Elżbieta Czyżewska
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 14, 1938
Deathday: June 17, 2010
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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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Music Box
1989-12-22
Music Box
Overview: A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-22
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Rude Awakening
1989-08-16
Rude Awakening
Overview: In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-16
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I Love Cinema
1988-12-16
I Love Cinema
Overview: The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Where is the General?
1964-01-03
Where is the General?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Wife for an Australian
1964-06-16
Wife for an Australian
Overview: A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-06-16
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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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Daimler-Benz Limousine
1983-01-24
Daimler-Benz Limousine
Overview: Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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Dziewczyna z dobrego domu
1962-12-28
Dziewczyna z dobrego domu
Overview: Instead of coming to her own engagement party, Joanna throws herself into New Year's Eve partying. Her fiancé follows her lead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-12-28
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Godzina pąsowej róży
1963-04-12
Godzina pąsowej róży
Overview: A girl finds herself transported to 1880's Warsaw.
Genres: Comedy History Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Obok prawdy
1965-03-19
Obok prawdy
Overview: After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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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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Szczur
1994-01-01
Szczur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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A Kiss Before Dying
1991-04-26
A Kiss Before Dying
Overview: Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if he finds out, Jonathan murders her, but he stages her death as a suicide. As Jonathan works his way onto Mr. Carlsson's payroll, Dorothy's twin sister, Ellen, investigates the apparent suicide.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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Gold Dreams
1962-10-26
Gold Dreams
Overview: The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Everything for Sale
1969-01-28
Everything for Sale
Overview: Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-01-28
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Erotique
1961-01-01
Erotique
Overview: A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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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Silence
1963-09-07
Silence
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Misplaced
1989-09-14
Misplaced
Overview: The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-14
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Putney Swope
1969-07-10
Putney Swope
Overview: Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-10
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Interrupted Flight
1964-10-16
Interrupted Flight
Overview: The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Passenger
1963-09-20
Passenger
Overview: A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-20
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XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
1993-06-01
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Overview: A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the American dream.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
1963-01-01
Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
Overview: The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Loneliness in the Net
2006-01-01
Loneliness in the Net
Overview: When an unhappily married woman meets a renowned scientist online, the two start to fall for each other as they exchange romantic emails.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Identification Marks: None
1965-11-18
Identification Marks: None
Overview: The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Charm's Incidents
1996-10-03
Charm's Incidents
Overview: Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-10-03
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Unloved
1966-05-02
Unloved
Overview: The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-02
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Revenge
1983-11-21
Revenge
Overview: Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives join them. Although they have not had the opportunity to get to know each other so far, they become friends very quickly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-11-21
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The First Circle
1973-11-10
The First Circle
Overview: The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-10
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Husband of His Wife
1961-04-03
Husband of His Wife
Overview: Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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The Marriage of Convenience
1967-01-01
The Marriage of Convenience
Overview: Małżeństwo z rozsądku ("Marriage of Convenience") is a Polish musical comedy from 1966 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Happiness
2006-06-15
Happiness
Overview: What if you could buy happiness?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Little Hamlet
1960-01-01
Little Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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I Love You, I Love You Not
1996-08-28
I Love You, I Love You Not
Overview: A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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Debutante
1982-08-16
Debutante
Overview: Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-08-16
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S.T.S. 58
1959-01-01
S.T.S. 58
Overview: Songs and sketches of the legendary Student Satirical Club, established in 1954 in Warsaw.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Zuzanna i chłopcy
1961-12-29
Zuzanna i chłopcy
Overview: Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-29
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Running on Empty
1988-09-09
Running on Empty
Overview: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Coming Soon
1999-06-08
Coming Soon
Overview: Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-08
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The Holy War
1965-11-16
The Holy War
Overview: To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-11-16
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A Licensed Liberty
1990-01-01
A Licensed Liberty
Overview: Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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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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Cadillac Man
1990-05-18
Cadillac Man
Overview: Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Walkover
1965-06-04
Walkover
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-04
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Hunters in the Snow
2000-01-11
Hunters in the Snow
Overview: The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction. Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around him. He rejects advertising to the point of destroying its manifestations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-11
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Aktorka
2015-12-04
Aktorka
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-12-04
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