Ryszard Ronczewski
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 27, 1930
Deathday: October 17, 2020
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And Along Come Tourists
2007-05-21
And Along Come Tourists
Overview: Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herold, the places manager, does little to help Sven familiarize. But when problems accumulate Sven realises that he already has become involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-05-21
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A Cure for Love
1966-07-20
A Cure for Love
Overview: An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Ostatnie takie trio
1977-04-29
Ostatnie takie trio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-04-29
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"Yokmok"
1963-12-25
"Yokmok"
Overview: Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him suspicious in the eyes of the local government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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A Lady from the Window
1964-12-18
A Lady from the Window
Overview: Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Kaddisch für einen Freund
2012-03-15
Kaddisch für einen Freund
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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Kanalia
1992-03-15
Kanalia
Overview: A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-03-15
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Trzy kobiety
1957-05-06
Trzy kobiety
Overview: Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-05-06
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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 Last Ride
1963-08-06
The Last Ride
Overview: Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-08-06
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The Refuge
1978-09-25
The Refuge
Overview: In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-09-25
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Bad Luck
1960-04-04
Bad Luck
Overview: To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-04-04
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Kanal
1957-04-20
Kanal
Overview: During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-04-20
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Green, Bygone...
1976-01-01
Green, Bygone...
Overview: A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Nikodem Dyzma
1956-10-29
Nikodem Dyzma
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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Pharaoh
1966-03-11
Pharaoh
Overview: Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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Komedianty
1962-02-02
Komedianty
Overview: Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-02-02
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Copernicus
1973-02-14
Copernicus
Overview: A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Kazimierz Wielki
1976-03-09
Kazimierz Wielki
Overview: The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
1958-03-17
Ewa Wants to Sleep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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King Ubu
2004-01-16
King Ubu
Overview: A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Podhale w ogniu
1956-01-25
Podhale w ogniu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-01-25
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All Souls' Day
1961-12-05
All Souls' Day
Overview: A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-05
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Białe zwierzęta
1960-03-20
Białe zwierzęta
Overview: An experimental film made for Polish television.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-20
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Index
1977-05-25
Index
Overview: The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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My Second Marriage
1964-03-11
My Second Marriage
Overview: After the death of his wife, Marcin stays alone with his growing son on the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Skąpani w ogniu
1963-03-05
Skąpani w ogniu
Overview: Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-05
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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 End of Our World
1964-03-31
The End of Our World
Overview: Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-03-31
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Giuseppe in Warsaw
1964-08-07
Giuseppe in Warsaw
Overview: The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Genres: Romance Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-08-07
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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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Trzy kroki po ziemi
1965-09-03
Trzy kroki po ziemi
Overview: Three stories about life problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Westerplatte Resists
1967-09-01
Westerplatte Resists
Overview: Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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11 Minutes
2015-09-02
11 Minutes
Overview: The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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The Real End of the Great War
1957-10-10
The Real End of the Great War
Overview: Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-10-10
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Return of the Pied Piper
1989-12-18
Return of the Pied Piper
Overview: The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-18
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Chemo
2015-10-02
Chemo
Overview: Thirty year old Benek experiences a crisis mainly manifested by compulsive suicidal thoughts and dreams about death. Accidentally he meets a beautiful, magnetic and mouthy Lena. He is dazzled from the first moment and his admiration grows when Lena not only understands his suicidal preoccupation but shares a similar one. They embark on a crazy journey during which Benek realizes he is not the only man in Lena's life - in addition, the girl has cancer, and she is not attempting to treat it. Admiration mixes with fear - finally Benek promises to accompany her to the end...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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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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West
2013-10-25
West
Overview: East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Mrs. Hanka's Diary
1963-08-29
Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Overview: The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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The Devil from Seventh Grade
1960-07-28
The Devil from Seventh Grade
Overview: Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-07-28
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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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Wolves' Echoes
1968-04-14
Wolves' Echoes
Overview: A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Bicz Boży
1967-07-07
Bicz Boży
Overview: A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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Full Ahead
1967-04-14
Full Ahead
Overview: Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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The Pier
1969-03-14
The Pier
Overview: After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-03-14
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1409. Afera na zamku Bartenstein
2005-01-21
1409. Afera na zamku Bartenstein
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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The Vampire
1968-02-11
The Vampire
Overview: Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy.
Genres: Horror Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-11
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Blood of the Innocent
1994-01-01
Blood of the Innocent
Overview: A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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My Name Is Sara
2020-02-27
My Name Is Sara
Overview: The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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Time Past
1961-04-11
Time Past
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-11
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Edges of the Lord
2001-10-12
Edges of the Lord
Overview: A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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The Nest
1974-07-17
The Nest
Overview: Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Ferry
1970-12-11
Ferry
Overview: 1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-11
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Aftermath
2012-11-09
Aftermath
Overview: Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
1969-03-28
Colonel Wolodyjowski
Overview: In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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Rok pierwszy
1960-09-22
Rok pierwszy
Overview: 1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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The Wedding Day
2021-10-08
The Wedding Day
Overview: The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 80 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Podróż na wschód
1997-04-24
Podróż na wschód
Overview: Ewa decides to leave Paris and find her husband left in Poland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-04-24
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Kop głębiej
2011-05-25
Kop głębiej
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-05-25
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