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Agnieszka 46 (1964)
Character: Paszczuk
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
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Drzwi w murze (1974)
Character: Actor Playing The Philosopher
Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship.
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Skąpani w ogniu (1963)
Character: Lieutenant Milutin
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
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Niech cię odleci mara (1982)
Character: Ksiądz
1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
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Naprawdę wczoraj (1963)
Character: Krztynka
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
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Spotkanie w 'Bajce' (1962)
Character: Kowalec
"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.
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Beniamiszek (1976)
Character: naczelnik
Żagota lost his fortune, family and friends. His only hope is a horse which got stolen.
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Szklana kula (1972)
Character: Committee Member (uncredited)
Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
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Julia, Anna, Genowefa... (1968)
Character: Dziwisz (uncredited)
25-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war.
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Katastrofa (1966)
Character: Bień
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
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Mansarda (1963)
Character: Player
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
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Szklana góra (1960)
Character: "Father"
A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
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Weekendy (1963)
Character: Store Owner
An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
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Pieklo i niebo (1966)
Character: Heaven Citizen talking about Food on Earth
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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Jadą goście jadą... (1962)
Character: Alojzy Buda (Segment 3)
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
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Kopernik (1973)
Character: Matz Schilling
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: Jan Firlej
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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Jest mi lekko (1983)
Character: Chramazyk
A story of two young people - Marcin and Renata, who one day meet on the train when Marcin tries to steal money from Renata.
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W każdą pogodę (1970)
Character: Jan Pąk
A young sea rescuer tries to find his place in the difficult world of his work.
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Przygoda Stasia (1970)
Character: General
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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Promień (1984)
Character: N/A
Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist government and local nobles don't take kindly to his presence and try to sabotage him.
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Крах операции «Террор» (1981)
Character: bufetowy na dworcu
The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
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Akcja 'Brutus' (1971)
Character: Professor Ramuz
Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.
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Rancho Texas (1959)
Character: (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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Przypadek Pekosińskiego (1993)
Character: profesor
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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Marsjanie (1967)
Character: Soldier tangling the Wire
Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
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Naganiacz (1964)
Character: Budyta
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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Piwo (1965)
Character: Man in a Restaurant
The piece is an analysis of a person's attitude in the face of imminent danger, and its action takes place just after World War II. In the train station waiting room, two young men lead a beer discussion, one of whom tells the other an unpleasant incident of his own life.
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Katarynka (1968)
Character: Concierge Kazimierz
This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
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Córeczka (1965)
Character: Pietrzak
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
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Nad Odrą (1966)
Character: Militiaman Franek
The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.
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I ty zostaniesz Indianinem (1962)
Character: Eligiusz
Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.
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Konopielka (1982)
Character: Mayor
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
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Historia żółtej ciżemki (1961)
Character: Chief Guard in Myślenice
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
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Nikt nie woła (1960)
Character: 'Mayor'
Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past.
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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Priest Kryjak
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
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Giuseppe w Warszawie (1964)
Character: Trader
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
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Don Gabriel (1966)
Character: Taborek
The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
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Sobótki (1966)
Character: Soviet Colonel
Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
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Ludzie z pociągu (1961)
Character: Trader
A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
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Kochaj albo rzuć (1977)
Character: mayor
Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
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Placówka (1979)
Character: priest (uncredited)
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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Baza ludzi umarłych (1959)
Character: 'Apostoł'
In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
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Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1966)
Character: Nobleman dueling Van Worden's Father
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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Markiza de Pompadour (1966)
Character: Stefan Rubiński
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
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Paragon gola (1970)
Character: Łopotek
A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
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Granica (1978)
Character: przedsiębiorca pragnący kupić miejskie grunty
Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely Justyna Bogutówna, the daughter of a cook. When the canicule comes to an end, Zenon packs his bags and leaves for Paris to study. Returning after a year with a doctorate in political science, he makes a fast and glamorous career. He becomes the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper and, soon after, mayor of the city. He also marries Elzbieta Biecka, but still does not break up with Justyna.
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Motodrama (1971)
Character: Guard
An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.
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Rzeczpospolita babska (1969)
Character: Prefect
After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
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Milczenie (1963)
Character: Antoni Bejc
Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Melania's father / voice of Drinking Sailor #1 (uncredited)
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
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Krzyż Walecznych (1959)
Character: Buśko
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
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Nie ma mocnych (1974)
Character: Sołtys
The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
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Żywot Mateusza (1968)
Character: Host
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
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Szatan z 7-ej klasy (1960)
Character: Priest
Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous.
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Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz. 3 - Wśród swoich (1970)
Character: Jóźwiak
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
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Zwariowana noc (1967)
Character: Butler Józef
Three Polish resistance fighters hide in an old castle inhabitated by an old baroness and her relatives.
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Lalka (1968)
Character: Szprot
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Maćko of Bogdaniec
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
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Gniazdo (1974)
Character: Man at Baptism
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
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Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Character: (uncredited)
In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal.
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Chłopi (1973)
Character: Balcerek
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
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Złoto (1962)
Character: Stary
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Auto Repair Manager
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
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Gdzie jesteś, Luizo? (1968)
Character: Taxi Driver
Mysterious creatures that have landed on the ground in a flying saucer, encouraging the people they meet to undergo experimental research in exchange for gaining youth and immortality.
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Wyspa złoczyńców (1965)
Character: MO Chief
A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.
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Jowita (1967)
Character: Doctor Pluciński
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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Sami swoi (1967)
Character: Mayor
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
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Ogniomistrz Kaleń (1961)
Character: Innkeeper Szponderski
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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