
Birthday:
02-06-1915
Deathday:
02-19-2017 (102 years)
Birthplace:
Kosarzyska k. Piwnicznej-Zdroju, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Polska)
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Janosik: A True Story
Act like Janosik's grandmother
event2009 star_border 4.2
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The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.
Tango
Act like Babcia
event1999 star_border 8.5
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The famous play by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Maciej Englert. A 1999 production.
How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?
Act like Zosia's grandmother
event2008 star_border 6.4
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At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transported back to 1987, when she was still married to her womanizing first husband, Darek and lived in the People's Republic of Poland.
Two Hours
Act like Weronika
event1957 star_border 6
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Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Act like Italian circus woman
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.
This is Your New Son
Act like Wiktoria
event1967
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Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.
Aftermath
Act like Zielarka
event2012 star_border 6.6
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Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.
Przedwiośnie
Act like Aunt Aniela
event2001 star_border 5.2
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Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution, rebirth of Poland, war with the Soviets and communist plots.
Dreams Full of Smoke
event2023
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A simple story of a meeting between two completely different and distant people. By chance, they spend a few days together.
Time to Die
Act like Aniela
event2007 star_border 7.1
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An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with souvenirs and treasures of eras gone by. Aniela runs into conflict in her dealings with others, particularly a nasty neighbor who sees her property as an eyesore and wants to do everything in his reach to buy it up and tear it down, and her married adult son, who - though kindly - triggers paranoia within Aniela (she cannot help but believe that he is scheming and planning to wheedle the property away from her). Driven aback by these individuals, Aniela finds one of her only sources of comfort and reassurance in her daily talks with her dog, Fila - and develops a great affinity for spying on the neighbors' doings whenever boredom creeps in.
The Devils, the Devils
Act like Wiedzma
event1991 star_border 5.8
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Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion -- not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this coming-of-age drama, Mala, an ordinary Polish girl who is about thirteen years old, is just beginning to wake up to the world around her. When she hears the adults of the village making disparaging remarks about Gypsies, that's exactly what it takes to motivate her to go out and visit them. She has a rich and rewarding encounter, until the authorities come into their camp to drive them off. No one is harmed, and Mala's life has been changed for the better by her adventures.
The Yellow Scarf
Act like Matka bohatera
event2000 star_border 6.6
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The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
The Spider Women
event1993 star_border 6.8
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Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
The Impossible Goodbye
Act like Zofia
event1962 star_border 6.5
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All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
The Voice from Beyond
Act like Stanisława Edelman
event1962 star_border 6
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A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.
Nothing
Act like Jedza
event1998 star_border 7
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A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.
Treasure
Act like Krystyna Różycka-Konar
event1949 star_border 6.3
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The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
Umarli rzucają cień
Act like Mamusia
event1979
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Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance.
A Week in the Life of a Man
Act like Adam's Mother
event1999 star_border 6.2
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Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he does to others. As Adam Borowski, Stuhr plays a government lawyer prosecuting a variety of cases, including smuggling, theft, child abandonment, and racially motivated assault. However, Adam's own life is hardly a model by which to live. He's overextended himself financially and is trying to figure out how to avoid paying the hospital bills for his terminally ill mother. Adam is married, but he's been having an affair for some time, and, while he breaks off his relationship with his mistress, he's easily tempted into other liaisons. His wife wants to adopt a handicapped child; Adam would prefer not to have another child in the house, and he uses his influence to slow up the paperwork. And in order to reduce his tax bill, Adam has involved himself in a charitable donation scheme of dubious legality.
The People from the Train
Act like Marylka's "Aunt"
event1961 star_border 6
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A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
Before Twilight
Act like Barbara
event2009 star_border 7
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The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.
Mom and Other Loonies in the Family
Act like Mom (old)
event2015 star_border 4.6
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Over the course of four generations, a family in Hungary confronts poverty, political turmoil and a life that's perpetually on the move.
Queen of Clouds
Act like Wanda Przybyłowicz "Mimi"
event2004 star_border 5
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Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only son whereas Piotr tries to send her away to old people's home.
The Book of Great Wishes
Act like Anna
event1998 star_border 6
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Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
Forbidden Songs
Act like Halina Tokarska
event1947 star_border 7.4
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Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Korczak
Act like Mrs. Bauer, Max's mother
event1990 star_border 7.1
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The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Zemsta
Act like Podstolina
event1957 star_border 6
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Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
Domek z kart
Act like Kitty
event1954
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August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.
Torowisko
event1999 star_border 1
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Using the backdrop of the banality and ordinariness of everyday life in a small provincial town, the film analyses the relationship between two women friends, who struggle to find their way in post-communist Poland. The small events of their lives represent universal feelings of being trapped and lost in a new world, in contrast to the successes of the dark side of democracy - drug dealing, crime and pornography. By its very nature, the film creates a picture of provincial Poland after democracy, but its charm is in the understated relationship between the two friends and the people around them and in the mosaic structure that builds up the film piece by piece.
The Warsaw Debut
Act like Countess Krystyna
event1951
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Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
The Issa Valley
Act like Michalina Surkontowa, babcia Tomaszka
event1982 star_border 6.5
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The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.
Reverse Gear
Act like mother
event1978
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The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son.
Skarga
Act like Stefan's Grandmother
event1991
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A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to bury their son despite the refusal from the communist authorities.
Pokój dziecinny
event1987
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Jakub, who is dominated by his mother, invites a healer to his home.
Ranczo
Act like Lucy's Grandgrandmother (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.5
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Ranczo ["Ranch"] is a Polish television comedy series, directed by Wojciech Adamczyk, that has aired since March 2006 on TVP1. It follows the story of Lucy Wilska, a Polish-American who has inherited her grandmother's country home in the fictional small town of Wilkowyje. She arrives in Wilkowyje intent on selling the cottage but, after seeing the charm of the village, decides to stay.
The Doll
Act like Misiewiczowa, matka Stawskiej (9 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7.3
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The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka.
Samochodzik and Knights Templar
Act like żona Lucjusza (3 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.3
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Pan Tomasz with his friends are looking a big treasure hidden by knights.
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