Gustaw Holoubek

Gustaw Holoubek

Born: April 21, 1923
Died: March 6, 2008
in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Polish actor, director and politician, best known for his acting roles in The Noose, The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.

Movies for Gustaw Holoubek...

Kill It and Leave This Town
Title: Kill It and Leave This Town
Character: Mariuszek's Alter Ego (voice)
Released: March 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
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Zniewolony teatr
Title: Zniewolony teatr
Character: we własnej osobie
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
Title: Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
Character: Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika (voice)
Released: March 21, 2002
Type: Movie
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Listy miłosne
Title: Listy miłosne
Character: Teresa's Father
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: With Fire and Sword
Character: Senator Kisiel
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: TV
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Operacja Samum
Title: Operacja Samum
Character: Shopsowitz
Released: May 7, 1999
Type: Movie
The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?
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With Fire and Sword
Title: With Fire and Sword
Character: senator Kisiel
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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The Book of Great Wishes
Title: The Book of Great Wishes
Character: Adam Ostrowski
Released: December 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
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Oczy niebieskie
Title: Oczy niebieskie
Character: profesor Ani i Jacka; we śnie Święty Piotr
Released: January 14, 1994
Type: Movie
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The Master and Margarita
Title: The Master and Margarita
Character: Woland
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
Title: A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
Character: Hermit-Gustaw / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet
Released: November 6, 1989
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Title: The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Character: Cammerschulze (voice)
Released: December 26, 1988
Type: Movie
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
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Title: Królewskie sny
Character: król Władysław II Jagiełło
Released: November 6, 1988
Type: TV
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Weryfikacja
Title: Weryfikacja
Character: Gucio Nawrot
Released: September 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.
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Siegfried
Title: Siegfried
Character: Stefan Drawicz
Released: March 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences.
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Write and Fight
Title: Write and Fight
Character: Investigator
Released: September 23, 1985
Type: Movie
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.
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Killing Auntie
Title: Killing Auntie
Character: Mistyk
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it...
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In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
Title: In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
Character: Dyapanazego
Released: April 15, 1985
Type: Movie
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him too, and drives another men so crazy that they kill her another couple of times. Finally, Tadeusz, the arch-rebel, leads a mob on a raid of the old manor.
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Sons and Comrades
Title: Sons and Comrades
Character: Roullot
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
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An Uneventful Story
Title: An Uneventful Story
Character: Professor
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: Movie
A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Title: Daimler-Benz Limousine
Character: Maks Feliński, ojciec chrzestny Michała
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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Childish Questions
Title: Childish Questions
Character: Profesor
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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In Broad Daylight
Title: In Broad Daylight
Character: investigating judge
Released: March 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.
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Kartoteka
Title: Kartoteka
Character: Protagonist
Released: October 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
Title: Hospital of the Transfiguration
Character: Zygmunt Sekułowski
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then, the occupying forces arrive...
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A Room with a View on the Sea
Title: A Room with a View on the Sea
Character: Professor Jan Leszczyński
Released: March 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
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Niemcy
Title: Niemcy
Character: Professor
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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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Title: The Hourglass Sanatorium
Character: Dr. Gotard
Released: December 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A young man named Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob. On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn't died yet, perhaps due to Josef's arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
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Through the Fifth Dimension
Title: Through the Fifth Dimension
Character: Doktor Kopot
Released: May 5, 1973
Type: Movie
Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures.
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How Far, How Near
Title: How Far, How Near
Character: Maks
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Title: Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Character: Bermudez
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
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The Woodpecker
Title: The Woodpecker
Character: Thief (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1971
Type: Movie
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Pejzaż z bohaterem
Title: Pejzaż z bohaterem
Character: Rafał Wilczewski, nauczyciel historii
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
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The Office
Title: The Office
Character: Miron
Released: December 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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The Game
Title: The Game
Character: Husband
Released: May 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
Title: Colonel Wolodyjowski
Character: Priest Kamiński (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
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Fatalista
Title: Fatalista
Character: Lieutenant Wulicz
Released: March 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?
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Odwiedziny o zmierzchu
Title: Odwiedziny o zmierzchu
Character: Neighbour
Released: October 5, 1966
Type: Movie
A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover.
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Maria and Napoleon
Title: Maria and Napoleon
Character: Napoleon I Bonaparte / Napoleon Beranger
Released: October 4, 1966
Type: Movie
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
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Pearls and Ducats
Title: Pearls and Ducats
Character: Franciszek X
Released: April 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.
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The Moment of Peace
Title: The Moment of Peace
Character: Engineer, Maths Professor ("Matura")
Released: November 25, 1965
Type: Movie
The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
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Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach
Title: Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach
Character: Sick Man
Released: October 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Two men are having a conversation about life and transience. One of them is terminally ill.
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Salto
Title: Salto
Character: Host
Released: June 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Don Pedro Velasquez
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 Law and the Fist
Title: The Law and the Fist
Character: Andrzej Kenig
Released: September 14, 1964
Type: Movie
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
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Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Title: Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Character: Doctor Baltazar Charbonneau
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius ​​de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in Paris and calls for the famous Dr. Cherbonneau, suspected of being a charlatan. Citing the teachings of the East, Cherbonneau offers the patient an "avatar", a reincarnation of the soul, which takes a different body...
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Naprawdę wczoraj
Title: Naprawdę wczoraj
Character: Captain Stołyp
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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Gangsters and Philantropists
Title: Gangsters and Philantropists
Character: 'Profesor' the gangster ("Professor")
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
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Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
Title: Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
Character: Doctor Paweł
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.
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The Sun and the Shadow
Title: The Sun and the Shadow
Character: Znamenitiyat aktyor
Released: October 21, 1962
Type: Movie
The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness.
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Title: Spóźnieni przechodnie
Character: Edward (segment 1) / Himself (segment 5) (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Five short stories.
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Opening Tomorrow
Title: Opening Tomorrow
Character: Zenon Wiewiórski
Released: April 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.
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Story of the Golden Boot
Title: Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Wit Stwosz
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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Time Past
Title: Time Past
Character: Kurt von Steinhagen
Released: April 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
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Goodbye to the Past
Title: Goodbye to the Past
Character: Oskar Rennert
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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Marysia i Krasnoludki
Title: Marysia i Krasnoludki
Character: Sadełko (voice)
Released: February 25, 1961
Type: Movie
King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.
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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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Coloured Stockings
Title: Coloured Stockings
Character: Caretaker (segment "Jadźka")
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter.
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One Room Tenants
Title: One Room Tenants
Character: Dziadzia
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: Henryk Fogiel
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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Farewells
Title: Farewells
Character: Mirek
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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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Kuba Kowalski
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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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Title: Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Character: Sądej
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.
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Men of the Blue Cross
Title: Men of the Blue Cross
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.
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The Stars Must Burn
Title: The Stars Must Burn
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.
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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: Feliks Dzierżyński
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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Hamlet x 5
Title: Hamlet x 5
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue.
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Title: Professor Tutka Club
Character: Profesor Tutka
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Professor Tutka is a storyteller in little café.