Józef Pieracki

Józef Pieracki

Born: September 10, 1909
Died: May 8, 1988
in Grębów, Polska

Movies for Józef Pieracki...

Apple Tree of Paradise
Title: Apple Tree of Paradise
Character: Priest
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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Chrześniak
Title: Chrześniak
Character: dyrektor szkoły (nie występuje w napisach)
Released: January 21, 1986
Type: Movie
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
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Killing Auntie
Title: Killing Auntie
Character: Ksiądz
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it...
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The Four Seasons
Title: The Four Seasons
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A portrait of the director's family painted against a backdrop of changing seasons. A deep reflection on the meaning of existence and the inevitability of passing time and death.
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Funeral Ceremony
Title: Funeral Ceremony
Character: Uncle Ksawery
Released: March 6, 1985
Type: Movie
After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
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Edward and Stefan
Title: Edward and Stefan
Released: July 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Summer 1944. Polish armed forces are being organized in the Lublin region. Edward, one of the generals of the First Army, receives an order to form an artillery division. He counts on the help of Stefan, his old friend who lives in Lublin. However, it turns out that Stefan - a colonel and commander of the Home Army during the occupation - was arrested...
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Przeklęta ziemia
Title: Przeklęta ziemia
Character: Organist
Released: October 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
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Rodzina Lesniewskich
Title: Rodzina Lesniewskich
Character: Mr Arek
Released: October 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself.
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Palace Hotel
Title: Palace Hotel
Character: Old Man
Released: July 15, 1983
Type: Movie
The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.
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Points for Parentage
Title: Points for Parentage
Released: February 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Film about a young man, who wants to become an actor. His rural upbringing is not helpful in achieving his goal, but he overcomes defeat and humiliation with the help of a benevolent old professor.
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Ciosy
Title: Ciosy
Character: Henryk
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: Georges Clemenceau, premier Francji
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: sędzia Rybaczewski, członek składu orzekającego
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: Movie
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Placówka
Title: Placówka
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
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Title: Życie na gorąco
Character: generał Ernesto Megel, prezydent Guademurki
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: TV
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The Hijacking of 'Savoy'
Title: The Hijacking of 'Savoy'
Character: Janek's teacher
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Title: What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Character: Train Passenger
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
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Funeral Circuit
Title: Funeral Circuit
Released: October 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Seven-year-old Marek - a lonely boy, lost, desperately seeking warmth and love. His parents are two young scientists, completely devoted to their careers. She is just finishing her doctoral thesis, he is sketching new projects to promote him. They apply rigor and ruthless discipline to the child. No bond connects them with a child. They do not try to understand his needs, have no idea about his dreams, problems. Marek falls into severe depression. In the doctor's office, Marek notices a cat. He is awakened by the overwhelming desire to have his own pet - a longed-for friend. Of course, the parents do not even want to hear about it. Marek secretly, for buying pocket money, he buys a cricket - a creature that is small enough to hide from the eyes of his parents.
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Krępski
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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Latarnik
Title: Latarnik
Character: Latarnik Józef Skawiński
Released: July 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A Polish soldier settles on a small island, where he operates a lighthouse. Absorbed by reading, he does not fulfill his duties.
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Title: Układ krążenia
Character: Dr Wiktor Czarnobil
Released: July 22, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Znaki szczególne
Character: Mielniczak, były nauczyciel Zawady, ojciec Marty i Pawła
Released: February 28, 1977
Type: TV
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Flames
Title: Flames
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Presenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.
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Zofia
Title: Zofia
Character: profesor ASP
Released: November 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: profesor Tokarzewski, psychiatra
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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It's Spring, Sergeant
Title: It's Spring, Sergeant
Character: Ksiądz
Released: June 28, 1974
Type: Movie
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Dark River
Title: Dark River
Character: proboszcz
Released: February 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
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Title: Clouds of War
Character: przeor klasztoru
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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Żółw
Title: Żółw
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Rafał is suspected of killing a turtle that fell out of the balcony.
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Kłopotliwy gość
Title: Kłopotliwy gość
Character: Priest
Released: October 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appeared in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Title: Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Character: Butler
Released: September 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
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Landscape After Battle
Title: Landscape After Battle
Character: Cook
Released: September 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
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Wniebowstąpienie
Title: Wniebowstąpienie
Character: Man leading the Evacuation
Released: November 21, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Title: The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Character: Kerner's lawyer
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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Hunting Flies
Title: Hunting Flies
Character: Włodek's Father-in-Law
Released: August 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Włodek is a young man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Character: Doctor Szuman
Released: November 7, 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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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: inżynier Meier
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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Countess Cosel
Title: Countess Cosel
Character: Count von Walsdorff
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: Movie
