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Katastrofa w Gibraltarze (1983)
Character: Sekretarz Stalina
A fictionalized documentary about the life of General Władysław Sikorski from the beginning of World War II until his tragic death in a plane crash. The action begins with the evacuation of the Polish government and general staff to Romania, showing their further fate in France and then in London.
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Czwartki ubogich (1982)
Character: N/A
A young doctor has been assigned to a hospital in the provinces, in the lakes district of northern Poland. The area is a playground with hunting lodges for the priviledged, the local politicians cover up any leaks to the public. The doctor discovers a case of drunken driving but is silenced by blackmail in the court. He tries to fight back but has a love affair with the unfaithful wife of the town's Mayor.
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Skąpani w ogniu (1963)
Character: Tomala
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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Mój stary (1962)
Character: PE Teacher (uncredited)
A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
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"Yokmok" (1963)
Character: Transfers organiser's accomplice
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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Powrót (1960)
Character: Drunkard (uncredited)
A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: Ambulance Driver (segment 3)(uncredited)
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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Przeciwko bogom (1961)
Character: Karol's Driver
Accused by colleagues of cowardice, the aviator gets a chance for rehabilitation.
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On, ona, oni (1983)
Character: Nowak (segment 2)
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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Rachunek sumienia (1964)
Character: Driver
The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
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Smarkula (1963)
Character: Militiaman
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: Florczak
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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Zemsta (1957)
Character: Rejent's Servant
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Gendarme / Paramedic
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: Coach Zakrzewski
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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Republika nadziei (1988)
Character: Nabzdyk
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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Zwycięstwo (1975)
Character: plutonowy Walasek
This film was created by combining and shortening the films Kierunek Berlin (Destination Berlin) and Ostatnie dni (The Last Days). It presents the final phase of the great offensive of 1945, which ended with the capture of Berlin, from the perspective of a private soldier of the First Polish Army.
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Zamach stanu (1981)
Character: Walery Sławek
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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Podhale w ogniu (1956)
Character: Wawrzek
Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.
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Polonia Restituta (1981)
Character: legionista
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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Barwy walki (1964)
Character: Bicz
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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Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (1968)
Character: Prisoner
A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
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Na przełaj (1972)
Character: Fire Witness
After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality.
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Ślepy bokser (1982)
Character: robotnik Ścibek
A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site.
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Akcja 'Brutus' (1971)
Character: Porter
Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.
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Mocne uderzenie (1967)
Character: N/A
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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Zerwany most (1963)
Character: Liaison
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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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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Stawka większa niż życie cz. III (1969)
Character: Plainclothesman ("Last Chance") (uncredited)
The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.
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Kierunek Berlin (1969)
Character: Platoon Leader Walasek
Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
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111 dni letargu (1985)
Character: niemowa w celi 192
A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
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Córeczka (1965)
Character: Driver
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
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Kolorowe pończochy (1960)
Character: PE Teacher (segment "Jadźka") (uncredited)
The film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable stockings, which she cannot afford. She becomes the laughing stock of the school when she appears in stockings sewn by her grandmother. The humiliation leads Matilda to take a dramatic step. The second part tells the story of Jadźka, who is an object of derision at her school. Fearing embarrassment, she increasingly misses school and plunges into a world of autistic dreams.
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Cień (1956)
Character: Stefan
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)
Character: Henryk Lipiński
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
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Gorączka (1981)
Character: Kiełza's Uncle
In 1905 partitioned Poland, a bomb moves through the anarchist underground as revolutionaries prepare to strike against Tsarist rule.
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Daleka jest droga (1963)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
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Lotna (1959)
Character: Corporal (uncredited)
Set in the beginning of World War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops, the movie is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
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Miłość z listy przebojów (1985)
Character: N/A
Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.
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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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Czarci żleb (1950)
Character: WOP Commander
Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West. Highlander Jasiek used to be a smuggler, now he is a soldier of the Border Protection Forces, serving in his homeland, in the Tatra Mountains. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors, as well as his love for Halka, he becomes a righteous citizen. He contributes to preventing the smuggling of valuable works of art abroad organized by a Polish aristocrat and carried out by a gang.
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Miś (1981)
Character: Inkasent
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
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O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc (1962)
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
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Ósmy dzień tygodnia (1958)
Character: Thug on Agnieszka's street (uncredited)
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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Bokser (1967)
Character: Fan
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
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Kłopotliwy gość (1971)
Character: Baggage Taxi Driver
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963)
Character: Militiaman (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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Janosik (1974)
Character: Słowak
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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Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz (1978)
Character: Worker at Train Station
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
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Hydrozagadka (1971)
Character: Party Guest (voice) (uncredited)
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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Kochaj albo rzuć (1977)
Character: właściciel zakładu pogrzebowego
Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
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Ostatnie dni (1969)
Character: Platoon Leader Walasek
As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Band Bus Driver
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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Brunet wieczorową porą (1976)
Character: Mr Andrzej
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
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