Wacław Kowalski

Wacław Kowalski

Born: May 2, 1916
Died: October 27, 1990
in Gżatsk [present Gagarin] Russia

Movies for Wacław Kowalski...

Kwiat paproci
Title: Kwiat paproci
Character: Zyndram
Released: May 29, 2009
Type: Movie
By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
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Title: Dom
Character: Ryszard Popiołek
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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The Refuge
Title: The Refuge
Character: Hryncewicz
Released: September 25, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.
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Title: Polskie drogi
Character: kościelny Wawrzyniec Kulpiński
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Polskie drogi
Character: Kulpiński
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Big Deal
Title: Big Deal
Character: Kazimierz Pawlak
Released: June 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: Dołmontowicz
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: TV
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
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Title: Czterdziestolatek
Character: Popielak
Released: May 16, 1975
Type: TV
Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek was a Polish television comedy series broadcast between 1974 and 1977. The first series enjoyed so much popularity that it has successfully continued and led to the release of a feature film I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old Love Affair and a New Year's Eve television program in 1975. The series was written by Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz and was broadcast on Telewizja Polska. In total, 21 episodes were produced. The series followed the fate of a Warsaw family and explored topics related to midlife crisis, such as extra-marital affairs, attempts to quit smoking, obsession with hair loss, efforts to maintain physical fitness, pride in achievements and professional life, the desire to seek self-fulfillment through social activities, etc.
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Victory
Title: Victory
Character: szeregowy Ostrejko
Released: May 6, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Droga
Character: Kazimierz Pawlak
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: TV
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Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Title: Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Released: December 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.
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Title: Janosik
Character: Marcin Bruzda, góral
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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Take It Easy
Title: Take It Easy
Character: Kazimierz Pawlak
Released: May 28, 1974
Type: Movie
The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
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Sobie król
Title: Sobie król
Character: Truck Driver
Released: May 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
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Janosik
Title: Janosik
Character: Góral Bruzda
Released: April 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Title: Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Released: August 10, 1973
Type: Movie
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Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
Title: Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
Character: manager
Released: April 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Copernicus
Title: Copernicus
Character: Dołuski
Released: February 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973
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Na przełaj
Title: Na przełaj
Character: Park Caretaker
Released: June 25, 1972
Type: Movie
After moving from the countryside to the city, the old man cannot find himself in the new reality.
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Kłopotliwy gość
Title: Kłopotliwy gość
Character: Piotrowski's boss
Released: October 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appeared in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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I Hate Mondays
Title: I Hate Mondays
Character: Crane Operator
Released: August 27, 1971
Type: Movie
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
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Milion za Laurę
Title: Milion za Laurę
Released: June 8, 1971
Type: Movie
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Operation
Title: Operation "Brutus"
Character: Policeman
Released: May 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Jaruga, the head of the local Security Office, cannot liquidate the "Boruta" unit. Most likely, he has his man in the UB. In order to unmask him and liquidate the unit, Albert, an employee of the UB, acting in complete conspiracy, arrives.
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Kardiogram
Title: Kardiogram
Character: Leśniczy
Released: May 4, 1971
Type: Movie
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Złote koło
Title: Złote koło
Released: April 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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Legenda
Title: Legenda
Character: Policeman
Released: April 20, 1971
Type: Movie
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Przystań
Title: Przystań
Character: Matuszak
Released: January 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
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Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Title: Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Character: Train Conductor (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
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Cyrograf dojrzałości
Title: Cyrograf dojrzałości
Character: Wiktor's Teacher
Released: August 20, 1970
Type: Movie
18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Released: May 22, 1970
Type: Movie
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Album polski
Title: Album polski
Character: Mazur
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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How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
Title: How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
Character: Kiedros, sierżant Legii Cudzoziemskiej
Released: April 3, 1970
Type: Movie
After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Title: How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Character: Sgt. Kiedros
Released: April 2, 1970
Type: Movie
On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.
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Rzeczpospolita babska
Title: Rzeczpospolita babska
Character: Vet
Released: July 8, 1969
Type: Movie
After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
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Ostatnie dni
Title: Ostatnie dni
Character: szeregowy Ostrejko
Released: May 9, 1969
Type: Movie
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Kierunek Berlin
Title: Kierunek Berlin
Character: szeregowy Ostrejko
Released: January 17, 1969
Type: Movie
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Red Rowan
Title: Red Rowan
Character: kapral Podarzyn
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Character: Wysocki (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Komedie pomyłek
Title: Komedie pomyłek
Character: John Wharton Bilson / Town Citizen
Released: July 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
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Our Folks
