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Jeśli się odnajdziemy (1982)
Character: Walczak
A holiday camp in Masuria is running a program called "If We Find Each Other." Its aim is to conduct a pedagogical experiment in which children from orphanages choose their own adoptive parents. Some of the children are passive, while others try to "study" the adults in their own way. Maciek, a young psychologist, notices Kasia, a girl on a gluten-free diet, whose illness has long prevented her from finding parents. Basia, Maciek's wife, accepts his choice. When Kasia learns from her friends that she will return to the orphanage after the holidays, she runs away from the center. Basia notices her and convinces the girl to return. After Basia and Maciek visit Professor Kowalewska, Kasia realizes that she finally has parents.
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Miasteczko (1960)
Character: Photographer
A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
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Komedianty (1962)
Character: Borys (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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Smarkula (1963)
Character: 'Kid'
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Zoo Swimmer (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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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Wiesiek
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Zawsze w niedziele (1966)
Character: P.E. Teacher ("Third Sunday")
Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.
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Król Maciuś I (1958)
Character: Palace guard commander (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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Bitwa o Kozi Dwór (1962)
Character: Cezary
A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square.
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Ostatni strzał (1959)
Character: Skiłądź
A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.
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Pierwsze dni (1952)
Character: Gang Member
An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
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Skarb kapitana Martensa (1957)
Character: Józek Cielas (uncredited)
A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.
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Zacne grzechy (1963)
Character: Magnate's Servant
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Milion za Laurę (1971)
Character: Napoleon
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
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Tandem (1966)
Character: Porter/Illuminator/Thief/Chimney Sweep/Guest/Flute Player
A Polish musical short film featuring professional musicians and pianists.
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Godziny nadziei (1955)
Character: Capo
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
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Wolne miasto (1958)
Character: German in a Pub
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Lata dwudzieste... lata trzydzieste... (1984)
Character: "Wulkan" Member
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
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Porwanie w Tiutiurlistanie (1986)
Character: King Baryłko (voice)
Three friends – a rooster, a cat and a vixen – meet the kidnapped princess on the eve of the war between Balbacja and Tiuturlistan. To prevent a war, they try to bring her to her father's house. They tell each other stories from their lives during a journey full of adventures.
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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Antoni Kałużny
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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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)
Character: Ambassador's Pilot
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
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Bicz Boży (1967)
Character: Cezary
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: Kukulak
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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Czas przeszły (1961)
Character: "Ginger"
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
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Małżeństwo z rozsądku (1967)
Character: Kiełkiewicz
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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Освобождение: Огненная Дуга (1970)
Character: N/A
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
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Pętla (1958)
Character: Man Assaulting Kuba (uncredited)
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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Miś (1981)
Character: Customer
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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Pierwszy dzień wolności (1964)
Character: Inga's Rapist
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
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Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Character: Actor playing the role of Grabiennikow
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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Nie ma róży bez ognia (1974)
Character: Cloakroom Attendant
Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.
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Ósmy dzień tygodnia (1958)
Character: Rysiek, 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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Kłopotliwy gość (1971)
Character: Kowalski
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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Janosik (1974)
Character: Gendarmerie Officer
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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Pokolenie (1955)
Character: Coach Driver
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: Policeman Kruszyna (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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Człowiek z M-3 (1969)
Character: Sick Neighbour (uncredited)
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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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Zawisza Czarny - The Black
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
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Освобождение: Прорыв (1970)
Character: The German Soldier
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne (1973)
Character: Vacationist
A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
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Ja gorę! (1968)
Character: Blacksmith
Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).
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Celuloza (1954)
Character: Baron's Friend
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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