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Skąpani w ogniu (1963)
Character: Awakened Soldier
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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Zagubione uczucia (1957)
Character: Ticket agent at the train station (uncredited)
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
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"Yokmok" (1963)
Character: Kalita
Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him suspicious in the eyes of the local government.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: Cezary Łukaszek (segment 1)
Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.
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Weekendy (1963)
Character: Stopczyk (uncredited)
An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)
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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Nowy (1970)
Character: OM-1 Employee
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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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Klakiewicz's Friend (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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Święta wojna (1965)
Character: Tailor
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
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Nowy pracownik (1966)
Character: OM-1 Employee
A new employee has to deal with the horrors of bureaucracy in this satirical short poking fun at the insititutions of the Polish People's Republic.
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Zamach stanu (1981)
Character: świadek oskarżenia w procesie brzeskim
Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.
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Szkice węglem (1957)
Character: Commission Member
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
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Długa noc (1989)
Character: Store Owner
The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.
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Kwiecień (1961)
Character: Heinrich Dampf (uncredited)
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
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Barwy walki (1964)
Character: Doctor
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
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Mocne uderzenie (1967)
Character: Firefighter
At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.
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Milion za Laurę (1971)
Character: Szydlakowski
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
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Ślepy tor (1968)
Character: Passenger with Children (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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Niekochana (1966)
Character: Śliwa's Employee
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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Awantura o Basię (1959)
Character: N/A
Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
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Weekend z dziewczyną (1968)
Character: Kasicki
During World War 2 a doctor, patiently waiting for the liberation and unwilling to engage in the struggle against the Nazis is forced at a gunpoint by a Polish Resistance soldier to attend to the members of her squad.
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Szach i mat! (1967)
Character: Jacobo
Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
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Hasło Korn (1968)
Character: Pen Maker
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.
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Buty (1966)
Character: Wounded Man
During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.
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Pożarowisko (1969)
Character: Kobryń Citizen
A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.
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Głos z tamtego świata (1962)
Character: Dumped Husband (uncredited)
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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Prawo i pięść (1964)
Character: Repatriate
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
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Szczęściarz Antoni (1961)
Character: Junkyard Manager
A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
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Ленин в Польше (1966)
Character: N/A
The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
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Małżeństwo z rozsądku (1967)
Character: Professor Lipski
Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a young, talented, but poor painter. However, the girl's father, Kazimierz Burczyk, decides to find a suitable husband for her himself. A shrewd tradesman, unwilling to disclose his income, searches for a candidate whose professional position would justify his possession of a villa, a car and many other material possessions. In the end, his choice falls on Andrew, who is unsuccessfully trying to sell paintings under the walls of Warsaw's Barbican.
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Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1966)
Character: Alfonse's Servant (uncredited)
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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Abel, twój brat (1970)
Character: Seller
A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Conductor
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
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Sublokator (1967)
Character: Dog owner
A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
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Rozwodów nie będzie (1964)
Character: "Professional Witness" (Segment 1)
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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Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Character: Kelner Michaś w barze "Pod Strzelbą"
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
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Lekarstwo na miłość (1966)
Character: Man in Front of the Shop (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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Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963)
Character: 'Łysy' (segment nr 1)
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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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: Workplace Director (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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Przekładaniec (1968)
Character: Man With a Dog
The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox?
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Człowiek z M-3 (1969)
Character: Housing Cooperative Clerk
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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Hydrozagadka (1971)
Character: Walczak's Friend
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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Poszukiwany, poszukiwana (1973)
Character: Gallery Guard
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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Pożegnania (1958)
Character: Guest of Countess Róża (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: Man at a Bar
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Zenon Pimonow
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
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