Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Also Known As: Здислав Маклакевич
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: July 09, 1927
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 09, 1977
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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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Motodrama
Overview: An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Komedia z pomyłek
Overview: The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Hydro-Puzzle
Overview: Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-30
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Heads Full of Stars
Overview: Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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The Sun Rises Once a Day
Overview: After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-04-04
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Adam's Two Ribs
Overview: An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-24
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The Office
Overview: Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-14
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Przystań
Overview: Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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The Beard
Overview: Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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I Would Like to Have a Shave
Overview: A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-08-07
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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: pl
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Karino
Overview: The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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Milioner
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-05
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Overview: Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Pictures from Life
Overview: Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-21
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Zabijaka
Overview: A moral story about two people who have completely different attitudes to life and people. The duel of the heroes ends tragically.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-12-23
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How to Be Loved
Overview: An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-01-11
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The Moment of Peace
Overview: The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-25
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Rachunek sumienia
Overview: The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-16
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The Woodpecker
Overview: A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Wycieczka w nieznane
Overview: A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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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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Dog
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-06-13
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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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Her Portrait
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Hazardziści
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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How It's Done
Overview: Two guys came to Zakopane to write screenplay and make movie. They are complete amateurs and don't have any ideas. Maybe only one idea is to find actress, but it's not so simple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Rekolekcje
Overview: Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-04-03
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The Catastrophe
Overview: A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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Na krawędzi
Overview: A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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Adventure with a Song
Overview: Przygoda z piosenką (Pol. Adventure with song) is a Polish film musical comedy from 1969 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-27
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Martians
Overview: Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Christmas Eve
Overview: A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Overview: Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-03-02
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Śmierć w środkowym pokoju
Overview: The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-04
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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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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Overview: Three stories about life problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Ktokolwiek wie...
Overview: A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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Long Night
Overview: The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-30
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Komedie pomyłek
Overview: Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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Zofia
Overview: Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-11-28
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Matthew's Days
Overview: A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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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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How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Overview: Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
Genres: Comedy Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-06
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The Red and the Gold
Overview: An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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Co jest w człowieku w środku
Overview: A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-02
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Brzydkie kaczątko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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One Room Tenants
Overview: A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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Personal Search
Overview: Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-03-20
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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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Seksolatki
Overview: Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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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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The Cruise
Overview: A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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A Party for Ten, Plus Three
Overview: A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-10-14
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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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The Ascended
Overview: Two simple men win the lottery and decide to spend the money on their first plane flight and some other pleasures. But all that does not bring enough happiness to their lives.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-07-28
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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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Father
Overview: A young boy must go to school with his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-16
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Brunet Will Call
Overview: Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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Nos
Overview: An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-22
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Grzech Antoniego Grudy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-07-08
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Maria and Napoleon
Overview: In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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Bumerang
Overview: A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-08
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Barwy walki
Overview: Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-06-17
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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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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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Ostatni po Bogu
Overview: Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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Obcy w lesie
Overview: A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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The Law and the Fist
Overview: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-09-14
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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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Złote koło
Overview: An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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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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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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Aktorka
Overview: A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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Hotel Pacific
Overview: Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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Barrier
Overview: A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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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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How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
Overview: After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.
Genres: Comedy Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-06
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Take It Easy
Overview: The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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A Hole in the Ground
Overview: An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-12
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Frozen Flashes
Overview: In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Leprosy
Overview: When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-12-02
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No More Divorces
Overview: Three short segments about love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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Merry Christmas
Overview: Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-12-21
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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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Boxer
Overview: A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-03-03
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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 Barrel Organ
Overview: This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Cyrograf dojrzałości
Overview: 18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-08-20
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Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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