Jan Ciecierski
Also Known As: Ян Цецерский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 07, 1899
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 20, 1987
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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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Ortalionowy dziadek
Overview: Mr. Aleksander regularly hosts three friends who are clearly poorer than himself. Nobody knows that he is stealing nylon in cafes and restaurants.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-12
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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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Kartoteka
Overview: A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-15
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Kazimierz Wielki
Overview: The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Polonia Restituta
Overview: A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Lucky Thirteen
Overview: The main character is a very superstitious man. On the 13th day of the month, after a very bad start to the day, he reads the newspaper and learns that he won the lottery. The unexpected happiness causing him to make a scene at work. Soon it turns out that there was an error in the newspaper and he did not win.....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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Lucky Thirteen
Overview: The main character is a very superstitious man. On the 13th day of the month, after a very bad start to the day, he reads the newspaper and learns that he won the lottery. The unexpected happiness causing him to make a scene at work. Soon it turns out that there was an error in the newspaper and he did not win.....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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The Conductor
Overview: A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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Provincial Actors
Overview: The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Overview: A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Trzy kobiety
Overview: Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-05-06
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Hell and Heaven
Overview: A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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When Love Was a Crime
Overview: A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Duch z Canterville
Overview: An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-05-31
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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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More Than Life At Stake Part Four
Overview: The fourth of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 8 and 9.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Romantyczni
Overview: An intimate psychological drama: the story of two brothers who, in the winter of 1848, waited for the opportunity to enter General Bem's troops in Hungary and experience emotional conflicts in a noble manor, which lead to a fundamental confrontation of attitudes and characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...
Overview: A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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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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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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Rola
Overview: An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-27
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The Others Will Follow
Overview: A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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Nowy
Overview: A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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Podhale w ogniu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-01-25
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Good Sins
Overview: A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Devil's Ravine
Overview: Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West. Highlander Jasiek used to be a smuggler, now he is a soldier of the Border Protection Forces, serving in his homeland, in the Tatra Mountains. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors, as well as his love for Halka, he becomes a righteous citizen. He contributes to preventing the smuggling of valuable works of art abroad organized by a Polish aristocrat and carried out by a gang.
Genres: Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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The Warsaw Debut
Overview: Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
Genres: History Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1951-03-04
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Pierwsze dni
Overview: An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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Young Chopin
Overview: Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-25
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Atlantic Story
Overview: The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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Sprawa pilota Maresza
Overview: A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-04-07
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Argument About Basia
Overview: Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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