Władysław Kowalski

Władysław Kowalski

Born: February 24, 1936
Died: October 29, 2017
in Żurawce, lubelskie, Polska

Movies for Władysław Kowalski...

Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
Title: Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
Character: Dr. Garfinkel
Released: January 15, 2016
Type: Movie
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Damaged
Title: Damaged
Character: Rainer
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...
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Body
Title: Body
Character: Sąsiad Władysław
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
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Close-Ups
Title: Close-Ups
Character: lekarz
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
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Gods
Title: Gods
Character: Profesor Jan Moll
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
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Był sobie dzieciak
Title: Był sobie dzieciak
Character: Old Man
Released: July 31, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Instynkt
Character: Adler
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: TV
An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.
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Mystification
Title: Mystification
Character: Leopold
Released: March 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.
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Little Rose
Title: Little Rose
Character: Aktor w "Dziadach"
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.
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Lesser Evil
Title: Lesser Evil
Character: publicysta
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: Movie
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
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The Bait
Title: The Bait
Character: Ojciec
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Doręczyciel
Character: Juraś Milczek
Released: March 1, 2009
Type: TV
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Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Title: Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Character: Professor of Physics
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.
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Niezawodny system
Title: Niezawodny system
Character: Antykwariusz
Released: May 18, 2008
Type: Movie
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Katyn
Title: Katyn
Character: Professor U. J.
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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Louise's Garden
Title: Louise's Garden
Character: Mecenas "Kaleka" Frankowski
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: Movie
A young girl meets a gangster at a psychiatric hospital.
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Title: Marszałek Piłsudski
Character: Iwan Sabasznikow, dyrektor szpitala psychiatrycznego
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: TV
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Marszałek Piłsudski
Title: Marszałek Piłsudski
Character: Iwan Sabasznikow, dyrektor szpitala psychiatrycznego Jana Bożego
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: Movie
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Sposób na Alcybiadesa
Title: Sposób na Alcybiadesa
Character: Historyk Tymoteusz Misiak "Alcybiades"
Released: August 15, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Sposób na Alcybiadesa
Character: historyk Tymoteusz Misiak "Alcybiades"
Released: August 15, 2001
Type: TV
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Avalon
Title: Avalon
Character: Game Master
Released: January 20, 2001
Type: Movie
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?
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Queen of the Angels
Title: Queen of the Angels
Character: Ojciec Jakuba
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
The film takes place in two spaces of time. Modern history tells the story of a passing relationship crisis doctor James with her teacher Maria. During the night shift, Jacob is trying to calm the boy. Experiencing a shock that pushes him into the inner journey in time past, in the regions of childhood, to the genesis of his fears and frustrations. The second story waged simultaneously with the first takes place in the nineteenth century, in a nobleman's manor where Maria takes care of the ailing heiress Elizabeth. Elizabeth's daughter, Zofia, is expecting a baby. — Polish Wikipedia
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Pan Tadeusz
Title: Pan Tadeusz
Released: October 18, 1999
Type: Movie
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
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Spona
Title: Spona
Character: Tymoteusz Misiak, "Alcybiades", the history teacher
Released: February 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Set in Polish high school in the year 1969, a story about a group of first year students who are trying to get through the year by finding a way around an eccentric history teacher.
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The Day of the Big Fish
Title: The Day of the Big Fish
Character: mąż Ireny
Released: May 29, 1997
Type: Movie
A mature man recalls his youthful love and comes to the town where he once met a woman who was important to him. However, it is hard to turn back time.
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Poznań 56
Title: Poznań 56
Character: profesor w wagonie
Released: November 28, 1996
Type: Movie
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Deborah
Title: Deborah
Character: Mr. Grosman, Deborah's father
Released: November 7, 1995
Type: Movie
In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.
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Les Milles
Title: Les Milles
Character: Max Ernst
Released: August 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
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Title: Kuchnia polska
Character: profesor Bolesław Szokalski, sygnatariusz listu
Released: April 18, 1993
Type: TV
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1968. Happy New Year
Title: 1968. Happy New Year
Character: Bolesław Szokalski
Released: February 12, 1993
Type: Movie
The events concerning the March 1968 student demonstrations in Poland are seen through the eyes of young people rebelling against the government and the communist politicians trying to halt the protests.
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Sauna
Title: Sauna
Character: Ernst
Released: November 27, 1992
Type: Movie
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
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Title: Panny i wdowy
Character: Jan Darski
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: TV
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Warsaw: Year 5703
Title: Warsaw: Year 5703
Character: Photographe
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.
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Panny i wdowy
Title: Panny i wdowy
Character: Jan Darski
Released: September 12, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Double Life of Véronique
Title: The Double Life of Véronique
Character: Weronika's Father
Released: May 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Title: Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Character: Tadeusz
Released: October 14, 1990
Type: Movie
The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
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The Master and Margarita
Title: The Master and Margarita
Character: Master
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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The Master and Margarita
Title: The Master and Margarita
Character: Mistrz
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Title: Dekalog
Character: Stefan, ojciec Majki
Released: December 10, 1989
