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Ambulans (1961)
Character: Driver (uncredited)
In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.
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Powrót (1960)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
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Krótkie życie (1976)
Character: N/A
A thrilling story about the liquidation of a Polish terrorist group in Slovakia in the post-war years.
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Ściana czarownic (1967)
Character: Jacek
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Driver (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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Mandrin (1962)
Character: Smuggler
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
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La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka (1984)
Character: N/A
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the grounds of the mine.
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Kopernik (1973)
Character: Lodovico
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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Zamach stanu (1981)
Character: detektyw (nie występuje w napisach)
Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.
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Sąsiedzi (1969)
Character: Jarocki
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
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Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią (1968)
Character: Prisoner
A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
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Pierwsze dni (1952)
Character: Felek, blacksmith's helper
An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
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Drugi brzeg (1962)
Character: Political Prisoner (uncredited)
A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
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Oko cyklonu (1990)
Character: Antek
A London agent is sent to Poland to obtain information about Wehrmacht officers reluctant to Hitler. He is hiding in the forester's lodge with a wounded German soldier.
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Na własną prośbę (1980)
Character: Paver finisher driver
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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Rancho Texas (1959)
Character: Stable Worker (uncredited)
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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Stawka większa niż życie cz. VI (1969)
Character: Junior Officer ("Operation Oak Leaf") (uncredited)
The sixth and final episode compilation of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 16 and 17.
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Zuzanna i chłopcy (1961)
Character: Renek
Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
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Na melinę (1981)
Character: Partisan
A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
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Na dobranoc (1971)
Character: Milkman
Two neighbours living in one block of flats share the same dreams at night - they murder each another.
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Legenda (1971)
Character: Resistance Fighter
Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (1961)
Character: Frenchman (uncredited)
An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
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Dzień oczyszczenia (1970)
Character: Kosma (uncredited)
The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.
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Aktorka (1971)
Character: Ferryman (uncredited)
A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
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Westerplatte (1967)
Character: Soldier returning from Guard Duty (uncredited)
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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Dulscy (1976)
Character: N/A
Set at the end of the XIX-th century. Madame Dulska is the sole and absolute ruler of her house in Cracow. She is ruthless, greedy and oversensitive of the reputation of her family. To protect his son from temptations she overlooks the affair he is having with the maid. Young Dulski first wants to marry the girl, but then yields to his mother demands and turns his interest to a cousin. Everything returns to normal: his father has his habitaul visits to a brothel, his son to a cabaret and Madame Dulska safeguards her reign.
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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)
Character: Customs Officer
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
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Piątka z ulicy Barskiej (1954)
Character: Boy shooting at Macisz (uncredited)
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
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Czas przeszły (1961)
Character: Gestapo Officer / Waiter (uncredited)
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
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Zezowate szczęście (1960)
Character: Franek the Rickshaw Driver (uncredited)
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
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Klub kawalerów (1962)
Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.
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Lekarstwo na miłość (1966)
Character: Bank Convoy Guard (uncredited)
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
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Kariera (1955)
Character: Shipyard Worker (uncredited)
Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.
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Złote koło (1971)
Character: Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)
An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
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Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (1973)
Character: Rudy / Ptak (uncredited)
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
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Szyfry (1966)
Character: Gestapo Officer / Man on the Street (uncredited)
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
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Zaduszki (1961)
Character: Partisan (uncredited)
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
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Nos (1971)
Character: Kowalew's Friend
An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.
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Jowita (1967)
Character: Photographer
Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka.
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Na białym szlaku (1963)
Character: German Soldier (uncredited)
Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.
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Przygoda na Mariensztacie (1954)
Character: Bricklayer
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
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Wilcze echa (1968)
Character: "Baby"
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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Pierwszy start (1951)
Character: Tomek Spojda
A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.
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Ogniomistrz Kaleń (1961)
Character: Soldier
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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