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Samson (1961)
Character: Woman at Lucyna's Party (uncredited)
The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Who Is Joe Louis? (1992)
Character: Ewan äiti
The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
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Smak wody (1980)
Character: Maria
Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.
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Nic nie stoi na przeszkodzie (1981)
Character: Zofia, żona Jerzego
Jerzy and Zofia are offered a job in Africa. A married couple is faced with the dilemma of leaving or taking care of the man's mother and her sister.
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On, ona, oni (1983)
Character: Stalicowa (segment 1)
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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Skarga (1991)
Character: Stefania Stawicka
A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to bury their son despite the refusal from the communist authorities.
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Bajland (2000)
Character: Jasnorzewska
A black political comedy, which, as a backdrop, uses the election race and the accompanying chaos in the media. The film's protagonist is a presidential candidate in the 2000 elections in Poland who suddenly withdraws from the election campaign despite his best ratings. During the election battle, he portrays himself as a professional liar and decides to give away everything he has previously won. What he doesn't expect, however, is how difficult a problem giving can be.
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Elegia (1979)
Character: N/A
Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.
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Przez dziewięć mostów (1972)
Character: Mother
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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Mysz (1980)
Character: nauczycielka chemii
One of the classes of the Warsaw high school boycotts the test in chemistry lessons. A schoolgirl who has not succumbed to pressure from her peers becomes the target of their revenge.
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Tętno (1986)
Character: Halina's mother
In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.
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Wedle wyroków twoich... (1984)
Character: gospodyni
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
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Szpital Przemienienia (1979)
Character: Nowacki's Wife
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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Człowiek z marmuru (1977)
Character: Editor
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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Bez znieczulenia (1978)
Character: Joanna Cichoń
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
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Palec Boży (1973)
Character: Choir Director
A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.
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Matka Joanna od Aniołów (1961)
Character: Nun (uncredited)
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
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W cieniu nienawiści (1986)
Character: Maria, współpracownica Zofii
In 1943, Ewa decides to take care of her Jewish neighbour's daughter and brings her home just for a few days. When the ghetto uprising begins, the woman keeps on looking after the little girl.
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