Franciszek Pieczka

Franciszek Pieczka

Born: January 18, 1928
Died: September 23, 2022
in Godów, śląskie, Polska
Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954) he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar. He has starred in over a hundred films, both Polish and foreign. He has been awarded and honored many times for his individual roles, as well as his contribution to the development of theater and film art. He is an honorary citizen of the Godów commune. In 2015, he was awarded the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franciszek Pieczka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Disgrace
Title: Disgrace
Character: The Grandfather
Released: November 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a dark secret.
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Aktor Pana Boga
Title: Aktor Pana Boga
Released: January 18, 2019
Type: Movie
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Son of the Snow Queen
Title: Son of the Snow Queen
Character: Kazimierz
Released: August 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Heart and Sweetheart
Title: The Heart and Sweetheart
Character: Droselmajer
Released: August 12, 2014
Type: Movie
A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage on her road to fulfilling her dream is the entrance exam to the ballet school in Gdansk. To make it there in time, she escapes from the orphanage, taking newly hired educator Kordula with her. They travel all the way across Poland, hiding from the police and meeting people who help them in need.
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Title: Hotel pod żyrafą i nosorożcem
Character: Franciszek Alba
Released: June 8, 2008
Type: TV
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Ranczo Wilkowyje
Title: Ranczo Wilkowyje
Character: Stacho Japycz
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Title: The Eighth Day of the Week
Character: Jeromos
Released: December 3, 2006
Type: Movie
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, portrayed by Maya Komorowska is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.
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Jasminum
Title: Jasminum
Character: święty Roch
Released: June 29, 2006
Type: Movie
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks.
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Title: Ranczo
Character: Stacho Japycz
Released: March 5, 2006
Type: TV
Ranczo ["Ranch"] is a Polish television comedy series, directed by Wojciech Adamczyk, that has aired since March 2006 on TVP1. It follows the story of Lucy Wilska, a Polish-American who has inherited her grandmother's country home in the fictional small town of Wilkowyje. She arrives in Wilkowyje intent on selling the cottage but, after seeing the charm of the village, decides to stay.
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Miracle in Cracow
Title: Miracle in Cracow
Character: Rabin Lewi
Released: December 2, 2004
Type: Movie
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Requiem
Title: Requiem
Character: Bartłomiej
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-run death. A community's pain reverberates through fractured relationships and the burden of funereal responsibility.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Apostle Peter
Released: August 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for his concubine. For Lygia, a Christian, being a pagan's concubine is a severe sin and disgrace. However, when Vinicius is wounded, Lygia cares for him, and starts to reciprocate his feelings. Vinicius, in return, becomes interested in Christian learning and asks Apostle Peter to teach him. In the meantime, Emperor Nero accuses Christians of having started a great fire in Rome. He encourages the imprisonment, torture and murder of his Christian subjects.
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Title: Quo Vadis
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: TV
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Syzyfowe prace
Title: Syzyfowe prace
Character: Józef, servant
Released: November 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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History of Cinema in Popielawy
Title: History of Cinema in Popielawy
Character: Wujo Janek
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all of whom bear the name Jozef. Since he is the sixth consecutive son to be called Jozef, he is nicknamed Szustek (meaning "sixth one").
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Szabla od komendanta
Title: Szabla od komendanta
Character: Kotek
Released: April 26, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Story About Master Twardowski
Title: The Story About Master Twardowski
Character: pustelnik Albertus
Released: March 11, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Die Straßen von Berlin
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: TV
Die Straßen von Berlin is a German television series.
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The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates
Title: The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates
Character: Marczyk
Released: November 7, 1995
Type: Movie
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Thanks for Every New Morning
Title: Thanks for Every New Morning
Character: Olga's Father
Released: November 3, 1994
Type: Movie
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something more better than is in Ukraine. As the times go by, the friens of family live in Austria. And now for change the family visit "a better life" in west Europe and they found out how it is to be something second-rate.
