Hanna Skarżanka

Hanna Skarżanka

Born: March 8, 1917
Died: November 8, 1992
in Mińsk, Imperium Rosyjskie (obecnie Białoruś)

Movies for Hanna Skarżanka...

Title: Panny i wdowy
Character: ciotka Edwarda
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: TV
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Femina
Title: Femina
Character: Gabriela
Released: February 19, 1991
Type: Movie
The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a voyage in time, during which she relives the memories of her idyllic childhood.
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March Caresses
Title: March Caresses
Character: Dyrektorka liceum
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Some of them were forced to leave their country for having Jewish origin. And for political reasons.
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Wherever You Are...
Title: Wherever You Are...
Character: Boarding-house owner
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
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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My Mother's Lovers
Title: My Mother's Lovers
Character: Mrs. Lena
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very mature son.
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
Title: A Year of the Quiet Sun
Character: matka Emilii
Released: September 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
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Soból i panna
Title: Soból i panna
Character: Gość baronostwa
Released: March 9, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Issa Valley
Title: The Issa Valley
Character: Bukowska, matka Romualda, Dionizego i Wiktora
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: Movie
The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.
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Teddy Bear
Title: Teddy Bear
Character: Cleaning Lady
Released: May 4, 1981
Type: Movie
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
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The Birthday
Title: The Birthday
Character: babcia Jerzego
Released: September 23, 1980
Type: Movie
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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Nightmares
Title: Nightmares
Character: Mikołaj's Grandmother
Released: April 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Title: What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Character: Janitor
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
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Rekolekcje
Title: Rekolekcje
Character: Marek's Mother
Released: April 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.
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Red Thorns
Title: Red Thorns
Character: Duchess
Released: January 20, 1977
Type: Movie
A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
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Doctor Judym
Title: Doctor Judym
Released: October 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Klimina
Released: January 9, 1973
Type: Movie
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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Żółw
Title: Żółw
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Rafał is suspected of killing a turtle that fell out of the balcony.
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Journey for One Smile
Title: Journey for One Smile
Character: Hostess
Released: March 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.
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Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka
Title: Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka
Character: Rozyna, służąca żony Mazzea
Released: December 26, 1971
Type: Movie
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November Day
Title: November Day
Character: Matka Karola
Released: April 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Karol lives alone in the forester's lodge. Unexpectedly, he is visited by his mother whom he has not seen for years.
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Wezwanie
Title: Wezwanie
Character: Jadwiga Zawadowa
Released: March 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A young farm boy spends his days dreaming and making totem-pole like sculptures out of wood. His brother is a go-getter: studies agricultural engineering, comes back with diploma to marry the pretty girl next door. The dreamer graces puts his sculptures around, invoking anger of his father and ridicule of the peasants who find him useless. During the brother's wedding he sets his totems ablaze. He makes a pass at his new sister-in-law, but returns to his own reveries. In the end he hears a call to bring a log out of the marshes, but during the escapade sinks into the bog.
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Pejzaż z bohaterem
Title: Pejzaż z bohaterem
Character: Wałaszkowa, gospodyni Wilczewskiego w miasteczku
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
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Hunting Flies
Title: Hunting Flies
Character: Włada
Released: August 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Włodek is a young man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
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Matthew's Days
Title: Matthew's Days
Character: Hostess
Released: February 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
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Title: Four Tank-Men and a Dog
Character: Natasza
Released: May 9, 1966
Type: TV
Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.
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Agnes 1946
Title: Agnes 1946
Character: Loda Przywłocka
Released: November 24, 1964
Type: Movie
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
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The Law and the Fist
Title: The Law and the Fist
Character: Barbara Dubikowska
Released: September 14, 1964
Type: Movie
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
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Ubranie prawie nowe
Title: Ubranie prawie nowe
Character: Róża Genowefa Binkowska
Released: April 30, 1964
Type: Movie
After years of working in the city, Róża returns to the countryside. The property she has accumulated draws the attention of local bachelors.
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Komedianty
Title: Komedianty
Character: Director
Released: February 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
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Little Hamlet
Title: Little Hamlet
Character: Female Boss
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
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Farewells
Title: Farewells
Character: Maryna
Released: October 13, 1958
Type: Movie
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
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Two Hours
Title: Two Hours
Character: Teresa
Released: December 9, 1957
Type: Movie
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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Warszawska syrena
Title: Warszawska syrena
Character: Kobylicha
Released: July 20, 1956
Type: Movie
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A Generation
Title: A Generation
Character: Antoniowa
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
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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Five from Barska Street
Title: Five from Barska Street
Character: Judge
Released: February 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: Spanish Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
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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Young Chopin
Title: Young Chopin
Character: Parisian Worker
Released: March 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.