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Jedenaste przykazanie (1988)
Character: Goldszmidka
A young penniless woman comes to a small town with her newborn baby. She goes to work but because her child has no father, life is hard for her. Until she meets a carefree vagabond photographer willing to help her out.
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Mój drugi ożenek (1964)
Character: Jadźka's Mother
After the death of his wife, Marcin stays alone with his growing son on the farm.
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Dwie godziny (1957)
Character: Marta
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.
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Późne popołudnie (1965)
Character: Maria Siankowa
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962)
Character: Wacek's Mother (segment 2) (uncredited)
Five short stories.
(1) “Czas przybliża, czas oddala” – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna.
(2) “Krąg istnienia” – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by family, she marries a soap manufacturer.
(3) “Paryż 1945” – A Polish refugee soldier and an American woman share a fleeting wartime bond before she leaves at dawn.
(4) “Stary profesor” – Two men seek an old professor to fulfill a dying prisoner’s last wish; Roger impersonates a former pupil.
(5) “Nauczycielka” – Neglected wife Zofia accepts film tests, only to find the director seeks an ordinary woman.
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Szklana kula (1972)
Character: Hospital Worker
Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
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W chłopskie ręce (2007)
Character: Petronella Patykowa
Preparations for a rural folk festival. The shop manager, GS Patyk, quietly resells the goods to a private shopkeeper.
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Warszawskie gołębie (1989)
Character: N/A
Wacław Kaczmarski has been breeding pigeons for many years, which is a family tradition (his grandfather and father bred pigeons before him). The birds are an important part of his life; he spends every free moment with them, and they are his escape from everyday worries. Kaczmarski and his family live in Targówek in old apartments that are scheduled for demolition. He gets a new apartment in Ursynów, where he immediately installs pigeon boxes on the balcony. The neighbors are outraged.
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Pieklo i niebo (1966)
Character: Wiktoria
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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Dotknięcie nocy (1962)
Character: Janka
Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.
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Diabeł (1988)
Character: Rapetowa
The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.
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Śnić we śnie (1979)
Character: Paweł's mother
A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in philosophy
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Piękny był pogrzeb, ludzie płakali (1967)
Character: Janitor
Władek returns to the town where he used to work to explain the circumstances of certain events. At that time, the boy lived in a boarding house with professor Marcinkowski.
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Skarb kapitana Martensa (1957)
Character: Dominik's wife
A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.
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Niekochana (1966)
Character: Room Owner
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
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Trudna miłość (1954)
Character: Biedronkowa
A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
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Nagrody i odznaczenia (1974)
Character: Ciepluchowa
A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.
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Kaprysy Łazarza (1973)
Character: Jacenty's Wife
Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.
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Pierwsza miłość (1971)
Character: Duchess Zasiekin
Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.
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Historia pewnej miłości (1974)
Character: Halina's Mother
This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (1961)
Character: "Astoria" owner
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.
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Dezerter (1958)
Character: Barbara Karolek
A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...
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Zabicie ciotki (1985)
Character: Babcia
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it...
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Głos z tamtego świata (1962)
Character: Wiktoria Habryk
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.
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Gwiezdny pył (1982)
Character: Stara
An odd couple of old people lead their simple lives close to nature. The man is an amateur constructor and his goal now is to build a small river dam to produce electricity for his country house.
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Jutro premiera (1962)
Character: Brygidka
A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.
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Świadectwo urodzenia (1961)
Character: Cieślikowa
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
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Kariera (1955)
Character: Jasia Rosiakowa
Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.
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Kłopotliwy gość (1971)
Character: Woman Wanting To See A Miracle
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Chłopi (1973)
Character: Kłębowa
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
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Mgła (1976)
Character: Sołtysiakowa
In the first months after the war, a period of confusion and fratricidal fighting, a Warsaw whack-job drafted into the ranks of the KBW gains the first life experiences that make him an informed citizen. Marian, a boy from Targówek, is serving in the KBW. His unit is sent to a village plagued by a band of NSZ. Marian becomes involved with a young teacher, Anka, whose brother is a member of the NSZ. During the final trial, Stefan is killed and Marian is seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. An investigation is carried out in the village. Marian does not admit that he knew about Stefan and his contacts with his sister. When he leaves the hospital, he does not find the girl, but their son, who is being cared for by Anka's parents. He takes the boy and returns to Targowek.
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W cieniu nienawiści (1986)
Character: ciotka Zofii
In 1943, Ewa decides to take care of her Jewish neighbour's daughter and brings her home just for a few days. When the ghetto uprising begins, the woman keeps on looking after the little girl.
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Celuloza (1954)
Character: Mrs. Rozalia
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
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Mąż swojej żony (1961)
Character: Kowalska
Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.
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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Arkuszowa
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
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