Ewa Ziętek

Ewa Ziętek

Born: March 8, 1953
in Stalinogród (obecnie Katowice), śląskie, Polska

Movies for Ewa Ziętek...

Title: How to Become Crazy Rich in Eastern Europe
Character: neighbor
Released: December 27, 2023
Type: TV
Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.
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Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman 2
Title: Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman 2
Character: Sąsiadka
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
The true story of Polish fortunes and the story of the heroes from the first part has its colorful continuation. Can business friends continue to trust each other when even more money is at stake? How were state-owned companies privatized, garnering millions into private pockets? Who was pulling the strings in free Poland? Even more mysteries. Human weaknesses.
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Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman
Title: Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman
Character: neighbor
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where almost everything was forbidden?
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Gierek
Title: Gierek
Character: Paulina
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: Movie
A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of the most important figures of the 20th century in the collective memory of Polish people.
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Heimat ist kein Ort
Title: Heimat ist kein Ort
Character: Grazyna
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
The unemployed taxi driver Klaus, the gay dog sitter Uwe and the strict nurse Inge did not have an easy childhood. Her mother died too early, the father then gave her home. Now the old man has died and for the hated Kurbjuweits is the Notarbesuch on. Klaus, Uwe, Inge and their daughter Jule now hope to inherit money and real estate - but they are surprised by an unusual testament. They have to scatter the ashes of the dead in places in their East Prussian homeland, which were important to the father. Together with the young Polish notary Krzysztow, who is supposed to supervise the proper implementation, they are leaving for good or ill. It takes them almost to Polish prison and soon to a wedding, where they understand better not only the father, but also himself better.
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Charon
Title: Charon
Character: Mother
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A young hospital worker meets a patient awaiting abortion procedure. Their childhood stripped away from them too early, the two form a bond which might help them survive.
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Title: Instynkt
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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Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz
Title: Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz
Character: Anna's mother
Released: September 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Peter and Anne decide to find the perfect sperm donor. The trouble is, where can he be found. First, natural candidates tend to be closest friends and acquaintances. Then...the net is cast wider...
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The Lullaby
Title: The Lullaby
Character: Pani Katarzyna
Released: February 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A weird family named Makarewicz moves into a house recently abandoned by its owner, set in an idyllic but isolated Masurian village. Very soon a number of local residents and a few visitors mysteriously disappear. Nobody suspects that their new neighbors are a perfectly camouflaged vampire family...
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Case Unknown
Title: Case Unknown
Character: Renata's mother
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
An arrogant medical man discovers there's more to his new patient than he imagined in this drama from Polish filmmaker Feliks Falk. Dr. Konstanty Grot is an ambitious young doctor who is determined to make a name for himself, to the point that his wife often accuses him of being more interested in his career than in her. Grot believes that he can earn the respect of his peers by successfully treating a supposedly incurable patient, and he believes he may have found a likely candidate in Pawel Plocki, a mental patient who can barely function. Grot signs Plocki out of the mental hospital where he's been treated for years and moves him into his own home; in time, Plocki shows genuine improvement, and Grot thinks he?s beaten the state medical establishment at their own game. But that?s before Grot learns some secrets about his patient that cast his condition in a new and disturbing light.
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Kup teraz
Title: Kup teraz
Character: Matka Piotra i Dawida
Released: July 16, 2008
Type: Movie
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We're All Christs
Title: We're All Christs
Character: nauczycielka Sylwusia
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intelectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
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Day of the Wacko
Title: Day of the Wacko
Character: urolog
Released: July 7, 2002
Type: Movie
It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
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Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
Title: Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
Character: Marta Gabriel
Released: December 24, 1999
Type: Movie
A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
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Dzieci i ryby
Title: Dzieci i ryby
Character: Przyjaciółka Anny na przyjęciu panieńskim
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Obcy musi fruwać
Title: Obcy musi fruwać
Character: Mańka
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Art of Loving
Title: Art of Loving
Character: Eliza
Released: May 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
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Koniec sezonu na lody
Title: Koniec sezonu na lody
Character: Rogowski’s wife
Released: March 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
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Inner Life
Title: Inner Life
Released: August 28, 1987
