Zbigniew Skowroński
Also Known As: Збигнев Сковроньский, Zbigniew Skowronski
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Skarżysko-Kamienna, świętokrzyskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: August 24, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 01, 1985
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Ashes and Diamonds
Overview: A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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A Cure for Love
Overview: An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Król Maciuś I
Overview: A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
Genres: Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-04-08
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Forbidden Songs
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Genres: Music War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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The Contract
Overview: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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Powrót
Overview: A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-30
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Mała sprawa
Overview: A few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must be prepared to show the guest how well the place is being managed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-24
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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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Two from the Big River
Overview: A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Overview: Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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Cellulose
Overview: Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Overview: A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Lenin in Poland
Overview: The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-08
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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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Knights of the Teutonic Order
Overview: A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Ślepy tor
Overview: A mother is looking for a missing child with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Birth Certificate
Overview: Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-02
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Zemsta
Overview: Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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Devil's Ravine
Overview: Shot in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains, this sensational drama revolves around a thwarted smuggling of art pieces across the Polish-Czechoslovak border to the West. Highlander Jasiek used to be a smuggler, now he is a soldier of the Border Protection Forces, serving in his homeland, in the Tatra Mountains. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors, as well as his love for Halka, he becomes a righteous citizen. He contributes to preventing the smuggling of valuable works of art abroad organized by a Polish aristocrat and carried out by a gang.
Genres: Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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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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The Lonely House
Overview: Basia and her aunt live in peace far away from war efforts. One day that peace is shattered when a concentration camp prisoner, a communist activist seeks refuge in their house.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-03-27
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Sprawa do załatwienia
Overview: A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Young Chopin
Overview: Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-25
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Under the Phrygian Star
Overview: Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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Shadow
Overview: A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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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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Załoga
Overview: Antek is an inexperienced seaman favored by his teachers. On his first trip to the sea he learns the hardships of the work and almost causes a tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-01-27
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Man - Woman Wanted
Overview: Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he has to work for some time, of course, as a woman. He gets a job as a domestic helper. However, he has no luck with employers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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