Zygmunt Zintel

Zygmunt Zintel

Born: April 2, 1911
Died: September 30, 1990
in Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)

Movies for Zygmunt Zintel...

Klatka
Title: Klatka
Released: December 3, 1986
Type: Movie
A young man, attacked by thugs, seeks shelter in a random apartment block.
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Medium
Title: Medium
Character: Krause
Released: October 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
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Ray
Title: Ray
Released: April 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist government and local nobles don't take kindly to his presence and try to sabotage him.
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On, ona, oni
Title: On, ona, oni
Character: Zosia's father (segment 3)
Released: December 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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Rodzina Lesniewskich
Title: Rodzina Lesniewskich
Character: Mr Aleksander
Released: October 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself.
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Title: Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
Character: Malinowski, szynkarz
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: TV
Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.
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Rodzina Połanieckich
Title: Rodzina Połanieckich
Character: Lekarz przy pojedynku Maszki i Gątowskiego
Released: March 4, 1979
Type: Movie
The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
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A Room with a View on the Sea
Title: A Room with a View on the Sea
Released: March 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Poprzedni administrator Serbinowa
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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At Home
Title: At Home
Released: May 14, 1976
Type: Movie
An elderly couple living in a quiet town receives news that their only son has arrived.
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Title: Trzecia granica
Released: January 27, 1976
Type: TV
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Nights and Days
Title: Nights and Days
Character: Stefan Olczak
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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Znikąd donikąd
Title: Znikąd donikąd
Released: August 15, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Droga
Character: Olchowiak, strażnik w bazie (nie występuje w napisach)
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Droga
Character: Olchowiak, strażnik w bazie
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: TV
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Fernando i humaniści
Title: Fernando i humaniści
Released: July 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A bitter story about a bizarre folk sculptor. The creators placed the action in the original landscapes of a mountain village.
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It's Spring, Sergeant
Title: It's Spring, Sergeant
Character: Pasturczyk
Released: June 28, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Investigation
Title: The Investigation
Released: June 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard officer investigates the mysterious disappearance of a series of corpses. Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem.
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Title: Clouds of War
Character: szlachcic z Wąsowa (nie występuje w napisach)
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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Salvation
Title: Salvation
Character: former camp prisoner
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
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The Sun Rises Once a Day
Title: The Sun Rises Once a Day
Character: Motyka (voice) (uncredited)
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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Title: Doktor Ewa
Character: Kuna, felczer
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: TV
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Title: How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Character: Sebastian's father
Released: April 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Title: How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Character: Father Sebastian
Released: April 2, 1970
Type: Movie
On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.
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Title: More Than Life At Stake
Character: aptekarz Wilhelm Schenk, w rzeczywistości SS-Stumbanführer
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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Komedie pomyłek
Title: Komedie pomyłek
Character: Pinkerton / Davies
Released: July 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
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Stajnia na Salvatorze
Title: Stajnia na Salvatorze
Character: Customer buying a Tie (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1967
Type: Movie
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
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Title: Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa
Character: Hippollit Kwass
Released: October 5, 1967
Type: TV
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Zosya
Title: Zosya
Character: Stefan
Released: September 18, 1967
Type: Movie
In this WWII drama, Russian soldiers take a break at a scenic farm in Poland, and the unit is able to escape the horrors of war during their brief respite. A Polish farm girl and a Russian officer feel a mutual and unspoken attraction towards each other.
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Czas może powrócić
Title: Czas może powrócić
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Polish TV film.
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Pieczona gęś
Title: Pieczona gęś
Character: Man with a Briefcase
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Polish TV movie.
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Martians
Title: Martians
Character: Colonel
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Character: Bankier Pinkerton
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: Davies
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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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: Director
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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Title: Four Tank-Men and a Dog
Character: grabarz
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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Zawsze w niedziele
Title: Zawsze w niedziele
Character: Piano Maker ("Third Sunday")
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Three stories centered around sports.
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Niedziela sprawiedliwości
Title: Niedziela sprawiedliwości
Character: Markowski's Guest
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: Movie
A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.
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Title: Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: Ernest Malczyk
Released: December 25, 1965
Type: TV
Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.
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The Ashes
Title: The Ashes
Character: Sandomierz Servant (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
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Walkover
Title: Walkover
Character: Man cutting out Paper Figures (voice) (uncredited)
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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Wyspa złoczyńców
Title: Wyspa złoczyńców
Character: Kolasa
Released: April 5, 1965
Type: Movie
A young museum worker sets out to a treasure hidden in a small town.
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Beata
Title: Beata
Character: Headmaster
Released: January 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
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A Lady from the Window
Title: A Lady from the Window
Character: Janitor
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
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Echo
Title: Echo
Character: Railwayman (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
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Where is the General?
Title: Where is the General?
Character: Heulinger
Released: January 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
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Good Sins
Title: Good Sins
Character: Mateusz
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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Mansarda
Title: Mansarda
Character: Wieczorek
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: Movie
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Released: September 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.
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Jadą goście jadą...
Title: Jadą goście jadą...
Character: Harry Kwasnick (Segment 3)
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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Story of the Golden Boot
Title: Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Innkeeper
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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Birth Certificate
Title: Birth Certificate
Character: Interpreter
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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Szczęściarz Antoni
Title: Szczęściarz Antoni
Character: Train Conductor
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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Mother Joan of the Angels
Title: Mother Joan of the Angels
Character: Wincenty Wołodkowicz
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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Ostrożnie yeti
Title: Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Hunter
Released: January 20, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Knave of Spades
Title: The Knave of Spades
Character: Detective (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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Little Dramas
Title: Little Dramas
Character: Man Soldering Pots (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Two stories showcasing the problems children face while growing up.
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Night Train
Title: Night Train
Character: Passenger with Insomnia
Released: September 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
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Kalosze szczęścia
Title: Kalosze szczęścia
Character: Józef Królik
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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Dezerter
Title: Dezerter
Character: Master of the Mine
Released: October 12, 1958
Type: Movie
A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...
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Król Maciuś I
Title: Król Maciuś I
Character: Palace guard (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: Major Piętka
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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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Harmonist Poldek
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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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Title: Kapelusz pana Anatola
Character: Hatter (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
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Wraki
Title: Wraki
Character: Mundek
Released: September 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.
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Land
Title: Land
Character: Sławniak
Released: February 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.
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Winter Twilight
Title: Winter Twilight
Character: Krywka
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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Man on the Tracks
Title: Man on the Tracks
Character: Witold Sałata
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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Nikodem Dyzma
Title: Nikodem Dyzma
Character: Ignacy
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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Shadow
Title: Shadow
Character: Coach Driver
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
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Trzy starty
Title: Trzy starty
Character: Karaś
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
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A Generation
Title: A Generation
Character: Meister Ziarno
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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Not Far from Warsaw
Title: Not Far from Warsaw
Character: Worker
Released: October 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Title: The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
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Soldier of Victory
Title: Soldier of Victory
Character: Pawłowski's Driver (uncredited)
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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Devil's Ravine
Title: Devil's Ravine
Character: Smuggler
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West. Highlander Jasiek used to be a smuggler, now he is a soldier of the Border Protection Forces, serving in his homeland, in the Tatra Mountains. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors, as well as his love for Halka, he becomes a righteous citizen. He contributes to preventing the smuggling of valuable works of art abroad organized by a Polish aristocrat and carried out by a gang.