Wiktor Zborowski
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 10, 1951
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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With Fire and Sword
Overview: In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-02-08
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The Deserters
Overview: Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
Genres: Comedy History War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Deserter's Gold
Overview: "Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Polish Cuisine
Overview: A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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The End of the World, or Egg Nogg 4
Overview: Agnieszka and Marcin's love is blooming, just like Kasia and professor Wolanski. Grandma Solska only dreams of the wedding of her only grandchild - However, his former lover, Bozenka, stands in the way of the happiness of young Zawada. Mrs. Wolanska decides to radically change her life and disappears in mysterious circumstances. Peace of Piotr and Marlenka is disturbed by the unexpected visit of his mother from overseas – And some very compromising photos trigger an avalanche of events. The real end of the world is underway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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The Secret of Marabou's Code
Overview: Kajetan, a dog and famous detective, and his assistant, Cat Makawity, try to solve the mystery of the director's disappearance and the problems of other creatures from the neighbourhood. Only the Secret of Marabou’s Code can stop Chameleon, a dangerous criminal.
Genres: Animation Family Music Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-04-01
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Dzień Wisły
Overview: September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2
Overview: Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-09-27
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The Contract
Overview: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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Lesser Evil
Overview: There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-10-23
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Special Mission
Overview: In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
Genres: Comedy War Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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Father, Son & Holy Cow
Overview: Bogdan, an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, retires from the stage when his wife Iza dies, and he seeks solace on his mother's little farm. The little village on the Baltic coast is where he and his wife had sworn to love each other for all eternity when they were still children. Now that everything has changed, Bogdan succumbs to fate and begins to drink heavily. Thankfully his resolute mother has a formula to free the despairing Bogdan from his state of lethargy: renovating the run-down farmhouse and hard work in the stables. One day Bogdan makes a fateful discovery. A surprisingly musical cow, of all things, rekindles Bogdan's life spirits and gives him a crazy idea. His friends and family throw their hands up in horror, and when he tops things by organizing a village feast, things run completely out of control.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-08-04
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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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Art of Loving
Overview: Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-22
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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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A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Overview: The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Baby Boom, or Egg Nogg 5
Overview: Piotruś – together with his wife, mother-in-law and Leopold – moves to a new home: a historic manor house. And Marlenka decides to find a suitable ancestor for her family – one that will fit into the elegant residence… Agnieszka, in turn, is pursuing a career at the university, but right after defending her PHD, she suddenly discovers that she is pregnant. And when little Kuba is born… problems begin! Piotruś accompanies his sister during childbirth and begins to dream of a child himself – to Marlenka’s horror. Marcin, a new father, panics and suddenly disappears. In addition, a mysterious pregnant girl appears in Brzózki and she is looking for Zawada…
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-01-26
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Goodbye Rockefeller
Overview: Four friends work out the interests of a dishonest businessman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Miłość z listy przebojów
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-08-12
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
Overview: This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Jam Session
Overview: A sleepless middle-aged couple rediscover what brought them first together thanks to the music coming from the nightclub downstairs.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-12
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Esterhazy
Overview: The story of a small Esterhazy and his research of Bunnies's Paradies that truly existed between East and West part of the Berlin Wall.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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O dwóch takich, co nic nie ukradli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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The Rite of Passage
Overview: A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Dziadku, wiejemy!
Overview: One day Grandpa Jeremi causes such a commotion in the retirement home that he is threatened with transfer to a psychiatric hospital. Marta, his daughter, agrees to take him in, although this is difficult for her, since Jeremi is unpredictable and has a vivid imagination. The situation is complicated by Jagoda, Marta’s daughter, who adores her grandfather and shares his crazy ideas. When Jeremi refuses to live with the family, Jagoda decides to take matters into her own hands. The girl and grandfather embark on an adventurous journey to the legendary ship Light of the Sea.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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Dawn
Overview: Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2015-11-23
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Off We Go!
Overview: A humorous and emotional story of a family as unpredictable as a tornado. Their life gains momentum when the seniors - Józiek and Ela - decide to set off on a journey through Poland. They want to experience this trip on their own terms: to laugh, to take risk and love as if they were 20. And since their son has no intention to let them go, feisty seniors starts with stealing the iconic car Nysa...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-01-03
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Bird Talk
Overview: Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-09-16
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The Silent Touch
Overview: Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-30
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Spoor
Overview: A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Saved by a Miracle
Overview: The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Years passed, and the "miraculously saved" person did not keep his promise. Now feeling that it is probably time to die, he decides to fulfill his obligations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Mishmash, or Egg Nogg 3
Overview: Kasia still lives in the village of Brzozki and fights off her unwanted suitor Staszek. Unexpectedly, her son Marcin returns to Poland and immediately runs into trouble. The boy has an idea for an unusual business. At this time, a crisis breaks out in Warsaw in the Wolanski family, Wolanska publishes a controversial book, her husband and daughter Agnieszka - rebel and run away from home. They first decide to visit Piotr, who today leads a comfortable life with his wife Marlena. Then they set off into the unknown, and this trip will become legendary again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Overview: In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Teddy Bear
Overview: En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-04
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Richie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Axiliad
Overview: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-13
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War of Love
Overview: Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors even more eager to conquer them. Adaptation of the classic comedy by Aleksander Fredro.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Egg Nogg
Overview: Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that was not accepted to college. Resigned returns home and agrees to the wedding. Meanwhile, on the eve of the wedding the postman brings the notice of acceptance to the university.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-15
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Och, Karol 2
Overview: Karol has everything. He has three mistresses in addition to the bride. He is charming, loves sex and enslaves women in the blink of an eye. He's also well aware of that women like and uses it for his benefits.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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Koniec świata u Nowaków
Overview: A millionaire makes children's dreams come true during their participation in a television program.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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Mark of Cain
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Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-27
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