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Baza ludzi umarłych (1959)
Character: Mechanic
In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
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Prognoza pogody (1983)
Character: Meeting participant (uncredited)
When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.
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Banda (1965)
Character: Militiaman on a Train
A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation.
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Cierpkie głogi (1966)
Character: Technician
A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.
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Trzy starty (1955)
Character: Gienek
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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Czarne skrzydła (1963)
Character: Koza, trade-union secretary
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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Gorąca linia (1965)
Character: Cashier
Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.
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Obok prawdy (1965)
Character: Łopot's Neighbour
After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
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Mansarda (1963)
Character: Player (uncredited)
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
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Szklana góra (1960)
Character: Miner (uncredited)
A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
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Zemsta (1957)
Character: Maciej Miętus
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
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Tysiąc talarów (1960)
Character: Militiaman (uncredited)
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Święta wojna (1965)
Character: Fan
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
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Wraki (1957)
Character: Radiotelegraphist
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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Kopernik (1973)
Character: Jester
A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
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Jeśli serce masz bijące (1981)
Character: Train conductor (uncredited)
A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
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Kwiecień (1961)
Character: Soldier escorting Anklewicz (uncredited)
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
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Ciemna rzeka (1974)
Character: Delegate (uncredited)
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
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Przygoda Stasia (1970)
Character: Jew (uncredited)
The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.
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Piekło i niebo (1966)
Character: Bus Conductor (uncredited)
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: Butler (segment "A Husband Under The Bed") (uncredited)
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
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Stawka większa niż życie cz. V (1969)
Character: Wasiak ("Edyta") (uncredited)
The fifth of the six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 14 and 15.
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Profesor na drodze (1973)
Character: Franciszek Kowalski (uncredited)
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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Honor dziecka (1976)
Character: N/A
There has been a secret relationship between the nephew of the ordinate - Jan, and his older cousin Xymena. However, Jan falls in love with the foster daughter of the ordinate, the young Krystyna. The ordinate does not consent to marriage, because Krystyna is his illegitimate daughter, and thus Jan's cousin. But it turns out that Jan is not the son of the general's brother ...
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Kwestia sumienia (1969)
Character: Union Soldier (uncredited)
During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
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Westerplatte (1967)
Character: Sgt. Wojciech Najsarek, Station-Master
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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Wolne miasto (1958)
Character: Polish Postman
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Orzeł (1959)
Character: Mate Baczek
Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
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Kryptonim Nektar (1963)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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Życie raz jeszcze (1965)
Character: Store Owner (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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Stajnia na Salvatorze (1967)
Character: Man in Michał's Apartment (uncredited)
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
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Inspekcja pana Anatola (1959)
Character: Jury Member (uncredited)
PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers.
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Don Gabriel (1966)
Character: Tomicki's Assistant (uncredited)
The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
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Szczęściarz Antoni (1961)
Character: Electrician
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: (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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Czas przeszły (1961)
Character: Court Member (uncredited)
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
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Pociąg (1959)
Character: Plainclothes Militiaman
Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
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Echo (1964)
Character: Pawiak Prisoner (uncredited)
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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Dom bez okien (1962)
Character: Helper (uncredited)
All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Projectionist (uncredited)
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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Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz. 1 - Ucieczka (1970)
Character: Stoker
On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.
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Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Character: "Pod Strzelbą" client (uncredited)
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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O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc (1962)
Character: Brigand 'Kartofel' (uncredited)
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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Hubal (1973)
Character: Hubal's Soldier
Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.
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Złote koło (1971)
Character: Waiter
An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
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Bokser (1967)
Character: Waiter Kazio
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
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Lalka (1968)
Character: Wokulski's Butler
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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Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (1973)
Character: Majordomo in Panopticon
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
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Katarynka (1968)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
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Gdzie jest generał... (1964)
Character: Polish Soldier
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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Pieczone gołąbki (1966)
Character: Józef Balcerzak
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Zwariowana noc (1967)
Character: Cook Szymon (uncredited)
Three Polish resistance fighters hide in an old castle inhabitated by an old baroness and her relatives.
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Mąż pod łóżkiem (1970)
Character: Butler (uncredited)
A jealous husband follows his wife, but accidentally ends up in a strange apartment.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Rubber Gaskets Seller
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
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Ogniomistrz Kaleń (1961)
Character: Lieutenant Matula
The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
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