Janusz Ściwiarski

Janusz Ściwiarski

Born: June 22, 1901
Died: October 18, 1957
in Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)

Movies for Janusz Ściwiarski...

The Eighth Day of the Week
Title: The Eighth Day of the Week
Character: Accordionist in Zieleniak pub
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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Nikodem Dyzma
Title: Nikodem Dyzma
Character: Sausage Seller
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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Podhale w ogniu
Title: Podhale w ogniu
Character: Kowalewski
Released: January 25, 1956
Type: Movie
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Kurdebalans
Title: Kurdebalans
Character: komendant Stachurka
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
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A Generation
Title: A Generation
Character: Ryszard Berg
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
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Uczta Baltazara
Title: Uczta Baltazara
Character: Man with Foreign Currency (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
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Cellulose
Title: Cellulose
Character: Sumczak
Released: April 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
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Gromada
Title: Gromada
Character: Józef
Released: April 29, 1952
Type: Movie
The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
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Young Chopin
Title: Young Chopin
Character: Spy at Inn
Released: March 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
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The Warsaw Debut
Title: The Warsaw Debut
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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First Start
Title: First Start
Character: Miecznikowski
Released: January 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.
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Two Brigades
Title: Two Brigades
Character: Actor
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
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Devil's Ravine
Title: Devil's Ravine
Character: Fatman
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West. Highlander Jasiek used to be a smuggler, now he is a soldier of the Border Protection Forces, serving in his homeland, in the Tatra Mountains. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors, as well as his love for Halka, he becomes a righteous citizen. He contributes to preventing the smuggling of valuable works of art abroad organized by a Polish aristocrat and carried out by a gang.