Elżbieta Starostecka

Elżbieta Starostecka

Born: October 6, 1943
in Rogów, pow. Radomsko, Polska

Movies for Elżbieta Starostecka...

I Believe in Santa
Title: I Believe in Santa
Character: Eleonora
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Due to a violent snowstorm, Agnieszka is cut off from the rest of the world in a charming mountain cottage, and a mysterious and handsome man in a Santa Claus suit appears on her way. Five-year-old Zosia and her mother, despite their poor financial situation, are trying to prepare a traditional family Christmas Eve, and they can be helped by Robert – a lonely policeman on Christmas duty who, out of pure need of his heart, wants to do something good for someone. This magical time is also a chance for a man to spend Christmas again with his old love - provided, of course, the woman in his life finds a moment of peace, taking care of the crazy and unpredictable residents of the "Happy End" nursing home.
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Title: The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Character: pani Wanda
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
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Skradziona kolekcja
Title: Skradziona kolekcja
Character: Janka Powsińska
Released: August 20, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Teresa Ostrzeńska-Kociełło, siostra Barbary
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 Leper
Title: The Leper
Character: Stefania Rudecka
Released: November 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Teresa Ostrzeńska-Kociełło
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: Clouds of War
Character: Anna Ostrowska
Released: December 23, 1973
Type: TV
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
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Ferry
Title: Ferry
Released: December 11, 1970
Type: Movie
1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Nobody but Kros, a policeman, notices, and he must organize a rescue before the ferry drifts into the Bay of Gdansk, which is still full of mines.
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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: Singer
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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Rzeczpospolita babska
Title: Rzeczpospolita babska
Character: Platoon-leader Jadwiga Rymarczyk
Released: July 8, 1969
Type: Movie
After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
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Zmartwychwstanie Offlanda
Title: Zmartwychwstanie Offlanda
Character: Odwiedzająca cmentarz
Released: March 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A year after his death, the young artist returns to the world of the living.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Character: Ewelina
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: Ignacy's Guardian Angel
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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Cooked Doves
Title: Cooked Doves
Character: Journalist (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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A Lady from the Window
Title: A Lady from the Window
Character: Nymph (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
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Echo
Title: Echo
Character: Krysia Górkówna (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
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The End of Our World
Title: The End of Our World
Character: Julia Stein
Released: March 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it