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Doktor Judym (1975)
Character: N/A
A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.
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Skąpani w ogniu (1963)
Character: Marta Hajdukowa
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
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Kukačka v temném lese (1985)
Character: N/A
Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
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To ja zabiłem (1975)
Character: Anna's mother
During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface.
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Biały mazur (1979)
Character: Mrs. Geisler
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
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Ucieczka (1987)
Character: Boy's mother
Teenager pretends to be mentally ill to get away from a reformatory.
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Nowy (1970)
Character: Clerk
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
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Liczę na wasze grzechy (1964)
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
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Przechodzień (1984)
Character: N/A
The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.
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Wiśnie (1979)
Character: N/A
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
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Bariery (1986)
Character: Anna's mother
A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life.
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Planeta - Ziemia (1970)
Character: Piotruś's Mother
The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life.
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Zielone lata (1980)
Character: N/A
World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.
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Помни имя свое (1974)
Character: (uncredited)
Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the snow, in the concentration camp. They spend a few years together in the camp until they are separated, first within Auschwitz itself, then, for good, when the Germans are losing the war and decide to evacuate.
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Kontrybucja (1967)
Character: Bar Owner
A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.
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Godzina W (1979)
Character: Matka Teresy
On August 1, 1944, Warsaw holds its breath as Home Army couriers spread word that “W-hour” is at 17:00. A platoon under “Czarny” must assault German barracks without the expected backup—an order they follow at the risk of collective suicide.
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Nie zaznasz spokoju (1978)
Character: Irena, Bozena's mother
After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.
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Człowiek z marmuru (1977)
Character: Museum Worker
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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Stalowe serca (1948)
Character: Danka
In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine. The going will be tough as the place is closely guarded by the Nazis. But despite a denunciation from a traitor and several violent deaths, they get going and the operation is a success. But the Red Army is approaching and now the coal production must not be sabotaged anymore. On the contrary, the partisans must prevent the Germans from destroying the steel mill and the coal mine...
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Bliskie spotkania z wesołym diabłem (1989)
Character: Teacher
A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a disabled boy.
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Don Gabriel (1966)
Character: Attorney's Wife
The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
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Pornografia (2003)
Character: Amelia
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
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Milczące ślady (1961)
Character: Walczak's wife
A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.
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Ostatni dzwonek (1989)
Character: Bibliotekarka
As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
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Ostatni dzień lata (1958)
Character: Her
A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.
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Pierścień i róża (1987)
Character: N/A
A messenger of King Padella arrives at the castle of King Valoroz XXIV of Paflagonia. He announces the arrival of Prince Bulba, who wants to ask for the hand of Princess Angelica. Lulejko, Valoroz's nephew and rightful ruler, lies in a fever. He is cared for by his maid Rózia, who secretly has a crush on the prince. But he is already engaged to Angelika, so he does not understand Bulba's efforts to win her hand. When Angelika throws away the ring she received from Luleika, it turns out that she owed the gem her beauty. Meanwhile, the ugly Gburia-Furia finds the ring.
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Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Character: Lead Editor's Wife
Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
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Wszystko na sprzedaż (1969)
Character: Gamekeeper's Wife
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.
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Salto (1965)
Character: Cecylia
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
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Dom moich synów (1975)
Character: Gralczakowa, sąsiadka Góreckiej
A single woman goes to Warsaw to consult her children about an offer she received.
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Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963)
Character: Restaurant Owner ("Alcoholmeter")
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
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Człowiek z M-3 (1969)
Character: Piechocki's Neighbour
A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife.
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Dzięcioł (1971)
Character: Neighbor (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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Obywatel Piszczyk (1989)
Character: Piszczyk's mother
This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.
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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Princess Aleksandra
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.
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Marysia i Napoleon (1966)
Character: (uncredited)
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
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