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Johnnie Waterman
Title: Johnnie Waterman
Character: Jancio Wodnik
Released: February 17, 1994
Type: Movie
On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date.
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Miraculous Place
Title: Miraculous Place
Character: Pustelnik
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Two Moons
Title: Two Moons
Character: Szulim
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Title: The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Character: ksiądz Michalski
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
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Pograbek
Title: Pograbek
Character: Kaczuba
Released: June 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to his infertility. However, the woman that promised him one has changed her mind, and now the provincial gigolo is trying to make his wife pregnant.
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Apricots in the Baskets
Title: Apricots in the Baskets
Character: Dimosthenis
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Greek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
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Squadron
Title: Squadron
Character: Błażej
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
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Ördög vigye
Title: Ördög vigye
Character: Jambus Ármin
Released: October 16, 1992
Type: Movie
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The Land beyond the Rainbow
Title: The Land beyond the Rainbow
Character: Großvater
Released: March 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Title: Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Character: Banasik
Released: April 1, 1991
Type: Movie
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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Kein Wort von Einsamkeit
Title: Kein Wort von Einsamkeit
Character: Georg Tresser
Released: November 21, 1990
Type: Movie
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Do domu
Title: Do domu
Character: Szymon's father
Released: November 14, 1990
Type: Movie
A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Title: Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Character: Papa
Released: October 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
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Potyatusok
Title: Potyatusok
Character: Mariusz
Released: April 12, 1990
Type: Movie
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to escape to Sweden fails and they find themselves in a Polish prison.
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Memories of a River
Title: Memories of a River
Character: Ansel Vogel
Released: February 8, 1990
Type: Movie
In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.
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Burial of a Potato
Title: Burial of a Potato
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
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Thief
Title: Thief
Character: Ojciec
Released: November 27, 1988
Type: Movie
A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.
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Famous Like Sarajevo
Title: Famous Like Sarajevo
Character: God (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1988
Type: Movie
The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents.
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Jadup and Boel
Title: Jadup and Boel
Character: Unger
Released: May 12, 1988
Type: Movie
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. Jadup, the town's respected and popular mayor, remembers, though, how he mistrusted Boel and did not help her through this difficult time; HE didn't even notice THAT Boel loved him. Jadup's confrontation with the past gives him a new, critical view of his current situation and surroundings.
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Powrót po śmierć
Title: Powrót po śmierć
Character: Siewka
Released: December 2, 1987
Type: Movie
One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.
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Rykowisko
Title: Rykowisko
Character: stary Szałaj, ojciec Wiktora
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
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Friend of the Jolly Devil
Title: Friend of the Jolly Devil
Character: Witalis
Released: February 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is determined to help his "father" and answers a mysterious call. He must seek the Spirit of Darkness and defeat him if the woodsman is to see again. During his search for the Spirit he encounters a friendly monster who helps the boy in his quest. They are able to survive every dangerous test on their way and the final confrontation.
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The Mother of the Kings
Title: The Mother of the Kings
Character: Cyga
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
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Wcześnie urodzony
Title: Wcześnie urodzony
Character: Józef Chrobak
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.
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Memoirs of a Sinner
Title: Memoirs of a Sinner
Character: Logan
Released: October 20, 1986
Type: Movie
A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
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Axiliad
Title: Axiliad
Released: October 13, 1986
Type: Movie
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
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The Girls of Nowolipki
Title: The Girls of Nowolipki
Character: Mossakowski
Released: April 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
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Big Bang
Title: Big Bang
Character: Stasiek Skrzypek
Released: March 30, 1986
Type: Movie
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
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Chrześniak
Title: Chrześniak
Character: Strzykalski, ojciec chrzestny Purowskiego
Released: January 21, 1986
Type: Movie
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
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Sprawa się rypła
Title: Sprawa się rypła
Character: Ludwik Placek
Released: August 19, 1985
Type: Movie
During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact, alive. If successful, they will be able to pocket the gifts that have been issued to her for reaching the ripe old age of 100, thus inspiring his neighbor's, Kadela's, jealousy.
