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Elementarz (1978)
Character: N/A
The characters from Marian Falski's Elementarz come to life as protagonists of a chronicle drama from the 1960s and then protagonists of a new wave plot from the 1970s. The voiceover adjusts its tone and message to the image, staying within the world of the primer.
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Prawdzie w oczy (1970)
Character: Brigade Member
After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
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Smarkula (1963)
Character: Jurek Wronicz
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
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Nowy (1970)
Character: Employee in HR Department
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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Warszawska syrena (1956)
Character: Jasko
A fairy tale film based on an ancient legend about the founding of Warsaw and the good fairy Sirene of the Mazovian forests, who became the patron saint of the city.
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Skarb kapitana Martensa (1957)
Character: Boatswain
A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.
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W te dni przedwiosenne (1975)
Character: N/A
The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba.
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Epilog norymberski (1971)
Character: The Accused (uncredited)
Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
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Album polski (1970)
Character: German Soldier (uncredited)
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
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Somosierra. 1808 (1978)
Character: Sergeant Stadnicki
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid
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Westerplatte (1967)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
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Godziny nadziei (1955)
Character: American (uncredited)
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
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Życie raz jeszcze (1965)
Character: NSZ Soldier (uncredited)
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Stefan Olczak
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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Makbet (1969)
Character: Angus
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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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy (1967)
Character: Stefan Janotta
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
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Hrabina Cosel (1968)
Character: Lieutenant La Haye
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
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Wszystko na sprzedaż (1969)
Character: Militiaman
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
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Sublokator (1967)
Character: Cyclist
A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
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Pierwszy dzień wolności (1964)
Character: Otto
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
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Tecumseh (1972)
Character: N/A
At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast hunting grounds at ludicrously low prices without any bloodshed. Harrison, Governor of Indiana, has made and broke no less than fifteen such treaties, driving increasing numbers of Indians out to the infertile West. To put a stop to this criminal practice, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh tries to unite the Native Americans.
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Pokolenie (1955)
Character: SS Soldier (uncredited)
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Zbyszko 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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The Night of the Generals (1967)
Character: Officer (uncredited)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Zimowy zmierzch (1957)
Character: Conductor
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne (1973)
Character: Bus Driver
A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
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