Marek Walczewski

Marek Walczewski

Born: April 9, 1937
Died: May 26, 2009
in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

Movies for Marek Walczewski...

Title: Boża podszewka. Część druga
Character: Niemiec
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: TV
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Stranger
Title: Stranger
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
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King Ubu
Title: King Ubu
Character: generał
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.
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The Hexer
Title: The Hexer
Character: Eyck z Densle
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Adapted from a series of fantasy novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher tells the tale of Geralt, one of a few remaining "witchers" — traveling monster hunters for hire, gifted with unnatural powers.
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Title: Marszałek Piłsudski
Character: generał Lucjan Żeligowski, zdobywca Wilna w 1920
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: TV
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I'm Looking at You, Mary
Title: I'm Looking at You, Mary
Character: ojciec Michała
Released: May 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
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Deserter's Gold
Title: Deserter's Gold
Character: pułkownik SS
Released: December 3, 1998
Type: Movie
"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Title: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Character: Actor
Released: June 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
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Oh, oh Juliet
Title: Oh, oh Juliet
Character: Shakespeare
Released: February 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and their alternate fate had they survived the events of Shakespeare's play and grew old together.
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Les Milles
Title: Les Milles
Character: Prof. Pick
Released: August 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
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The Detective and Death
Title: The Detective and Death
Character: Hombre de Plástico
Released: September 30, 1994
Type: Movie
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other
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Conversation with a Cupboard Man
Title: Conversation with a Cupboard Man
Character: Teacher
Released: March 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.
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Two Moons
Title: Two Moons
Character: Mecenas
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
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Taranthriller
Title: Taranthriller
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Looking for a place to conduct research, docent Marek and his family move into an old villa where strange events take place.
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The Spider Women
Title: The Spider Women
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
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A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Title: A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Character: Carousel Owner Schumann
Released: January 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Stomil
Released: January 6, 1992
Type: Movie
A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and Artur's, the youngest one's efforts to reinstate rules in the house.
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Enak
Title: Enak
Character: Urzędnik Departamentu Stanu
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.
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Seychelles
Title: Seychelles
Character: Skowroński, dyrektor opery
Released: April 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
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Zmowa
Title: Zmowa
Character: VIP
Released: September 25, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Crimen
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: TV
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King Size
Title: King Size
Character: Tata Ali
Released: May 2, 1988
Type: Movie
A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
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Kill Me, Cop
Title: Kill Me, Cop
Released: June 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A Polish thriller. Central story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run (Linda) and the cop (Machalica) who put him behind the bars the first time around.
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Jeździec na ogniu
Title: Jeździec na ogniu
Character: Kazimierz Kubicki
Released: December 4, 1986
Type: Movie
Sokor, an attorney, becomes involved in a scandal. To unravel it, he asks for the help of a friend.
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Cudzoziemka
Title: Cudzoziemka
Character: Skrzypek January Bądzki, nauczyciel Róży
Released: November 17, 1986
Type: Movie
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
Title: Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
Character: Investigating officer
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.
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Gra w ślepca
Title: Gra w ślepca
Character: Staszek "Stary"
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Vabank II
Title: Vabank II
Character: Twardijewicz, naczelnik więzienia na Sikawie
Released: May 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Title: O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Character: Soft's Superior
Released: January 28, 1985
Type: Movie
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...
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I Died So I Could Live
Title: I Died So I Could Live
Character: doctor in Pawiak
Released: September 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
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Hania
Title: Hania
Character: stary Mirza, ojciec Selima
Released: June 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Issa Valley
Title: The Issa Valley
Character: czarownik Masiulis
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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Title: Do krwi ostatniej
Character: generał Władysław Anders
Released: November 21, 1981
Type: TV
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Title: The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Character: Committee Receptionist
Released: November 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The Martians have landed and they're not to be feared! Or at least that's what TV personality Iron Idem has been telling people. Soon after their arrival, his apartment is ransacked and his wife kidnapped. He's tagged like a wild animal and his nightly scripts are being changed. What Idem's eyes are seeing no longer matches what he tells audiences night after night.
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Chance Meeting on the Atlantic
Title: Chance Meeting on the Atlantic
Character: Walter
Released: September 11, 1980
Type: Movie
Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a Polish doctor with a heart condition meeting a man he knew before. Neither of them was willing to admit their differences from the college days. The meeting torments the doctor enough to start him drinking and dying of a heart attack.
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Golem
Title: Golem
Character: Pernat
Released: March 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
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To the Last Drop of Blood
Title: To the Last Drop of Blood
Character: generał Władysław Anders
Released: October 27, 1978
Type: Movie
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Title: Ziemia obiecana
Character: Bum-Bum
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Włodzimierz Daleniecki
Released: February 26, 1978
Type: TV
Nights and Days is 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 Dąbrowska 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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Title: Polskie drogi
Character: Henryk Gorączko, agent Abwehry
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Death of a President
Title: Death of a President
Character: Eligiusz Niewiadomski
Released: October 10, 1977
Type: Movie
After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
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At the Height of Summer
Title: At the Height of Summer
Character: Dlugonos
Released: April 28, 1976
Type: Movie
A married couple from the city goes to a lodge for the summer. Despite the idyllic surroundings, the woman is more and more anxious. The locals tell the story of a sunken tourist, the husband ignores his wife's growing fear. Meanwhile, a stranger comes to the house.
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Title: Trzecia granica
Character: major Smyga
Released: January 27, 1976
Type: TV
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Daleniecki
Released: September 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzenska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Baranska) and Bogumil Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Binczycki) 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. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.
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Dom moich synów
Title: Dom moich synów
Character: Wiktor Górecki, syn Jadwigi
Released: September 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A single woman goes to Warsaw to consult her children about an offer she received.
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The Story of Sin
Title: The Story of Sin
Character: Bandyta Płaza-Spławski, wspólnik Pochronia
Released: June 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Character: Bum-Bum
Released: February 21, 1975
Type: Movie
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of 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 shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
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Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Title: Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Released: December 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.
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Niemcy
Title: Niemcy
Character: Joachim
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German citizens, and their greater humanitarian sensibilities, the family is divided in how to deal with Joachim's presence.
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Host
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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The Third Part of the Night
Title: The Third Part of the Night
Character: Rozenkranc
Released: January 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
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Shifting Sands
Title: Shifting Sands
Character: Grzegorz's father
Released: April 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A 12-year-old boy (Gregorz Zuchowicz) and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her boyfriend after a quarrel, the father invites her along on the trip. The boy's hopes of a father-and-son retreat are shattered when it becomes obvious dad is after more than fish. The girl's boyfriend finally returns for the girl as the son watches the two men face off from his position above on a sand dune. Sadly, the boy goes off by himself to fish while his father is busy with other things in this drama of a boy's realization of the harsh realities of the adult world.
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Passenger
Title: Passenger
Character: Tadeusz
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
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Upiór
Title: Upiór
Character: Lord Rutwen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A television adaptation of Charles Nodier's play about vampyre Ruthven
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Title: 13 posterunek
Character: Stepien
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV