Andrzej Seweryn

Andrzej Seweryn

Born: April 25, 1946
in Heilbronn, Germany
Andrzej Seweryn (born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to be hired by the Paris-based Comédie-Française. He is currently serving as director general of the Polski Theatre in Warsaw. Has three children with three different wives: daughter Maria Seweryn (born 1975) with his first wife, Polish actress, Krystyna Janda and two sons Yann-Baptiste and Maximilien.

Movies for Andrzej Seweryn...

Irena's Vow
Title: Irena's Vow
Character: Shulz
Released: April 15, 2024
Type: Movie
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
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Scarborn
Title: Scarborn
Character: Duchnowski, Stanisław and Ignac's father
Released: January 26, 2024
Type: Movie
Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilising Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a national revolt.
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Doppelgänger. The Double
Title: Doppelgänger. The Double
Character: ojciec Wieczorka
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Hans and Jan Bitner live separated from each other by an iron curtain. Hans works in an office in Strasbourg, he leads a quiet, almost monotonous life. Bitner is a Polish patriot, involved in the affairs of "Solidarity" and the fight for a free Poland. He lives in Sopot with his family. Seemingly, their lives are completely different, but there is one detail that connected their lives forever. Both will have to answer very important questions about their identity.
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The Hidden Web
Title: The Hidden Web
Character: Henryk Wójcicki
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
A journalist unearths a horrific conspiracy when she questions the events surrounding a celebrity’s death.
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Dangerous Men
Title: Dangerous Men
Character: Joseph Conrad
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn’t help.
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Title: Dom pod Dwoma Orłami
Character: Johannes Weber
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: TV
The story begins in the summer of 1997, just before the arrival of the famous 12-meter flood wave flooding Wroclaw. - The residents of the "Home under Two Eagles" are grandma Zofia Szablewska, a woman full of energy, warmth and humor, her daughter Helena, a cool perfectionist, and Marianna, Zofia's beloved granddaughter, returning with her fiancé from a scholarship in the USA. The family drama begins when a flood wave floods the house, and at the same time grandma Zofia ends up in the hospital due to a stroke. An unfortunate coincidence leads Marianna to discover post-German traces in a house destroyed by the element, thanks to which she finds the diary of the first owner of "Home under Two Eagles", Lisa Weber. Marianna's learning of the history written on the cards takes the action of the series to 1918. In subsequent episodes, viewers will learn about the life of the then inhabitants of the tenement house and their neighbors.
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Title: My Agent
Released: December 25, 2022
Type: TV
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Backwards
Title: Backwards
Character: Feliks Mazur
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Inspired by real events, the story of a young mother of an autistic boy, whose long-term persistence and struggle with bureaucracy and human heartlessness led to significant changes in the Polish education system.
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The Perfect Number
Title: The Perfect Number
Character: Joachim
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: Movie
The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to gradually reevaluate his priorities. This meeting will have a huge impact on both of them and will provoke a long discussion on the mysterious world order, the meaning of life and its passing.
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Everyone Knows Better
Title: Everyone Knows Better
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: Movie
"Everyone Knows Better" is an original comedy, reminiscent of the best New York tradition of independent cinema, dominated by warm relations and close intimacy with the characters. It tells about the adventures of a couple who try to put together one family from two different worlds. Other people's children, ex-spouses, pushy grandparents. Will Ania and Grzesiek survive the invasion of their families who are trying to fight the relationship of their adult children?
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Title: Queen
Character: Sylwester
Released: June 23, 2022
Type: TV
After a decades-long absence, a renowned Parisian tailor and drag queen returns to his hometown in Poland to make amends with his daughter.
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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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Escape to the Silver Globe
Title: Escape to the Silver Globe
Character: Himself
Released: September 5, 2021
Type: Movie
A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic "On the Silver Globe".
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Laila in Haifa
Title: Laila in Haifa
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.
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Title: The King of Warsaw
Character: prokurator Jerzy Ziembiński
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: TV
1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.