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La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka
Title: La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the grounds of the mine.
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Title: Blisko, coraz bliżej
Character: Franciszek Pasternik
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: TV
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Title: Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Character: Ibrahim Pasha
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
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Fariaho
Title: Fariaho
Character: Sebastian Fußberg
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Faithful River
Title: The Faithful River
Released: August 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
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Pełnia nad głowami
Title: Pełnia nad głowami
Character: Andrzej
Released: June 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
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Austeria
Title: Austeria
Character: Tag
Released: March 28, 1983
Type: Movie
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Title: An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Character: Piotr Boratynski
Released: March 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
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The Linnet
Title: The Linnet
Character: Dziad / Pan Bóg we śnie Kaziuka
Released: September 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
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The Lynx
Title: The Lynx
Character: Stelmach Alojz
Released: March 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
Title: Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
Released: December 3, 1981
Type: Movie
While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a child together. When their study draws to an end, Christiane and Hatem have to decide if they want to share their future together. After Hatem explains to Christiane that as a woman she will not be able to work in Syria, Christiane suggests moving to the GDR together. For Hatem, however, this is out of the question, since he considers it a betrayal of his country. Thus, the two young people are forced to go separate ways.
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Ciosy
Title: Ciosy
Character: Franciszek
Released: June 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer Stefan Przewłocki. A literary widow gives Wiktor the materials for the deceased's last novel.
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Racławice. 1794
Title: Racławice. 1794
Character: prezentujący polityczny teatrzyk kukiełkowy
Released: June 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.
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The Beads of One Rosary
Title: The Beads of One Rosary
Character: Jerzy Habryk
Released: March 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.
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The Beads of One Rosary
Title: The Beads of One Rosary
Character: Jerzy Habryka
Released: March 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.
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Placówka
Title: Placówka
Character: Józef Ślimak
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
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Title: The Great Runaway
Character: Herr Warga
Released: September 30, 1979
Type: TV
A miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism, prostitution, and violence are just a few of the themes of the three movies.
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David
Title: David
Released: February 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.
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The White Mazurka
Title: The White Mazurka
Character: Walery Wróblewski
Released: February 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
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Wiśnie
Title: Wiśnie
Character: Ludwik Grępka
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
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Somosierra. 1808
Title: Somosierra. 1808
Character: Andrzej Niegolewski
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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The Woman Across the Way
Title: The Woman Across the Way
Character: Simon Schmidt
Released: November 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.
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Title: Ziemia obiecana
Character: Muller, ojciec Mady
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: TV
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A Round Week
Title: A Round Week
Character: Karol Kostka
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
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Budapest Tales
Title: Budapest Tales
Character: Énekes
Released: March 2, 1977
Type: Movie
"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
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Gold Duck
Title: Gold Duck
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Scar
Title: The Scar
Character: Stefan Bednarz
Released: December 6, 1976
Type: Movie
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.
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Slate
Title: Slate
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
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Grzech Antoniego Grudy
Title: Grzech Antoniego Grudy
Released: July 8, 1975
Type: Movie
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Till Eulenspiegel
Title: Till Eulenspiegel
Character: Ritter Kunz
Released: May 23, 1975
Type: Movie
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Character: Müller
Released: February 21, 1975
Type: Movie
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
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The Deluge
Title: The Deluge
Character: Old Kiemlicz
Released: September 2, 1974
Type: Movie
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
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The Nest
Title: The Nest
Character: Mrokota
Released: July 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
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Dark River
Title: Dark River
Character: wójt Mateusz
Released: February 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
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The Peasants
Title: The Peasants
Character: Priest
Released: December 7, 1973
Type: Movie
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
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Lazarus' Whims
Title: Lazarus' Whims
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Czepiec
Released: January 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
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Kareta
Title: Kareta
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Sun Rises Once a Day
Title: The Sun Rises Once a Day
Character: Haratyk
Released: April 4, 1972
Type: Movie
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
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Through nine bridges
Title: Through nine bridges
Character: Father
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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Punkt wyjścia
Title: Punkt wyjścia
Character: Jerzy
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.
