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Rozmowa z człowiekiem z szafy (1994)
Character: Chef
Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.
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Pogrzeb kartofla (1990)
Character: Stefan Gorzelak
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
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Odwet (1983)
Character: Świdryga
Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives join them. Although they have not had the opportunity to get to know each other so far, they become friends very quickly.
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Wsteczny bieg (1978)
Character: Kazik
The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son.
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Weryfikacja (1987)
Character: Łukasz
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.
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Ukryty w słońcu (1980)
Character: Drunk man at the bar (uncredited)
Artist Janek is waiting for his beloved Joanna. He is worried because he has a feeling that there has been a tragedy the night before. After an hour of waiting, the man departs. He keeps reminiscing about Joanna all the time.
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Cyrk odjeżdża (1988)
Character: Chamroń
The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. A conflict arises between Kossakowski, a lion trainer, and Chamron, a horse trainer, which creates a tense atmosphere in the entire team.
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Koniec wakacji (2003)
Character: N/A
Darkness hides secrets - twelve-year-old Marta finds out about it in the last days of summer vacation. During one of his lonely night escapades in the countryside, he witnesses a brutal rape. The resolute girl does not dare to tell her mother about the event, who is also hiding an important secret.
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Operacja Koza (2000)
Character: Professor Rozwaniec
Adam Horn, a young Polish scientist, is conducting research to discover a substance that makes personality swapping possible. Appearing before a committee granting funds for further research, he presents a somewhat "stilted" achievement, demonstrating on his experimental pet the personality swap of a dog with a goat Matilda. The fame of his research reaches the former KGB, which sends him an agent committed to intercepting the research results.
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Dzieci i ryby (1996)
Character: passenger in train
Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertising agency, faces a life choice: her ex-husband, who returns from the US after ten years, her current lover, an architect, or her former love from school...
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Człowiek z... (1993)
Character: Pazdura
Journalist Anna is trying to make a documentary about an opposition activist she met years ago.
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Guczo. Notatki z życia (2020)
Character: N/A
Full of archival flavors, the story of an aristocrat cursed by his family, a man of many faces and talents living in turbulent times. Who was August Zamoyski? A lover of female beauty, an athlete, a sculptor, and a citizen of the world who draws full attention from life?
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Jezioro Słone (2022)
Character: Ryszard Tomaszewski
After a forty-year marriage, Helena announces her intention to pursue sexual experiences with other men, much to the shock of her husband Paweł. Despite raising three wonderful children, a romantic life that was fulfilling and financial comfort, Helena feels restless and longs for more.
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Sala nr 6 (1987)
Character: Dr. Chobotowski
An introverted, experienced doctor is the director of a mental hospital. Despite his friendly nature, he has long been no longer appreciated by the staff, and a younger colleague is waiting for his job.
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Wigilia '81 (1988)
Character: Witek’s friend
Martial law. Three women at the festive table await the return of Witek, with whom they have had no contact for ten days.
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Pięć minut przed gwizdkiem (1989)
Character: N/A
Sports officials are trying to decide the result of a football match before it starts. The stake is to stay in the top league.
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Kanalia (1992)
Character: Jegor Potapowicz Jegorow
A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.
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Przedstawienie Hamleta we wsi Głucha Dolna (1987)
Character: Nauczyciel
Based on the play "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja" by Croatian playwright Ivon Brešan. The story is set in the 1960s in a Yugoslavian village, where an activist of a production cooperative decides to stage Shakespeare's Hamlet in a version prepared by a village teacher.
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Koty to dranie (1978)
Character: Marek Sypniewski
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
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111 dni letargu (1985)
Character: Więzień Sikorski
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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Zygfryd (1987)
Character: Emil
The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences.
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Dziecinne pytania (1981)
Character: Miś
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
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Czarny wąwóz (1989)
Character: Roman Zalewski
In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group. When he is caught with stolen funds and a weapon, the police commissioner spares him from prison on the condition that he work as an informant. Trapped by fear and betrayal, Ludvík is forced down a path that leads inexorably toward his own destruction.
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Eukaliptus (2002)
Character: Sheriff
A story about the search for an ideal in a world devoid of values. It is a surreal parable about human nature, played out in the convention of a Western, in which the myth of the Wild West is put to the ultimate test of endurance. In the Wild West's most demoralized town, Rio Bravo, love is hotter, crime more cruel and poetry more poetic than Byron himself. The minds of the residents of Rio Bravo are consumed by venereal disease, leaving behind an uncontrollable longing for Eucalyptus. The film's protagonist, Sony Holiday, a mythical figure of the Wild West, is known not only for his fast revolver, but also for his possession of an unusual bird. This bird, an object of worship and envy, fuels a spiral of crime and gruesomeness in the town.
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Kamień na kamieniu (1995)
Character: Ojciec Szymona i Michała
A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before the war. There, he became involved in the leftist movement. He returned to his home village after the war in a dignitary's car. Soon, however, he left again, only to reappear a few years later—this time penniless, mired in apathy, betrayed by his ideals. The only person who guesses Michał's secret is Szymon, who is also unable to break down the wall separating him from his brother.
