Andrzej Łapicki
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 11, 1924
Deathday: July 21, 2012
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Known For
The Promised Land
1975-02-21
The Promised Land
Overview: In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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Two Hours
1957-12-09
Two Hours
Overview: Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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Poradnik matrymonialny
1968-03-26
Poradnik matrymonialny
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-26
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Forbidden Songs
1947-01-08
Forbidden Songs
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Genres: Music War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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The Children Accuse
1956-01-01
The Children Accuse
Overview: One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden from viewers behind the façade of socialist realist productions until the mid-1950s. The subject of the film are the effects of alcoholism, whose innocent victims are children.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
1962-09-03
Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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From a Far Country
1981-09-15
From a Far Country
Overview: This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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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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Jasne łany
1947-12-25
Jasne łany
Overview: A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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The New Art
1950-06-01
The New Art
Overview: A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1950. Makarczynski’s film is a typical example of a socialist realism documentary, realized in accordance with the instructions that had been presented to the filmmakers during the Wisla 1949 summit.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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A Letter at the Editorial Office
1950-07-01
A Letter at the Editorial Office
Overview: The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the socialist-realist convention imposed on Polish cinema in 1949, in which all elements of the film structure were subordinated to the persuasive function.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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Soldier of Victory
1953-05-08
Soldier of Victory
Overview: Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Warszawa 1956
1956-12-31
Warszawa 1956
Overview: Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-12-31
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Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
1971-02-12
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
Overview: Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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Mistrz tańca
1969-04-23
Mistrz tańca
Overview: A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.
Genres: Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-04-23
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Red Rowan
1970-01-17
Red Rowan
Overview: The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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Where Is the Third King?
1967-01-20
Where Is the Third King?
Overview: Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-20
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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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Szarlejka
1955-01-01
Szarlejka
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Rolling Mill
1956-12-12
Rolling Mill
Overview: In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to operate. The viewers could see the final preparations and the launch of the machine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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How Far, How Near
1972-05-05
How Far, How Near
Overview: A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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Cześć kapitanie
1968-04-14
Cześć kapitanie
Overview: A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
1968-01-28
Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
Overview: The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1968-01-28
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Lava
1989-11-06
Lava
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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A Railwayman's Word
1953-01-01
A Railwayman's Word
Overview: A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works. They’re doing their best to arrive on time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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The Girls of Nowolipki
1986-04-14
The Girls of Nowolipki
Overview: Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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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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Hamlet x 5
Hamlet x 5
Overview: Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
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Spotkanie
Spotkanie
Overview: A man returns to his homeland after war-forced emigration. He meets his ex-wife, who has changed much due to war traumas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
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Klub szachistów
1967-12-27
Klub szachistów
Overview: Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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Domek z kart
1954-01-16
Domek z kart
Overview: August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-01-16
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Kwestia sumienia
1969-11-27
Kwestia sumienia
Overview: During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
Genres: History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-11-27
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Pan Tadeusz
1999-10-18
Pan Tadeusz
Overview: A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-18
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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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Peace Will Win
1951-02-01
Peace Will Win
Overview: This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England, was the initial location of the event, however, it was transferred to the capital of Poland at the very last moment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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Suspended
1987-10-19
Suspended
Overview: Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with his child and has the baby out of the wedlock. Despite the hardships and gossip she holds much better than he. In 1956 when the political climate changes, he resurfaces and is arrested, but then acquitted by the court.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-19
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The Mazovia
1951-01-01
The Mazovia
Overview: A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble recorded at its headquarters – the palace in Karolina (a part of the village of Otrębusy near Warsaw). The repertoire includes: Bandoska, Kukułeczka, Pod borem and dances such as: oberek, olender.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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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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Look Out, Hooligans!
1955-01-01
Look Out, Hooligans!
Overview: A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Świat grozy
1968-05-21
Świat grozy
Overview: Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically.
Genres: Comedy Horror Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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The Wedding
1973-01-09
The Wedding
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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Salto
1965-06-10
Salto
Overview: A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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The Birthday
1980-09-23
The Birthday
Overview: The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-23
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Back to Life Again
1965-03-12
Back to Life Again
Overview: Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-03-12
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Wherever You Are...
1988-09-11
Wherever You Are...
Overview: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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Inventory
1989-10-23
Inventory
Overview: Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-23
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Naprawdę wczoraj
1963-11-08
Naprawdę wczoraj
Overview: The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-08
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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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Pilate and Others
1972-03-29
Pilate and Others
Overview: The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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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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Poczmistrz
1968-04-14
Poczmistrz
Overview: Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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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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Destination Nowa Huta!
1951-01-01
Destination Nowa Huta!
Overview: This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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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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Jealousy and Medicine
1973-09-25
Jealousy and Medicine
Overview: In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-09-25
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Are You Amongst Them?
1954-01-01
Are You Amongst Them?
Overview: This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitting on the street, housewives wasting water, teenagers destroying sockets, passengers storming buses without paying attention to others, pedestrians devastating greenery in the city. Are you one of them?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Checkmate!
1967-07-01
Checkmate!
Overview: Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Master
1966-10-07
Master
Overview: A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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The Maids of Wilko
1979-09-04
The Maids of Wilko
Overview: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-04
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Lost Night
1974-02-20
Lost Night
Overview: A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the severely run-down estate himself since his mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Two Brigades
1950-09-01
Two Brigades
Overview: A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Sprawa do załatwienia
1953-09-05
Sprawa do załatwienia
Overview: A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
1961-09-04
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Overview: An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
1962-12-19
Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
Overview: "A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Sposób bycia
1966-01-25
Sposób bycia
Overview: A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-25
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The Return
1960-09-26
The Return
Overview: A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-26
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The Story of Gdansk
1953-01-01
The Story of Gdansk
Overview: The protagonist of this documentary is Gdańsk and its history. The story begins on the shore of the Baltic Sea, in a Pomeranian town on the European Amber Road. It ends in the contemporary Gdańsk Shipyard.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Letters from Vietnam
1956-01-01
Letters from Vietnam
Overview: In 1955, the team of the Polish Film Chronicle documented life in communist Vietnam for almost half a year. There was an opportunity to do so, as Poles were a part of the international commission supervising the implementation of the Geneva provisions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Vows
1952-12-01
Vows
Overview: A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of the event was the solemn oath of the youth of the Polish People's Republic. It took place on the 22nd of July 1952 – the day of the adoption of the constitution of the Polish People's Republic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Kordian
Kordian
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
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