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Doktor Judym (1975)
Character: N/A
A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.
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Pogrzeb kartofla (1990)
Character: Mierzwowa
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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Krzyk (1983)
Character: Niedźwiecka
A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
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Indeks (1977)
Character: Maria
The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
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Prawdzie w oczy (1970)
Character: Janka
After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
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Zvláštní bytosti (1990)
Character: Olga Kolářová
A parable for the end of totalitarianism.
Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.
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Powrót na ziemię (1967)
Character: Woman pulled out of Water (uncredited)
After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.
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Zad wielkiego wieloryba (1990)
Character: Robert's mother
Roy, who lives abroad, recollects his youth. Soon he receives news about his old friend's death.
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Hasło (1977)
Character: Urszula
Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.
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Zmyślone (1971)
Character: Zosia
A psychological drama taking place in the picturesque scenery of the sea coast, in a closed circle of four people: the lighthouse keeper, his wife and a young student couple in love with each other. Young people bring to the peaceful home not only the symptoms of exuberant joy in life, but also a different way of thinking and looking at the world.
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Yokohama (1982)
Character: N/A
An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: Secretary (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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Dawid i Sandy (1988)
Character: (voice)
David, a boy who stays with his parents in a small cabin in a jungle, not only gets a reliable puppy named Pips for his birthday, but he also befriends a baby eagle who he names Sandy. They discover that a stereotypical boss, named Mr. Stealmore in the English version, is after a set of pearls which were to be kept safe by a group of aliens who landed in the jungle. Now, the trio have to band together and save the jungle from Mr. Stealmore, who has also plotted to bulldoze the jungle and build a city in its place.
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Idol (1985)
Character: Ilona Iwicka
In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
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Placówka (1979)
Character: N/A
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
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Jajo (1984)
Character: żona profesora
It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate.
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Sekret Enigmy (1979)
Character: Barbara Różycka
Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939; they ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France.
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