
Birthday:
06-13-1930
Deathday:
06-21-2024 (94 years)
Birthplace:
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
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Jest mi lekko
Writer
event1983 star_border 5
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A story of two young people - Marcin and Renata, who one day meet on the train when Marcin tries to steal money from Renata.
Afterimage
Writer
event2016 star_border 6.5
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In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
Our Folks: The Beginning
Novel
event2024 star_border 6
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Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood.
Heads Full of Stars
Writer
event1983 star_border 4
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Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.
The Emergency Exit
Screenplay
event1982 star_border 6.8
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A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce.
Wielki podryw
Writer
event1979
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A film consisting of two short stories. The protagonist of the first one is a polytechnic graduate who works in a factory. The second short story is about a shy boy who doesn't have a girlfriend.
Pięć minut przed gwizdkiem
Dialogue
event1989 star_border 9
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Sports officials are trying to decide the result of a football match before it starts. The stake is to stay in the top league.
Sobie król
Writer
event1974
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A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
Cień tamtej wiosny
Writer
event1985
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A man appearing in the finale of "The Big Game" learns about the death of his friend during the war.
Rodzina Połanieckich
Scenario Writer
event1979
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The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
Big Deal
Writer
event1977 star_border 7
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Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
Interrupted Flight
Screenplay
event1964
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The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Ktokolwiek wie...
Screenplay
event1966
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A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Julia, Anna, Genowefa...
Screenplay
event1968
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25-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war.
Our Folks
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 7.8
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Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Legenda
Dialogue
event1971 star_border 3
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Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
Take It Easy
Writer
event1974 star_border 7
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The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
Saved by a Miracle
Screenplay
event2004 star_border 5.6
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The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Years passed, and the "miraculously saved" person did not keep his promise. Now feeling that it is probably time to die, he decides to fulfill his obligations.
Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...
Dialogue
event1971
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A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.
Miasteczko
Screenplay
event1960 star_border 6
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A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
Liczę na wasze grzechy
Novel
event1964 star_border 3
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A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Na przełaj
Screenplay
event1972
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After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality.
Katyn
Novel
event2007 star_border 6.7
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On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Dom
Writer (25 ep.)
event1980 star_border 7.5
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The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
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