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Rozmowa z człowiekiem z szafy (1994)
Character: Gravedigger
Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.
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Trzy kobiety (1957)
Character: Woman living in the Residence
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Sam pośród miasta (1965)
Character: Cloakroom Attendant
Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
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Indeks (1977)
Character: Matka Marii
The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
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Małe dramaty (1960)
Character: Store Clerk (uncredited)
Two stories showcasing the problems children face while growing up.
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Chrześniak (1986)
Character: zakonnica Maria
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
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Mansarda (1963)
Character: Mrs Golz
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
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Rdza (1982)
Character: N/A
After many years, director Bryła reveals hidden family secrets.
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Penelopy (1989)
Character: Zofia, ciotka Magdy
Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.
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Tylko Beatrycze (1976)
Character: Queen Rycheza
Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.
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Nocny gość (1990)
Character: Woman from the Wagon
In 1456, Francis Villon and his companions attack a merchant in the forest. On the cart they find a girl dead of the plague. They give up the robbery. Villon spends the evening in an inn. He drinks, dances - the fun is interrupted by the arrival of a leper. Only Villon is not afraid to touch him, he treats him as a neighbor. In bed, his lover Gretel complains to the poet that no one wants to marry her....
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777 (1973)
Character: Woman in a Cafe
A young bus driver's life changes after he meets a woman that later becomes a victim of a road accident.
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Punkt wyjścia (1972)
Character: Edward's Wife
A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.
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Podróż na wschód (1997)
Character: Jakub's Grandmother
Ewa decides to leave Paris and find her husband left in Poland.
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Zaczarowany rower (1955)
Character: Nurse
The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
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Piąta rano (1970)
Character: Joanna & Katarzyna's Mother
Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
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Awantura o Basię (1959)
Character: Kaniewska (uncredited)
Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
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Faust (1976)
Character: Stara
Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil offers him youth and knowledge of the meaning of existence. Faust becomes a beautiful young man. He meets a young, virtuous girl Margaret - he asks Mephistopheles for help in seducing her.
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Zaproszenie (1986)
Character: Antonina
The main character is Anna, an outstanding pediatrician. She survived the harsh years of war in a concentration camp and cannot accept the behavior of her daughter Natalia, who uses her connections and cares only about material goods. Anna is reminded of 1939, when Piotr, who had been missing for forty-five years, arrives in Poland. Together, they visit places that are important to them: Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbruck.
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Roman i Magda (1979)
Character: matka Romana
A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.
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Pierwsza miłość (1971)
Character: Włodzimierz's Mother
Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.
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Sprawa hrabiego Rottera (1987)
Character: N/A
A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.
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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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Wolne miasto (1958)
Character: Kowalska
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Wszystko będzie dobrze (2007)
Character: Soltysowa
A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa.
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Kryptonim Nektar (1963)
Character: Ewa Siennicka
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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Sztuka kochania (1989)
Character: Olgierd's Mother
Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
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Wszyscy święci (2002)
Character: Roma, przyjaciółka Marii z oddziału
As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children.
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Зося (1967)
Character: Zosya's Mother
In this WWII drama, Russian soldiers take a break at a scenic farm in Poland, and the unit is able to escape the horrors of war during their brief respite. A Polish farm girl and a Russian officer feel a mutual and unspoken attraction towards each other.
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Rajski ptak (1988)
Character: pani Maria, sąsiadka Anki
Jurek, a medical student and notorious womanizer, spends the night with Anka, a carefree and spirited girl who does not want to continue the relationship. The couple meets again after a few months. Jurek is forced to look for a place to live. He finds an offer for a room for a medical student in exchange for caring for a sick person. Together with the girl, Monika, they go to the address provided. It turns out that the sick person is Anka. She had an accident while horseback riding and is now in a wheelchair. After some hesitation, she agrees to let Jurek take care of her.
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Rozmowy kontrolowane (1991)
Character: Aunt Lusia's Friend
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
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To nie tak jak myślisz kotku (2008)
Character: Waleria Gaszyńska
Handsome, wealthy neurosurgeon Philip Morawski decides to spend the weekend with a sinful young nurse, Dominica. Unfortunately, these romantic plans could upset his doctor wife, who is also staying at the same hotel on business. But for a man who works daily with a scalpel in his hand, there are no insurmountable obstacles.
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Mistrz tańca (1969)
Character: Customer
A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.
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Kobieta w kapeluszu (1985)
Character: mother of Ewa
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
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Przesłuchanie (1982)
Character: Female Prison Officer
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
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Når nettene blir lange (2000)
Character: Irina
The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze inside the frozen cabin walls in 30-below-zero weather.
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Lokis: Rękopis profesora Wittembacha (1970)
Character: Julia's Mother
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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Uczennica (1982)
Character: matka dziennikarza
Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
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Faraon (1966)
Character: Nikrotis
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
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Hydrozagadka (1971)
Character: Flower Seller
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
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Nos (1971)
Character: Police Chief
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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Gorzka miłość (1990)
Character: Marta Powiłańska
Poland, 1945. Crowds of repatriates are traveling from east to west in search of new homes and loved ones lost during the war. At one of the train stations, a young woman, Hanna Powiłańska, sits among the crowd of displaced persons. The girl recalls a story of turbulent love. Before the war, at a carnival ball, she met the handsome Lech Oleszkiewicz. In September, war broke out. Hanna meets the engineer again and spends the night with him. In the morning, the man tells her that he is married. Hanna breaks off the relationship.
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Potop (1974)
Character: Aunt Kulwiecówna
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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Rewizja osobista (1973)
Character: Basia
Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass.
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Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy (1982)
Character: właścicielka domu mody
Hanka Ordonówna is a star of pre-war Polish cabarets. The film begins in 1942 in the Middle East, in a British military camp located near the front line. Hanka runs a shelter for homeless Polish children. In her moments of respite, the singer, who is suffering from tuberculosis, recalls the various stages of her career.
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