Ferdynand Matysik
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: April 21, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 09, 2021
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Ashes and Diamonds
Overview: A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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The Neighbours
Overview: A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Overview: Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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Hour After Hour
Overview: Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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A Story in Red
Overview: Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Who Believes in Storks?
Overview: A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-03-19
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Powrót do Polski
Overview: Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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Jasminum
Overview: The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-06-29
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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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Fatalista
Overview: Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Overview: A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-12
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Kardiogram
Overview: A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-04
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The Hot Line
Overview: Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-17
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Sobótki
Overview: Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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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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Nothing Stands in the Way
Overview: Jerzy and Zofia are offered a job in Africa. A married couple is faced with the dilemma of leaving or taking care of the man's mother and her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-02-16
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Penelopy
Overview: Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-07-22
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Roman and Magda
Overview: A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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First Love
Overview: Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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The Deluge
Overview: During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
Genres: History Adventure War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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Olympics 40
Overview: The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out out that he is a prisoner and nothing more. But that plants the seed and the Pole proposes and Olympics 40 to be held among the prisoners. They ingeniously make a flag and medals, set up a number of races; a croaching hop race is unwittingly organized by a German prison guard who uses it as a torture. The German lieutenant knows that something is going on but cannot find out. Finally the Germans realize the idea and the Polish chief is sent to concentration camp but the others disobey the orders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-23
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Shivers
Overview: A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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Our Folks
Overview: Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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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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Między brzegami
Overview: A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-02-08
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The Smaller Sky
Overview: A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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Skok
Overview: Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-10
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Trzy stopy nad ziemią
Overview: Set in the 70's. A young man decides that after dropping out of school, going to the army is not for him. He decides to become a voluntary miner. He lives with his buddies in barracks, where the only entertainment is ping-pong, and dreams of the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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Before the Day Breaks
Overview: A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-21
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Day of Purification
Overview: The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-02
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Pułapka
Overview: Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest
Overview: Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Dom
Overview: A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-07-21
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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-12-19
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Three Stories
Overview: The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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The Emergency Exit
Overview: A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-12-25
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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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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-07-08
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Signs on the Road
Overview: A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-02
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White Tracks
Overview: Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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The Investigation
Overview: A Scotland Yard officer investigates the mysterious disappearance of a series of corpses. Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-06-23
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The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Overview: The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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Only the Dead Can Answer
Overview: Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-02
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Na całość
Overview: Two young men from the margins of society start a spiral of crime that gets out of control.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-15
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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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I Like Bats
Overview: Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-07-14
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Operation "Himmler"
Overview: A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Meta
Overview: Kazik and Władzio, two old friends meet again after many years. Kazik, a small-time swindler and playboy confesses that he needs a place to live, so Władzio offers for him to move in his apartment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-06
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The Epidemic
Overview: Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-04-07
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Kung-fu
Overview: A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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Sekret
Overview: After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he used to lead an alternative life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-10-05
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Shadow
Overview: A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Wyjazd służbowy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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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 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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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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Tango z kaszlem
Overview: A clerk looks after a flower that reminds him of his former sweetheart. A man's affection for a plant makes his mother jealous.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-11-02
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