Ludwik Benoit

Ludwik Benoit

Born: July 18, 1920
Died: November 3, 1992
in Wołkowysk, Polska (obecnie Białoruś)

Movies for Ludwik Benoit...

Milky Way
Title: Milky Way
Character: Stary
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: Movie
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Priest Daens
Title: Priest Daens
Character: Man beside Nini's Corpse
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
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Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice
Title: Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice
Released: January 9, 1989
Type: Movie
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Swan Song
Title: Swan Song
Character: Cactus Lover
Released: September 1, 1988
Type: Movie
After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea…
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Sonata marymoncka
Title: Sonata marymoncka
Character: Cloakroom Attendant
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
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Koniec sezonu na lody
Title: Koniec sezonu na lody
Character: Maciejewski
Released: March 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
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Pan Samochodzik i niesamowity dwór
Title: Pan Samochodzik i niesamowity dwór
Released: June 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Ring and the Rose
Title: The Ring and the Rose
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.
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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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Zátah
Title: Zátah
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
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Big Bang
Title: Big Bang
Character: Wujek Mietek Wroński, gospodarz
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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Kolysanka
Title: Kolysanka
Character: Priest
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Fucha
Title: Fucha
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
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Fetysz
Title: Fetysz
Character: Ojciec Rudego
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Ambulance Will Come
Title: The Ambulance Will Come
Character: Handyman fixing the bathroom (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1983
Type: Movie
After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.
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Pełnia nad głowami
Title: Pełnia nad głowami
Character: Rzęsa
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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Father of the Queen
Title: Father of the Queen
Character: Ludwik
Released: April 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.
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Placówka
Title: Placówka
Character: mayor
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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Aria for an Athlete
Title: Aria for an Athlete
Character: dubbing roli odgrywanej przez Witolda Dederki
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
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Pies
Title: Pies
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Proszę słonia
Title: Proszę słonia
Character: Słoń Dominik (głos)
Released: April 5, 1978
Type: Movie
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Jozafat
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: Jozafat
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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Title: Janosik
Character: Gąsienica, opiekun Janosika
Released: July 26, 1974
Type: TV
Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
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Janosik
Title: Janosik
Character: Gąsienica, przybrany ojciec Janosika
Released: April 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Title: The Hourglass Sanatorium
Character: Szloma
Released: December 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A young man named Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob. On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn't died yet, perhaps due to Josef's arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
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Kłopotliwy gość
Title: Kłopotliwy gość
Character: PZU 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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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Title: How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Character: Karczmarz
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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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Character: Krzeszowski's Butler
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
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Komedie pomyłek
Title: Komedie pomyłek
Character: Citizen (segment "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg")
Released: July 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
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Poradnik matrymonialny
Title: Poradnik matrymonialny
Character: Barman
Released: March 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was taken to the hospital, where he is looked after by his sister Krystyna.
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Title: Proszę słonia
Character: słoń Dominik (głos)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: TV
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Stajnia na Salvatorze
Title: Stajnia na Salvatorze
Character: Daniec
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: Anatol Surma
Released: October 5, 1967
Type: TV
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Kochajmy syrenki
Title: Kochajmy syrenki
Character: Factory Manager
Released: April 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Character: Hadleyburg Citizen
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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Martians
Title: Martians
Character: Barker
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
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Hell and Heaven
Title: Hell and Heaven
Character: Joy (uncredited)
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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Sobótki
Title: Sobótki
Character: Stationmaster
Released: June 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
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Lenin in Poland
Title: Lenin in Poland
Character: Prison Guard
Released: April 8, 1966
Type: Movie
The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
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Zawsze w niedziele
Title: Zawsze w niedziele
Character: Balak ("First Sunday")
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Three stories centered around sports.
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Title: Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: Ryszard Nalepa
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 Holy War
Title: The Holy War
Character: Miner
Released: November 16, 1965
Type: Movie
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Title: The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Pacheco's Father
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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A Lady from the Window
Title: A Lady from the Window
Character: Court Chairman
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
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Good Sins
Title: Good Sins
Character: Instigator
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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Kryptonim Nektar
Title: Kryptonim Nektar
Character: Fagas' Friend
Released: October 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Title: The Two Who Stole the Moon
Character: Wojciech, Father of Jacek i Placek
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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Rzeczywistość
Title: Rzeczywistość
Character: "Loyola"
Released: April 28, 1961
Type: Movie
The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
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Ostrożnie yeti
Title: Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Cabman
Released: January 20, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Knave of Spades
Title: The Knave of Spades
Character: Grant
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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Knights of the Teutonic Order
Title: Knights of the Teutonic Order
Character: Mikołaj of Dlugolas
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
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Inspekcja pana Anatola
Title: Inspekcja pana Anatola
Character: Magician Barnaba Starski
Released: August 31, 1959
Type: Movie
PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers.
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Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Title: Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Character: Thief from Grójec
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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Pills for Aurelia
Title: Pills for Aurelia
Character: Artist
Released: November 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
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Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Title: Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Character: Stationmaster / "Arkadia" Director (voice) (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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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Title: Ewa Wants to Sleep
Character: Leon 'Ptuszko' Pistynek
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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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Title: Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Character: Miksa (Franek's father)
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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Podhale w ogniu
Title: Podhale w ogniu
Character: Dziedziała
Released: January 25, 1956
Type: Movie
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A Generation
Title: A Generation
Character: Grzesio
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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Under the Phrygian Star
Title: Under the Phrygian Star
Character: Perehubka
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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Not Far from Warsaw
Title: Not Far from Warsaw
Character: Borucki "Jarząb"
Released: October 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
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Cellulose
Title: Cellulose
Character: Ferryman
Released: April 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
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Five from Barska Street
Title: Five from Barska Street
Character: Bricklayer Wojciechowski
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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Gromada
Title: Gromada
Character: Stangret
Released: April 29, 1952
Type: Movie
The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
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The Warsaw Debut
Title: The Warsaw Debut
Character: Sculptor
Released: March 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".