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Title: Bez skrupułów
Character: Tadeusz Kawecki
Released: September 4, 2020
Type: TV
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Truth Makes Free
Title: Truth Makes Free
Character: Jan Zieja
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: Movie
A Security Service Major wishes to "buy" gullible priest Zieja and turn him into an agent who will discredit the opposition. The priest's interrogations become a natural pretext for a journey through the history of Poland in the twentieth century: from the Bolshevik war of 1920, through World War II, up to modern times. It turns out that the seemingly naive Father Zieja is actually a clever rebel.
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Solid Gold
Title: Solid Gold
Character: Tadeusz Kawecki
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Kaja Miller is a police officer that is abducted and abused on one of her missions. Eight years later she meets her former boss Nowicki, who takes her to Gdynia with the task of exposing a large criminal circuit.
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Title: Illegals
Character: Hans Jorgensen
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: TV
Konrad Wolski, head of the Q department, an elite Polish intelligence unit, taking over a Belarusian arms dealer in Istanbul, learns about a terrorist attack planned in Sweden. The weapon to be used in the attack is to come from the Soviet arsenal hidden in Belarus. Konrad immediately contact with Travis, a Polish spy secreted in the Minsk KGB, to obtain intelligence information that will defeat the terrorist plan. The matter is complicated by the fact that Travis has just been exposed by one of the Belarusian KGB officers. He's financial blackmail, will not remain in his position for a long time. Sara - an officer of the Polish Intelligence Agency is sent to Minsk with the mission of his immediate evacuation. At the same time, a retired general of Belarusian services in Warsaw is blackmailing the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
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Title: The Mire
Character: Witold Wanycz
Released: August 19, 2018
Type: TV
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.
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The Chechen Diary of Polina Zerebova
Title: The Chechen Diary of Polina Zerebova
Released: August 1, 2017
Type: Movie
The Diary of Polina Żerebcowa, now an acclaimed writer and journalist, is a moving record of entering adulthood during the course of the war. The Chechen author describes her childhood and youth, which spanned from 1994 to 2004. First as a nine – year-old girl, then as a teenager, she documents her process of adolescence, presents her own vision of the world and immortalizes the experiences that shape her-she records her whole life, which takes place during the horrific Chechen wars. And although Polina's diary is a loose personal note, it is exceedingly evocative and lyrical. It leaves no one indifferent. The show, whose main character is the aforementioned diary presented by the outstanding actor, Andrzej Seweryn, gives Polina her voice so that she can tell us about what she experienced, what happened over the course of 10 years, during the two Chechen wars. Thus the story of how to remain human in the most inhumane circumstances is created.
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Title: The Chairman's Ear
Character: Jarosław, deputy prime minister
Released: January 9, 2017
Type: TV
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The Last Family
Title: The Last Family
Character: Zdzislaw Beksinski
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...
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Anatomy of Evil
Title: Anatomy of Evil
Character: Roman Szerepeta
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Lulek, a hit man, is released from prison and given an offer he can't refuse by the man who put him away. If he kills the chief of the Central Bureau of Investigations, he will earn a huge sum of money and have his record cleared so he can leave.
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Close-Ups
Title: Close-Ups
Character: Andrzej Milewski, ojciec Marty
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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The Vulture
Title: The Vulture
Character: Reatorski
Released: January 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he saved? In the center of Europe suddenly, without a trace, people begin to disappear. The investigation goes into the hands of Vulture (Michal Zebrowski) - a police officer who appears to be devoid of feelings. Tough, incorruptible, no obligations and favors to others. Until he meets Natasha (Anna Przybylska) - a woman other than those that he met so far. Vulture begins a dangerous game with the enemy ahead of him is still a step. Discovers a world in which people are leading a double life. For the first time, logical thinking will drive him into a trap with no way out. Suddenly, the hunter turned into animals. Balancing on the border between passion and reason, the world of logic and clever manipulation, you will have to answer the question: is there anything more important than life?
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Day of the Siege
Title: Day of the Siege
Character: Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Title: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Character: Marcellin
Released: September 1, 2012
Type: Movie
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
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Entanglement
Title: Entanglement
Character: Witold
Released: June 3, 2011
Type: Movie
A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
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Little Rose
Title: Little Rose
Character: Adam Warczewski
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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Fanny
Title: Fanny
Character: Panisse
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Possibility of an Island
Title: Possibility of an Island
Character: Slotan
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
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Title: Ekipa
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: TV
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.
