Henryk Modrzewski

Henryk Modrzewski

Born: May 12, 1897
Died: October 4, 1965
in Kańczuga, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Polska)

Movies for Henryk Modrzewski...

Adam's Two Ribs
Title: Adam's Two Ribs
Character: Teacher
Released: January 24, 1964
Type: Movie
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
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Teenager
Title: Teenager
Character: Florian and Bogdan's Neighbour
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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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Title: The Two Who Stole the Moon
Character: Tailor in Zapiecek
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Title: Two Gentlemen 'N'
Character: Tomasz
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
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Birth Certificate
Title: Birth Certificate
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Title: Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Character: Old man taking care of the shelter (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1961
Type: Movie
An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
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Time Past
Title: Time Past
Character: Judge
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: Pool player (uncredited)
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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Coloured Stockings
Title: Coloured Stockings
Character: Old Teacher (segment "Matylda")
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter.
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The Knave of Spades
Title: The Knave of Spades
Character: Cashier (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
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Tysiąc talarów
Title: Tysiąc talarów
Character: Chryzostom Kadryl (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1960
Type: Movie
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
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Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Title: Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
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Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Title: Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Character: Man at the Station (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
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Free City
Title: Free City
Character: Pluske
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Title: The Eighth Day of the Week
Character: Worker at CDT Department Store (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
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Król Maciuś I
Title: Król Maciuś I
Character: Native tongue teacher (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1958
Type: Movie
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Title: Ewa Wants to Sleep
Character: Man "buying" a Brick (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
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Rainy July
Title: Rainy July
Character: Man with a Dog
Released: February 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Cashier (uncredited)
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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Szkice węglem
Title: Szkice węglem
Character: Clerk
Released: November 25, 1957
Type: Movie
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
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Trzy kobiety
Title: Trzy kobiety
Character: Middle School Teacher
Released: May 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Nikodem Dyzma
Title: Nikodem Dyzma
Character: Clerk
Released: October 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
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Sprawa pilota Maresza
Title: Sprawa pilota Maresza
Character: Airplane Passenger
Released: April 7, 1956
Type: Movie
A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
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Adventure in Marienstadt
Title: Adventure in Marienstadt
Character: Engineer
Released: January 25, 1954
Type: Movie
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
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Sprawa do załatwienia
Title: Sprawa do załatwienia
Character: Client at Restaurant (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
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Young Chopin
Title: Young Chopin
Character: Police Inspector (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
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The Warsaw Debut
Title: The Warsaw Debut
Character: Sennewald
Released: March 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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Treasure
Title: Treasure
Character: Wedding Witness
Released: February 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
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Forbidden Songs
Title: Forbidden Songs
Character: Cieślak's Friend
Released: January 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
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Profesor Wilczur
Title: Profesor Wilczur
Character: Dembicz's Manager
Released: October 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.