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Niezawodny sposób (1963)
Character: N/A
A cinematic grotesque whose protagonist is Mr. Kowalski, who suffers from insomnia.
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Skorpion, Panna i Łucznik (1973)
Character: Man with Sewing Machine (uncredited)
Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a mysterious man joins them.
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Kwiat paproci (2009)
Character: Reunion Guest (uncredited)
By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Gangster
Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.
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Jadą goście jadą... (1962)
Character: Smoking Knight (Segment 3) (uncredited)
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: Man in a Purgatory Wardrobe (uncredited)
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.
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Zacne grzechy (1963)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Ślepy tor (1968)
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
A journalist is preparing to take a train trip, when he is confronted by the spirit of professor Ryszpans who tells what happened to him. When he boarded a train standing on a siding, he encountered trackman Wiór with a newspaper informing about the crash of the train and the death of several passengers, including professor Ryszpans. The professor is joined by engineer Zniesławski, who has also heard of the impending disaster and is interested in it from the technical side. On hearing the news of an approaching catastrophe, other passengers leave the train in panic at the next station. However, trackman Wiór manages to hypnotize several travelers who continue with the journey. Ryszpans hears a roar and sees objects crumbling around him, and then turns into a shadow. After hearing the story, the journalist resigns from his train trip.
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Piąta rano (1970)
Character: Tenant (uncredited)
Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
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Monolog trębacza (1965)
Character: Clerk
A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music.
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Lunatycy (1960)
Character: Man in a Restaurant (uncredited)
A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends.
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Bariera (1966)
Character: Waiter - Barkeeper (uncredited)
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Hydrozagadka (1971)
Character: Scientific Worker (uncredited)
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
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Dzięcioł (1971)
Character: Supermarket Employee (uncredited)
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
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Poszukiwany, poszukiwana (1973)
Character: Tram Passenger (uncredited)
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.
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Poślizg (1972)
Character: Pool Player (uncredited)
A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.
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Ssaki (1962)
Character: Man in the snow
"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting. Accidents, misunderstandings, disagreements, and an outright fight await our absurd protagonists as their trip to nowhere continues, first with one pulling, then the other. What if they were to lose the sleigh? What rules of civilization and partnership would guide them then?
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