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The Cask of Amontillado
Title: The Cask of Amontillado
Character: Fortunato
Released: February 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Professor Montresor, being the object of his friends' jokes, prepares his revenge.
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Pearl in the Crown
Title: Pearl in the Crown
Character: Hubert Siersza
Released: January 27, 1972
Type: Movie
When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues.
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Liberation: The Last Assault
Title: Liberation: The Last Assault
Released: November 5, 1971
Type: Movie
In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Captain Neustroev's company is selected to hoist the Victory Banner atop the Reichstag.
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Liberation: Battle for Berlin
Title: Liberation: Battle for Berlin
Character: Sergeant Pełka
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: Movie
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
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Kłopotliwy gość
Title: Kłopotliwy gość
Character: Smiling agent
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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The Woodpecker
Title: The Woodpecker
Character: Edek Zdziebko (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1971
Type: Movie
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Hydro-Puzzle
Title: Hydro-Puzzle
Character: Marynarz
Released: April 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
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Legenda
Title: Legenda
Character: Priest
Released: April 20, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Doktor Ewa
Character: Zalewski, przewodniczący Rady Narodowej
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: TV
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Przystań
Title: Przystań
Character: Muraszko
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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A Hole in the Ground
Title: A Hole in the Ground
Character: ksiądz
Released: June 12, 1970
Type: Movie
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.
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Album polski
Title: Album polski
Character: kolejarz Franek, ojczym Anny
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: Priest from Sansisto
Released: December 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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Matthew's Days
Title: Matthew's Days
Character: Mateusz
Released: February 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
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Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen
Title: Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen
Character: Josef
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best incidentally, the sensitivities of the victims and the perpetrators, to seemingly trivial expressions, gestures, sentences becomes the main thing.
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Skinny and Others
Title: Skinny and Others
Character: Tomasz Waliczek "Kosa" / "Scythe"
Released: February 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
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Where Is the Third King?
Title: Where Is the Third King?
Character: Marczak
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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Title: Four Tank-Men and a Dog
Character: Gustlik Jeleń
Released: May 9, 1966
Type: TV
Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.
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Bigos
Title: Bigos
Character: Franek Lalik
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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Walkover
Title: Walkover
Character: Sports Organiser
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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Back to Life Again
Title: Back to Life Again
Character: Grajewski's Cellmate
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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Late Afternoon
Title: Late Afternoon
Character: Janusz
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Pacheco
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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Good Sins
Title: Good Sins
Character: Eustachy Topór
Released: November 22, 1963
Type: Movie
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Their Everyday Life
Title: Their Everyday Life
Character: Danysz
Released: May 10, 1963
Type: Movie
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Skąpani w ogniu
Title: Skąpani w ogniu
Character: Józef Poczobutt
Released: March 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
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Drugi brzeg
Title: Drugi brzeg
Character: Stefan
Released: April 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
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Hospital
Title: Hospital
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people
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Nad rzeką
Title: Nad rzeką
Character: Resistance fighter
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol.
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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Character: Heniutek
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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April
Title: April
Character: Pvt. Anklewicz
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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Mother Joan of the Angels
Title: Mother Joan of the Angels
Character: Odryn
Released: February 9, 1961
Type: Movie
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior, who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
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Kalosze szczęścia
Title: Kalosze szczęścia
Character: Nurse in a mental hospital (uncredited)
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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Lost Feelings
Title: Lost Feelings
Character: Man with trumpet (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1957
Type: Movie
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
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A Generation
Title: A Generation
Character: German Soldier on Patrol (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.
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Title: Hotel pod żyrafą i nosorożcem
Character: Franciszek Alba
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: ***
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie