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Ленин в Польше (1966)
Character: Prison Guard
The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
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Sonata marymoncka (1988)
Character: Cloakroom Attendant
Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
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Rzeczywistość (1961)
Character: "Loyola"
The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
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Pies (1979)
Character: N/A
The short film takes place on the set of a costume drama. The main character is an extra—one of the soldiers climbing a pile of earth in full uniform. The emaciated man steals a hare, for which he is fired from his job. The director believes that he could only play dead people. The former extra lives with a wanted criminal and a stray dog. When the men are ready to throw out the dog, which they have to feed, the director decides to hire him for the film.
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Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
Character: Cabman
Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.
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Pieklo i niebo (1966)
Character: Joy (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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Zawsze w niedziele (1966)
Character: Balak ("First Sunday")
Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.
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Święta wojna (1965)
Character: Miner
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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Poradnik matrymonialny (1968)
Character: Barman
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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Zátah (1986)
Character: N/A
A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a long time, even managing to infiltrate Polish territory. They head for the coast, from where they intend to transport themselves to Sweden. But the Polish security authorities are vigilant.
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Podhale w ogniu (1956)
Character: Dziedziała
Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.
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Mleczna droga (1991)
Character: Old Man
An elderly man looks to a mysterious old woman to help him regain his youth, but the woman has her own agenda.
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Przygoda Stasia (1970)
Character: The Organist
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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Pogotowie przyjedzie (1983)
Character: Handyman fixing the bathroom (voice) (uncredited)
After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.
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Padalce (1974)
Character: Peasant
An old farmer comes into conflict with his daughter and son-in-law, who value the teaching profession more than farming.
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Niedaleko Warszawy (1954)
Character: Borucki "Jarząb"
Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
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Pełnia nad głowami (1983)
Character: Rzęsa
Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
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Komedie pomyłek (1968)
Character: Citizen (segment "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg")
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
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Zacne grzechy (1963)
Character: Instigator
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Marsjanie (1967)
Character: Barker
Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
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Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru (1958)
Character: Stationmaster / "Arkadia" Director (voice) (uncredited)
A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
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Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice (1989)
Character: Popijaniec
A Polish criminalist specialises in various historical mysteries. He is aided by a miraculous car, with the help of which he also reaches Prague, where he unravels ancient cabalistic mysteries.
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Kolysanka (1986)
Character: Priest
The movie consists of three novellas, the events of which take place during World War II. The first, "White Daisies", tells how a Polish priest saves a Jewish boy who survived a mass shooting. Another movie story, "Desolation," is about a ghetto boy in love who must, by all means, bring wildflowers to his beloved. The third novel, "The Cuckoo's Prediction," is about a prisoner who escapes from a POW camp. He escapes after his bunkmate tells him that he heard him speaking Yiddish in his sleep.
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Kryptonim Nektar (1963)
Character: Fagas' Friend
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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Proszę słonia (1978)
Character: Dominik (voice)
Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures.
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Stajnia na Salvatorze (1967)
Character: Daniec
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: Magician Barnaba Starski
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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Noce i dnie (1975)
Character: Jozafat
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: Thief from Grójec
Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
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Sobótki (1966)
Character: Stationmaster
Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
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Piątka z ulicy Barskiej (1954)
Character: Bricklayer Wojciechowski
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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Placówka (1979)
Character: mayor
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
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Pierścień i róża (1987)
Character: N/A
A messenger of King Padella arrives at the castle of King Valoroz XXIV of Paflagonia. He announces the arrival of Prince Bulba, who wants to ask for the hand of Princess Angelica. Lulejko, Valoroz's nephew and rightful ruler, lies in a fever. He is cared for by his maid Rózia, who secretly has a crush on the prince. But he is already engaged to Angelika, so he does not understand Bulba's efforts to win her hand. When Angelika throws away the ring she received from Luleika, it turns out that she owed the gem her beauty. Meanwhile, the ugly Gburia-Furia finds the ring.
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Koniec sezonu na lody (1988)
Character: Maciejewski
The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
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Walet pikowy (1960)
Character: Grant
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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Fucha (1985)
Character: N/A
Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.
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Warszawska premiera (1951)
Character: Sculptor
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz. 1 - Ucieczka (1970)
Character: Innkeeper (uncredited)
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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Gromada (1952)
Character: Stangret
The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
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O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc (1962)
Character: Wojciech, Father of Jacek i Placek
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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Łabędzi śpiew (1988)
Character: Cactus Lover
After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea…
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Kłopotliwy gość (1971)
Character: PZU Agent
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Aria dla atlety (1979)
Character: dubbing roli odgrywanej przez Witolda Dederki
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
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Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (1973)
Character: Szloma
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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Janosik (1974)
Character: Gąsienica, przybrany ojciec Janosika
In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants.
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Pokolenie (1955)
Character: Grzesio
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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Ewa chce spać (1958)
Character: Leon 'Ptuszko' Pistynek
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
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Siekierezada (1986)
Character: N/A
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
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Big Bang (1986)
Character: Mietek Wroński
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
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Lalka (1968)
Character: Krzeszowski'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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Krzyżacy (1960)
Character: Mikołaj of Dlugolas
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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Daens (1992)
Character: Man beside Nini's Corpse
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
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Pigułki dla Aurelii (1958)
Character: Artist
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Factory Manager
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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Pod gwiazdą frygijską (1954)
Character: Perehubka
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: Ferryman
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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