Krystyna Janda

Krystyna Janda

Born: December 18, 1952
in Starachowice, Poland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Krystyna Janda (born 18 December 1952, Starachowice, Poland) is a Polish film and theater actress best known, in the West, for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza, 1981).

In 1982, Janda played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), which first premiered only 7 years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Despite the film's late release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival  and Polish Film Festival in 1990.

Janda is also known for her leading role in the second episode of The Decalogue series of Krzysztof Kieślowski.

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The Clowns
Title: The Clowns
Character: self
Released: October 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Students from the Faculty of Acting find out that their graduation film will be made by the famous director Gajda. The news is electrifying – everyone wants to be in the cast. As rehearsals begin, the students’ personalities, dreams and ambitions are revealed
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Title: Warszawianka
Character: Matka Czułego
Released: June 19, 2023
Type: TV
Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend (Borys Szyc) in Warsaw. He is a deeply complex character, an irresponsible party animal, a serial lothario and everyone’s friend at the same time. Behind the veneer he is tormented and self-loathing, trapped by his parents and shackled by the culture and the times that shaped him.
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Title: My Agent
Released: December 25, 2022
Type: TV
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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
Title: How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
Character: Rita
Released: January 5, 2022
Type: Movie
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
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Talking Heads 2021
Title: Talking Heads 2021
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Title: Kill It and Leave This Town
Character: Janek's Mother (voice)
Released: March 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
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Title: Królestwo kobiet
Character: Ineza Klin
Released: October 18, 2020
Type: TV
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Dolce Fine Giornata
Title: Dolce Fine Giornata
Character: Maria Linde
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: Movie
In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant develops against a backdrop of terrorism and eroding democracy.
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Julius
Title: Julius
Character: self
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the father lives through his second heart attack and still refuses to change his lifestyle, Julius will have to find a way to influence his behaviour.
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Damaged
Title: Damaged
Character: Dulska, babka Melanii
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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All About My Parents
Title: All About My Parents
Character: Grandmother
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.
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Title: Bez tajemnic
Character: Barbara Lewicka-Lukas, superwizorka Andrzeja
Released: October 17, 2011
Type: TV
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Elles
Title: Elles
Character: Mutter
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
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Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!
Title: Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Reverse
Title: Reverse
Character: Matka/Babcia Sabiny
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: Movie
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.
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Sweet Rush
Title: Sweet Rush
Character: Marta / Krystyna Janda
Released: April 23, 2009
Type: Movie
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
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A Few People, a Little Time
Title: A Few People, a Little Time
Character: Jadwiga
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: Movie
The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.
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The Call of the Toad
Title: The Call of the Toad
Character: Aleksandra Piatkowska
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: Movie
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
Title: Solidarność, Solidarność...
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Przedwiośnie
Character: Jadwiga Barykowa
Released: March 23, 2002
Type: TV
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Przedwiośnie
Title: Przedwiośnie
Character: Jadwiga Barykowa
Released: March 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution, rebirth of Poland, war with the Soviets and communist plots.
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Weiser
Title: Weiser
Character: Elka
Released: January 18, 2001
Type: Movie
The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser.
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The Yellow Scarf
Title: The Yellow Scarf
Character: Aktualna kobieta bohatera
Released: December 20, 2000
Type: Movie
The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
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Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Title: Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Character: Anna
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.
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Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
Title: Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
Character: Halina
Released: April 28, 1998
Type: Movie
A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral outrage is complicated: the married man allowed himself to be seduced by the woman, who threatens to tell the man's wife.
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Matka swojej matki
Title: Matka swojej matki
Character: Ewa Kozłowska
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides to find her biological mother. When Alicja finds the real mother, the life of the main characters changes, and the positive relationships that linked them become blurred.
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Pestka
Title: Pestka
Character: Agata
Released: January 19, 1996
Type: Movie
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Magda, lawyer
Released: December 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Daddy is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to kidnap his daughter rather than let the court award custody to his mentally ill wife, whom he deems unfit to raise their child. But as he quickly finds out, it's easier to be a real man than it is to be a real father.
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Title: Kuchnia polska
Character: Margaret Szymanko, żona Stanisława
Released: April 18, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Der große Bellheim
Character: Maria Bellheim
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
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Dismissed From Life
Title: Dismissed From Life
Character: "Francuzka"
Released: September 17, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left for Australia.
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Polish Cuisine
Title: Polish Cuisine
Character: Margaret Szymanko
Released: November 22, 1991
Type: Movie
A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.
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Interrogation
