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Jej portret (1974)
Character: Dyrektor zakładu poprawczego
Danka was an unwanted child. From an early age she had to cope on her own. Despite harsh conditions and difficult experiences, she has not lost her dignity, has remained true to her ideals, and has a sense of integrity and honesty. When the opportunity to conditionally shorten her sentence in a correctional institution by getting married hits her, she rejects the tempting offer. She doesn't want to hurt the man she doesn't love, who has shown her a lot of heart. Danka's friend has taken advantage of her conditional release, without hiding what her motives are, by the way.
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Kardiogram (1971)
Character: Drunkard
A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.
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Ленин в Польше (1966)
Character: Prison Guard
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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Trzy kobiety (1957)
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Skąpani w ogniu (1963)
Character: Włodzimierz Michalak "Kot"
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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Kukačka v temném lese (1985)
Character: N/A
Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
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Zofia (1976)
Character: Pijaczek w mordowni
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
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Spotkania w mroku (1960)
Character: Camp Prisoner
A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
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Znaki na drodze (1970)
Character: Driver
A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
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Spotkania (1957)
Character: Mechanic (segment 4) (uncredited)
Four stories showing the various facets of love.
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Płomienie (1977)
Character: N/A
Presenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.
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Historia współczesna (1961)
Character: Niedziela (uncredited)
Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
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Pensja pani Latter (1983)
Character: Mężczyzna przyglądający się Madzi przed dworcem
The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
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Diabelskie szczęście (1985)
Character: Drunk
Franciszek Mazur is a famous actor. One day, while returning from a holiday in the countryside, a serious accident occurs. Mazur's wife is seriously injured. When she learns about her husband's affair, she falls down the stairs and dies. But Mazur's life with his new wife is not happy ...
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Pejzaż z bohaterem (1971)
Character: Militiaman
Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
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Przystań (1971)
Character: "Cowboy"
Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
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Decyzja (1960)
Character: Patient (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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Szklana góra (1960)
Character: Crossing Guard (uncredited)
A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
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Ubranie prawie nowe (1964)
Character: Laborer
After years of working in the city, Róża returns to the countryside. The property she has accumulated draws the attention of local bachelors.
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Liczę na wasze grzechy (1964)
Character: LOK Instructor
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
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Tarpany (1962)
Character: Postman
In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.
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Południk zero (1971)
Character: Antoś
Shortly after World War 2 a militiaman with the help of two Union of Young Struggle members wages war on a local gang terrorising a small Masurian town.
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Z tamtej strony tęczy (1973)
Character: Leon
Teresa is an attractive 30-year-old doctor. She divides her stable life between work, caring for her younger sister Ania, a high school student, and her romance with Jan, a well-off lawyer who wants to marry her. However, Teresa postpones her decision to marry until Ania becomes independent. One day, she unexpectedly meets Tomek, a young photographer, who soon confesses his love to her, making her question her loyalty to Jan.
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Długa noc (1989)
Character: Szymański
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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Barwy walki (1964)
Character: Sowa
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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Przez dziewięć mostów (1972)
Character: Mother's Brother
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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Śnić we śnie (1979)
Character: Wowo
A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in philosophy
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Skok (1969)
Character: Kulik
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
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Trąd (1971)
Character: Kunz
When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.
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Pełnia nad głowami (1983)
Character: Sexton
Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
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Milion za Laurę (1971)
Character: Interpreter
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
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Irena do domu! (1955)
Character: A man at a picnic (uncredited)
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.
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Rancho Texas (1959)
Character: Gapa
Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.
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Fortuna (1973)
Character: Zajączkowski
A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars.
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Niekochana (1966)
Character: Olbrzymek
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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Ranny w lesie (1964)
Character: "Orphan"
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
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Kontrybucja (1967)
Character: Market Seller
A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.
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Nagrody i odznaczenia (1974)
Character: Patient (uncredited)
A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.
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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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Diament radży (1971)
Character: Policeman
A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.
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Obcy w lesie (1972)
Character: Stanisław Piela
A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
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Cicha noc, święta noc (1970)
Character: Gendarme
A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The local inhabitants confront the German occupation.
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Śledztwo (1974)
Character: Mourner
A Scotland Yard officer investigates the mysterious disappearance of a series of corpses. Based on the novel by Stanisław Lem.
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Historia pewnej miłości (1974)
Character: Halina's Father
This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.
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Dzień oczyszczenia (1970)
Character: German Soldier
The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.
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Milioner (1977)
Character: Grochowski
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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Cień (1956)
Character: Batory
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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Giuseppe w Warszawie (1964)
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
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Palec Boży (1973)
Character: Potter
A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.
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Szczęściarz Antoni (1961)
Character: Wedding Officiator
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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Baza ludzi umarłych (1959)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
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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Piętno (1985)
Character: Stablehand
Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
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Prognoza pogody (1983)
Character: Mill owner
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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Przyjęcie na dziesięć osób plus trzy (1980)
Character: Sergeant Tufta (uncredited)
A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.
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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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Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1966)
Character: Inquisition 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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Meta (1981)
Character: Władysław Trzeciak
Kazik and Władzio, two old friends meet again after many years. Kazik, a small-time swindler and playboy confesses that he needs a place to live, so Władzio offers for him to move in his apartment.
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Kobieta samotna (1987)
Character: man at a school meeting
Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Franto
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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Lotna (1959)
Character: Cavalry Soldier
Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
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Krzyż Walecznych (1959)
Character: Lieutenant
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
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Zaraza (1972)
Character: Escaping Patient (uncredited)
Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: Thief (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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Lalka (1968)
Character: Journalist
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Blizna (1976)
Character: Olecko man
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.
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Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Character: Interrogated Man (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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Monidło (1970)
Character: Władysław Kamiński
An unexpected guest shows at the door of an apartment of a working-class family, at first asking just for a glass of water.
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Kaszëbë (1971)
Character: Galas
A disturbed woman, still reeling over the death of her lover finds solace in a Swedish sailor amidst the regional conflicts of the late nineteenth century.
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Ogniomistrz Kaleń (1961)
Character: "Piorun"
The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
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