Barbara Rachwalska
Also Known As: Barbara Rachwalska-Pawlicka, Барбара Рахвальская, Барбара Рахвальская-Павлицкая
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Birthday: April 13, 1922
Deathday: December 23, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Córeczka
Overview: A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-07-22
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Kryptonim Nektar
Overview: A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-10-11
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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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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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Sposób bycia
Overview: A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-25
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Freelancer
Overview: Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-28
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Follies of Miss Eva
Overview: From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-07
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The Gift of the Magi
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-12-23
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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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Jasne łany
Overview: A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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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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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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Komedianty
Overview: Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-02-02
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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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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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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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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Overview: Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-11
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Pensja pani Latter
Overview: The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-05
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"Ty pójdziesz górą..." (Eliza Orzeszkowa)
Overview: A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-03
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Tysiąc talarów
Overview: An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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Interrupted Flight
Overview: The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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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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Faust
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-14
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Uczta Baltazara
Overview: Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-11-15
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Ostatni strzał
Overview: A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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Free City
Overview: The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Provincial Actors
Overview: The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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It Started Yesterday
Overview: Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-12
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Drugi brzeg
Overview: A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-04-30
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Skąpani w ogniu
Overview: Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-05
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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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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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Piąta rano
Overview: Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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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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When Love Was a Crime
Overview: A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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The Haunted
Overview: 1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-07-25
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Uczennica
Overview: Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
Overview: The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-15
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More Than Life At Stake Part Six
Overview: The sixth and final episode compilation of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 16 and 17.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Gromada
Overview: The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-04-29
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Koniec nocy
Overview: A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-12-21
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The Last Stage
Overview: Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1948-03-28
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Józia - Die Tochter der Delegierten
Overview: 1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to the neighbors after Józia visits her relatives in the country. But 10 days can be an eternity for a small child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-22
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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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Adventure in Marienstadt
Overview: While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-01-25
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Barbed Wire
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Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-17
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Party przy świecach
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Nowy
Overview: A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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Obcy w lesie
Overview: A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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Fucha
Overview: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Cham
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-04-22
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Zawodowcy
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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Trzy starty
Overview: Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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Beata
Overview: Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-01-19
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Carmilla
Overview: Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-11-13
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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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Boczny tor
Overview: Old couple dreams about a cruise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-07
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The Holy War
Overview: To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-11-16
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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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Argument About Basia
Overview: Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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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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