Zbigniew Koczanowicz

Zbigniew Koczanowicz

Born: January 5, 1909
Died: October 26, 1987
in Moskwa, Russia

Movies for Zbigniew Koczanowicz...

Carmilla
Title: Carmilla
Character: Zandarm
Released: November 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
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Wściekły
Title: Wściekły
Released: January 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
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Quiet Is the Night
Title: Quiet Is the Night
Character: Seller (uncredited)
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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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Szymszel, Żyd-pachciarz
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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The Gorgon Case
Title: The Gorgon Case
Character: Naczelnik więzienia
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: Józef Przyłuski, stolarz
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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The Leaves Have Fallen
Title: The Leaves Have Fallen
Character: Niemiec wzięty do niewoli przez partyzantów
Released: November 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Young former partisan recalls his war experience during a trip to the sea.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Szymszel
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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Title: Janosik
Character: kupiec włoski
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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It's Spring, Sergeant
Title: It's Spring, Sergeant
Character: Mieszkaniec Trzebiatowa (niewymieniony w czołówce)
Released: June 28, 1974
Type: Movie
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Janosik
Title: Janosik
Character: Włoski kupiec
Released: April 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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On the Earth and in the Sky
Title: On the Earth and in the Sky
Character: Lekarz
Released: January 18, 1974
Type: Movie
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Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Title: Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Character: lekarz
Released: May 3, 1972
Type: Movie
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I Hate Mondays
Title: I Hate Mondays
Character: Folk Band Member (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1971
Type: Movie
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
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Crystal
Title: Crystal
Released: June 4, 1971
Type: Movie
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Portfel
Title: Portfel
Character: High School Headmaster
Released: May 21, 1971
Type: Movie
The professor loses his wallet. Thinking that he has fallen prey to a thief, he takes it from the man whom he suspects of theft.
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Lighter
Title: Lighter
Released: July 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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Album polski
Title: Album polski
Character: urzędnik repatriacyjny
Released: May 8, 1970
Type: Movie
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
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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: War Court Charmain
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: Witness
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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Venus of Ille
Title: Venus of Ille
Released: April 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1969’s WENUS Z ILLE (VENUS D’ILLE) Majewski returned to the work of Prosper Merimee, specifically his 1835 story “Venus d’Ille,” about an accursed statue (a story that was subsequently filmed by Mario and Lamberto Bava in 1979). Said statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue--and can’t get it off!
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Otello z M-2
Title: Otello z M-2
Character: Chrupek's Lawyer
Released: December 18, 1968
Type: Movie
A man believes his wife is cheating on him.
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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: French Devil (uncredited)
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: Man in the Cafe (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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Cooked Doves
Title: Cooked Doves
Character: Water Pump Company Director
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Unloved
Title: Unloved
Character: Captain Engineer
Released: May 2, 1966
Type: Movie
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
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Wózek
Title: Wózek
Character: Spanish Prisoner
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
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The Holy War
Title: The Holy War
Character: Manager Stronciak
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: Ticket Controller (segment 3)
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Three stories about life problems.
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Title: Podziemny front
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: TV
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Late Afternoon
Title: Late Afternoon
Character: "Tempo" Club employee
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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Mansarda
Title: Mansarda
Character: Jew
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: Movie
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
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Their Everyday Life
Title: Their Everyday Life
Character: Ticket Collector
Released: May 10, 1963
Type: Movie
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Czarne skrzydła
Title: Czarne skrzydła
Character: Martyzel
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
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Jadą goście jadą...
Title: Jadą goście jadą...
Character: Wołczek (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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Bitwa o Kozi Dwór
Title: Bitwa o Kozi Dwór
Character: Nejman
Released: February 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square.
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Komedianty
Title: Komedianty
Character: Officer (uncredited)
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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Hospital
Title: Hospital
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people
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Rzeczywistość
Title: Rzeczywistość
Character: Saturnin Czepulonis
Released: April 28, 1961
Type: Movie
The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
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Kapelusz
Title: Kapelusz
Character: Xawery, ojciec Leopolda
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A Silent broad comedy about upper class life
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Decyzja
Title: Decyzja
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1960
Type: Movie
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
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The Knave of Spades
Title: The Knave of Spades
Character: Musician in the cinema (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
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Tysiąc talarów
Title: Tysiąc talarów
Character: Professor
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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Kalosze szczęścia
Title: Kalosze szczęścia
Character: Italian with a cat
Released: October 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
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Free City
Title: Free City
Character: German in a Pub (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.