Elżbieta Czyżewska

Elżbieta Czyżewska

Born: April 14, 1938
Died: June 17, 2010
in Warsaw, Poland

Movies for Elżbieta Czyżewska...

Happiness
Title: Happiness
Character: Iwona
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
What if you could buy happiness?
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Katya's Mother
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Hunters in the Snow
Title: Hunters in the Snow
Character: Claudia
Released: January 11, 2000
Type: Movie
The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction. Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around him. He rejects advertising to the point of destroying its manifestations.
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Coming Soon
Title: Coming Soon
Character: Dr. Luft
Released: June 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Dr. G Shapiro
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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Charm’s  Incidents
Title: Charm’s Incidents
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.
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I Love You, I Love You Not
Title: I Love You, I Love You Not
Character: Dora
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: Movie
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
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Szczur
Title: Szczur
Character: "Małpka", mieszkanka podziemia
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Title: XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Released: June 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the American dream.
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A Kiss Before Dying
Title: A Kiss Before Dying
Character: Landlady
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if he finds out, Jonathan murders her, but he stages her death as a suicide. As Jonathan works his way onto Mr. Carlsson's payroll, Dorothy's twin sister, Ellen, investigates the apparent suicide.
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Cadillac Man
Title: Cadillac Man
Character: Soviet Wife
Released: May 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
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A Licensed Liberty
Title: A Licensed Liberty
Character: manager
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him.
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Music Box
Title: Music Box
Character: Melinda Kalman
Released: December 22, 1989
Type: Movie
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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Misplaced
Title: Misplaced
Character: Halina
Released: September 14, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.
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Rude Awakening
Title: Rude Awakening
Character: Eema
Released: August 16, 1989
Type: Movie
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.
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I Love Cinema
Title: I Love Cinema
Character: Maria Borkowska
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.
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Running on Empty
Title: Running on Empty
Character: Julliard Woman
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Adzia Świdrycka
Released: November 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives join them. Although they have not had the opportunity to get to know each other so far, they become friends very quickly.
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Debutante
Title: Debutante
Character: Maria
Released: August 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Title: Daimler-Benz Limousine
Character: Franciszka Felińska, żona Maksa
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's Daimler-Benz limousine, on a lark. When they are caught by the police, the German consul unexpectedly forgives them their prank -- but in the meantime, the episode has put the brothers in touch with a Nazi underground group who want to prepare the way for the pending German invasion (set to occur within a matter of days). Andrej helps the group kill the German consul and then they blame the death on the Poles -- giving the Germans an excuse to cross the border. Not only the consul, but "artistic" types like Michal are also killed for the same reasons. After these murders, Michal realizes his brother is no better than the group he joined, and decides to set his own course in the face of the rising threat of invasion.
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The First Circle
Title: The First Circle
Released: November 10, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Putney Swope
Title: Putney Swope
Character: Putney's Maid
Released: July 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
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Everything for Sale
Title: Everything for Sale
Character: Ela
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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The Marriage of Convenience
Title: The Marriage of Convenience
Character: Joanna
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Małżeństwo z rozsądku ("Marriage of Convenience") is a Polish musical comedy from 1966 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
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Unloved
Title: Unloved
Character: Noemi
Released: May 2, 1966
Type: Movie
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
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Title: Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: Józefina Urszula Czerska z d. Grzesik
Released: December 25, 1965
Type: TV
Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.
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Identification Marks: None
Title: Identification Marks: None
Character: Teresa / Barbara / Leszczyc's wife
Released: November 18, 1965
Type: Movie
The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center
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The Holy War
Title: The Holy War
Character: Gabrysia
Released: November 16, 1965
Type: Movie
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
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Walkover
Title: Walkover
Character: Girl at the Train Station
Released: June 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
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Obok prawdy
Title: Obok prawdy
Character: Magda
Released: March 19, 1965
Type: Movie
After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Donna Frasquetta Salero
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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The First Day of Freedom
Title: The First Day of Freedom
Character: Luzzi Rhode
Released: December 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
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Interrupted Flight
Title: Interrupted Flight
Character: Urszula
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
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Giuseppe in Warsaw
Title: Giuseppe in Warsaw
Character: Maria
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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Wife for an Australian
Title: Wife for an Australian
Character: Hanka Rębowska
Released: June 16, 1964
Type: Movie
A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself.
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Where is the General?
Title: Where is the General?
Character: Marusia
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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Passenger
Title: Passenger
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Kazia
Released: September 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.
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Godzina pąsowej róży
Title: Godzina pąsowej róży
Character: Ania
Released: April 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A girl finds herself transported to 1880's Warsaw.
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Pistolet typu
Title: Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
Character: Waitress
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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Dziewczyna z dobrego domu
Title: Dziewczyna z dobrego domu
Character: Krystyna
Released: December 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Instead of coming to her own engagement party, Joanna throws herself into New Year's Eve partying. Her fiancé follows her lead.
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Gold Dreams
Title: Gold Dreams
Character: Girl
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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The Impossible Goodbye
Title: The Impossible Goodbye
Character: Teresa Kwaśnikówna
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
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Zuzanna i chłopcy
Title: Zuzanna i chłopcy
Character: Monika
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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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Character: Lt. Listek
Released: December 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
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Husband of His Wife
Title: Husband of His Wife
Character: Renata
Released: April 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.
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Erotique
Title: Erotique
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.
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Little Hamlet
Title: Little Hamlet
Character: Ofelka
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
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S.T.S. 58
Title: S.T.S. 58
Character: Singer
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Songs and sketches of the legendary Student Satirical Club, established in 1954 in Warsaw.