Tomasz Zaliwski

Tomasz Zaliwski

Born: December 15, 1929
Died: July 13, 2006
in Warsaw, Poland

Movies for Tomasz Zaliwski...

Fun and Games
Title: Fun and Games
Character: Edzio "Splinter"
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: Movie
In the villa of the party dignitary, the fates of Stanisław, his son's friends, Zbyszek, a worker leaving the army, and the head of the thieves' gang, cross. The film was shelved by the censors for 27 years before finally getting a limited release in 2009.
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Title: Boża podszewka. Część druga
Character: woźnica
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: TV
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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Title: The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Character: Duży
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...
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The Hexer
Title: The Hexer
Character: wójt z Blaviken
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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Wirus
Title: Wirus
Character: nowy dyrektor "Eurobanku"
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Title: The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Character: ojciec przełożony
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
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Title: Kuchnia polska
Character: pułkownik Świątek
Released: April 18, 1993
Type: TV
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1968. Happy New Year
Title: 1968. Happy New Year
Character: Colonel Świątek
Released: February 12, 1993
Type: Movie
The events concerning the March 1968 student demonstrations in Poland are seen through the eyes of young people rebelling against the government and the communist politicians trying to halt the protests.
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The Birthday Trip
Title: The Birthday Trip
Character: Stasiek, overtjener
Released: August 3, 1990
Type: Movie
When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.
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Penelopy
Title: Penelopy
Character: szyper w porcie
Released: July 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.
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Republika nadziei
Title: Republika nadziei
Character: Walerian Krogulecki (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
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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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Character: kapitan "Bartek", dowódca oddziału AL
Released: June 27, 1988
Type: Movie
WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions.
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Crumbs of War
Title: Crumbs of War
Character: Platoon leader
Released: February 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A young partisan named Derkacz is fighting in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. In order to transport the wounded commander, he takes a horse from a nearby village along with its owner, teenage Józek.
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Chrześniak
Title: Chrześniak
Character: komendant MO
Released: January 21, 1986
Type: Movie
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
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Dłużnicy Śmierci
Title: Dłużnicy Śmierci
Character: Jeżewski
Released: January 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Poland 1946. Militia looks for commander of anticommunist partisans called Grom (Thunder). It quickly comes out that militiamen have to discover a rat in their group.
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Title: Pan na Żuławach
Character: Sawicki
Released: November 24, 1985
Type: TV
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Romans z intruzem
Title: Romans z intruzem
Character: Major Wilczynski
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
End of August 1939. The Polish-German border is crossed by a German defector from the Wehrmacht, Ernst Hoffman, with the information that on August 26 at 4:45 Germany will attack Poland.
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Piętno
Title: Piętno
Character: Speaker at the funeral
Released: June 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
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Funeral Ceremony
Title: Funeral Ceremony
Released: March 6, 1985
Type: Movie
After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
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Thais
Title: Thais
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.
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Pastorale heroica
Title: Pastorale heroica
Character: dowódca leśnych
Released: January 16, 1984
Type: Movie
War film directed by Henryk Bielski.
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Przeklęta ziemia
Title: Przeklęta ziemia
Character: Jan's father
Released: October 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
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Title: Blisko, coraz bliżej
Character: Tomasz Pasternik
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: TV
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The Faithful River
Title: The Faithful River
Character: Hubert Olbromski
Released: August 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
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Katastrofa w Gibraltarze
Title: Katastrofa w Gibraltarze
Character: Tadeusz Klimecki, szef sztabu
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Uczennica
Title: Uczennica
Character: ojciec Anny
Released: August 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
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Fiasco of Operation Terror
Title: Fiasco of Operation Terror
Character: Wincenty
Released: August 10, 1981
Type: Movie
The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
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Polonia Restituta
Title: Polonia Restituta
Character: Maciej Rataj, poseł na Sejm Ustawodawczy
Released: May 18, 1981
Type: Movie
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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Zamach stanu
Title: Zamach stanu
Character: Maciej Rataj, marszałek Sejmu
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: Movie
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Title: Jeśli serce masz bijące
Character: Karol Precela
Released: January 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
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Bołdyn
Title: Bołdyn
Character: Krupicki
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Title: Dom
Character: ojciec Ewy
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: Dom
Character: ojciec Ewy Talar
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Dzień Wisły
Title: Dzień Wisły
Character: Polish Army Lieutenant
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
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Party przy świecach
Title: Party przy świecach
Character: Józef Gańko
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Full Moon
Title: Full Moon
Character: Wojtek
Released: November 13, 1979
Type: Movie