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Title: Ekipa
Character: prezydent Julian Szczęsny
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: TV
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.
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Nightwatching
Title: Nightwatching
Character: Piers Hasselburg
Released: September 6, 2007
Type: Movie
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Le comte de Guiche
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
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Who Never Lived
Title: Who Never Lived
Character: ordynator
Released: September 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life undergoes a sudden transformation when routine testing finds out that he is HIV positive.
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In Your Image
Title: In Your Image
Character: Professor Cardoze
Released: May 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
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The Revenge
Title: The Revenge
Character: rejent Milczek
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: Movie
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On this day, the tongue-tied Cupbearer asks a braggart courtier, Papkin, to sue on his behalf for the hand of the widow Hanna. Papkin succeeds and
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Title: With Fire and Sword
Character: Jeremi Michał Wiśniowiecki
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: TV
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Prymas - trzy lata z tysiąca
Title: Prymas - trzy lata z tysiąca
Character: Kardynał Stefan Wyszyński/Molenda, sobowtór prymasa
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
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Bigda is Coming!
Title: Bigda is Coming!
Character: Speaker Stachowski
Released: November 29, 1999
Type: Movie
The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to be a cunning populist and an immoral politician, ready for any tricks for the sake of his goals.
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Pan Tadeusz
Title: Pan Tadeusz
Character: Richter
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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With Fire and Sword
Title: With Fire and Sword
Character: Jeremi Wiśniowecki
Released: February 8, 1999
Type: Movie
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...
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Billboard
Title: Billboard
Character: Dyrektor agencji reklamowej
Released: November 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Kuba is an employee of an ad agency. Everything begins with the disappearance of a Russian model who appeared on one of their billboard advertising. Kuba is drawn into the brutal murder case, and becomes the target of an organized gang.
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Genealogies of a Crime
Title: Genealogies of a Crime
Character: Christian
Released: May 4, 1997
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
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Lucie Aubrac
Title: Lucie Aubrac
Character: le lieutenant Schlöndorff
Released: February 26, 1997
Type: Movie
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Title: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
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Total Eclipse
Title: Total Eclipse
Character: Mr. Maute De Fleurville
Released: November 3, 1995
Type: Movie
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Ohnivé jaro
Title: Ohnivé jaro
Character: Stanislav Havlícek
Released: July 12, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Fils du cordonnier
Character: Célestin
Released: December 25, 1994
Type: TV
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Schindler's List
Title: Schindler's List
Character: Julian Scherner
Released: December 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Amok
Title: Amok
Character: Steiner
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Asia. In this drama, based on a story by Stefan Zweig, Dr. Steiner (Andrzej Seweryn) was caught with his fingers in the till at a German hospital. Rather than prosecute him, they gave him the option of emigrating elsewhere. He chose to serve at a clinic in a remote part of Portuguese Goa. He has been on his best behavior for years, but when the beautiful wife (Fanny Ardant) of a diplomat comes to him asking for an abortion, he is tempted to ask for sexual favors in return, and his life swiftly goes out of control.
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Indochine
Title: Indochine
Character: Hebrard
Released: April 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
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The Conviction
Title: The Conviction
Character: Giovanni
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
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Title: The Mahabharata
Character: Yudhishthira
Released: March 10, 1990
Type: TV
The Mahabharata is a 1989 film version of the Indian epic based on the history of India, Mahabharata directed by Peter Brook. Brook's original 1985 stage play was 9 hours long, and toured around the world for four years. In 1989, it was reduced to under 6 hours for television. Later it was also reduced to about 3 hours for theatrical and DVD release. The screenplay was the result of eight years' work by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière and Marie-Hélène Estienne. For the casting an international selection of actors was intentionally chosen, to show that the nature of the Indian epic is the story of all humanity.
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The Mahabharata
Title: The Mahabharata
Character: Yudhishthira
Released: January 24, 1990
Type: Movie
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.
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The French Revolution
Title: The French Revolution
Character: Robespierre
Released: May 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
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On the Silver Globe
Title: On the Silver Globe
Character: Marek
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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The Malady of Love
Title: The Malady of Love
Character: The Pedlar
Released: December 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.
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The Woman of My Life
Title: The Woman of My Life
Character: Bernard
Released: October 8, 1986
Type: Movie
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...
