Maria Maj

Maria Maj

Born: December 14, 1948
in Międzylesie k. Wałbrzycha, Polska

Movies for Maria Maj...

Title: Matilda
Character: Wilhelma Ważkowa
Released: January 28, 2024
Type: TV
A historical story about a young woman, Matilda, who in the politically difficult times of the partitions after the January Uprising becomes a pawn of landed gentry intrigues. Her past, which is also a mystery to herself, is overshadowed by the political decisions of both Polish patriots and traitors plotting with the Russian invaders. In addition to its educational and historical value, the series contains rich thriller and love plots.
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Mushrooms
Title: Mushrooms
Released: September 23, 2023
Type: Movie
In a seemingly idyllic setting in the forest, surrounded by the stillness and tranquility of nature, an elderly woman, forages for mushrooms and berries. But all this is suddenly disrupted by a surprising encounter.
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Delivery by Christmas
Title: Delivery by Christmas
Character: Gienia
Released: December 6, 2022
Type: Movie
When a spiteful coworker sabotages her deliveries, a courier and a helpful customer must race to return Christmas presents to their intended recipients.
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All Our Fears
Title: All Our Fears
Character: Daniel's grandmother
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.
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Bejbis
Title: Bejbis
Character: music lover
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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Everyone Knows Better
Title: Everyone Knows Better
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: Movie
"Everyone Knows Better" is an original comedy, reminiscent of the best New York tradition of independent cinema, dominated by warm relations and close intimacy with the characters. It tells about the adventures of a couple who try to put together one family from two different worlds. Other people's children, ex-spouses, pushy grandparents. Will Ania and Grzesiek survive the invasion of their families who are trying to fight the relationship of their adult children?
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We Haven't Lost Our Way
Title: We Haven't Lost Our Way
Released: February 17, 2022
Type: Movie
The life of a woman and a man at a crossroads - in two separate stories that perhaps have something in common. Ewa is an English teacher and translator, but she is hired as a caregiver for an elderly lady, whom she is to entertain with reading and conversation. Eryk works at a university, but is more interested in helping those in need rather than in literature, which - just like his quick temper - causes him a lot of problems. They both have difficult personalities and feel that they don’t get as much from life as they deserve. There could be more points of contact - a shared past or future?
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Title: Planeta Singli. Osiem historii
Character: Halinka
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: TV
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Magic Mountains
Title: Magic Mountains
Character: Voyteks moeder
Released: February 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Hannah travels through the Polish mountains with her ex-boyfriend Lex. During their journey the young woman finds out that Lex has prepared the perfect crime, with Hannah as his victim.
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Title: 1983
Character: Sara Żurawska
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: TV
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
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Tarapaty
Title: Tarapaty
Character: Pulchna
Released: September 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A young girl, her new friend and his dog try to find a long-lost Picasso painting in an abandoned house before a gang of burglars seize it.
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Title: Artists
Character: Bufetowa
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: TV
The original, 8-episode series by eminent theatre artists - Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski about what is going on behind-the-scenes of one of the muncipial theatres in Warsaw. The story also can be read as an ambiguous metaphor, where artistic problems of cultural activities and hard economic conditions meet.
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Real Honey
Title: Real Honey
Released: October 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Krystyna, the main character of the film, is a 60-year-old poor pensioner from the deep provinces, who sells homemade honey by the road. One day, Russian prostitutes start working on the same road. Krystyna does not like the new company. He soon comes into conflict with one of the girls and accidentally comes into possession of her wallet with the daily takings. Contrary to the heroines' expectations, further events bring the two women closer together.
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Title: The Border
Character: Wiceminister Prochowska
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: TV
After a bombing attack at the Poland–Ukraine border which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow tries to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.
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Między nami dobrze jest
Title: Między nami dobrze jest
Character: Bożena
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
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Gabriel
Title: Gabriel
Character: Grandmother
Released: April 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Embarking on a journey across southern Poland to find his long-lost father, twelve-year-old Tomek receives help from a mysterious youth named Gabriel.
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Małe stłuczki
Title: Małe stłuczki
Character: Michalowska
Released: January 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Two girls clean places after somebody dies there. Sometimes they sell the belongings of the dead at a flea market. When they meet an odd guy who has a passion for boxes, a strange game unfolds. An unconventional love story about the oddity of ordinary things. Eccentric and natural at once.
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In the Name of...
Title: In the Name of...
Character: Matka Łukasza
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
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Moralność Pani Dulskiej
Title: Moralność Pani Dulskiej
Character: Tadrachowa
Released: March 25, 2013
Type: Movie
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Moje pieczone kurczaki
Title: Moje pieczone kurczaki
Character: Matka Agaty
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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My Father's Bike
Title: My Father's Bike
Character: Sabina Dziedzicowa
Released: July 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
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Nie ten człowiek
Title: Nie ten człowiek
Released: November 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his parents' encouragement, decides to take his first job. Though none too convinced, he starts work as a delivery man. Having set out on his first delivery soon after he witnesses a traffic accident. He ends up giving a statement at the police station. And his plans begin to unravel. By a twist of fate Kuba has no idea about the significance of the part he will have to play on this particular day.
