Jerzy Cnota
Also Known As: J. Cnota
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jastrzębie Zdrój, śląskie, Polska
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Deathday: November 10, 2016
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Pełnia nad głowami
Overview: Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-06-27
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A Round Week
Overview: Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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Komedianci z wczorajszej ulicy
Overview: Katowice, the second half of the 1980s. All the inhabitants of the city watch the movie "The Sinful Life of Franciszek Buła" on television, and two policemen, Karlik and Lucek, patrol empty streets. They reach a TV lounge where they catch two burglars red-handed. Unfortunately, they inadvertently look at the screen and succumb to the magic of the film. Meanwhile, the thieves, taking advantage of their inattention, run away. Police officers pay for staring by losing their job. Just like the heroes of the film, they decide to form a traveling troupe of singers and comedians, calling it "Our Kara".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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Journey for One Smile
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Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Kwiat paproci
Overview: By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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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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Famous Like Sarajevo
Overview: The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-11-07
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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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Tylko Beatrycze
Overview: Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-02-09
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Historia o proroku Eliaszu z Wierszalina
Overview: Vasyl follows his wife, who escaped to an Orthodox clergyman who is to heal her of infertility.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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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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Janosik
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Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-04-14
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Przyspieszenie
Overview: A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-04
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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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Byzuch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Kant-Pol
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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Bajzel po polsku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Overview: Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Powołanie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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Tu jest fajnie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Byzuch 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-09-26
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Two Moons
Overview: Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Overview: An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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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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Dagny
Overview: Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-01-26
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Pearl in the Crown
Overview: When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-01-27
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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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Fucha
Overview: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Grzeszny żywot Franciszka Buły
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-05
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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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A Slip-Up
Overview: The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-10-17
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Charade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-10-24
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The Taste of the Black Earth
Overview: During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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Five and Half of Pale Joe
Overview: A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Passion
Overview: The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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Laura
Overview: “Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006. A miner was trapped underground, and by the fourth day when everyone was beginning to lose hope of his safe return, the rescue team heard a faint knocking on the pipeline. After a nearly a week long search, the miner was rescued. Those who followed the story closely called it a miracle. But the miner claimed that what saved him was stronger than a miracle – his love for his daughter Laura, and his wife Marlena.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-11-25
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Horizontal Landscape
Overview: Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his professional duties, the trio bands together to keep the production on course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Cnota
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-12-15
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Dead Man's Bounty
Overview: A mysterious loner (Karel Roden) rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw (Val Kilmer is the corpse). But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the sheriff (Boguslaw Linda), he must devise a scheme to reclaim the dead man. Katarzyna Figura co-stars as a tough barmaid in Polish writer-director Piotr Uklanski's inventive and bloody Western, which both spoofs and pays tribute to the spaghetti Western genre.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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