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Trzy kobiety (1957)
Character: Bakery Customer (uncredited)
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Spotkania w mroku (1960)
Character: Fritzsch (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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Trzy starty (1955)
Character: cyclist
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
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"Yokmok" (1963)
Character: Port captain
Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him suspicious in the eyes of the local government.
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Miasteczko (1960)
Character: Firefighter
A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
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Spotkania (1957)
Character: Student (segment 2) (uncredited)
Four stories showing the various facets of love.
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Mam tu swój dom (1963)
Character: N/A
A young man, Kuba, is returning from the army. At home, an image of misery and despair remains: the father is seriously ill, and the mother has become emotionally attached to the man who exploits her and intends to take over the farm. After the death of his father, the young man guards the farm, but his girlfriend leaves him. Unable to bear the atmosphere of envy and resentment, Kuba leaves for the city.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: Juror Górniak (segment 1)
Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.
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Pięciu (1964)
Character: Medic
Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.
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Epizod Berlin West (1986)
Character: Kronowicz
The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love Iza. He revives the feeling that once connected them. The woman is the ex-wife of the publisher of Bard's novels. The situation gets complicated soon.
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Pejzaż z bohaterem (1971)
Character: Fire Station Chief
Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
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Nowy (1970)
Character: Jerzy Jasiński
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
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Czarodziej z Harlemu (1990)
Character: Sylwester Bączek
The Stal sports club from Tczew has acquired a new player. He is a black basketball player. Unfortunately, the plane with Abraham lands in Gdańsk, not in Warsaw, where he is expected. The boy tries to get to Tczew on his own. Meanwhile, the welcoming delegation mistakes another black man for the basketball player and takes him to Tczew. When the mistake comes to light, everyone sets out to find Abraham. Eventually, the basketball player finds his way to his club. But a rival club is also interested in him and tries to sign him at any cost. Meanwhile, Abraham meets the daughter of the owner of Stal, Monika, and falls in love with her.
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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Groom
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Zawsze w niedziele (1966)
Character: Walczak ("Second Sunday")
Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.
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Szaleństwa panny Ewy (1985)
Character: Wacław Szymbart
From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.
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Tarpany (1962)
Character: (uncredited)
In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.
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Żołnierz zwycięstwa (1953)
Character: Factory Guard (uncredited)
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
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Wizyta (1972)
Character: Malinowski
An official falls victim to hooligans. He recognizes one of the attackers at a party organized by his director.
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Padalce (1974)
Character: Borecki
An old farmer comes into conflict with his daughter and son-in-law, who value the teaching profession more than farming.
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Skok (1969)
Character: Tractor Driver
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
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Milion za Laurę (1971)
Character: Karol Bulak
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
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Tak tak (1993)
Character: Marek's Father
Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
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Miejsce dla jednego (1966)
Character: Sidor
The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.
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Trudna miłość (1954)
Character: Passerby
A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
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Awantura o Basię (1959)
Character: Michałek
Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
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Opadły liście z drzew (1975)
Character: świadek Jehowy
Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
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Nazajutrz po wojnie (1966)
Character: Lieutenant Schultz
On the last day of the war, a Polish soldier whose family was murdered meets his German enemy.
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Piggate (1990)
Character: Karsky
The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (1961)
Character: Guard escorting the prisoners of war (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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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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Lekcja martwego języka (1979)
Character: pop
An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
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Historia żółtej ciżemki (1961)
Character: Ignac
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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Wolne miasto (1958)
Character: Polish Sailor taking part in a Brawl (uncredited)
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Przeklęte oko proroka (1985)
Character: Wachmistrz
A continuation of the story "Oko proroka", which ended with the sale of a mysterious jewel and the purchase by the Bystry family of an inn near Tarnów. Unfortunately, times in 17th-century Poland are troubled, and a curse still hangs over Hanusz and his father. Driven by an adventurous nature, Hanusz Bystry sets out for the Balkans to free his friend, Semen Berdychka, captured by the Turks while searching for his father, who has been taken into the yasir.
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Makbet (1969)
Character: Doctor
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
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Ludzie z pociągu (1961)
Character: Trader's Brother-in-law
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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Hallo Szpicbródka, czyli ostatni występ króla kasiarzy (1978)
Character: komornik
The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.
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Szczęściarz Antoni (1961)
Character: Drunk
A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
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Piątka z ulicy Barskiej (1954)
Character: Witness (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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Markiza de Pompadour (1966)
Character: Butcher Shop Manager
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: Gienio
A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
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La Petite Apocalypse (1993)
Character: The Guard
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Michał
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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Fucha (1985)
Character: nauczyciel
Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.
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Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Character: Firefighter playing the bugle
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
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Krzyż Walecznych (1959)
Character: Barber Bolesław Petrak
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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Łabędzi śpiew (1988)
Character: Film Studio Manager
After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea…
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Kłopotliwy gość (1971)
Character: National Council Home Pest Report Worker
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Aria dla atlety (1979)
Character: dubbing roli odgrywanej przez Piotra Skrzyneckiego
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
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Nic śmiesznego (1996)
Character: Film Director
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
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Nie będę cię kochać (1974)
Character: Engineer Władysław
In an idyllic working class community, 13 year old Anka grows up, going through stages of adolescence, dreaming, first love and gossiping with girlfriends. Roughly disturbed by the shame and disgrace of alcoholism - leaves unwashable stains upon the community, that tries to cope with abuse and depression, and the system (including school teachers) who try to avoid the subject. This story was aimed at parents, to give them morally an insight into what happens when a young girl has to deal with the disgrace of an alcoholic father and a mentally instable mother.
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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: Baker (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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Bariera (1966)
Character: Man at the Bar
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Eroica: Symfonia bohaterska w dwóch częściach (1958)
Character: Hungarian officer (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca"
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
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Zwariowana noc (1967)
Character: Sturmfuhrer
Three Polish resistance fighters hide in an old castle inhabitated by an old baroness and her relatives.
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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Court Jester in Ortelsburg
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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Hasło Korn (1968)
Character: Ludwik Będziński
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.
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Marysia i Napoleon (1966)
Character: Guide (uncredited)
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
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Gdzie jesteś, Luizo? (1968)
Character: Sportsman
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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Misja specjalna (1987)
Character: Muller
In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Kawalerskie życie na obczyźnie (1993)
Character: Doctor on a Medical Exhibition
The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.
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