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Agnieszka 46 (1964)
Character: January
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
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Kardiogram (1971)
Character: Surgeon
A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.
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Thais (1984)
Character: N/A
Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.
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Znaki na drodze (1970)
Character: Warehouse Worker
A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
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Dwie godziny (1957)
Character: (uncredited)
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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Nafta (1961)
Character: N/A
Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.
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Godzina za godziną (1974)
Character: Tadeusz's Father
Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers.
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Pensja pani Latter (1983)
Character: Chłop
The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
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On, ona, oni (1983)
Character: Fifty-year old man (segment 3)
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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Diabelskie szczęście (1985)
Character: Notary
Franciszek Mazur is a famous actor. One day, while returning from a holiday in the countryside, a serious accident occurs. Mazur's wife is seriously injured. When she learns about her husband's affair, she falls down the stairs and dies. But Mazur's life with his new wife is not happy ...
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Gorąca linia (1965)
Character: HR Manager
Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.
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Gry i zabawy (2009)
Character: MO Officer at the party meeting (uncredited)
In the villa of the party dignitary, the fates of Stanisław, his son's friends, Zbyszek, a worker leaving the army, and the head of the thieves' gang, cross. The film was shelved by the censors for 27 years before finally getting a limited release in 2009.
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Tylko umarły odpowie (1969)
Character: Mailman
Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career.
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Jarzębina czerwona (1970)
Character: Medic
The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
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Kopernik (1973)
Character: Surgery Patient
A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
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Polonia Restituta (1981)
Character: ojciec braci Pawlaków
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
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Sąsiedzi (1969)
Character: Pole fighting along with Scouts
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
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Wyłap (1984)
Character: Professor
A young PhD student is trying to get 34 dogs for his research.
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Poza układem (1978)
Character: Małysek
The young speedway rider wants to represent the country in the world championship. However, the coaches choose another player.
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Pościg (1954)
Character: Mayor
At a stable a group of horses are poisoned. Suspicion falls on Bronka, the local vet. The woman must prove her innocence and find the real culprit.
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Prom (1970)
Character: Mayor (uncredited)
1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
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Zacne grzechy (1963)
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Czerwone i złote (1969)
Character: Waiter
An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
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Irena do domu! (1955)
Character: Driving Instructor (uncredited)
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.
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Piżama (1971)
Character: Stasiek's Boss
A woman desperate to improve her social standing goads her husband into buying pajamas - a symbol of high status.
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Sygnały (1959)
Character: Security officer (uncredited)
A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
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Trudna miłość (1954)
Character: Hanka's Brother
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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Zerwany most (1963)
Character: SB Officer (uncredited)
Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.
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Kamienne niebo (1959)
Character: Man digging a Grave
The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness.
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Opadły liście z drzew (1975)
Character: N/A
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.
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Diament radży (1971)
Character: N/A
A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.
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Rozstanie (1961)
Character: Train conductor
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
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Wolne miasto (1958)
Character: German following Rajca (uncredited)
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Zabicie ciotki (1985)
Character: Profesor
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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Nieciekawa historia (1983)
Character: Mikołaj
A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.
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Hrabina Cosel (1968)
Character: Holder
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
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Pętla (1958)
Character: Electrician Władek
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
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Umarli rzucają cień (1979)
Character: N/A
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.
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Granica (1978)
Character: redaktor "Niwy"
Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely Justyna Bogutówna, the daughter of a cook. When the canicule comes to an end, Zenon packs his bags and leaves for Paris to study. Returning after a year with a doctorate in political science, he makes a fast and glamorous career. He becomes the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper and, soon after, mayor of the city. He also marries Elzbieta Biecka, but still does not break up with Justyna.
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Czerwone berety (1963)
Character: Conductor
A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk
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Morderca zostawia ślad (1967)
Character: Paramedic (uncredited)
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
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Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera (1988)
Character: Pastor
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
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Gromada (1952)
Character: Zygmunt
The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
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Krzyż Walecznych (1959)
Character: Soldier
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
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Ósmy dzień tygodnia (1958)
Character: MO Lieutenant
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
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Lokis: Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)
Character: Conductor
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
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Zaraza (1972)
Character: Doctor
Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
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Punkty za pochodzenie (1983)
Character: N/A
Film about a young man, who wants to become an actor. His rural upbringing is not helpful in achieving his goal, but he overcomes defeat and humiliation with the help of a benevolent old professor.
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Szyfry (1966)
Character: Train Waiter
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
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Lalka (1968)
Character: Jan Machalski
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Pigułki dla Aurelii (1958)
Character: Heinz
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
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Miasto nieujarzmione - Robinson warszawski (1950)
Character: German Soldier saving Rafalski (uncredited)
Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.
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Nowy Jork - czwarta rano (1988)
Character: Zawadzki
A sleepy provincial town with only one "Błysk" bar. If it weren't for the nearby prison, it would be forgotten to the world. This is how guests come. Agnieszka works in the bar and dreams of New York . Krzysiek and Józek love the girl. Józek tells her about a militia van carrying money.
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Sami swoi (1967)
Character: Man looking at Horses (uncredited)
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
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