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Pingwin (1965)
Character: Man by a Beer Both (uncredited)
A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
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Mój stary (1962)
Character: Theatre Employee (uncredited)
A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
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Cierpkie głogi (1966)
Character: Man (uncredited)
A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.
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Miasteczko (1960)
Character: Seller
A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
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Ktokolwiek wie... (1966)
Character: Zdzisław Chojnacki
A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: Postman (segment 2)
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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Weekendy (1963)
Character: Bus Conductor (uncredited)
An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Car Parts Thief (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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Nowy (1970)
Character: Man in Employment Office
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
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Święta wojna (1965)
Character: 'Sparta' Official
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: Hitcher (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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Rok pierwszy (1960)
Character: Bar Manager (uncredited)
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
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Czekam w Monte Carlo (1969)
Character: Polish Team Member (uncredited)
At the annual car race in Monte Carlo the Polish team consists of driver Piotr and his pilot Jan. They compete with other teams as well as with one another - for the feelings of one woman.
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Kwiecień (1961)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
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Barwy walki (1964)
Character: AL Soldier (uncredited)
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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Wniebowstąpienie (1969)
Character: Gendarme
The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
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Książę sezonu (1970)
Character: Worker
Stefan Pulman, a lonely Varsovian, spends his vacation every year in a quiet guesthouse. He makes very real marriage plans. The object of his sighs is beautiful Susanna.
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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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Trochę nadziei (1972)
Character: Sanatorium Resident
The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.
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Portfel (1971)
Character: Antoni
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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Tamań (1970)
Character: Officer's Adjutant
A young Russian officer finds himself in a rundown town and seeks shelter in an abandoned hut while waiting for help.
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: Cowboy (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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Cafe Pod Minogą (1959)
Character: Tour Member (uncredited)
Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
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Pożegnanie z diabłem (1957)
Character: Restaurant Customer (uncredited)
A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.
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Kontrybucja (1967)
Character: Photographer
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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Weekend z dziewczyną (1968)
Character: Barber
During World War 2 a doctor, patiently waiting for the liberation and unwilling to engage in the struggle against the Nazis is forced at a gunpoint by a Polish Resistance soldier to attend to the members of her squad.
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Zapalniczka (1970)
Character: Władek's Friend (uncredited)
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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Bigos (1966)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
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Buty (1966)
Character: Wounded Man
During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.
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Album polski (1970)
Character: Prisoner
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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Lunatycy (1960)
Character: Zenek
A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends.
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Prawo i pięść (1964)
Character: Schaeffer
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
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Pasażerka (1963)
Character: Prisoner-Painter (uncredited
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
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Markiza de Pompadour (1966)
Character: Worker (uncredited)
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
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Pierwszy dzień wolności (1964)
Character: Man with Frostbitten Hands (uncredited)
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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Bokser (1967)
Character: Team Doctor
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
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Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963)
Character: Waiter ("Alcoholmeter")
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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Bariera (1966)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Potop (1974)
Character: Charłamp
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Zator
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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Smuga cienia (1976)
Character: N/A
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
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Die gefrorenen Blitze (1967)
Character: Cemetery Guard
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
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Ja gorę! (1968)
Character: Bishop's Butler (uncredited)
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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Ogniomistrz Kaleń (1961)
Character: Alojzy Rączka
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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