Janusz Ziejewski
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 26, 1906
Deathday: November 26, 1973
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The Eighth Day of the Week
1958-08-26
The Eighth Day of the Week
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-26
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Countess Cosel
1968-09-06
Countess Cosel
Overview: The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
1962-11-12
The Two Who Stole the Moon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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The Others Will Follow
1949-05-12
The Others Will Follow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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Love or a Kingdom
1936-12-07
Love or a Kingdom
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1936-12-07
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Unvanquished City
1950-12-07
Unvanquished City
Overview: Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-12-07
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Dzikuska
1928-11-29
Dzikuska
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1928-11-29
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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
1954-02-25
The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Overview: A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Rodzina Milcarków
1962-11-09
Rodzina Milcarków
Overview: The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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Makbet
1969-06-30
Makbet
Overview: A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-30
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Alone in the City
1965-12-25
Alone in the City
Overview: Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-12-25
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Knights of the Teutonic Order
1960-09-02
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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The Tortures of Hope
1969-12-18
The Tortures of Hope
Overview: A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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Najlepszy kolega
1981-01-19
Najlepszy kolega
Overview: A school reunion is called to commemorate Adam, who died during the Second World War while defending a bridge. Unexpectedly, Adam shows up just before the ceremony. It turns out that he was only wounded, and after a war started a family and lived an ordinary life. To avoid the truth from spreading town Adam is asked to leave so that he can still be revered as a hero.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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More Than Life At Stake Part One
1969-10-29
More Than Life At Stake Part One
Overview: The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Facing the Truth
1970-11-20
Facing the Truth
Overview: After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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Nuremberg Epilogue
1971-05-07
Nuremberg Epilogue
Overview: Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-07
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Birth Certificate
1961-10-02
Birth Certificate
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-02
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Adventure in Marienstadt
1954-01-25
Adventure in Marienstadt
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-01-25
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy
1964-07-10
Rendes-Vous with a Spy
Overview: A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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Wystrzał
1966-04-18
Wystrzał
Overview: Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-18
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The Call of the Sea
1927-10-12
The Call of the Sea
Overview: The son of a miller, following his call, flees to the sea, but after several years he returns to his family and to his childhood romance, Hanka.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1927-10-12
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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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Pierwsze dni
1952-03-04
Pierwsze dni
Overview: An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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Cellulose
1954-04-27
Cellulose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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Five Boys from Barska Street
1954-02-27
Five Boys from Barska Street
Overview: In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-27
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Career
1955-03-26
Career
Overview: Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-03-26
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The Impossible Goodbye
1962-08-31
The Impossible Goodbye
Overview: All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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