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Późne popołudnie (1965)
Character: "Tempo" Club employee
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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Komedianty (1962)
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
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Rzeczywistość (1961)
Character: Saturnin Czepulonis
The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: Ticket Controller (segment 3)
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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Czarne skrzydła (1963)
Character: Martyzel
The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
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Mansarda (1963)
Character: Jew
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
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Decyzja (1960)
Character: (uncredited)
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Professor
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: Manager Stronciak
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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Jadą goście jadą... (1962)
Character: Wołczek (Segment 3)
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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Kapelusz (1961)
Character: Xawery, ojciec Leopolda
A Silent broad comedy about upper class life
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Bitwa o Kozi Dwór (1962)
Character: Nejman
A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square.
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Szpital (1962)
Character: Professor
Confined to a hospital room, a seemingly healthy man endures a surreal night as his space is invaded by a procession of bizarre, dreamlike visitors—many linked to the imagery of railroads. Blurring reality with hallucination, the film transforms the ward into a stage for nightmarish encounters.
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Kryształ (1971)
Character: Principal
Before his son's matura exam a father tries to bribe the exam committee.
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Portfel (1971)
Character: High School Headmaster
The professor loses his wallet. Thinking that he has fallen prey to a thief, he takes it from the man whom he suspects of theft.
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Dom (1970)
Character: Man In Town (uncredited)
A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: French Devil (uncredited)
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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Ich dzień powszedni (1963)
Character: Ticket Collector
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Niekochana (1966)
Character: Captain Engineer
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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Opadły liście z drzew (1975)
Character: Niemiec wzięty do niewoli przez partyzantów
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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Zapalniczka (1970)
Character: Professor
A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.
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Wózek (1965)
Character: Spanish Prisoner
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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Wenus z Ille (1969)
Character: Police Commissioner
Janusz Majewski adapts Prosper Mérimée’s 1835 tale of the same name, centering on a mysterious statue unearthed in a provincial town. The figure, sculpted as a tormented woman, becomes an ominous presence during a wedding celebration. When the groom impulsively slips his ring onto the statue’s finger—and cannot remove it—the joyous occasion descends into a nightmarish spiral of superstition, obsession, and the uncanny.
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Album polski (1970)
Character: Repatriate Clerk
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
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Na niebie i na ziemi (1974)
Character: Doctor
The drama of a young military pilot whose illness prevents him from flying and condemns him to a hopeless existence. Major Grela hoped to become the head of the test pilots' group. However, the higher command appointed Horycki, his former colleague and friend. They had both once been in love with Krystyna, Grela's current wife. A sharp conflict arises between them, both professionally and privately.
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Wolne miasto (1958)
Character: German in a Pub (uncredited)
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Szymszel
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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Wściekły (1980)
Character: N/A
Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
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Zbrodniarz, który ukradł zbrodnię (1969)
Character: Witness
Retired police captain Siwy recounts to a reporter how he undertook a final, private investigation into the suspicious death of Ewa Salm, known as “Princess.” Though her testimony had secured a conviction, Siwy doubted the man’s guilt and set out to uncover the real killer—risking his own life to see justice done.
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Pasja (1978)
Character: N/A
The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Musician in the cinema (uncredited)
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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Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Character: Italian with a cat
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 the Cafe (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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Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977)
Character: Naczelnik więzienia
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect.
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Wiosna, panie sierżancie (1974)
Character: Mieszkaniec Trzebiatowa (niewymieniony w czołówce)
In Trzebiatów, a small town, there is an unusual bustle. A crowd of residents has gathered in the market square to welcome their beloved MO sergeant, Władysław Lichniak. The sergeant has just returned from his written high school final exam. The residents, who adore him, make sure he has the right conditions to study. They have limited their alcohol consumption and maintain order in the town themselves. Unfortunately, a fight breaks out and disturbs the sergeant's peace.
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Janosik (1974)
Character: Italian Trader
In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants.
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Nie lubię poniedziałku (1971)
Character: Folk Band Member (uncredited)
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
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Pieczone gołąbki (1966)
Character: Water Pump Company Director
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz. 3 - Wśród swoich (1970)
Character: German Court Chairman
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
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Carmilla (1980)
Character: Zandarm
In 19th-century Styria, isolated Laura's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Laura's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, and the supernatural are explored, culminating in Laura's discovery of Carmilla's vampiric nature and a confrontation with her ancient lineage.
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Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Character: Seller (uncredited)
In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal.
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