Title: Our Folks
Character: Kazimierz Pawlak / Kacper Pawlak
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
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Frozen Flashes
Title: Frozen Flashes
Character: Old Peasant
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
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Komedia z pomyłek
Title: Komedia z pomyłek
Character: Citizen
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Character: John Wharton Bilson
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
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The Codes
Title: The Codes
Character: Madeja
Released: December 25, 1966
Type: Movie
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
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Don Gabriel
Title: Don Gabriel
Character: Hawrot
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
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A Cure for Love
Title: A Cure for Love
Character: Militia Sergeant
Released: July 20, 1966
Type: Movie
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
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Cooked Doves
Title: Cooked Doves
Character: Kołodziejczyk
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Tomorrow Mexico
Title: Tomorrow Mexico
Character: Fruńka
Released: February 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
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Bigos
Title: Bigos
Character: Host
Released: January 14, 1966
Type: Movie
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Title: Trzy kroki po ziemi
Character: Janitor (segment 1)
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Three stories about life problems.
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Back to Life Again
Title: Back to Life Again
Character: Railwayman (uncredited)
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: Van Worden's Father's Servant
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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Agnes 1946
Title: Agnes 1946
Character: Kondera
Released: November 24, 1964
Type: Movie
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy
Title: Rendes-Vous with a Spy
Character: Mute
Released: July 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
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Barwy walki
Title: Barwy walki
Character: German (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
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No More Divorces
Title: No More Divorces
Character: Porter (Segment 1) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Three short segments about love.
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Wiano
Title: Wiano
Character: Stable Manager
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
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Liczę na wasze grzechy
Title: Liczę na wasze grzechy
Character: Marzec
Released: February 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
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Naganiacz
Title: Naganiacz
Character: Tomasik
Released: January 10, 1964
Type: Movie
1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
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Where is the General?
Title: Where is the General?
Character: Kaziuk
Released: January 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
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Klub kawalerów
Title: Klub kawalerów
Character: Stanisław Wygodnicki
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Title: The Two Who Stole the Moon
Character: Smith in Zapiecek
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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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Title: Two Gentlemen 'N'
Character: Greengrocer Henryk Nowak
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
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April
Title: April
Character: Paramedic (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1961
Type: Movie
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
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Drugi człowiek
Title: Drugi człowiek
Character: Zygmunt Filarski
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 Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Title: The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Character: Kolanowski
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: Movie
The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
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Szczęściarz Antoni
Title: Szczęściarz Antoni
Character: Youth Culture Palace Herald
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
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Ostrożnie yeti
Title: Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Railwayman (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Knave of Spades
Title: The Knave of Spades
Character: Bank doorkeeper (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
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Rok pierwszy
Title: Rok pierwszy
Character: Baker (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1960
Type: Movie
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
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Tysiąc talarów
Title: Tysiąc talarów
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1960
Type: Movie
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Signals
Title: Signals
Character: Taxi driver
Released: October 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
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Kalosze szczęścia
Title: Kalosze szczęścia
Character: Kazek
Released: October 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
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Free City
Title: Free City
Character: Bronek Wiśniewski
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Title: Ewa Wants to Sleep
Character: Gunsmith
Released: March 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Kostek (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when his girlfriend is at work and Kuba home alone, resisting temptation becomes hard.
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Szkice węglem
Title: Szkice węglem
Character: Man from Barania Głowa (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1957
Type: Movie
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
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Land
Title: Land
Character: Banach
Released: February 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.
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Trzy starty
Title: Trzy starty
Character: Railwayman
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
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Under the Phrygian Star
Title: Under the Phrygian Star
Character: Party Member
Released: October 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
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Difficult Love
Title: Difficult Love
Character: Kubala
Released: April 10, 1954
Type: Movie
A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Title: The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
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Adventure in Marienstadt
Title: Adventure in Marienstadt
Character: Stefan Wachowiak
Released: January 25, 1954
Type: Movie
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: Spanish Soldier (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
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Forbidden Songs
Title: Forbidden Songs
Character: Singer with Guitar (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.