Marek Walczewski
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: April 09, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 26, 2009
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Chance Meeting on the Atlantic
Overview: Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a Polish doctor with a heart condition meeting a man he knew before. Neither of them was willing to admit their differences from the college days. The meeting torments the doctor enough to start him drinking and dying of a heart attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-11
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At the Height of Summer
Overview: A married couple from the city goes to a lodge for the summer. Despite the idyllic surroundings, the woman is more and more anxious. The locals tell the story of a sunken tourist, the husband ignores his wife's growing fear. Meanwhile, a stranger comes to the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-04-28
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King Size
Overview: The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-02
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Overview: The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-28
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
Overview: Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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Jeździec na ogniu
Overview: Sokor, an attorney, becomes involved in a scandal. To unravel it, he asks for the help of a friend.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-12-04
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Golem
Overview: Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-18
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The Detective and Death
Overview: In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot deceive or corrupt: death. Meanwhile, a detective tries to find the woman he loves, and, at the same time, an innocent young woman follows him with the crazy purpose of bringing her son, who has been killed in the crib by a gunman, back to life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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Conversation with a Cupboard Man
Overview: Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-03-02
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Seychelles
Overview: A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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To the Last Drop of Blood
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-10-27
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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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Hania
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-06-03
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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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Taranthriller
Overview: Looking for a place to conduct research, docent Marek and his family move into an old villa where strange events take place.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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The Issa Valley
Overview: The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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The Spider Women
Overview: Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-09-16
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King Ubu
Overview: A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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The Third Part of the Night
Overview: Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michał witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were employed as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
Genres: War Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-01-04
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Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Overview: Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-24
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Upiór
Overview: A television adaptation of Charles Nodier's play about vampyre Ruthven
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-06-26
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Overview: A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Oh, oh Juliet
Overview: Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and their alternate fate had they survived the events of Shakespeare's play and grew old together.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-02-18
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Dom moich synów
Overview: A single woman goes to Warsaw to consult her children about an offer she received.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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Tango
Overview: A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and Artur's, the youngest one's efforts to reinstate rules in the house.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-01-06
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Passenger
Overview: A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-20
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Czapa, czyli śmierć na raty
Overview: Two death row prisoners willingly confess to more murders to delay their execution. A TV adaptation of Janusz Krasiński's play.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-22
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The Wedding
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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Spotkanie wśród gwiazd
Overview: Julius Ceasar and Cicero meet in the afterlife and discuss their worldly beliefs and legacy in the modern day.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Death of a President
Overview: After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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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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Vabank II
Overview: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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Shifting Sands
Overview: A 12-year-old boy and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her boyfriend after a quarrel, the father invites her along on the trip. The boy's hopes of a father-and-son retreat are shattered when it becomes obvious dad is after more than fish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-04-25
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Les Milles
Overview: In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-22
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Kill Me, Cop
Overview: The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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I'm Looking at You, Mary
Overview: Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-05-30
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Zmowa
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Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-09-25
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Overview: Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Ide as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-01
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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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Stranger
Overview: A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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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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The Promised Land
Overview: In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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Cudzoziemka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-17
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Niemcy
Overview: A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German citizens, and their greater humanitarian sensibilities, the family is divided in how to deal with Joachim's presence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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The Hexer
Overview: A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect the human race from any misfortune. The witcher Geralt of Rivia must find the young princess Ciri, kidnapped by enemies. Only her return to the small kingdom of Cintra, which was attacked by aggressors, can restore peace and order there. The brave witcher sets off on a journey, long, distant and deadly.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Gra w ślepca
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Enak
Overview: The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-12-06
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I Died So I Could Live
Overview: Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-08
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Nikt nie jest winien
Overview: A famous writer suspects that his wife is cheating on him and tries to find out who her lover is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Havet stiger
Overview: Set in the future when much of Central Europe has suffered ecological destruction and only small groups of survivors remain, a lost Norwegian reporter stumbles upon one such group and is quickly drawn into a drama involving a beautiful Christian missionary who's being held prisoner.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Koniec
Overview: A referee informs his associates about the nuclear war that is about to begin.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-13
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The Tin Drum
Overview: Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-02
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