Zbigniew Skowroński

Zbigniew Skowroński

Born: August 24, 1909
Died: March 1, 1985
in Skarżysko-Kamienna, świętokrzyskie, Polska

Movies for Zbigniew Skowroński...

Powrót
Title: Powrót
Character: Antek
Released: April 30, 1991
Type: Movie
A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991.
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The Contract
Title: The Contract
Released: November 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
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Mała sprawa
Title: Mała sprawa
Character: Worker
Released: September 24, 1980
Type: Movie
A few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must be prepared to show the guest how well the place is being managed.
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Quiet Is the Night
Title: Quiet Is the Night
Character: Waiter
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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Man - Woman Wanted
Title: Man - Woman Wanted
Released: April 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he has to work for some time, of course, as a woman. He gets a job as a domestic helper. However, he has no luck with employers.
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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: Barkeeper
Released: September 19, 1966
Type: Movie
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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A Cure for Love
Title: A Cure for Love
Character: Bank Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1966
Type: Movie
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
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Lenin in Poland
Title: Lenin in Poland
Character: Matyszczuk
Released: April 8, 1966
Type: Movie
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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Title: Podziemny front
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: TV
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Birth Certificate
Title: Birth Certificate
Character: Man in the Street
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
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Knights of the Teutonic Order
Title: Knights of the Teutonic Order
Character: Tolima
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
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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Two from the Big River
Title: Two from the Big River
Character: Skipper Capok
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
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Ashes and Diamonds
Title: Ashes and Diamonds
Character: Slomka
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
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Król Maciuś I
Title: Król Maciuś I
Character: King Bum-drum
Released: April 8, 1958
Type: Movie
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Title: Ewa Wants to Sleep
Character: Road Worker (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1958
Type: Movie
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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Zemsta
Title: Zemsta
Character: Michał Kafar
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: Movie
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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Shadow
Title: Shadow
Character: Underground Soldier
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
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Under the Phrygian Star
Title: Under the Phrygian Star
Character: MP Roman Korbal
Released: October 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
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Cellulose
Title: Cellulose
Character: Roman Korbal
Released: April 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Title: The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Character: Froncek
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
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Sprawa do załatwienia
Title: Sprawa do załatwienia
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: Soldier (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: Craftsman (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
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Załoga
Title: Załoga
Character: Commander Michalski
Released: January 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Antek is an inexperienced seaman favored by his teachers. On his first trip to the sea he learns the hardships of the work and almost causes a tragedy.
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The Lonely House
Title: The Lonely House
Character: Jan
Released: March 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Basia and her aunt live in peace far away from war efforts. One day that peace is shattered when a concentration camp prisoner, a communist activist seeks refuge in their house.
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Devil's Ravine
Title: Devil's Ravine
Character: Felek
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West. Highlander Jasiek used to be a smuggler, now he is a soldier of the Border Protection Forces, serving in his homeland, in the Tatra Mountains. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors, as well as his love for Halka, he becomes a righteous citizen. He contributes to preventing the smuggling of valuable works of art abroad organized by a Polish aristocrat and carried out by a gang.
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The Steel Hearts
Title: The Steel Hearts
Character: Watchman
Released: May 10, 1948
Type: Movie
In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine. The going will be tough as the place is closely guarded by the Nazis. But despite a denunciation from a traitor and several violent deaths, they get going and the operation is a success. But the Red Army is approaching and now the coal production must not be sabotaged anymore. On the contrary, the partisans must prevent the Germans from destroying the steel mill and the coal mine...
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Ślepy tor
Title: Ślepy tor
Character: Antek
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A mother is looking for a missing child with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp.
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Forbidden Songs
Title: Forbidden Songs
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.