Adam Pawlikowski

Adam Pawlikowski

Born: November 21, 1925
Died: January 17, 1976
in Warsaw, Poland

Movies for Adam Pawlikowski...

Izkustvenata patitza
Title: Izkustvenata patitza
Released: May 17, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Woodpecker
Title: The Woodpecker
Character: Thief
Released: May 21, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Kolumbowie
Character: oficer sztabu
Released: September 9, 1970
Type: TV
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Album polski
Title: Album polski
Character: NSZ-owiec
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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The Office
Title: The Office
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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Everything for Sale
Title: Everything for Sale
Character: Man at the Bar
Released: January 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: kapitan Franz Boldt
Released: October 10, 1968
Type: TV
Stawka większa niż życie is a series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
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The Nutcracker
Title: The Nutcracker
Character: Secretary
Released: December 25, 1967
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
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Checkmate!
Title: Checkmate!
Character: Sheik's Servant (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
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Kochajmy syrenki
Title: Kochajmy syrenki
Character: Nurkiewicz
Released: April 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
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Where Is the Third King?
Title: Where Is the Third King?
Character: Commissioner Didot
Released: January 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
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Barrier
Title: Barrier
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: Officer
Released: September 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
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I Would Like to Have a Shave
Title: I Would Like to Have a Shave
Character: Man following the Client's Car
Released: August 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.
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Cooked Doves
Title: Cooked Doves
Character: Western Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Ping-pong
Title: Ping-pong
Character: Wiktor
Released: April 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them.
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Alone in the City
Title: Alone in the City
Character: Barkeeper
Released: December 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
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Back to Life Again
Title: Back to Life Again
Character: NSZ Commander
Released: March 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Don Pedro Uzeda
Released: February 9, 1965
Type: Movie
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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Instrumentum mortis
Title: Instrumentum mortis
Character: "Jeremi"
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Polish TV movie. Lost.
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Giuseppe in Warsaw
Title: Giuseppe in Warsaw
Character: Man picking up Satyr (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1964
Type: Movie
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
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Wounded in the Forest
Title: Wounded in the Forest
Character: "Stud"
Released: April 14, 1964
Type: Movie
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
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No More Divorces
Title: No More Divorces
Character: USC Clerk (Segments 2 and 3)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Three short segments about love.
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Naprawdę wczoraj
Title: Naprawdę wczoraj
Character: Man at the Banquet
Released: November 8, 1963
Type: Movie
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
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Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Title: Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Character: Lutek Wybranowski
Released: August 29, 1963
Type: Movie
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
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The Criminal and the Lady
Title: The Criminal and the Lady
Character: Henryk Zawadzki
Released: July 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.
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Far Is the Road
Title: Far Is the Road
Character: Captain
Released: June 10, 1963
Type: Movie
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
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Pistolet typu
Title: Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
Character: Gestapo Officer
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Title: The Two Who Stole the Moon
Character: Viceroy Saradella / citizen of Golden City
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
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Gold Dreams
Title: Gold Dreams
Character: Piotr's Friend
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
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Mój stary
Title: Mój stary
Character: Dog Owner's Husband
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
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Zuzanna i chłopcy
Title: Zuzanna i chłopcy
Character: Mountain Hut Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
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Story of the Golden Boot
Title: Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Herald (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
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Drugi człowiek
Title: Drugi człowiek
Character: Krystyna's Friend (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
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The Road West
Title: The Road West
Character: Lieutenant
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
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Goodbye to the Past
Title: Goodbye to the Past
Character: Żbik
Released: March 23, 1961
Type: Movie
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
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It Started Yesterday
Title: It Started Yesterday
Character: Jerzy Biesiada
Released: January 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
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Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
Title: Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...
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Bad Luck
Title: Bad Luck
Character: Ens. Osewski
Released: April 4, 1960
Type: Movie
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
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One Room Tenants
Title: One Room Tenants
Character: Zygmunt Stukonis
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
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Polar Bear
Title: Polar Bear
Character: Major Rudolf von Henneberg
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
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Lotna
Title: Lotna
Character: Lieutenant Wodnicki
Released: September 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
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Farewells
Title: Farewells
Character: German Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1958
Type: Movie
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
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Ashes and Diamonds
Title: Ashes and Diamonds
Character: Andrzej Kossecki
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
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Kanal
Title: Kanal
Character: German at the Sewer Entrance
Released: April 20, 1957
Type: Movie
During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.