's frustration over this lack of recognition builds to an explosive level, threatening to upset the balance of his daily life.
Aria for an Athlete
Act like Bolcio Rogalski
event1979 star_border 6.3
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Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Act like Iron Idem
event1981 star_border 6.7
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Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Ide as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
The Turning Point
Act like Ohnehals
event1983 star_border 5.2
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In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
The Trial
Act like Jozef K.
event1980
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An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"
Wiano
Act like Staszek Stosina
event1964
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A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest
Act like Vega Citizen (uncredited)
event1963 star_border 5.8
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A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet.
Environs of a Quiet Sea
Act like Captain Roman Markowski
event1983
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Captain Roman Markowski is a sailor. One day, after returning from the sea, his ex-wife calls him. It turns out that their son has disappeared. It also turns out that the boy got to the Maritime School. The captain's life gets complicated when his son suffers a serious accident.
Hotel Pacific
Act like Robert Fornalski
event1975 star_border 7.4
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Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Smell of the Dog's Fur
Act like Pawel
event1982
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Sculptor Paul travels to the Black Sea resort. There he meets a German student of Slavic studies, Heidi, with whom he starts a romantic affair. They live in the campsite. He does not take this relationship seriously, but for the girl Paul is the first great love. Soon he accidentally discovers an illicit drug trafficking. Without a second thought, he takes the opportunity to get more cash - he takes over the goods and demands a ransom gang of twenty thousand dollars. Heidi then disappears...
Shoot Paragon!
Act like Roman Wawrzysiak
event1970 star_border 7
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A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
The Phantom
Act like Piotr Strumienski
event1984 star_border 5.1
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Set in the early years of the century. A story of a country gentleman haunted by the memory of his first wife. His current wife, had enough of his obsession and has taken a lover, who is mysteriously paralyzed. Meanwhile, main character's son gets his first taste of sensual experience with a mute peasant girl.
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Act like Jamont
event1960 star_border 7.3
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A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Look Out, Hooligans!
Act like Worker Janek
event1955
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A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.
Komedie pomyłek
Act like Man under the Bed (segment "A Husband Under The Bed")
event1968
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Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
Westerplatte Resists
Act like Mate Franciszek Bartoszak
event1967 star_border 6.8
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Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Private investigation
Act like Rafal Skonecki
event1987 star_border 6.3
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Rafal Skonecki loses his family in a car accident, caused by a drunken driver. When he is informed that the investigation is discontinued, he decides to take justice into his own hand.
The Blue Note
Act like Adalbert Grzymala
event1991 star_border 5.4
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A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
Act like Olgierd Jarosz
event1968
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The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2.
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
Act like Olgierd Jarosz
event1968
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The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4.
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
Act like Olgierd Jarosz
event1968
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The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka
Act like Ruggiero (voice) (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 4.2
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Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man.
Mateo Falcone
Act like Gianetto Sanpierro (voice) (uncredited)
event1971
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After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.
The Story of Sin
Act like Antoni Pochron
event1975 star_border 5.8
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A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
The Smaller Sky
Act like Artur Gutner
event1981 star_border 6
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A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
Revenge
Act like Świdrycki
event1983
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Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives join them. Although they have not had the opportunity to get to know each other so far, they become friends very quickly.
The Gorgon Case
Act like Inżynier Henryk Zaremba, ojciec Lusi
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.
Jesienią o szczęściu
Act like Jan Grabowski, reżyser filmowy
event1986 star_border 5
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Anna, a young and beautiful woman, takes lonely walks along the beach, when one day she attracts the attention of Jan, a film director.
Weil ich dich liebe …
event1970
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Dr. Gerd Thiessen, an experienced veterinarian, takes up a new job at a publicly owned manor. His research colleagues are less than thrilled about his ideas and modification proposals. Thus, the pretty and confident veterinarian Sabine Ladenbach becomes his only ally and soon they fall in love with each other. When Thiessen’s wife Eva notices that her husband is growing away from her, she starts to fight for him. Eventually, Thiessen realizes that Eva is the woman of his life, both privately and professionally. At the same time, he figures out that he needs the support of his team to achieve success in his field.
Nagrody i odznaczenia
Act like "Szpak"
event1974
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1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.
Eroica
Act like Polish Soldier (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")
event1958 star_border 6.9
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Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
Zad wielkiego wieloryba
Act like Barber
event1990
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Roy, who lives abroad, recollects his youth. Soon he receives news about his old friend's death.
Without Anesthesia
Act like Broński
event1978 star_border 6.6
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A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Eagle
Act like Seaman (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 6.8
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Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Four Tank-Men and a Dog
Act like Olgierd Jarosz (8 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7.7
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Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.
The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.
Moonlighting
(1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7.5
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After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
Sanford and Son
(1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.5
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The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
The Music Scene
(17 ep.)
event1969
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The Music Scene is a television series aired by ABC as part of its Fall 1969 lineup, in the Monday, 7:30 to 8:15 timeslot, primarily featuring rock and pop music.
Theatre Macabre
(1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 3
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Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.
Alternatywy 4
Act like Stanisław Anioł (9 ep.)
event1986 star_border 8.4
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Alternatywy 4 was a Polish comedy TV series that was finished in 1983. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in Alternatywy 4 was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.
Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
Act like Nikodem Dyzma (7 ep.)
event1980 star_border 7.6
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Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.
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