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Seksolatki (1972)
Character: Tomek's Mother
Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them.
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Samson (1961)
Character: Guest at Lucyna's Party (uncredited)
The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Wakacje w Amsterdamie (1986)
Character: Professor
The film tells the trials and tribulations of marriage Kosińskich, which breaks down as a result of his wife travel to work abroad in Amsterdam. The woman extends her stay in the Netherlands, and eventually divorces her husband Paul. In parting, their deprived son Michael looses both parents, and is forced to be present in court for divorce hearings and sent to child care services.
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Ambulans (1961)
Character: SS-man (uncredited)
In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.
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Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona (1977)
Character: delegat
The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.
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Rachunek sumienia (1964)
Character: Andrzej Kozłowski
The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
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Republika nadziei (1988)
Character: Student's father
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
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Wraki (1957)
Character: Antoni Barnat
Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.
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Król Maciuś I (1958)
Character: Felek's uncle
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
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Zwycięstwo (1975)
Character: pułkownik
This film was created by combining and shortening the films Kierunek Berlin (Destination Berlin) and Ostatnie dni (The Last Days). It presents the final phase of the great offensive of 1945, which ended with the capture of Berlin, from the perspective of a private soldier of the First Polish Army.
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Zamach stanu (1981)
Character: Ignacy Mościcki, prezydent RP
Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.
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Polonia Restituta (1981)
Character: Ignacy Daszyński, premier rządu lubelskiego
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
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Sąsiedzi (1969)
Character: Scout Leader
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
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Prom (1970)
Character: Soldier On Ferry (uncredited)
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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Ich dzień powszedni (1963)
Character: Doctor
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Powrót do Polski (1988)
Character: Newspaper Editor
Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.
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Dwaj panowie 'N' (1962)
Character: Stefan
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
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Zapalniczka (1970)
Character: Major Szletyński
A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.
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Profesor na drodze (1973)
Character: Kucharski
Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas.
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Kierunek Berlin (1969)
Character: Colonel
Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (1961)
Character: Charles (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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Wielka, większa i największa (1963)
Character: Policeman Arresting Kidnappers (uncredited)
A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet.
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Gdzie jest trzeci król? (1967)
Character: Captain Półtorak
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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Historia żółtej ciżemki (1961)
Character: Man looking at the Inn Rooster (uncredited)
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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Westerplatte (1967)
Character: Sgt. Kazimierz Rasiński, Radio Operator
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: Captain Walek
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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Kryptonim Nektar (1963)
Character: MO Captain (uncredited)
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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Głos z tamtego świata (1962)
Character: Man at a Seance (uncredited)
A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.
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Głos z tamtego świata (1962)
Character: Militiaman (voice) (uncredited)
A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.
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Łuk Erosa (1988)
Character: Karowski
Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest much when is seduced by the husband's friend, a seedy professor with sickly wife and other mistresses on the side. However, the love of Maryska's life turns out to be a shy 17-year old, son of friends with whom she goes to stay.
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Trędowata (1976)
Character: Stefcia's Father
A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
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Echo (1964)
Character: Gymnastics Teacher
It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
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O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc (1962)
Character: N/A
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
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Lekarstwo na miłość (1966)
Character: Militia Lieutenant
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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Gdzie jest generał... (1964)
Character: Col. Dzierzbicki
Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
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Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz. 3 - Wśród swoich (1970)
Character: Resistance Squad Leader (uncredited)
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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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
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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Ostatnie dni (1969)
Character: Colonel
As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
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Marysia i Napoleon (1966)
Character: Gardener / Domagalski
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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Popioły (1965)
Character: Michcik
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
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Pod gwiazdą frygijską (1954)
Character: Jan Gawlikowski
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
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Celuloza (1954)
Character: Jan Gawlikowski
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
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