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Qui trop embrasse...
Title: Qui trop embrasse...
Character: Marc
Released: June 11, 1986
Type: Movie
How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends. Christian discovers that his lover Francoise is having an affair, and Nathalie advises him to give his feelings some time to heal, about two years. Nathalie is angry that her lover Mark does not want to see her more often, while he is jealous of the men in her past. Meanwhile, Francoise finds out that her new lover is not that interested in her anymore, and after they split, she encounters him with someone else. As romance fluctuates like the lunar tides, the myth of one true love takes a beating.
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Danton
Title: Danton
Character: Bourdon
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
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Roza
Title: Roza
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Greek drama
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Peer Gynt
Title: Peer Gynt
Character: Le cuisinier / Le propriétaire d'Haegstad / Le père de la mariée
Released: December 28, 1981
Type: Movie
French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.
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Childish Questions
Title: Childish Questions
Character: Bogdan
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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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: kapitan Wirski
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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Golem
Title: Golem
Character: Doctor Creating Pernat
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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Kung-fu
Title: Kung-fu
Character: Marek Kamiński
Released: March 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
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The Conductor
Title: The Conductor
Character: Adam Pietryk
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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Roman and Magda
Title: Roman and Magda
Character: Roman Barwiński
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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Rodzina Połanieckich
Title: Rodzina Połanieckich
Character: Edward Bukacki
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: Jacek Rościszewski
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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Title: Ziemia obiecana
Character: Maks Baum
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Anzelm Ostrzeński
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 Border
Title: The Border
Character: Zenon Ziembiewicz
Released: January 27, 1978
Type: Movie
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Title: Polskie drogi
Character: Sturmbahnführer Kliefhorn
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Man of Marble
Title: Man of Marble
Character: Record Beating Announcer (voice)
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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Sein letzter Fall
Title: Sein letzter Fall
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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Pictures from Life
Title: Pictures from Life
Character: Writer
Released: March 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.
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Title: Dyrektorzy
Character: inżynier Krzysztof Szymczak
Released: December 16, 1975
Type: TV
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Hotel Pacific
Title: Hotel Pacific
Character: Henek (voice)
Released: November 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
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The Leaves Have Fallen
Title: The Leaves Have Fallen
Character: Smukły
Released: November 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Young former partisan recalls his war experience during a trip to the sea.
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Anzelm Ostrzeński
Released: September 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzenska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Baranska) and Bogumil Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Binczycki) 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 Dabrowska 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. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Character: Maks Baum
Released: February 21, 1975
Type: Movie
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
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A Girl and the Pigeons
Title: A Girl and the Pigeons
Character: Stach, Edek's brother
Released: July 7, 1974
Type: Movie
TV adaptation of a short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. In after-war Poland father discourages his only surviving child, Edek, from falling in love by buying him pigeons to take care of.
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Niemcy
Title: Niemcy
Character: Willi
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German citizens, and their greater humanitarian sensibilities, the family is divided in how to deal with Joachim's presence.
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Pedestrian Subway
Title: Pedestrian Subway
Character: Michal
Released: January 13, 1974
Type: Movie
A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce.
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Culling
Title: Culling
Character: adiunkt Wojtek
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Chief Forester Szymon from the observation tower sees a professor in the forest, walking through his district. Szymon and his wife Celina later engage in a disagreement due to his indifference and refusal to react on the professor’s illegal hunting. Celina would like to see Szymon as he used to be - rebellious, but Szymon prefers not to lean out. He is aware that everyone is responsible for the evil that permeates the country - some by their actions, others by their conformism.
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Album polski
Title: Album polski
Character: Tomek
Released: May 8, 1970
Type: Movie
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
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Beata
Title: Beata
Character: Beata's Classmate (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
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Title: Television Theater
Released: November 6, 1953
Type: TV
Series of television plays.
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Title: U Pana Boga w Królowym Moście
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Sezony
Title: Sezony
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
Title: Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
Character: Dom Juan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Nieobliczalna
Title: Nieobliczalna
Character: Stefan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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God's Little Republic
Title: God's Little Republic
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A young archeology student comes to Królowy Most to study the cellars under the church. She finds there a collection of historic documents which may have an enormous impact on the future and prosperity of the village.