Title: Interrogation
Character: Antonina Dziwisz
Released: December 13, 1989
Type: Movie
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
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Title: Dekalog
Character: Dorota Geller
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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Inventory
Title: Inventory
Character: Julia
Released: October 23, 1989
Type: Movie
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
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Inner State
Title: Inner State
Character: żeglarka Ewa Jaskólska
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
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Decalogue II
Title: Decalogue II
Character: Dorota Geller
Released: May 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.
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Decalogue V
Title: Decalogue V
Character: Dorota Geller
Released: May 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
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On the Silver Globe
Title: On the Silver Globe
Character: Aza
Released: February 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
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Title: Wilder Westen inclusive
Character: Marianne
Released: December 18, 1988
Type: TV
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A Short Film About Killing
Title: A Short Film About Killing
Character: Dorota
Released: March 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
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Fik-Mik
Title: Fik-Mik
Character: doktor Anita, kochanka wiceministra
Released: February 17, 1988
Type: Movie
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Suspended
Title: Suspended
Character: Anna
Released: October 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with his child and has the baby out of the wedlock. Despite the hardships and gossip she holds much better than he. In 1956 when the political climate changes, he resurfaces and is arrested, but then acquitted by the court.
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Laputa
Title: Laputa
Character: Małgorzata
Released: July 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish photographer (Krystyna Janda) and her married French lover Paul (Sami Frey). The two rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before Malgorzata has to go back to Warsaw and Paul returns to his wife and daughter.
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My Mother's Lovers
Title: My Mother's Lovers
Character: Krystyna Traczyk
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very mature son.
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The Cop & the Girl
Title: The Cop & the Girl
Character: Gerlinde
Released: April 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the cop helps her one night, she steals his gun and flees. He should report the loss of his gun to his boss, so he has to search for the girl. At the Dutch border it falls into the power of the police! Henceforth they are on the run, without a plan and without a goal ..
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Vertiges
Title: Vertiges
Released: April 9, 1985
Type: Movie
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Title: O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Character: Gea
Released: January 28, 1985
Type: Movie
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...
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Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
Title: Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
Character: Amélie Tachezy
Released: December 30, 1984
Type: Movie
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?
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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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It's Only Rock
Title: It's Only Rock
Character: Majka Lenczewska
Released: May 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Polish musical film with leading Polish rock bands from the '80
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On, ona, oni
Title: On, ona, oni
Character: Psychologist (segment 2)
Released: December 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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Embers
Title: Embers
Character: Anna
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.
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Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Lena
Released: March 26, 1983
Type: Movie
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose numerous lovers are meant to steady her nerves and a saxophone player who loves her but cannot get his own act together. Singing and cinematography are pluses.
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Espion, lève-toi
Title: Espion, lève-toi
Character: Anna Gretz
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Title: The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Character: Gea
Released: November 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The Martians have landed and they're not to be feared! Or at least that's what TV personality Iron Idem has been telling people. Soon after their arrival, his apartment is ransacked and his wife kidnapped. He's tagged like a wild animal and his nightly scripts are being changed. What Idem's eyes are seeing no longer matches what he tells audiences night after night.
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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: Agnieszka
Released: July 27, 1981
Type: Movie
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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In Broad Daylight
Title: In Broad Daylight
Character: Ewa
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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Mephisto
Title: Mephisto
Character: Barbara Bruckner
Released: February 11, 1981
Type: Movie
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
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Golem
Title: Golem
Character: Rozyna
Released: March 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
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The Conductor
Title: The Conductor
Character: Marta
Released: February 27, 1980
Type: Movie
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
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The Green Bird
Title: The Green Bird
Character: Katzka Widuchowski
Released: February 24, 1980
Type: Movie
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Rodzina Połanieckich
Title: Rodzina Połanieckich
Character: Christina
Released: March 4, 1979
Type: Movie
The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
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Without Anesthesia
Title: Without Anesthesia
Character: Agata
Released: November 27, 1978
Type: Movie
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
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The Border
Title: The Border
Character: Elżbieta Biecka, żona Ziembiewicza
Released: January 27, 1978
Type: Movie
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Madame Bovary, That's Me
Title: Madame Bovary, That's Me
Character: Krystyna
Released: April 10, 1977
Type: Movie
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Man of Marble
Title: Man of Marble
Character: Agnieszka
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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Title: Clouds of War
Character: dziewczyna tańcząca na weselu (nie występuje w napisach)
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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Six-Part Draft
Title: Six-Part Draft
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.