Barbara Rachwalska

Barbara Rachwalska

Born: April 13, 1922
Died: December 23, 1993
in Warsaw, Poland

Movies for Barbara Rachwalska...

Controlled Conversations
Title: Controlled Conversations
Character: Jarząbek's Aunt
Released: December 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
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Boczny tor
Title: Boczny tor
Character: Jadwiga
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
Old couple dreams about a cruise.
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
Title: And the Violins Stopped Playing
Character: Ms. Stefa
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
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Freelancer
Title: Freelancer
Character: Mrs Wisłocka
Released: October 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother.
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Title: Alternatywy 4
Character: Tekla Wagnerówna
Released: September 30, 1986
Type: TV
Alternatywy 4 was a Polish comedy TV series that was finished in 1983. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in Alternatywy 4 was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.
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Title: Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
Character: "ciocia" Aniela Halicka, gospodyni Tyszowskich
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: TV
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Woman in a Hat
Title: Woman in a Hat
Character: old woman
Released: September 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
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Fucha
Title: Fucha
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
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Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
Title: Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
Character: Aniela Halicka
Released: January 7, 1985
Type: Movie
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Pensja pani Latter
Title: Pensja pani Latter
Character: Marta, służąca na pensji pani Latter
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: matka Ernesta
Released: January 17, 1983
Type: Movie
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Uczennica
Title: Uczennica
Character: Maria Fernikowa, babcia 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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The Haunted
Title: The Haunted
Character: Matka Romusia
Released: July 25, 1982
Type: Movie
1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
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Carmilla
Title: Carmilla
Character: Madame Perrodon
Released: November 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
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Title: Dom
Character: Maria Talar, matka Andrzeja, Bronka i Leszka
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Cham
Title: Cham
Released: April 22, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: "Ty pójdziesz górą..." (Eliza Orzeszkowa)
Character: chłopka (nie występuje w napisach)
Released: March 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series
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Party przy świecach
Title: Party przy świecach
Character: Gańkowa
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Provincial Actors
Title: Provincial Actors
Character: Stasiakowa
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Julka
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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Józia - Die Tochter der Delegierten
Title: Józia - Die Tochter der Delegierten
Character: Gołąbowa
Released: May 22, 1977
Type: Movie
1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to the neighbors after Józia visits her relatives in the country. But 10 days can be an eternity for a small child.
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Faust
Title: Faust
Character: Troska
Released: June 14, 1976
Type: Movie
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Kazimierz Wielki
Title: Kazimierz Wielki
Character: Nurse
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
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Zawodowcy
Title: Zawodowcy
Character: sklepowa (w napisach Barbara Rachwalska-Pawlicka)
Released: November 14, 1975
Type: Movie
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Jadwiga Ostrzeńska
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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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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Title: Janosik
Released: July 26, 1974
Type: TV
Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
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The Peasants
Title: The Peasants
Character: Płoszkowa (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1973
Type: Movie
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
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The Gift of the Magi
Title: The Gift of the Magi
Character: mleczarka
Released: December 23, 1972
Type: Movie
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Obcy w lesie
Title: Obcy w lesie
Released: March 22, 1972
Type: Movie
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Title: Doktor Ewa
Character: Pierzchałowa
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: TV
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Piąta rano
Title: Piąta rano
Character: kwiaciarka; nie występuje w napisach
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
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Nowy
Title: Nowy
Character: kierowniczka działu zatrudnienia w Powiatowej Radzie Narodowej
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: gospodyni Berta
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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When Love Was a Crime
Title: When Love Was a Crime
Character: Commission Member
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
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Sposób bycia
Title: Sposób bycia
Character: Accountant
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
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The Holy War
Title: The Holy War
Character: Kukułkowa
Released: November 16, 1965
Type: Movie
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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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Title: Trzy kroki po ziemi
Character: Village Woman (segment 2)
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Three stories about life problems.
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Córeczka
Title: Córeczka
Character: Kacprowa
Released: July 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
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Beata
Title: Beata
Character: Doctor
Released: January 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
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Interrupted Flight
Title: Interrupted Flight
Character: Piotrowska
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
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Kryptonim Nektar
Title: Kryptonim Nektar
Character: Opera Director
Released: October 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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Skąpani w ogniu
Title: Skąpani w ogniu
Character: Widowed Repatriate (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
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Jadą goście jadą...
Title: Jadą goście jadą...
Character: Anielcia (Segment 3)
Released: September 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
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Drugi brzeg
Title: Drugi brzeg
Character: Parolowa (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
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Komedianty
Title: Komedianty
Character: Jagielska, Dziunia's mother
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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Birth Certificate
Title: Birth Certificate
Character: Woman from the Forester
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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It Started Yesterday
Title: It Started Yesterday
Character: Albinowska (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
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Tysiąc talarów
Title: Tysiąc talarów
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1960
Type: Movie
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Argument About Basia
Title: Argument About Basia
Character: Magdzia (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
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Ostatni strzał
Title: Ostatni strzał
Character: Woman in Line (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.
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Two from the Big River
Title: Two from the Big River
Character: Luszka Szawczukowa
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
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Free City
Title: Free City
Character: Barcikowska
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Król Maciuś I
Title: Król Maciuś I
Character: Corrupt woman (uncredited)
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: Workers' Hotel Manager (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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Koniec nocy
Title: Koniec nocy
Character: Mały's Mother
Released: December 21, 1957
Type: Movie
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
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Two Hours
Title: Two Hours
Character: Woman at the train station (uncredited)
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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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Title: Kapelusz pana Anatola
Character: Bribed Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
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Trzy starty
Title: Trzy starty
Character: Mother
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
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Uczta Baltazara
Title: Uczta Baltazara
Character: Priest's Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
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Adventure in Marienstadt
Title: Adventure in Marienstadt
Character: Aniela Rębaczowa
Released: January 25, 1954
Type: Movie
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: Diana's Wetnurse (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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Gromada
Title: Gromada
Character: Magda
Released: April 29, 1952
Type: Movie
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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The Last Stage
Title: The Last Stage
Character: Block Leader Elza
Released: March 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.
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Jasne łany
Title: Jasne łany
Character: Maria Ruczajowa
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.