Jerzy Turek
Also Known As: Ежи Турек
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tchórzowa, Poland
Birthday: January 17, 1934
Deathday: February 14, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Hydro-Puzzle
Overview: Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-30
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Palace Hotel
Overview: The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-07-15
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Legenda
Overview: Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-20
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The Faithful River
Overview: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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Journey for One Smile
Overview: The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Somosierra. 1808
Overview: The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-12-03
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Hasło
Overview: Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Cross of Valor
Overview: Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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Where is the General?
Overview: Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Koty to dranie
Overview: Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Unloved
Overview: The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-02
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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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Barrier
Overview: A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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Teenager
Overview: A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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Controlled Conversations
Overview: Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
Overview: A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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Liczę na wasze grzechy
Overview: A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1964-02-03
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Promotion
Overview: After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to persuade its inhabitants to modernize their surroundings
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-03-30
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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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Wild Horses
Overview: In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-02-14
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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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Markiza de Pompadour
Overview: A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-03
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Yokohama
Overview: An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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Gold Dreams
Overview: The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Troje i las
Overview: A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-01-18
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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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Zawsze w niedziele
Overview: Three stories centered around sports.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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Beer
Overview: The piece is an analysis of a person's attitude in the face of imminent danger, and its action takes place just after World War II. In the train station waiting room, two young men lead a beer discussion, one of whom tells the other an unpleasant incident of his own life.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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Hell and Heaven
Overview: A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Overview: Three stories about life problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Ktokolwiek wie...
Overview: A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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Planeta - Ziemia
Overview: The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Day of Purification
Overview: The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-02
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Decalogue X
Overview: Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Facing the Truth
Overview: After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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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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Soldiers of Freedom
Overview: A World War II historical drama and the sequel to the 1970-71's film series Liberation. The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army as a result of the failed assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942; the preparation for revolt in Slovakia; negotiations of the Polish communists with Władysław Sikorski's government over their joint struggle against fascism; the creation of a National Committee of the Domestic Front in Bulgaria and preparation by underground workers-communists for armed revolt; expansion of the guerrilla (partisan) movement; the failure of a German attempt to destroy People's Liberation Army of Josip Broz Tito; one of the largest military operations, Bagration; the beginning of the liberation of Poland; creation of the Polish National Government in Lublin; the Warsaw Uprising; the capitulation of Bór-Komorowski and defeat of the Polish patriots; the entry of Soviet and Polish armies into Warsaw.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-31
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April
Overview: Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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The People from the Train
Overview: A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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Big Beat
Overview: At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-03-26
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Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Rozmowy przy wycinaniu lasu
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-01-04
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Wyspa złoczyńców
Overview: A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.
Genres: Family Adventure Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-04-05
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I Hate Mondays
Overview: An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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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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Rzeczpospolita babska
Overview: After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Richie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Goryl, czyli ostatnie zadanie...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Milion za Laurę
Overview: An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-08
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Far Is the Road
Overview: After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-10
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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Overview: Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-11-21
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Agnes 1946
Overview: A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-24
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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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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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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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Przedstawienie Hamleta we wsi Głucha Dolna
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-09
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Eroica
Overview: Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-01-04
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Jedenaste przykazanie
Overview: A young penniless woman comes to a small town with her newborn baby. She goes to work but because her child has no father, life is hard for her. Until she meets a carefree vagabond photographer willing to help her out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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