Władysław Hańcza
Also Known As: Władysław Hańcza, Владислав Ханча
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
Birthday: May 18, 1905
Deathday: November 19, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Known For:
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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Kłopotliwy gość
Overview: Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Two Hours
Overview: Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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Karino
Overview: The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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The Woodpecker
Overview: A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Green, Bygone...
Overview: A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Border
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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The Peasants
Overview: In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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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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Diament radży
Overview: A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-15
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Jadą goście jadą...
Overview: Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-17
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The Tortures of Hope
Overview: A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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Doctor Judym
Overview: A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-10-20
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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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Heat
Overview: Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – they sing easily.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-02
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Miejsce dla jednego
Overview: The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-26
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Big Deal
Overview: Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-06-13
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Maria i Piotr
Overview: A film biography of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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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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Nuremberg Epilogue
Overview: Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-07
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The Story of Sin
Overview: A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-06-03
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The Ashes
Overview: Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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Countess Cosel
Overview: The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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Take It Easy
Overview: The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Lovers from Marona
Overview: Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-25
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Lazarus' Whims
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Overview: A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-08-10
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Nights and Days
Overview: A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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I Am Burning!
Overview: The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the ghost of the former owner.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-21
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The Steel Hearts
Overview: In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine. The going will be tough as the place is closely guarded by the Nazis. But despite a denunciation from a traitor and several violent deaths, they get going and the operation is a success. But the Red Army is approaching and now the coal production must not be sabotaged anymore. On the contrary, the partisans must prevent the Germans from destroying the steel mill and the coal mine...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1948-05-10
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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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Colonel Wolodyjowski
Overview: In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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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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