Tomasz Zaliwski
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 15, 1929
Deathday: July 13, 2006
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The First Day of Freedom
1964-12-21
The First Day of Freedom
Overview: Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-21
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Bołdyn
1981-01-01
Bołdyn
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Romans z intruzem
1985-08-29
Romans z intruzem
Overview: End of August 1939. The Polish-German border is crossed by a German defector from the Wehrmacht, Ernst Hoffman, with the information that on August 26 at 4:45 Germany will attack Poland.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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Magical Bicycle
1955-12-25
Magical Bicycle
Overview: The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Through Nine Bridges
1972-03-29
Through Nine Bridges
Overview: A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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The Neighbours
1969-09-05
The Neighbours
Overview: A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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The Faithful River
1987-08-31
The Faithful River
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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Dzień Wisły
1980-09-01
Dzień Wisły
Overview: September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Przeklęta ziemia
1983-10-24
Przeklęta ziemia
Overview: Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-10-24
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Piętno
1985-06-03
Piętno
Overview: Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Crumbs of War
1986-02-26
Crumbs of War
Overview: A young partisan named Derkacz is fighting in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. In order to transport the wounded commander, he takes a horse from a nearby village along with its owner, teenage Józek.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-02-26
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Fun and Games
2009-09-14
Fun and Games
Overview: In the villa of the party dignitary, the fates of Stanisław, his son's friends, Zbyszek, a worker leaving the army, and the head of the thieves' gang, cross. The film was shelved by the censors for 27 years before finally getting a limited release in 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-14
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
1981-01-19
Jeśli serce masz bijące
Overview: A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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1968. Happy New Year
1993-02-12
1968. Happy New Year
Overview: The events concerning the March 1968 student demonstrations in Poland are seen through the eyes of young people rebelling against the government and the communist politicians trying to halt the protests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Republika nadziei
1988-10-14
Republika nadziei
Overview: The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Katastrofa w Gibraltarze
1983-01-01
Katastrofa w Gibraltarze
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Trochę nadziei
1972-02-22
Trochę nadziei
Overview: The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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The Ashes
1965-09-25
The Ashes
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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Zamach stanu
1981-04-06
Zamach stanu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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Polonia Restituta
1981-05-18
Polonia Restituta
Overview: A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Pastorale heroica
1984-01-16
Pastorale heroica
Overview: War film directed by Henryk Bielski.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-16
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Chrześniak
1986-01-21
Chrześniak
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-21
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Penelopy
1989-07-22
Penelopy
Overview: Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-07-22
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
1993-11-19
The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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The Birthday Trip
1990-08-03
The Birthday Trip
Overview: When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Around the World with Bolek and Lolek
1977-09-15
Around the World with Bolek and Lolek
Overview: Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-15
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Ostrożnie yeti
1961-01-20
Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Wirus
1996-10-11
Wirus
Overview: An unknown terrorist infects computer networks with the most important institutions in the country with the virus. It paralyzes hospitals, trains, aircraft control system. Suspicions fall on Michal, a thirty-year-old IT genius and owner of a small computer company. Michal must prove he is innocent. He agrees to the proposal to cooperate with the prosecutor.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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The Leaves Have Fallen
1975-11-17
The Leaves Have Fallen
Overview: Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-17
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Death of a President
1977-10-10
Death of a President
Overview: After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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Possession
1973-06-19
Possession
Overview: A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-06-19
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Zawsze w niedziele
1966-03-02
Zawsze w niedziele
Overview: Three stories centered around sports.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
1969-10-07
The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Overview: A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Uczennica
1982-08-01
Uczennica
Overview: Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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Przypadki Piotra S.
1982-05-26
Przypadki Piotra S.
Overview: The pupil of the orphanage is entering adulthood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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Olympic Fire
1970-02-10
Olympic Fire
Overview: During World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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More Than Life At Stake Part Six
1969-10-29
More Than Life At Stake Part Six
Overview: The sixth and final episode compilation of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 16 and 17.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Agent #1
1972-02-25
Agent #1
Overview: Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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Muffin
1973-12-23
Muffin
Overview: A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.
Genres: Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-12-23
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Three Stories
1953-04-24
Three Stories
Overview: The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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Samson
1961-09-11
Samson
Overview: The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-11
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Full Moon
1979-11-13
Full Moon
Overview: A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to live in a small community of cabins and summer homes in a lake-filled region north of Warsaw. His interactions with the villagers, including a drunkard and other eccentrics, provide an informative background for what happens next. The ex-architect's wife is a professional singer who has not abandoned the city or her life -- and she soon arrives to spend some time with her very changed husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-11-13
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Quiet Is the Night
1978-11-17
Quiet Is the Night
Overview: A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
2003-09-19
The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Overview: In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Thais
1984-09-24
Thais
Overview: Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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The Gorgon Case
1977-11-25
The Gorgon Case
Overview: In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Signs on the Road
1970-06-02
Signs on the Road
Overview: A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-02
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Party przy świecach
1980-01-01
Party przy świecach
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Doll
1968-11-07
The Doll
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-11-07
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
1973-08-10
Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Overview: A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-08-10
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
1962-03-21
Two Gentlemen 'N'
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Operation "Himmler"
1979-09-01
Operation "Himmler"
Overview: A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Two from the Big River
1958-11-17
Two from the Big River
Overview: A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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A Slip-Up
1972-10-17
A Slip-Up
Overview: The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-10-17
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
1970-04-02
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-02
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Fiasco of Operation Terror
1981-08-10
Fiasco of Operation Terror
Overview: The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-10
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The Crossing
1988-06-27
The Crossing
Overview: WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-06-27
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Dłużnicy Śmierci
1986-01-20
Dłużnicy Śmierci
Overview: Poland 1946. Militia looks for commander of anticommunist partisans called Grom (Thunder). It quickly comes out that militiamen have to discover a rat in their group.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-20
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The Attempt
1959-01-12
The Attempt
Overview: Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-12
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Eroica
1958-01-04
Eroica
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-01-04
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Funeral Ceremony
1985-03-06
Funeral Ceremony
Overview: After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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The Saragossa Manuscript
1965-06-10
The Saragossa Manuscript
Overview: During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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The Hexer
2001-11-09
The Hexer
Overview: A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect the human race from any misfortune. The witcher Geralt of Rivia must find the young princess Ciri, kidnapped by enemies. Only her return to the small kingdom of Cintra, which was attacked by aggressors, can restore peace and order there. The brave witcher sets off on a journey, long, distant and deadly.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Passion
1978-03-14
Passion
Overview: The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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Latawiec
1983-05-18
Latawiec
Overview: Jan comes to a mountain town to test a new model of a hang-glider. There he meets a young teacher.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-05-18
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