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Sam pośród miasta (1965)
Character: Matusiak
Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
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Trzy starty (1955)
Character: Boxing Announcer
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
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Miasteczko (1960)
Character: Kasprzak's Friend
A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
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Szklana góra (1960)
Character: Dobracka's Guest
A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
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Jasne łany (1947)
Character: Storekeeper
A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
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Smarkula (1963)
Character: N/A
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
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Co řekne žena... (1958)
Character: Receptionist (uncredited)
The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch - Vladimír is married, Irena is married. But as they say, opportunity makes the thief, so it's no wonder that Tůma has his work cut out for him, and Irena, too, sometimes recovers only at the last minute. And she doesn't even know that her husband is coming to visit her...
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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Paramedic (uncredited)
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Liczę na wasze grzechy (1964)
Character: Konstanty Gębicki
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
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Jadą goście jadą... (1962)
Character: N/A
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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Republika nadziei (1988)
Character: Printer (uncredited)
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
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Król Maciuś I (1958)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
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Jarzębina czerwona (1970)
Character: City Mayor
The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
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Żołnierz zwycięstwa (1953)
Character: Pawiak Inmate (uncredited)
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
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Agnieszka (1973)
Character: Watchmaker
The school incident of the disappearance of a watch became a pretext for the filmmakers to faithfully show an interesting social layer, to present the life of the school community, Agnieszka's conflicts with her parents and the emerging sympathy for a boy.
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Przygoda Stasia (1970)
Character: Guest (uncredited)
The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.
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Opowieść (1972)
Character: Baker
A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź.
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Promień (1984)
Character: N/A
Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist government and local nobles don't take kindly to his presence and try to sabotage him.
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Trzy opowieści (1953)
Character: Karolak (segment 3)
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
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Zaczarowany rower (1955)
Character: Man handing out diplomas
The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
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Wózek (1965)
Character: Guard
A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
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Rozstanie (1961)
Character: Klemczak
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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Zakazane piosenki (1947)
Character: N/A
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
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Historia żółtej ciżemki (1961)
Character: Myślenice Guard
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
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Milioner (1977)
Character: dyrektor oddziału PKO
The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.
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Trójkąt Bermudzki (1988)
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
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Don Gabriel (1966)
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
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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Bicz Boży (1967)
Character: Advisor (uncredited)
A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.
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Hallo Szpicbródka, czyli ostatni występ króla kasiarzy (1978)
Character: krawiec Salomonowicz
The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.
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Placówka (1979)
Character: Hamer
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
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Porcelana w składzie słonia (1988)
Character: Man running after a Taxi (uncredited)
An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
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Baza ludzi umarłych (1959)
Character: Kowalski
In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
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Prognoza pogody (1983)
Character: "Ziemianin"
When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.
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Świadectwo urodzenia (1961)
Character: Drunk Man with Moustache (uncredited)
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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Rozwodów nie będzie (1964)
Character: Mr Fabisiak (Segment 1) (uncredited)
Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.
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Lekarstwo na miłość (1966)
Character: '20', Gang Member (uncredited)
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
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Ciemna rzeka (1974)
Character: Delegate (uncredited)
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
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Powrót wabiszczura (1989)
Character: N/A
The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: Henio "Club" (uncredited)
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
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Pożegnania (1958)
Character: Grzebiński (uncredited)
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
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Złoto (1962)
Character: Felik
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
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Pod gwiazdą frygijską (1954)
Character: Party Member (uncredited)
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
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Celuloza (1954)
Character: Worker copying Szczęsny
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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