
Birthday:
11-25-1899
Deathday:
01-24-1979 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Tamanowice, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Ukraina)
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The Promised Land
Act like Karol's Father
event1975 star_border 7.3
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In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Signals
Act like Professor Biernacki
event1959 star_border 5
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A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
Story of the Golden Boot
Act like King Kazimierz IV
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.
Mansarda
Act like Count
event1963
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After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
Ortalionowy dziadek
Act like Aleksander
event1981
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Mr. Aleksander regularly hosts three friends who are clearly poorer than himself. Nobody knows that he is stealing nylon in cafes and restaurants.
Three Hearts
Act like Aleksander
event1939 star_border 7
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Two children are born in a rich family's manor house - one of them, Gogo, is a son of a countess and the second one, Maciek, a son of the servant. The servant decides to switch the babies so her son can have a better life. They both grow up and fall for the same woman, a girl named Kasia raised by the countess.
Two from the Big River
Act like Skipper Kujawa, "Wiślak"
event1958 star_border 5.8
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A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
Hearts Aflame
Act like Captain Łukasz Śmigielski
event1937 star_border 6
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A story about a group of high school graduates, their unbreakable bond and life and death friendship.
Kosciuszko at the Battle of Raclawice
Act like Tadeusz Kosciuszko
event1938
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An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.
The Leaves Have Fallen
Act like profesor
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.
The Maids of Wilko
Act like Wiktor's Uncle
event1979 star_border 6.4
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Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Przeciwko bogom
Act like Military Doctor
event1961
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Accused by colleagues of cowardice, the aviator gets a chance for rehabilitation.
Girls of Nowolipki
Act like dyrektor Różycki
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a better future but what the future brings is usually disappointment, sometimes even tragedy.
Trzy kobiety
Act like Capt. Roman Obersztyn
event1957
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Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Makbet
Act like Sivard
event1969
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A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Act like Duke Janusz I Mazowiecki
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.
The End of the Holiday
Act like Professor Pilarski
event1975 star_border 6.8
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A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.
Agent #1
Act like Damaskinos
event1972 star_border 4.7
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Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.
Król Maciuś I
Act like Prime Minister
event1958 star_border 6
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A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
The Gorgon Case
Act like Alfred Jendl, przewodniczący składu sędziowskiego w Krakowie
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.
Uczta Baltazara
Act like Tomczyński
event1954 star_border 5
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Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
Farewell to the Devil
Act like Bartoszek
event1957 star_border 4
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A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.
Złote koło
Act like Krauswert
event1971 star_border 7.5
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An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
Far Is the Road
Act like British General
event1963 star_border 5
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After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Nuremberg Epilogue
Act like Wilhelm Keitel
event1971 star_border 9
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Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Domek z kart
Act like Bruno Sztorc
event1954
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August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.
The Nest
Act like Markgraf Geron
event1974 star_border 5.9
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Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
Young Chopin
Act like Joachim Lelewel
event1952 star_border 5.7
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Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Droga w świetle księżyca
Act like Łukasz, lokaj Starzeńskich
event1973 star_border 4
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The story is set in 1830s, shortly after the November Uprising in Poland. Julian, a young man with artistic interests, comes back home from abroad, where he studied history of art and anatomy. He wants to visit his father and meet his new wife, Katarzyna. Julian's mother died 6 years ago and although her husband promised her that he will never get married again, he broke this oath. The woman's ghost has not abandoned the house and is waiting for the punishment for her unfaithful spouse. It also influences Julian, who falls for his attractive stepmother. The doomed events constantly lead to a tragedy, which is about to happen…
Clouds of War
Act like chorąży Odrowąż (3 ep.)
event1973 star_border 7
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Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
More Than Life At Stake
Act like pułkownik Herbert Reiner (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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