A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to live in a small community of cabins and summer homes in a lake-filled region north of Warsaw. His interactions with the villagers, including a drunkard and other eccentrics, provide an informative background for what happens next. The ex-architect's wife is a professional singer who has not abandoned the city or her life -- and she soon arrives to spend some time with her very changed husband.
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Operation
Title: Operation "Himmler"
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.
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Quiet Is the Night
Title: Quiet Is the Night
Character: Police Commander Teofil Herman
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
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The Gorgon Case
Title: The Gorgon Case
Character: Policjant
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
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Title: Polskie drogi
Character: Grządziela, kolejarz
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Death of a President
Title: Death of a President
Character: Maciej Rataj
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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Around the World with Bolek and Lolek
Title: Around the World with Bolek and Lolek
Character: Jimmy Pif-Paf / Old Priest
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts.
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Title: Trzecia granica
Released: January 27, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Dyrektorzy
Character: mężczyzna śledzący Wanada
Released: December 16, 1975
Type: TV
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The Leaves Have Fallen
Title: The Leaves Have Fallen
Character: przewodnik partyzantów, głos lektora z radia
Released: November 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Young former partisan recalls his war experience during a trip to the sea.
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Title: Droga
Character: zaziębiony kierowca MPK
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Departures, Returns
Released: March 11, 1974
Type: TV
A dramatic story about a young man entangled in complicated matters of war, conspiracy and political struggle. The action of each part of the triptych presents one day from different years. These are fictionalized experiences of an authentic participant of the Polish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation.
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Muffin
Title: Muffin
Character: Karol's father
Released: December 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Title: Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Released: August 10, 1973
Type: Movie
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Possession
Title: Possession
Character: pilot Stefan
Released: June 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.
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A Slip-Up
Title: A Slip-Up
Character: [obsada aktorska]
Released: October 17, 1972
Type: Movie
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
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Through nine bridges
Title: Through nine bridges
Character: Neighbor
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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Trochę nadziei
Title: Trochę nadziei
Character: Sanatorium Resident
Released: February 22, 1972
Type: Movie
The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.
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Signs on the Road
Title: Signs on the Road
Character: kierowca Michalak
Released: June 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Title: How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Character: Yugoslavian Officer
Released: April 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Title: The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Character: Capt. Studniarz
Released: October 7, 1969
Type: Movie
A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Eve Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
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The Neighbours
Title: The Neighbours
Character: Malina
Released: September 3, 1969
Type: Movie
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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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Character: Aristocrat
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
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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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: major LWP
Released: October 10, 1968
Type: TV
Stawka większa niż życie is a series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
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Title: Four Tank-Men and a Dog
Character: kapral podchorąży Daniel Łażewski „Magneto”
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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Zawsze w niedziele
Title: Zawsze w niedziele
Character: Jan Grochowiak ("Second Sunday")
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Three stories centered around sports.
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The Ashes
Title: The Ashes
Character: Poniatowski's Companion
Released: September 25, 1965
Type: Movie
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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Title: Podziemny front
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: TV
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Mona
Released: February 9, 1965
Type: Movie
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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The First Day of Freedom
Title: The First Day of Freedom
Character: Officer
Released: December 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Title: Two Gentlemen 'N'
Character: Staszek
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
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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Samson
Title: Samson
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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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Ostrożnie yeti
Title: Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Groom (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Attempt
Title: The Attempt
Character: Olek
Released: January 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
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Two from the Big River
Title: Two from the Big River
Character: Marian
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
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Eroica
Title: Eroica
Character: Hungarian Officer (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")
Released: January 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
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Magical Bicycle
Title: Magical Bicycle
Character: Romanian cyclist (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
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Three Stories
Title: Three Stories
Character: Jędrek (segment 2)
Released: April 24, 1953
Type: Movie
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.