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Prorok (2022)
Character: Władysław Gomułka
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
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Za niebieskimi drzwiami (2016)
Character: Doctor
After a serious car accident, Łukasz discovers that the blue door in his new room leads to an alternate reality.
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Big Love (2012)
Character: prosecutor
Emilka meets the slightly-older Maciek out at a club one night. He shows Emilka—who was brought up by a single mom—a whole new world filled with desire, passion, restlessness and rebellion. The girl moves in with him and at first everything seems just perfect, but gradually Emilka discovers her separate identity, and starts to grow apart from him. When her dream of becoming a singer comes true, Maciek feels threatened. A toxic love game begins, full of lust and jealousy.
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Na Srebrnym Globie (1989)
Character: Priest (voice) (uncredited)
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
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Sami swoi. Początek (2024)
Character: Pecyn
Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood.
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Pornografia (2003)
Character: Witold
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
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Jasminum (2006)
Character: ojciec Kleofas, przeor klasztoru
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks.
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Nocne graffiti (1997)
Character: N/A
Marek Kossot, a special forces soldier, discovers that his niece Monica is a drug addict. Wanting to cut the girl off from the source of the goods, he tries to intimidate her dealer and also her boyfriend, a certain Coke. The drug bosses are alarmed by Mark's action and send their men against him. The brutal intervention proves effective only up to a point. When Monica collapses after an overdose, she organizes a good squad from her former charges and starts a war against the drug mafia....
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Gorączka (1981)
Character: Wojtek Kiełza
In 1905 partitioned Poland, a bomb moves through the anarchist underground as revolutionaries prepare to strike against Tsarist rule.
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Pułkownik Kwiatkowski (1996)
Character: pułkownik Kizior
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.
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Piksele (2009)
Character: Starszy policjant
A single mobile phone links disparate lives as mishaps take it from a tabloid journalist, to a rehab facility, a war veteran — and beyond.
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Limousine (2008)
Character: Ania's father
A young female limo driver meets a young male hooker who says he just accidentally killed his "John". They drive around the city looking for the client's girlfriend with the hooker in the trunk.
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Zimna wojna (2018)
Character: Minister
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
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Spadek (2024)
Character: Władysław's Butler
When their rich uncle passes, his mansion of intricate puzzles becomes the backdrop for his estranged family's quest to secure a portion of his wealth.
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Eter (2018)
Character: District Magistrate (voice)
At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation…
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Ogniem i mieczem (1999)
Character: Chan
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
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1920 Bitwa Warszawska (2011)
Character: czekista Bykowski
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals
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Przypadek (1987)
Character: Priest Stefan (2)
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
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Diabelska edukacja (1995)
Character: Doctor
In a rural Catholic village, young Gosia tends cattle and lives an innocent, sheltered life. One summer day, while bathing in the river, she is unknowingly observed by a mysterious painter. When he later reveals his portrait of her, Gosia’s initial shame gives way to curiosity, drawing her into an awakening of desire and a confrontation with temptation.
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Zmowa (1990)
Character: Sitek
Christmas Eve night of 1976. In a village in the newly formed Tarnobrzeg province, a local bus hits a young married couple and a twelve-year-old boy. In the presence of numerous witnesses, the victims are beaten to death with a wheel wrench. In the aftermath of this crime, all the villagers are united by a conspiracy of silence. The dramatic scenario is freely based on the authentic case of the shocking 1976 Polanieck case.
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Jezioro Bodeńskie (1986)
Character: Jasiek Paluch
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
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Przesłuchanie (1989)
Character: Lieutenant Morawski
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
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Trefliki ratują Święta (2024)
Character: Santa Claus (voice)
Treflik and Treflinka can't wait for Christmas. Presents are the only thing they can think about! When Christmas Eve comes, the siblings jump out of bed with excitement. Together with their family, they start preparing - they bake cookies, clear the snow from the yard and put up the Christmas tree. There is only one thing left for them to do - hang the decorations. However, they notice that they have no baubles. What's worse, no one in town has them! All the decorations suddenly disappeared from every house and shop. Treflik and Treflinka start an investigation to find out where the baubles went. With the help of the Robobot robot and Santa Claus himself, they will try to save Christmas!
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Dr. Hrabal (1993)
Character: proza Hrabala (voice)
A film impression about Bohumil Hrabal - an encounter with the man and his literary work. The film was shot in places well known and close to the writer: in Prague and small Czech towns. In addition to Hrabal, it features director Jirzi Menzel, who talks about his collaboration with the writer.
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Izolator (2008)
Character: Grottger
Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute is spending the evening with a prominent Polish official when he's suddenly assassinated in Warsaw. In the aftermath of the hit, the triggerman takes the prostitute to an apartment and subjects her to a complex personality replacement program designed to wipe out any memories she may have retained about the evening's events.
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Fuks (1999)
Character: biznesmen Tadeusz Bagiński, ojciec Aleksa
Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film.
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Palimpsest (2006)
Character: Malinowski
Marek, the main character of "Palimpsest," is a police inspector, a man on the verge of psychological disintegration trying to solve an intricate case. The story is told on two planes. The first one is a crime story, which constitutes the framework of the film. In the course of events, another theme appears - psychological experiences of the main character. Vivid blend of picture with sound and music will draw the audience into the deepest recesses of Marek's mind, making the viewers face questions: What is reality and what is only an illusion? Where is the borderline between the real world and our perception of it? What makes suffering meaningful and what is really important in one's life"?
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Odwrócona góra albo film pod strasznym tytułem (2000)
Character: Gig (głos)
An adaptation of the book by Jerzy Niemczuk. The protagonists are strange but friendly creatures inhabiting the heart of the forest - Tatun, Mamuna, their child Sonek and grandfather Lesavik. The grandfather's inventions - including a kite, a znikolina and a conusola - save the children trapped in the mighty Marbat castle.
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Pan Samochodzik i Templariusze (2023)
Character: Gromiłło
A well-known art historian, treasure hunter and owner of an unusual car stumbles upon a Templar treasure, which is the key to a great power that can upset the balance of good and evil in the world. Supported by friendly scouts, Mr. Car starts a big race against time and a hostile organization, the stake of which is the heritage of knightly orders.
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Excentrycy czyli po słonecznej stronie ulicy (2016)
Character: Habertas
In late 1950s Poland, jazzman Fabian returns from England and forms a swing big band that quickly rises to fame. Their glamorous new singer, the enigmatic Modesta, becomes both the group’s star and Fabian’s love interest. As their success begins to resemble a Hollywood musical, the authorities take a growing interest in their world of music and romance.
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Enduro Bojz (2000)
Character: commissioner
Kuba works part-time in the afternoons delivering pizza to pay back his mother the money he borrowed to buy his dream motorcycle. His father, a stock market investor, disapproves of his son's decision. One day, after returning from school, Kuba finds the motorcycle chained to the garage wall. A conversation with his father is fruitless. Frustrated, the boy saws through the chain, takes his father's revolver, and runs away from home. He sets off with Robert for the Bieszczady Mountains. At the same time, a series of robberies at gas stations takes place in the southeastern corner of Poland.
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Wesele (2019)
Character: Dziad / Upiór
The guests of a wedding face their fears when they are visited by strange apparitions
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Życie za życie. Maksymilian Kolbe (1991)
Character: dubbing roli Ch. Walza
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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Aktorzy prowincjonalni (1979)
Character: Adaś
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
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Człowiek z żelaza (1981)
Character: stoczniowiec
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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Zdjęcia próbne (1977)
Character: Paweł's Replacement (uncredited)
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
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Złoto dezerterów (1998)
Character: Pisur
"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
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Wierne blizny (1982)
Character: N/A
1956. Stefan Madejski, a former KBW lieutenant, is released from prison and rehabilitated. Ten years ago he fought against the gangs, but his brutal and ruthless methods aroused opposition. Because he let go of a band member, his former AK unit colleague, he was brought before a military court and sentenced to fifteen years. Now he is trying to find the people who put him in prison. These encounters give him nothing but bitterness.
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Gadające głowy 2021 (2021)
Character: Self
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
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Na bank się uda (2019)
Character: Tolek Kostrzewa
Three old men get caught by the police during the bank heist. The problem is, that they didn't steal anything.
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80 milionów (2011)
Character: Ksiądz kardynał
A movie about the power of thousands, the courage of hundreds and friendship of a few, thanks to whom a change of fate of millions became possible. Poland, lower Silesia, the beginning of a very cold winter 1981. After a series of entrapments by the security service a confrontation between the opposition and the communists seems to be inevitable. Just before the proclamation of martial law a group of young solidarity activists decide to play va banque and organize a rash action to take out 80 million of the union money from one of the Wroclaw’s banks before the account is blocked. Security service officers follow their steps. It’s the beginning of a gripping tournament in which also priests and curb dealers will play their parts. Each side has aces up their sleeve.
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Musisz żyć (2000)
Character: Witold, przyjaciel i współpracownik Adama
A TV crew is to make a film about a happy family. The choice falls on the family of Adam Hyńczak, a well-to-do banker with a reputation for decency. However, in the course of filming, it comes to light that under the appearance of family idyll there are serious problems and pathologies. Both Adam and his wife, Magda, are completely preoccupied with their own affairs. They do not notice at all that something bad is happening with their adolescent son. Some time ago, having found himself at a bend in life, he turned to drugs.
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O-bi, o-ba. Koniec cywilizacji (1985)
Character: Unhappy
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...
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Bez końca (1985)
Character: Rumcajs
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
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Akcja pod Arsenałem (1977)
Character: N/A
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German “Zachęta” cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema.
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