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Zero
Title: Zero
Character: Doctor
Released: September 15, 2009
Type: Movie
A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
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33 Scenes from Life
Title: 33 Scenes from Life
Released: August 10, 2008
Type: Movie
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but her husband Piotr is at rehearsals in Cologne and leaves her to cope with this difficult situation. Only her friend Adrian is at her side. Her father Jurek is also overwhelmed by the impending loss of his beloved wife. After the death of the mother her father takes comfort from alcohol. Shortly after the father dies. Julia found only in the arms of Adrian to rest, but this in turn destroyed her marriage to Piotr. After the loss of the parents and break up of the marriage she is now alone in the world with an uncertain future where Adrian is of little help
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Universal Spring
Title: Universal Spring
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A short film about what someone's eyes has seen one spring.
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Katyn
Title: Katyn
Character: Wasilewska's Voice on Radio (voice)
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
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Title: Ekipa
Character: sekretarka Adama Niemca
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: TV
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.
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Strike
Title: Strike
Released: February 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
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Journey
Title: Journey
Character: Iwona's Mother
Released: May 30, 2006
Type: Movie
It's a story of a young woman from Warsaw - Iwona who has two children and works in a supermarket. He lives with his unemployed husband in a block of flats. They are always short of money - that causes many quarrels and destroys their relationship . One day Iwona receives a great offer from her old friend - Wojtek. He wants her to move to London and start a brand new life.
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Title: Pitbull
Character: wychowawczyni w domu dziecka
Released: December 15, 2005
Type: TV
The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis. They're not just tracking down murderers. They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.
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Title: Boża podszewka. Część druga
Character: krawcowa Tekla
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: TV
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Heaven Hell
Title: Heaven Hell
Character: Zosia, gospodyni księdza
Released: May 4, 2005
Type: Movie
A young priest comes to a town to help the old provost in pastoral ministry. It early May, the parish prepares for the First Communion. Unexpectedly, the provost is admitted to hospital with a heart attack. Priest Piotr is on his own now in a completely new place. At a catechesis, one of the girls catches his attention. She’s sad, introvert and sometimes even aggressive. Marta is a daughter of the richest man in the town. During her confession, the priest feels she’s hiding something. When the time of Sacrament reception comes, Marta runs away from the altar. After hours of searching, priest Piotr finds her hidden in a vestry. The girl tells him the horrible truth.
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Out of Reach
Title: Out of Reach
Character: Mrs. Donata
Released: November 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irina was staying in, which is financed by honest -- and unsuspecting -- good-intentioned Samaritans, is a cover for a human trafficking network.
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The Welts
Title: The Welts
Character: Elder Teacher
Released: October 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough.
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Title: Kryminalni
Character: Krystyna Wilczyńska
Released: September 18, 2004
Type: TV
Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
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Long Weekend
Title: Long Weekend
Character: Kozłowska, matka Teosia
Released: May 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Bogdan and Marta take part in a TV show 'Blind Date' and eventually win a romantic stay at the luxurious hotel for the long May Day weekend. They seem to be so different, however, that they hardly stand each other.
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Title: Camera Cafe
Character: Stażystka Krystyna Gruchała
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: TV
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Changes
Title: Changes
Character: Mother
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations.
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Edi
Title: Edi
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the city areas. Edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child.
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I'm Looking at You, Mary
Title: I'm Looking at You, Mary
Character: Mary's mother
Released: May 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
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Gutter
Title: Gutter
Released: May 3, 1996
Type: Movie
The film was made according to the idea and under the care of Krzysztof Kieślowski. A contemporary story about 10-year-old Sebastian and Eugene, a retired elevator man. Despite the age difference between them, they are struggling with a similar life situation - they are lonely, with no support in the family, forced to fight for survival, in a world that does not care about them. The fate of the characters is linked by a desire to get a 500-franc note, lost by a French pianist. The money fell into a deep sewage grid, from which it is not easy to take it out. They start a war with each other, use deceit, sometimes join forces to try to get the banknote on their own. With time, they become more and more exposed to each other.
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Balanga
Title: Balanga
Character: sklepowa
Released: September 20, 1993
Type: Movie
One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.
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Title: Dom
Character: bibliotekarka
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: Dom
Character: kobieta w kolejce do księdza Andrzeja
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Sparrow
Title: Sparrow
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Remek Wróbel is a mailman and an enthusiastic member of an amateur football team. He’s pushing on forty, living the life of a bachelor. He’s passionately studying the encyclopaedia, training his extraordinary memory. He has only one friend, Pedro, an enterprising character engaged in a shady business. There is no one else in his life. And that’s the way he likes it. One day, everything changes – his neat, tidy life is turned upside down by the appearance of Grandpa, whom he hadn’t met before, and his new chatty neighbour, Marzenka. Remek will have to learn how to make lemonade when life gives you lemons.