Type: Movie
The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell, he imposes on himself.
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Title: Tulipan
Character: Agata, siostra Karin
Released: February 22, 1987
Type: TV
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Trzy stopy nad ziemią
Title: Trzy stopy nad ziemią
Released: October 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Set in the 70's. A young man decides that after dropping out of school, going to the army is not for him. He decides to become a voluntary miner. He lives with his buddies in barracks, where the only entertainment is ping-pong, and dreams of the opposite sex.
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Title: Alternatywy 4
Character: Zosia, służąca profesora Dąb-Rozwadowskiego
Released: September 30, 1986
Type: TV
Alternatywy 4 was a Polish comedy TV series that was finished in 1983. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in Alternatywy 4 was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.
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The Girls of Nowolipki
Title: The Girls of Nowolipki
Character: Pani Emilia
Released: April 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
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Przyspieszenie
Title: Przyspieszenie
Character: Irena / Circus Actress
Released: March 4, 1985
Type: Movie
A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
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Custody
Title: Custody
Character: Tonia
Released: February 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
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The Planet 'Tailor'
Title: The Planet 'Tailor'
Character: Maria's sister
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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Remis
Title: Remis
Character: Nurse
Released: July 14, 1984
Type: Movie
The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.
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Fetysz
Title: Fetysz
Character: Ewa, żona Rudego
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Blisko, coraz bliżej
Character: Paulina Pasternik
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: TV
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Upside Down
Title: Upside Down
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.
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Tender Spots
Title: Tender Spots
Character: Dziewczyna przed hotelem
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man.
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Title: Dom
Character: pani docent, dyrektor Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechnej
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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The Fiancee
Title: The Fiancee
Character: Hilde
Released: September 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time in prison, where she is one of few political prisoners.
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Title: Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
Character: Halszka, dama z towarzystwa
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: TV
Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.
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Morning Stars
Title: Morning Stars
Released: February 8, 1980
Type: Movie
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Party przy świecach
Title: Party przy świecach
Character: Krycha Gańkówna
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Wiśnie
Title: Wiśnie
Character: Halina Kowalikówna
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Title: What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Character: Danusia
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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The Spiral
Title: The Spiral
Character: Janitor
Released: September 21, 1978
Type: Movie
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
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Nauka latania
Title: Nauka latania
Character: Świstakówna
Released: August 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A story about the difficult experiences of a nine-year-old boy who tries to understand and assimilate the laws governing the world of adults. Left to himself, Tomek deeply experiences his anxieties and finally decides to rebel .
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Koty to dranie
Title: Koty to dranie
Character: Magda
Released: June 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
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All and Nobody
Title: All and Nobody
Character: Genowefa
Released: February 20, 1978
Type: Movie
City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
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Milioner
Title: Milioner
Character: Zośka, żona Józefa
Released: September 5, 1977
Type: Movie
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Hasło
Title: Hasło
Character: Oleńka
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.
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Man of Marble
Title: Man of Marble
Character: Colonel's Secretary
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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Honor dziecka
Title: Honor dziecka
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
There has been a secret relationship between the nephew of the ordinate - Jan, and his older cousin Xymena. However, Jan falls in love with the foster daughter of the ordinate, the young Krystyna. The ordinate does not consent to marriage, because Krystyna is his illegitimate daughter, and thus Jan's cousin. But it turns out that Jan is not the son of the general's brother ...
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Title: Janosik
Released: July 26, 1974
Type: TV
Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
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Random Love Story
Title: Random Love Story
Character: Lidka
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.
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Lazarus' Whims
Title: Lazarus' Whims
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Bride
Released: January 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
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To Kill This Love
Title: To Kill This Love
Character: Pielęgniarka
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.