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Barbara Radziwiłłówna (1936)
Character: N/A
King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland secretly falls in love with Barbara Radziwiłłówna, a noblewoman of Lithuanian magnate lineage, defying his mother Queen Bona’s plans to wed him to a French princess.
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Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962)
Character: Professor Waszkowski (segment 4)
Five short stories.
(1) “Czas przybliża, czas oddala” – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna.
(2) “Krąg istnienia” – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by family, she marries a soap manufacturer.
(3) “Paryż 1945” – A Polish refugee soldier and an American woman share a fleeting wartime bond before she leaves at dawn.
(4) “Stary profesor” – Two men seek an old professor to fulfill a dying prisoner’s last wish; Roger impersonates a former pupil.
(5) “Nauczycielka” – Neglected wife Zofia accepts film tests, only to find the director seeks an ordinary woman.
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Powrót (1960)
Character: Captain Dobek
A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965)
Character: Professor (segment 3)
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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Czarne skrzydła (1963)
Character: Kostryń, manager of 'Erazm'
The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
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Nowy (1970)
Character: Welfare Department Manager
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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Jadą goście jadą... (1962)
Character: Konstanty Nawrocki (Segment 1)
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
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Kaule (1967)
Character: Vater Pietsch
Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.
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Rok pierwszy (1960)
Character: Otryna's father
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
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Wiano (1964)
Character: Staszek's Father
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
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Pierwsze dni (1952)
Character: Stanisław Wysmyk
An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
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Chlopcy (1973)
Character: Józef Kalmita
The protagonists of the film are residents of a nursing home run by nuns. One of the nuns, Maria, wants to introduce discipline, but it is not easy. The elderly residents decide to fight for their independence. Their plans are thwarted by the departure of the leader of the rebellion. But the men will not give up so easily.
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Urząd (1969)
Character: Cardinal
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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Bardzo starzy oboje (1967)
Character: Adolf
A marriage celebrates their 50th wedding anniversary while reckoning with the tragic events of their past.
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Trzy opowieści (1953)
Character: Nowicki (segment 3)
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: Ignacy Zasada
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
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Komedie pomyłek (1968)
Character: Edward Richards / Judge
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
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Trudna miłość (1954)
Character: Nalepa, Hanka's father
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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Droga na zachód (1961)
Character: Walczak
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
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Na melinę (1981)
Character: Alojzy Szynalik
A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
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Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963)
Character: Judge (segment nr 1)
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
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Komedia z pomyłek (1967)
Character: Judge
The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
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Życie raz jeszcze (1965)
Character: Grajewski's Lawyer
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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Wesele (1973)
Character: Father
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Rejent Joachim Ostrzeński
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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Pan Anatol szuka miliona (1959)
Character: Rapaczyński
Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
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Człowiek na torze (1957)
Character: Władysław Orzechowski
One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
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Szczęściarz Antoni (1961)
Character: Opaliński
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: Machinist
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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Zezowate szczęście (1960)
Character: Prison Warden
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
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Dwie brygady (1950)
Character: Jerzy Borowicz, actor playing Franciszek Karhan
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
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Warszawska premiera (1951)
Character: Theater Records-keeper
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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Szyfry (1966)
Character: Pieczara
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
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Faraon (1966)
Character: Beroes
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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Zaduszki (1961)
Character: Skotnicki
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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Eroica. Symfonia bohaterska w dwóch częściach (1958)
Character: Polish Commandant (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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Potop (1974)
Character: Imperial envoy
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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Bolesław Śmiały (1972)
Character: Archbishop Bogumił
Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.
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Za wami pójdą inni... (1949)
Character: Antique Dealer
A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
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Ludzie Wisły (1938)
Character: Skipper Dobrziałkowski
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
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Ziemia obiecana (1975)
Character: Maks' Father
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
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Pod gwiazdą frygijską (1954)
Character: Nepomucen Lapiec
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
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