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Trzy kobiety (1957)
Character: Woman living in the Residence
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Przerwany lot (1964)
Character: Grandmother
The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
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Gehenna (1938)
Character: matka Ani
A young girl falls in love with an aristocrat against her uncle's wishes.
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Szkice warszawskie (1970)
Character: Julek's Grandmother (segment "Allegro")
Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.
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Szpital (1962)
Character: N/A
Confined to a hospital room, a seemingly healthy man endures a surreal night as his space is invaded by a procession of bizarre, dreamlike visitors—many linked to the imagery of railroads. Blurring reality with hallucination, the film transforms the ward into a stage for nightmarish encounters.
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Ostatni strzał (1959)
Character: Woman in Line (uncredited)
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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Przygoda Stasia (1970)
Character: Woman
The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.
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Sprawa pilota Maresza (1956)
Character: Housekeeper
A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: Ignacy's Grandmother
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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Profesor Wilczur (1938)
Character: Sick Boy's Mother
Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.
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Trudna miłość (1954)
Character: Nalepa's Wife
A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
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Zakazane piosenki (1947)
Character: Woman in a Refugee Camp (uncredited)
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
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Stajnia na Salvatorze (1967)
Character: Teresa's Neighbour
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
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Ленин в Польше (1966)
Character: N/A
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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Dwie brygady (1950)
Character: Borowicz's housewife
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
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Świadectwo urodzenia (1961)
Character: Babina (uncredited)
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
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Uczta Baltazara (1954)
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
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Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Character: Woman - apostle at Hyde Park
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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Skarb (1949)
Character: Bronia Kowalska
Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
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Marysia i Napoleon (1966)
Character: Lady (uncredited)
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
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Popioły (1965)
Character: N/A
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
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Za wami pójdą inni... (1949)
Character: Anna's Mother's Friend
A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
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Młodość Chopina (1952)
Character: Devotee (uncredited)
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
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Celuloza (1954)
Character: Jadwiga Łopaczewska
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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Pierwszy start (1951)
Character: Hania's Mother
A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.
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