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Kardiogram (1971)
Character: Roman
A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.
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Śmierć Johna L. (1988)
Character: Bespectacled Man near the Wawel Castle
Zbigniew Gąsior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with women he can't neglect the emptiness in his life.
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Kramarz (1990)
Character: Antoni, sprzedawca łańcuszków
The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons.
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Słona róża (1983)
Character: malarz Hrusa
The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he recalls how he fell in love with a charming Jewish girl before the outbreak of the war. He manages to find her, only she is already married and has a child.
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Spotkania (1957)
Character: Janusz (segment 4)
Four stories showing the various facets of love.
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Beniamiszek (1976)
Character: Jacek Żegota
Żagota lost his fortune, family and friends. His only hope is a horse which got stolen.
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Decyzja (1960)
Character: Michał Jurewicz
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
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Myszkin (1986)
Character: Ferdyshchenko
An adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Gangster
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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Król Maciuś I (1958)
Character: U-mun-tu
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
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Na tropach Bartka (1984)
Character: Lech Kiczyłło
Friends, with the help of the gamekeeper and forester, try to catch the poacher.
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Ojciec królowej (1980)
Character: Nobleman at the wedding
Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.
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Kopernik (1973)
Character: Burgrave
A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
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Klejnot wolnego sumienia (1983)
Character: Hanged nobleman (uncredited)
The Republic of Poland of the 16th century. During the period of religious tolerance, the Sieniawski and Bielecki families compete with each other.
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Na własną prośbę (1980)
Character: Journalist
The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.
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Hasło (1977)
Character: Snopek
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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Latawiec (1983)
Character: N/A
Jan comes to a mountain town to test a new model of a hang-glider. There he meets a young teacher.
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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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Sceny nocne (1990)
Character: Rich Man
Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
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Rancho Texas (1959)
Character: Jacek
Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.
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Przypadek Pekosińskiego (1993)
Character: pracownik PGR-u
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
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Nagrody i odznaczenia (1974)
Character: Dunajczyk
A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.
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Wystrzał (1966)
Character: Officer
Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.
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System (1981)
Character: Patient (uncredited)
An adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, transposed to a contemporary setting. A couple visits a remote asylum where the woman knows the staff, only to discover that the institution is overrun and the lines between doctors and patients have collapsed.
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Wszyscy i nikt (1978)
Character: organista
City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
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Koty to dranie (1978)
Character: Fisherman
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
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Marynarka to męska przygoda (1967)
Character: N/A
"Marynarka..." is a story of a painter who went on a cruise on a navy ship, framed by a musical film. It features Anna German, Piotr Szczepanik and the Szczecin band Filipinki.
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Hasło Korn (1968)
Character: Witold Bracki
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.
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Przeprawa (1988)
Character: Feliks Mazurek "Bruzda"
WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions.
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Wielka, większa i największa (1963)
Character: Jean
A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet.
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Album polski (1970)
Character: Bandit
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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Westerplatte (1967)
Character: Capt. Mieczysław Słaby, Medical Officer
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
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Milioner (1977)
Character: majster murarski Bil
The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.
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Godziny nadziei (1955)
Character: Corporal Sumski (uncredited)
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
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Wojna polsko-ruska (2009)
Character: barman
An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
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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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Głos z tamtego świata (1962)
Character: Dancer
A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.
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Pierścień i róża (1987)
Character: N/A
A messenger of King Padella arrives at the castle of King Valoroz XXIV of Paflagonia. He announces the arrival of Prince Bulba, who wants to ask for the hand of Princess Angelica. Lulejko, Valoroz's nephew and rightful ruler, lies in a fever. He is cared for by his maid Rózia, who secretly has a crush on the prince. But he is already engaged to Angelika, so he does not understand Bulba's efforts to win her hand. When Angelika throws away the ring she received from Luleika, it turns out that she owed the gem her beauty. Meanwhile, the ugly Gburia-Furia finds the ring.
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Pan Wołodyjowski (1969)
Character: Colonel
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
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Podróże Pana Kleksa (1986)
Character: Sternik Talens
The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school.
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Markiza de Pompadour (1966)
Character: MO Inspector
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
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Les Possédés (1988)
Character: Police Chief
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
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Lokis: Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)
Character: Count's Messenger (uncredited)
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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Zaraza (1972)
Character: Władek
Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
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Aria dla atlety (1979)
Character: "Cyklop" Bieńkowski
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
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Powrót wabiszczura (1989)
Character: Twin
The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
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Janosik (1974)
Character: Waluś Kwiczoł
In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants.
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Nie lubię poniedziałku (1971)
Character: Driver
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
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Wieczne pretensje (1975)
Character: Rysio
Franek, a petty criminal and gambler, befriends Rysio, who performs inspections of meat plants. Rysio suspects wrongdoings at the slaughterhouse. Franek, despite his age, cannot find a place in life, with nothing achieved and, what's more, still not knowing what to do.
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The Night of the Generals (1967)
Character: German Soldier (uncredited)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Potop (1974)
Character: Kulwiec-Hippocentaurus
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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Tajemnica starego ogrodu (1984)
Character: Bosman Henryk Reja
A group of teenagers dream of adventures and experiencing something unusual, mysterious and romantic. The boys play treasure hunters and detectives in an old park adjacent to a modern housing estate. By accident, the heroes find the trail of a youth gang that stole the documentation of a sensational preparation that can be used in the preparation of animal feed. The gang members manage to suspect the inventor of the preparation, the engineer Tyc. His son, Andrzej, and his friends decide to expose the real criminals and find maps that are to indicate the place of the hidden treasure.
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Zimowy zmierzch (1957)
Character: Józek Rumsza
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
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Wilcze echa (1968)
Character: Piotr Słotwina (voice)
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
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Die gefrorenen Blitze (1967)
Character: Doctor
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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Przemytnicy (1985)
Character: "Żywica"
The 1920s, the southern border of Poland. Smuggler Józef Trofida is released from prison. From his friend Władek, he learns that he has lost his dominant position in the world of smuggling to the Alińczuk clan. To change this, Trofida organizes further expeditions, which multiply his wealth many times over. The next smuggling operation—exposed by Alińczuk—ends with Józef's death. Władek decides to take revenge on the hated clan.
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