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Wyrok (1962)
Character: Rozalia Mazur
An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.
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Dziewczęta z Nowolipek (1937)
Character: Kwiryna
Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a better future but what the future brings is usually disappointment, sometimes even tragedy.
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Spotkania w mroku (1960)
Character: N/A
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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Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona (1977)
Character: staruszka
The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.
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Historia współczesna (1961)
Character: Wiśniewski's Mother (uncredited)
Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: (uncredited)
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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Mała sprawa (1980)
Character: Jakubowska
A few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must be prepared to show the guest how well the place is being managed.
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Wiano (1964)
Character: Woman washing Clothes (uncredited)
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
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Agnieszka (1973)
Character: Aunt Wikcia
The school incident of the disappearance of a watch became a pretext for the filmmakers to faithfully show an interesting social layer, to present the life of the school community, Agnieszka's conflicts with her parents and the emerging sympathy for a boy.
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Gonitwa (1971)
Character: Housekeeper
A seamstress who leads a stable life falls in love with her daughter's teacher.
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Помни имя свое (1974)
Character: N/A
Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the snow, in the concentration camp. They spend a few years together in the camp until they are separated, first within Auschwitz itself, then, for good, when the Germans are losing the war and decide to evacuate.
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Naganiacz (1964)
Character: Jewish Woman (uncredited)
1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
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Koty to dranie (1978)
Character: Koperkowa (uncredited)
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
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Szpital Przemienienia (1979)
Character: Patient
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
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Pejzaż horyzontalny (1978)
Character: N/A
Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his professional duties, the trio bands together to keep the production on course.
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Ostatni etap (1948)
Character: Kapo Frieda
Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.
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Zbrodniarz, który ukradł zbrodnię (1969)
Character: Ewa Salm's Neighbour
Retired police captain Siwy recounts to a reporter how he undertook a final, private investigation into the suspicious death of Ewa Salm, known as “Princess.” Though her testimony had secured a conviction, Siwy doubted the man’s guilt and set out to uncover the real killer—risking his own life to see justice done.
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Pasażerka (1963)
Character: Capo
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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Lokis: Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)
Character: Countess' Servant
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
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Golem (1980)
Character: Old Woman
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
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Ocalenie (1972)
Character: Antosia (uncredited)
A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
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Bariera (1966)
Character: (uncredited)
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Bilans kwartalny (1975)
Character: (uncredited)
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
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Brunet wieczorową porą (1976)
Character: Gypsy Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
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Brunet wieczorową porą (1976)
Character: Neighbour
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
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Przejście podziemne (1974)
Character: Janitor
A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce.
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