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W zawieszeniu (1987)
Character: Ruczynski
Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with his child and has the baby out of the wedlock. Despite the hardships and gossip she holds much better than he. In 1956 when the political climate changes, he resurfaces and is arrested, but then acquitted by the court.
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Naprawdę wczoraj (1963)
Character: Nowak
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
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Spotkanie w 'Bajce' (1962)
Character: Wiktor
"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.
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Dwie godziny (1957)
Character: A Lady's companion in "Kolorowa" (uncredited)
Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
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Stracona noc (1974)
Character: Wacław
A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the severely run-down estate himself since his mother's death.
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Sposób bycia (1966)
Character: Protagonist
A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
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Powrót (1960)
Character: Jurek 'Gray'
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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Jasne łany (1947)
Character: Leśniewski
A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
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Poradnik matrymonialny (1968)
Character: Dr. Bogumił
Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was taken to the hospital, where he is looked after by his sister Krystyna.
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Warszawa 1956 (1956)
Character: Narrator
Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.
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Kierunek - Nowa Huta! (1951)
Character: Narrator (voice)
This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.
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Kolejarskie słowo (1953)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works. They’re doing their best to arrive on time.
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Dzieci Oskarzaja (1956)
Character: Narrator (voice)
One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden from viewers behind the façade of socialist realist productions until the mid-1950s. The subject of the film are the effects of alcoholism, whose innocent victims are children.
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Czy jesteś wśród nich?! (1954)
Character: Narrator (voice)
This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitting on the street, housewives wasting water, teenagers destroying sockets, passengers storming buses without paying attention to others, pedestrians devastating greenery in the city. Are you one of them?
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Do redakcji nadszedł list (1950)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the socialist-realist convention imposed on Polish cinema in 1949, in which all elements of the film structure were subordinated to the persuasive function.
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Mazowsze (1951)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble recorded at its headquarters – the palace in Karolina (a part of the village of Otrębusy near Warsaw). The repertoire includes: Bandoska, Kukułeczka, Pod borem and dances such as: oberek, olender.
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Nowa Sztuka (1950)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1950. Makarczynski’s film is a typical example of a socialist realism documentary, realized in accordance with the instructions that had been presented to the filmmakers during the Wisla 1949 summit.
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Pokój zdobędzie świat (1951)
Character: Narrator (voice)
This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England, was the initial location of the event, however, it was transferred to the capital of Poland at the very last moment.
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Listy z Wietnamu (1956)
Character: Narrator (voice)
In 1955, the team of the Polish Film Chronicle documented life in communist Vietnam for almost half a year. There was an opportunity to do so, as Poles were a part of the international commission supervising the implementation of the Geneva provisions.
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Ślubujemy (1952)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of the event was the solemn oath of the youth of the Polish People's Republic. It took place on the 22nd of July 1952 – the day of the adoption of the constitution of the Polish People's Republic.
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Walcownia (1956)
Character: Narrator (voice)
In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to operate. The viewers could see the final preparations and the launch of the machine.
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Jarzębina czerwona (1970)
Character: Lieutenant Gorczyński
The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
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From a Far Country (1981)
Character: German Officer
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
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Wherever You Are... (1988)
Character: Hulanicki
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
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Urodziny młodego warszawiaka (1980)
Character: Stanisław Bielecki
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
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Żołnierz zwycięstwa (1953)
Character: John Lane
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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Poczmistrz (1968)
Character: Count Miński
Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.
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Klub szachistów (1967)
Character: Wacław Urbin
Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members.
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Cześć kapitanie (1968)
Character: Spy
A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
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Uwaga, chuligani! (1955)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.
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Gdańska opowieść (1953)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The protagonist of this documentary is Gdańsk and its history. The story begins on the shore of the Baltic Sea, in a Pomeranian town on the European Amber Road. It ends in the contemporary Gdańsk Shipyard.
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Pamiętnik pani Hanki (1963)
Character: Jacek Renowicki
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (1961)
Character: Piotr
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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Szach i mat! (1967)
Character: Bartolomeo
Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
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Epilog norymberski (1971)
Character: Robert H. Jackson / Narrator (voice)
Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
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Kwestia sumienia (1969)
Character: Captain Parrol Hartroy
During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
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Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a (1968)
Character: Lord Artur Savile
The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible.
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Świat grozy (1968)
Character: Artur Savile (segment "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime")
Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically.
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Gdzie jest trzeci król? (1967)
Character: Captain Stefan Berent
Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
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Mistrz (1966)
Character: Dr. Roman Kawski
A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.
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Lekarstwo na miłość (1966)
Character: Andrzej
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
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Debiutantka (1982)
Character: Jerzy
Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.
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Życie raz jeszcze (1965)
Character: Piotr Grajewski
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: Poet
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. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
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Makbet (1969)
Character: King Duncan
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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Domek z kart (1954)
Character: Mayor
August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.
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Dwie brygady (1950)
Character: Stanisz, actor playing Lojza
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
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Pan Tadeusz (1999)
Character: Priest
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
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Wszystko na sprzedaż (1969)
Character: Andrzej
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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Mistrz tańca (1969)
Character: Dance Master
A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.
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Panny z Wilka (1979)
Character: Doctor
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
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Salto (1965)
Character: Pietuch
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
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Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977)
Character: Kulczycki, sędzia śledczy
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
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Zakazane piosenki (1947)
Character: Violinist's Executioner
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
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Dziewczeta z Nowolipek (1986)
Character: Professor
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
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Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag (1972)
Character: Afraniusz
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.
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Lalka (1968)
Character: Kazimierz Starski
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko (1972)
Character: Andrzej
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
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Zazdrość i medycyna (1973)
Character: Dr. Tamten
In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.
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Stan posiadania (1989)
Character: Tomek's Father
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
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Miasto nieujarzmione - Robinson warszawski (1950)
Character: SS Officer
Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
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Ziemia obiecana (1975)
Character: Trawiński
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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