Type: TV
Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
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Decalogue VII
Title: Decalogue VII
Character: Stefan
Released: May 16, 1989
Type: Movie
As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.
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Daze
Title: Daze
Released: February 20, 1989
Type: Movie
An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
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The Young Magician
Title: The Young Magician
Character: Police Chief
Released: August 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic and wants to learn more. He becomes proficient in tricks and also discovers his telekinetic powers. Unfortunately that further alienates him from his peers and his parents are afraid of his powers. Things change when a national emergency arises and the government asks him to help. After success he becomes a hero and is accepted by all. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
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Komediantka
Title: Komediantka
Character: Stanisław Głogowski
Released: May 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
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Medium
Title: Medium
Character: Selin
Released: October 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
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111 dni letargu
Title: 111 dni letargu
Character: Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
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The Planet 'Tailor'
Title: The Planet 'Tailor'
Character: Dr. Janik
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: Movie
In the 50's a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emegency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a second lease on life the tailor thinks that while in a coma he has communicated with the distant stars. He gives up tailoring and turns to the stars. He engages his friends in a village to build an observatory. He becomes recognized and for a time being even the authorities back him up. But then comes bitter awakening: his wife can't take his obsessions anymore and leaves him. The town council calls upon him to close his work as the first Sputnik goes into space. Then he is invited to an astronomical convention, He becomes the sensation of the conference, not however, as a amateur astronomer, but by guessing the clothing measurements of the delegates. Back home he realizes that his dream may be over, but he cannot help gazing at the sky. Written by Polish Cinema Database
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Synthesis
Title: Synthesis
Released: June 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly becomes a serious threat to humanity. Synteza is an adaptation of a novel by Maciej Wojtyszko.
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Postcard from a Journey
Title: Postcard from a Journey
Character: Jakub Rosenberg
Released: March 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.
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Zabawa w chowanego
Title: Zabawa w chowanego
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Shivers
Title: Shivers
Character: Father
Released: November 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
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The Smaller Sky
Title: The Smaller Sky
Character: Filip Szmidt
Released: September 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
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In Broad Daylight
Title: In Broad Daylight
Character: court clerk
Released: March 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Title: Jeśli serce masz bijące
Character: Antoni Adamski
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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Without Love
Title: Without Love
Character: redaktor Piotr Kłosiński
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
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Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831
Title: Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831
Character: Joachim Lelewel
Released: December 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.
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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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Merry Christmas
Title: Merry Christmas
Character: mąż Reni
Released: December 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.
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Title: S.O.S.
Character: redaktor Rafał Kostroń
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: TV
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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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To Kill This Love
Title: To Kill This Love
Character: Lekarz
Released: December 10, 1972
Type: Movie
The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.
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Patrząc pod słońce
Title: Patrząc pod słońce
Character: Młody naukowiec
Released: April 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Holidays spent by a couple in love are disrupted by the appearance of a stranger.
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Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Title: Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.
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Title: Kolumbowie
Character: Jerzy
Released: September 9, 1970
Type: TV
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Red Rowan
Title: Red Rowan
Character: chorąży Jerzy Kręcki
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: inkasent Adam Pruchnal, konspirator AL
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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Where Are You, Louise?
Title: Where Are You, Louise?
Character: Ludwik
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: Movie
Mysterious creatures that have landed on the ground in a flying saucer, encouraging the people they meet to undergo experimental research in exchange for gaining youth and immortality.
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The Killer Leaves a Trace
Title: The Killer Leaves a Trace
Character: Romek
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
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Return to Earth
Title: Return to Earth
Character: Speaker (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1967
Type: Movie
After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.
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No More Divorces
Title: No More Divorces
Character: Tomek Jaworek (Segment 1)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Three short segments about love.
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Gold Dreams
Title: Gold Dreams
Character: Kazik
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
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Love at Twenty
Title: Love at Twenty
Character: Władek (segment "Warszawa")
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Samson
Title: Samson
Character: Fiałka / Jakub Gold (voice)
Released: September 11, 1961
Type: Movie
The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
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The Road West
Title: The Road West
Character: Roman Górski
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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Goodbye to the Past
Title: Goodbye to the Past
Character: Olek Nowak
Released: March 23, 1961
Type: Movie
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
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Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
Title: Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
Character: Boy at an Exhibition (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...