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
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Full Ahead
Title: Full Ahead
Character: Józef
Released: April 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
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Bumerang
Title: Bumerang
Character: Wanda's Father
Released: November 8, 1966
Type: Movie
A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Militiaman
Released: April 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
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The Catastrophe
Title: The Catastrophe
Character: Man in a Restaurant (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
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Tomorrow Mexico
Title: Tomorrow Mexico
Character: Referee
Released: February 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
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The Friend
Title: The Friend
Character: Harden
Released: February 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.
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Late Afternoon
Title: Late Afternoon
Character: Wiślak
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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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Soarez's Lawyer
Released: February 9, 1965
Type: Movie
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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Agnes 1946
Title: Agnes 1946
Character: Makowski
Released: November 24, 1964
Type: Movie
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
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Giuseppe in Warsaw
Title: Giuseppe in Warsaw
Character: Satyr
Released: August 7, 1964
Type: Movie
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
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Ubranie prawie nowe
Title: Ubranie prawie nowe
Character: Coal Burner
Released: April 30, 1964
Type: Movie
After years of working in the city, Róża returns to the countryside. The property she has accumulated draws the attention of local bachelors.
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No More Divorces
Title: No More Divorces
Character: Work Office Clerk (Segment 3)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Three short segments about love.
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Liczę na wasze grzechy
Title: Liczę na wasze grzechy
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
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Adam's Two Ribs
Title: Adam's Two Ribs
Character: A Comrade from the Province
Released: January 24, 1964
Type: Movie
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
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Where is the General?
Title: Where is the General?
Character: Cpl. Sołowkiejn
Released: January 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
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Kryptonim Nektar
Title: Kryptonim Nektar
Character: Passenger
Released: October 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Title: Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Character: Colonel Kolczyński
Released: August 29, 1963
Type: Movie
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
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How to Be Loved
Title: How to Be Loved
Character: Teacher in Cafe
Released: January 11, 1963
Type: Movie
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
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Wild Horses
Title: Wild Horses
Character: Samopomoc Chłopska Member
Released: February 14, 1962
Type: Movie
In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.
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The Road West
Title: The Road West
Character: Stationmaster
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Title: Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1961
Type: Movie
An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
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The People from the Train
Title: The People from the Train
Character: Disabled Man
Released: May 11, 1961
Type: Movie
A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
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Ostrożnie yeti
Title: Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Barkeep / Myszorek (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1961
Type: Movie
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Glass Mountain
Title: Glass Mountain
Character: Resort Director
Released: December 23, 1960
Type: Movie
A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
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Decyzja
Title: Decyzja
Character: Attorney
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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First Spaceship on Venus
Title: First Spaceship on Venus
Character: Scientist (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
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One Room Tenants
Title: One Room Tenants
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
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Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Title: Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Character: Army Doctor (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
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Signals
Title: Signals
Character: Medicine salesman (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
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Cross of Valor
Title: Cross of Valor
Character: Luborz Man at Gathering (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
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Pills for Aurelia
Title: Pills for Aurelia
Character: Drunk Man (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
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Kalosze szczęścia
Title: Kalosze szczęścia
Character: Director of a mental hospital
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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Farewells
Title: Farewells
Character: Professor Michniewicz
Released: October 13, 1958
Type: Movie
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
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Ashes and Diamonds
Title: Ashes and Diamonds
Character: Puciatycki
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Title: The Eighth Day of the Week
Character: Drunkard in Zieleniak pub (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Title: Ewa Wants to Sleep
Character: Drunk Baker (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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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Flower Seller (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when his girlfriend is at work and Kuba home alone, resisting temptation becomes hard.
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Spotkania
Title: Spotkania
Character: Officer in casino (segment 4) (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Four stories showing the various facets of love.
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Lost Feelings
Title: Lost Feelings
Character: Headmaster
Released: October 21, 1957
Type: Movie
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
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Winter Twilight
Title: Winter Twilight
Character: Tailor Shop Client
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
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Irene, Go Home!
Title: Irene, Go Home!
Character: Worker in the workshop of Transport Company (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.
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Trzy starty
Title: Trzy starty
Character: Drunkard
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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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: German Factory Owner (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.