Barbara Lass
Also Known As: Barbara Kwiatkowska , Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Barbara Kwiatkowski
Biography: Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass was a Polish stage and screen actress. Although she received ballet and dance education, she eventually took up an acting career. After her debut role in Tadeusz Chmielewski's comedy "Ewa chce spać" (1957) she gained wider popularity in Poland. In 1959 she left Poland for the West and soon starred in a few major films like "La millième fenêtre" ,with Jean-Louis Trintignant, and "Che gioia vivere", starring Alain Delon. She married film director Roman Polanski in 1959; they divorced in 1962.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Partów k. Gostynina, Niemcy (obecnie Polska)
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Deathday: March 06, 1995
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Effi Briest
Overview: When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli
Overview: A former U-boat commander becomes a pastor to ease the suffering of young Hamburg women in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Thousandth Window
Overview: An old man against the public housing project.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-27
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Obrazki z podróży
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Tysiąc talarów
Overview: An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Overview: Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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Słoń
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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When Angels Fall
Overview: The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-31
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The Joy of Living
Overview: Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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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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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Rififi in Tokyo
Overview: Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Jowita
Overview: Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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Sting in the Flesh
Overview: Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Doppelspiel in Paris
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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Serenade for Two Spies
Overview: An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has defected to the enemy. Since agent 007 is currently on another mission, the chief of intelligence has to fall back on his second best man, the previous number 006. And so the German secret agent John Krim is given the assignment to get the rifle back, find evidence of Cormoran’s treachery and finally eliminate the colleague. Krim’s journey takes him across the ocean, and there he experiences incredible adventures in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Two women get in his way, and Krim can’t be sure whether he can trust them or whether they too are working for the other side.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-18
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Hauser's Memory
Overview: A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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Eine Wahnsinnsehe
Overview: A trusting, naive police officer is prepared to follow the ever new ideas and quirks of his spirited, enthusiastic wife out of honest conviction. However, he cannot keep up with the pace of her willingness to turn to the next new thing. As a result, he is condemned to always do the wrong thing in his love, so that in the end the only refuge left to him is a mental asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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Two Men and a Wardrobe
Overview: The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Rosa Luxemburg
Overview: Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-04-10
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Blaubart
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-27
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Overview: An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Overview: Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-09
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Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Overview: The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-09
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Bad Luck
Overview: To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-04-04
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Love at Twenty
Overview: Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-22
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Cracow by Polanski
Overview: Roman Polanski lived in Cracow/Krakow during 1936-1955 - almost 20 years of his life. These years formed him to become one of the most popular film directors of the world. The title of the documentary refers to Roman Polanski's autobiography "Roman by Polanski". By the end of 1930's Cracow/Krakow 250 000 inhabitants, about 50 000 were Jews. It was one of the happiest time in young Roman's life. WWII made him leave the Cracow ghetto and he was hidden by a Polish family near the city. After the war till 1955, it was not only the hard Stalin's time but also the time when young Roman discovered his passion for art, especially the cinema. In these times he played in social realistic plays in Young Spectator Theatre and in puppet plays in Groteska Theatre, Cracow. Finally he left Cracow for Lodz in 1955 to study directing at the Film Academy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-06-28
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Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Overview: A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-14
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Vice and Virtue
Overview: 1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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