Zdzisław Szymański

Zdzisław Szymański

Born: July 21, 1914
Died: January 4, 1986
in Zakroczym, Rosja (obecnie Polska)

Movies for Zdzisław Szymański...

The Mother of the Kings
Title: The Mother of the Kings
Character: dozorca
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
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Title: Przyłbice i kaptury
Released: November 23, 1986
Type: TV
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Michał
Title: Michał
Released: July 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Michał is among the soldiers quartered in a village near Lublin. By accident, he goes to the palace and visits the magnificent building, where he meets a widow Maria. Meanwhile, local peasants do not want to wait for the start of land reform. They appoint their own committee and want to deal with the division of property themselves.
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Zabawa w chowanego
Title: Zabawa w chowanego
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Title: Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
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Śpiewy po rosie
Title: Śpiewy po rosie
Character: Łazarski
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Film directed by Wladyslaw Slesicki.
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Childish Questions
Title: Childish Questions
Released: November 13, 1981
Type: Movie
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Title: Jeśli serce masz bijące
Character: Nowak
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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Title: Dom
Character: chłop na Żeraniu
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Morning Stars
Title: Morning Stars
Released: February 8, 1980
Type: Movie
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Zerwane cumy
Title: Zerwane cumy
Character: Stasiek
Released: September 11, 1979
Type: Movie
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
Title: Hospital of the Transfiguration
Character: Patient
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then, the occupying forces arrive...
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Roman and Magda
Title: Roman and Magda
Character: dozorca parkingu
Released: March 16, 1979
Type: Movie
A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Title: What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Character: Apartment Supervisor
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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Quiet Is the Night
Title: Quiet Is the Night
Character: Drunkard (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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Koty to dranie
Title: Koty to dranie
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Chłop w Serbinowie
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: Starszy przodownik Luchowski, komendant posterunku w Żęsnej
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: chłop chcący wykonać wyrok na Zygadlewiczach
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Znaki szczególne
Character: majster Kazimierz Krajewski, ojciec Barbary
Released: February 28, 1977
Type: TV
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Akcja pod Arsenałem
Title: Akcja pod Arsenałem
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Calling 07
Character: Peasant in Makac
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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Title: Calling 07
Character: Kałacki, pracownik „Elbawu”
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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Title: Zezem
Character: Dozorca w bloku Górnego / Portier
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Dyrektorzy
Character: Wicek Rogalski
Released: December 16, 1975
Type: TV
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Man - Woman Wanted
Title: Man - Woman Wanted
Released: April 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he has to work for some time, of course, as a woman. He gets a job as a domestic helper. However, he has no luck with employers.
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A Slip-Up
Title: A Slip-Up
Character: [obsada aktorska] (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1972
Type: Movie
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
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Title: Samochodzik and Knights Templar
Character: strażnik w muzeum zamku w Malborku
Released: February 20, 1972
Type: TV
Pan Tomasz with his friends are looking a big treasure hidden by knights.
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I Hate Mondays
Title: I Hate Mondays
Character: Bank Guard (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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Makbet
Title: Makbet
Character: Soldier
Released: June 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: kolejarz, łącznik Klossa
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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When Love Was a Crime
Title: When Love Was a Crime
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
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Westerplatte Resists
Title: Westerplatte Resists
Character: Sgt. Michał Gawlicki
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
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Cooked Doves
Title: Cooked Doves
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Obok prawdy
Title: Obok prawdy
Character: Szymon
Released: March 19, 1965
Type: Movie
After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
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The First Day of Freedom
Title: The First Day of Freedom
Character: Prisoner
Released: December 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
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Barwy walki
Title: Barwy walki
Character: NSZ Soldier (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
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Wounded in the Forest
Title: Wounded in the Forest
Character: "Mruk"
Released: April 14, 1964
Type: Movie
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
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Far Is the Road
Title: Far Is the Road
Character: Soldier
Released: June 10, 1963
Type: Movie
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
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Między brzegami
Title: Między brzegami
Character: Rudy (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1963
Type: Movie
A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.
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Mężczyźni na wyspie
Title: Mężczyźni na wyspie
Character: Jarząbek
Released: November 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.
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Rodzina Milcarków
Title: Rodzina Milcarków
Released: November 9, 1962
Type: Movie
The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.
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Zemsta
Title: Zemsta
Character: Cześnik's Courtier
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
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Trzy kobiety
Title: Trzy kobiety
Character: Undercover Officer
Released: May 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Nikodem Dyzma
Title: Nikodem Dyzma
Character: Drunk Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
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Shadow
Title: Shadow
Character: Peasant
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
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Podhale w ogniu
Title: Podhale w ogniu
Character: Jędrzej Krupa
Released: January 25, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Warsaw Debut
Title: The Warsaw Debut
Character: Reporter
Released: March 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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Forbidden Songs
Title: Forbidden Songs
Character: Roman's Friend (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
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W chłopskie ręce
Title: W chłopskie ręce
Character: Jasio
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Preparations for a rural folk festival. The shop manager, GS Patyk, quietly resells the goods to a private shopkeeper.