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Kardiogram (1971)
Character: Wife
A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.
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Zofia (1976)
Character: Pensjonariuszka domu starców
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
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Zanim nadejdzie dzień (1977)
Character: N/A
A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.
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Spotkania w mroku (1960)
Character: Worker (uncredited)
A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
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Zagubione uczucia (1957)
Character: School janitor (uncredited)
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
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Odwet (1983)
Character: Janitor
Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives join them. Although they have not had the opportunity to get to know each other so far, they become friends very quickly.
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Bumerang (1966)
Character: Woman at the Accident Scene (uncredited)
A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.
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Sekret (1973)
Character: Danuta's Former Maid
After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he lead a second life.
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Smak wody (1980)
Character: N/A
Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.
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Przeklęta ziemia (1983)
Character: Caretaker
Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
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Wolne chwile (1979)
Character: N/A
Poland in the mid-1970s. In a small town, the student theater is preparing its premiere.
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Julia, Anna, Genowefa... (1968)
Character: Mrs Szymgał
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: Woman at a Funeral (uncredited)
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
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Decyzja (1960)
Character: Dorota's Maid
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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Szklana góra (1960)
Character: Dobracka's Guest (uncredited)
A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
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Opętanie (1973)
Character: Party Guest
A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.
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Weekendy (1963)
Character: Porter
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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Tylko umarły odpowie (1969)
Character: Nun
Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career.
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Zasieki (1983)
Character: Doctor
Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive.
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Szkoda twoich łez (1985)
Character: N/A
Teresa, a revue dancer dreaming of stardom and love with actor Modecki, endures fleeting affairs, her friend’s suicide and a struggling provincial theatre before returning to Warsaw. After winning a leading role and finding success, she learns she’s pregnant and must choose between her career and motherhood.
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Z tamtej strony tęczy (1973)
Character: Court Witness
Teresa is an attractive 30-year-old doctor. She divides her stable life between work, caring for her younger sister Ania, a high school student, and her romance with Jan, a well-off lawyer who wants to marry her. However, Teresa postpones her decision to marry until Ania becomes independent. One day, she unexpectedly meets Tomek, a young photographer, who soon confesses his love to her, making her question her loyalty to Jan.
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Długa noc (1989)
Character: Szymańska
The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.
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Śnić we śnie (1979)
Character: Orderly
A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in philosophy
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Prom (1970)
Character: Woman On Ferry
1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
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Sygnały (1959)
Character: Woman in a beer booth
A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
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Bułeczka (1973)
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.
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Giuseppe w Warszawie (1964)
Character: Woman on a Train (uncredited)
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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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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Kochaj albo rzuć (1977)
Character: Aniela Kargul
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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Koniec wakacji (1975)
Character: babcia Jurka
A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.
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Prognoza pogody (1983)
Character: Pelagia
When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.
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Granica (1978)
Character: starsza pani w salonie Kolichowskiej
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: Post Office Customer (uncredited)
An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.
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Raj na ziemi (1970)
Character: Gederle's Wife
Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory.
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Lotna (1959)
Character: Housewife (uncredited)
Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
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Krzyż Walecznych (1959)
Character: Luborz Woman
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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Ósmy dzień tygodnia (1958)
Character: Piotr's neighbor (uncredited)
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
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Karate po polsku (1982)
Character: Leżanowa
The story takes place in a small, provincial town in Masuria. Beginner artist painter Piotr comes here from Warsaw to paint frescoes in the local church. Piotr is a great karate and treats everyone as potential rivals. His antagonist is Roman, the head of local hooligans. Soon there is a conflict between them and the situation becomes very dramatic.
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Nie ma mocnych (1974)
Character: Aniela Kargul
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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Zaraza (1972)
Character: Danko
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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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: "Beautiful Lola" (uncredited)
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
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Zaduszki (1961)
Character: Skotnicka
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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Wspólny pokój (1960)
Character: Neighbour
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
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Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz. 3 - Wśród swoich (1970)
Character: Jóźwiakowa
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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Jak się pozbyć czarnego kota? (1986)
Character: Baba z kozą
A young engineer notices that bad luck is haunting him. The man comes to the conclusion that the source of the misfortune is his wife, Christine. He decides to take decisive steps to remedy this.
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Chłopi (1973)
Character: Village Woman (uncredited)
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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Pigułki dla Aurelii (1958)
Character: Woman with Eggs
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
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Mgła (1976)
Character: nie występuje w napisach
In the first months after the war, a period of confusion and fratricidal fighting, a Warsaw whack-job drafted into the ranks of the KBW gains the first life experiences that make him an informed citizen. Marian, a boy from Targówek, is serving in the KBW. His unit is sent to a village plagued by a band of NSZ. Marian becomes involved with a young teacher, Anka, whose brother is a member of the NSZ. During the final trial, Stefan is killed and Marian is seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. An investigation is carried out in the village. Marian does not admit that he knew about Stefan and his contacts with his sister. When he leaves the hospital, he does not find the girl, but their son, who is being cared for by Anka's parents. He takes the boy and returns to Targowek.
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Sami swoi (1967)
Character: Aniela Kargulowa
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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