
Birthday:
11-21-1925
Deathday:
01-17-1976 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Warsaw, Poland
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Ashes and Diamonds
Act like Andrzej Kossecki
event1958 star_border 7.4
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A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
The Saragossa Manuscript
Act like Don Pedro Uzeda
event1965 star_border 7.9
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During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Kanal
Act like German at the Sewer Entrance
event1957 star_border 7.7
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During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
The Office
Act like Butler (uncredited)
event1969
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Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
I Would Like to Have a Shave
Act like Man following the Client's Car
event1966 star_border 7.7
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A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.
Gold Dreams
Act like Piotr's Friend
event1962 star_border 5.6
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The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Story of the Golden Boot
Act like Herald (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 6.4
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Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Barrier
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6.8
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A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Naprawdę wczoraj
Act like Man at the Banquet
event1963 star_border 4
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The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
Farewells
Act like German Officer (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 5.5
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The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
The Two Who Stole the Moon
Act like Viceroy Saradella / citizen of Golden City
event1962 star_border 4.6
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Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
The Woodpecker
Act like Thief
event1971 star_border 5.9
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A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
Where Is the Third King?
Act like Commissioner Didot
event1967 star_border 5.7
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Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
Album polski
Act like NSZ Member
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.
Checkmate!
Act like Sheik's Servant (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 7
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Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
Ping-pong
Act like Wiktor
event1966 star_border 7
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A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them.
Goodbye to the Past
Act like Żbik
event1961 star_border 6.6
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An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Bad Luck
Act like Ens. Osewski
event1960 star_border 6.7
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To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Lotna
Act like Lieutenant Wodnicki
event1959 star_border 5.2
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Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
Act like Audience Member (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.4
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Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...
Drugi człowiek
Act like Krystyna's Friend (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 5
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A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
Zuzanna i chłopcy
Act like Mountain Hut Manager (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 4
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Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
Act like Gestapo Officer
event1963
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The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.
Wounded in the Forest
Act like "Stud"
event1964 star_border 6
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While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
Giuseppe in Warsaw
Act like Man picking up Satyr (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 5.9
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The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Alone in the City
Act like Barkeeper
event1965 star_border 7
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Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
Instrumentum mortis
Act like "Jeremi"
event1965
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Polish TV movie. Lost.
Cooked Doves
Act like Western Guest (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6.3
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A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Hell and Heaven
Act like Officer
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.
The Nutcracker
Act like Secretary
event1967 star_border 7
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On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
Wolves' Echoes
Act like Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
event1968 star_border 7
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A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
More Than Life At Stake Part Three
Act like Boldt ("Double Nelson")
event1969
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The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.
The Road West
Act like Lieutenant
event1961 star_border 7
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In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
One Room Tenants
Act like Zygmunt Stukonis
event1960 star_border 5.9
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A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Act like Lutek Wybranowski
event1963 star_border 8
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The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
Polar Bear
Act like Major Rudolf von Henneberg
event1959 star_border 7
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A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Kochajmy syrenki
Act like Nurkiewicz
event1967 star_border 5.8
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Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
Everything for Sale
Act like Man at the Bar
event1969 star_border 5.9
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Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Back to Life Again
Act like NSZ Commander
event1965 star_border 5
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Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Far Is the Road
Act like Captain
event1963 star_border 5
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After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Mój stary
Act like Dog Owner's Husband
event1962
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A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
The Criminal and the Lady
Act like Henryk Zawadzki
event1963 star_border 6.8
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Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.
No More Divorces
Act like USC Clerk (Segments 2 and 3)
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Three short segments about love.
It Started Yesterday
Act like Jerzy Biesiada
event1961
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Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
More Than Life At Stake
Act like kapitan Franz Boldt (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 8
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Stawka większa niż życie is a series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
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