Mieczysław Kalenik

Mieczysław Kalenik

Born: January 1, 1933
Died: June 16, 2017
in Międzyrzec Podlaski, Polska

Movies for Mieczysław Kalenik...

A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
Title: A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
Character: Dancing Man / Mayor
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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Somosierra. 1808
Title: Somosierra. 1808
Character: Sergeant Stadnicki
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: Movie
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Stefan Olczak
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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Primer
Title: Primer
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The characters from Marian Falski's Elementarz come to life as protagonists of a chronicle drama from the 1960s and then protagonists of a new wave plot from the 1970s. The voiceover adjusts its tone and message to the image, staying within the world of the primer.
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Title: Polskie drogi
Character: Józef Kaleta
Released: October 16, 1977
Type: TV
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Kazimierz Wielki
Title: Kazimierz Wielki
Character: Grzegorz Topór
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
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W te dni przedwiosenne
Title: W te dni przedwiosenne
Released: October 10, 1975
Type: Movie
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Sobie król
Title: Sobie król
Character: TV Reporter
Released: May 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
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Title: Clouds of War
Character: Kos, mieszczanin z Lecka
Released: December 23, 1973
Type: TV
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Title: Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Released: August 10, 1973
Type: Movie
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Tecumseh
Title: Tecumseh
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast hunting grounds at ludicrously low prices without any bloodshed. Harrison, Governor of Indiana, has made and broke no less than fifteen such treaties, driving increasing numbers of Indians out to the infertile West. To put a stop to this criminal practice, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh tries to unite the Native Americans.
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Facing the Truth
Title: Facing the Truth
Character: Klis's brigade member
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Polish drama from 1970 directed by Bohdan Poreba.
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Album polski
Title: Album polski
Character: żołnierz niemiecki znajdujący komunistę (uncredited)
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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Nowy
Title: Nowy
Character: robotnik usprawiedliwiający spóźnienie w dziale personalnym
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: Gniewko, syn rybaka
Character: Gerhard von Locke
Released: December 27, 1969
Type: TV
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Makbet
Title: Makbet
Character: Angus
Released: June 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
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Everything for Sale
Title: Everything for Sale
Character: Militiaman
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: Hans Diederlich/Jan Derlacz, nauczyciel gimnastyki
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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Countess Cosel
Title: Countess Cosel
Character: Lieutenant La Haye
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: Movie
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Title: Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Character: Stefan Janotta
Released: November 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
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Westerplatte Resists
Title: Westerplatte Resists
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
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The Night of the Generals
Title: The Night of the Generals
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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The Lodger
Title: The Lodger
Character: Cyclist
Released: January 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A pleasant, open-faced young man (Jan Machulski) comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
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Back to Life Again
Title: Back to Life Again
Character: NSZ Soldier (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 First Day of Freedom
Title: The First Day of Freedom
Character: Otto
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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Teenager
Title: Teenager
Character: Jurek Wronicz
Released: June 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
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Knights of the Teutonic Order
Title: Knights of the Teutonic Order
Character: Zbyszko of Bogdaniec
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
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Skarb kapitana Martensa
Title: Skarb kapitana Martensa
Character: Boatswain
Released: May 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.
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Winter Twilight
Title: Winter Twilight
Character: Conductor
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
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Warszawska syrena
Title: Warszawska syrena
Character: Jasko
Released: July 20, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Hours of Hope
Title: The Hours of Hope
Character: American (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1955
Type: Movie
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
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A Generation
Title: A Generation
Character: SS Soldier (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.