Kazimierz Opaliński

Kazimierz Opaliński

Born: February 22, 1890
Died: June 6, 1979
in Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Przemyśl, Poland)
Kazimierz Opaliński (22 February 1890 – 6 June 1979) was a Polish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1936 and 1975.

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Na melinę
Title: Na melinę
Character: Alojzy Szynalik
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
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Title: Ziemia obiecana
Character: Baum, ojciec Maksa
Released: May 21, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Radca Joachim Ostrzeński, stryj Barbary
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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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Rejent Joachim Ostrzeński
Released: September 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzenska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Baranska) and Bogumil Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Binczycki) 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 Dabrowska 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. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Character: Maks' Father
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: Imperial envoy
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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Title: Clouds of War
Character: Sękosz, 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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Chlopcy
Title: Chlopcy
Character: Józef Kalmita
Released: June 12, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Father
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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Bolesław Śmiały
Title: Bolesław Śmiały
Released: October 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.
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Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Title: Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Character: przyjaciel Piotra
Released: May 3, 1972
Type: Movie
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Nowy
Title: Nowy
Character: kierownik działu socjalnego
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Office
Title: The Office
Character: Cardinal
Released: December 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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Komedie pomyłek
Title: Komedie pomyłek
Character: Edward Richards / Judge
Released: July 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
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Bardzo starzy oboje
Title: Bardzo starzy oboje
Character: Adolf
Released: December 6, 1967
Type: Movie
A marriage celebrates their 50th wedding anniversary while reckoning with the tragic events of their past.
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Kaule
Title: Kaule
Released: May 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Character: Edward Richards
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
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Komedia z pomyłek
Title: Komedia z pomyłek
Character: Judge
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
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The Codes
Title: The Codes
Character: Pieczara
Released: December 25, 1966
Type: Movie
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: Ignacy Zasada
Released: September 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
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Pharaoh
Title: Pharaoh
Character: Beroes
Released: March 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Title: Trzy kroki po ziemi
Character: Professor (segment 3)
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Three stories about life problems.
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Back to Life Again
Title: Back to Life Again
Character: Grajewski's Lawyer
Released: March 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Hermit / Sheik
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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Wiano
Title: Wiano
Character: Staszek's Father
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
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Czarne skrzydła
Title: Czarne skrzydła
Character: Kostryń, manager of 'Erazm'
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
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Gangsters and Philantropists
Title: Gangsters and Philantropists
Character: Judge ("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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Jadą goście jadą...
Title: Jadą goście jadą...
Character: Konstanty Nawrocki (Segment 1)
Released: September 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Title: Spóźnieni przechodnie
Character: Professor Waszkowski (segment 4)
Released: September 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Five short stories.
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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Character: Skotnicki
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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The Road West
Title: The Road West
Character: Walczak
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
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Szczęściarz Antoni
Title: Szczęściarz Antoni
Character: Opaliński
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Captain Dobek
Released: September 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
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Rok pierwszy
Title: Rok pierwszy
Character: Otryna's father
Released: September 22, 1960
Type: Movie
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
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Bad Luck
Title: Bad Luck
Character: Prison Warden
Released: April 4, 1960
Type: Movie
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
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Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Title: Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Character: Rapaczyński
Released: March 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
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Eroica
Title: Eroica
Character: Polish Commandant (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")
Released: January 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
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Man on the Tracks
Title: Man on the Tracks
Character: Władysław Orzechowski
Released: January 17, 1957
Type: Movie
One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Title: Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Character: Kropa
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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Under the Phrygian Star
Title: Under the Phrygian Star
Character: Nepomucen Lapiec
Released: October 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
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Difficult Love
Title: Difficult Love
Character: Nalepa, Hanka's father
Released: April 10, 1954
Type: Movie
A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
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Five from Barska Street
Title: Five from Barska Street
Character: Machinist
Released: February 27, 1954
Type: Movie
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
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Sprawa do załatwienia
Title: Sprawa do załatwienia
Character: Director, Train Passenger
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
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Three Stories
Title: Three Stories
Character: Nowicki (segment 3)
Released: April 24, 1953
Type: Movie
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
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Pierwsze dni
Title: Pierwsze dni
Character: Stanisław Wysmyk
Released: March 4, 1952
Type: Movie
An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
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The Warsaw Debut
Title: The Warsaw Debut
Character: Theater Records-keeper
Released: March 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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Two Brigades
Title: Two Brigades
Character: Jerzy Borowicz, actor playing Franciszek Karhan
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
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The Others Will Follow
Title: The Others Will Follow
Character: Antique Dealer
Released: May 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
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The People of the Vistula
Title: The People of the Vistula
Character: Dobrzalkowski
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
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Love or a Kingdom
Title: Love or a Kingdom
Released: December 7, 1936
Type: Movie
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Title: Professor Tutka Club
Character: Doktor
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Professor Tutka is a storyteller in little café.