Zygmunt Maciejewski
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Biography: Zygmunt Maciejewski (born December 21, 1914 in Berlin, died August 12, 1999 in Warsaw) - Polish theater, film and television actor, announcer and radio director. From Wikipedia (pl), the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Deathday: August 12, 1999
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Olympic Fire
Overview: During World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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Wiśnie
Overview: Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Republika nadziei
Overview: The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Man on the Tracks
Overview: One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-01-17
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The Wicket Gate
Overview: Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship.
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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111 dni letargu
Overview: A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Where the Water Is Pure and the Grass Is Green
Overview: The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-04-13
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Zamach stanu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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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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The Shadow-Line
Overview: Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-09-06
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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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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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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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Pedestrian Subway
Overview: A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-01-13
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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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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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In Desert and Wilderness
Overview: Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-10-16
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Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-29
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Quiet Is the Night
Overview: A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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The White Mazurka
Overview: A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-02-19
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Pułapka
Overview: Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Funeral Ceremony
Overview: After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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The Leaves Have Fallen
Overview: Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-17
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Daze
Overview: An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-02-20
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Mysz
Overview: One of the classes of the Warsaw high school boycotts the test in chemistry lessons. A schoolgirl who has not succumbed to pressure from her peers becomes the target of their revenge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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