Henryk Machalica

Henryk Machalica

Born: June 18, 1930
Died: November 1, 2003
in Chybie k. Cieszyna, śląskie, Polska

Movies for Henryk Machalica...

Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
Title: Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
Character: Dionizy Złotopolski
Released: December 24, 1999
Type: Movie
A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
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Deserter's Gold
Title: Deserter's Gold
Character: hrabia
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 Book of Great Wishes
Title: The Book of Great Wishes
Character: Henryk Rychter
Released: December 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
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The Story About Master Twardowski
Title: The Story About Master Twardowski
Character: król Zygmunt August
Released: March 11, 1996
Type: Movie
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Squadron
Title: Squadron
Character: dowódca kosynierów
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
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Title: Pogranicze w ogniu
Character: profesor Strauss
Released: August 31, 1992
Type: TV
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An Immoral Story
Title: An Immoral Story
Character: Aktor na próbie "Antygony"
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
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Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Title: Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Character: Teść Piotra
Released: February 12, 1990
Type: Movie
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Alchemik
Title: Alchemik
Character: Vasari
Released: October 7, 1989
Type: Movie
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.
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Nocny gość
Title: Nocny gość
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Biography film directed by Stanislaw Rózewicz.
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Title: The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Character: Sigismund
Released: December 26, 1988
Type: Movie
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
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Fachowiec
Title: Fachowiec
Character: Profesor z Berlina
Released: February 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Kazimierz Zaliwski was born into an intellectual family, he graduated from high school, and knows two foreign languages. The foreman, in love with his daughter, decides not to continue his studies. He wants to take a job as a locksmith in a factory.
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The Ring and the Rose
Title: The Ring and the Rose
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.
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Title: Przyłbice i kaptury
Character: Mikołaj Trąba
Released: November 23, 1986
Type: TV
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Tętno
Title: Tętno
Character: Halina's father
Released: November 12, 1986
Type: Movie
In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.
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Apple Tree of Paradise
Title: Apple Tree of Paradise
Character: Prosecutor
Released: April 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
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Woman in a Hat
Title: Woman in a Hat
Character: Jan Ziembiński
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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Dzień kolibra
Title: Dzień kolibra
Character: Janicki
Released: November 19, 1984
Type: Movie
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Title: Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Character: Prior of Jasna Góra
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
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Pensja pani Latter
Title: Pensja pani Latter
Character: Profesor Dębicki, nauczyciel na pensji
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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The Faithful River
Title: The Faithful River
Character: Major kozacki
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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Around Midnight
Title: Around Midnight
Character: Doctor
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
A man has a mysterious power which causes the death of each person he condemns.
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Wilczyca
Title: Wilczyca
Character: Dr. Goldberg
Released: April 11, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Title: Daimler-Benz Limousine
Character: dyrektor gimnazjum
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's Daimler-Benz limousine, on a lark. When they are caught by the police, the German consul unexpectedly forgives them their prank -- but in the meantime, the episode has put the brothers in touch with a Nazi underground group who want to prepare the way for the pending German invasion (set to occur within a matter of days). Andrej helps the group kill the German consul and then they blame the death on the Poles -- giving the Germans an excuse to cross the border. Not only the consul, but "artistic" types like Michal are also killed for the same reasons. After these murders, Michal realizes his brother is no better than the group he joined, and decides to set his own course in the face of the rising threat of invasion.
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The Lynx
Title: The Lynx
Character: Dziad Darus
Released: March 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
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Ciosy
Title: Ciosy
Character: Writer
Released: June 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer Stefan Przewłocki. A literary widow gives Wiktor the materials for the deceased's last novel.
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Polonia Restituta
Title: Polonia Restituta
Character: Wacław Niemojewski, marszałek Tymczasowej Rady Stanu
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: adwokat Graliński, obrońca w procesie brzeskim
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: Movie
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Title: Jeśli serce masz bijące
Character: Headmaster (uncredited)
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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Racławice. 1794
Title: Racławice. 1794
Character: przeor zakonu karmelitów
Released: June 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.
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Rodzina Połanieckich
Title: Rodzina Połanieckich
Character: Janisz
Released: March 4, 1979
Type: Movie
The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
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Passion
Title: Passion
Character: Smollka
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
1846. Edward Dembowski takes part in the Krakow Uprising.
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Red Thorns
Title: Red Thorns
Character: Gimnazjum headmaster
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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Title: Calling 07
Character: John Cieplik
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: TV
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
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150km Per Hour
Title: 150km Per Hour
Character: zegarmistrz Antoni, przyjaciel Łukasza
Released: August 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Growing-up village boy Marcin Debik feels bored of existence in his native place and not interested in realizing his father's ideas for living there for ever and making business there. He dreams of living in a big town, making career there and, above all, having foreign automobile, preferably big one and of American make. His determination strengthens after he had accidentally attended some rich society's party for a while. Having finally decided to take his fate in his own hands, he takes leave of his family, his girl and departs for Lublin, the town where his uncle Lukasz runs own photographic studio.
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Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Title: Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Character: mecenas, przyjaciel Piotra
Released: May 3, 1972
Type: Movie
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Skok
Title: Skok
Character: Director
Released: June 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.