Janusz Zakrzeński
Also Known As: Janusz Zakrzenski
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Przededworze, świętokrzyskie, Polska
Adult: No
Deathday: April 10, 2010
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Kalosze szczęścia
Overview: Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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Sąd nad Braćmi Polskimi
Overview: A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Menedżer
Overview: After the death of the director of the Polish company "Gont", the competition for his position begins. It is attended by the chief accountant Joachim Mackiewicz. However, the fight for the director's chair is skilfully manipulated by a certain Szczurowski. Mackiewicz, who wants to remain honest at all costs, quickly becomes his victim. At the same time, serious problems arise in Joachim's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Overview: Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Epizod Berlin West
Overview: The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love Iza. He revives the feeling that once connected them. The woman is the ex-wife of the publisher of Bard's novels. The situation gets complicated soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-21
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Tumor Witkacego
Overview: The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced especially on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Witkacy is one of the outstanding European artists of the early twentieth century. Author of many short stories and plays translated into eighteen languages. Author of his own philosophical system, art theorist, painter of Formist paintings and portraits, a man who left behind a legend of a unique personality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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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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Korn's Password
Overview: An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-21
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Na przełaj
Overview: After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-06-25
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The Ashes
Overview: Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Overview: A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-03
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Skarb trzech łotrów
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-11-16
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Na krawędzi
Overview: A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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Wielki układ
Overview: 40-year-old engineer Marek Kołodziejski comes to his hometown after fifteen years. He wants to take revenge on his friends who kicked him out of the band for appropriating the authorship of the project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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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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Różaniec z granatów
Overview: Fall 1944. A wounded Polish officer, Ryszard, is brought to the Allied field hospital. He notices another soldier on the table - also a Pole - a rosary made of pomegranate seeds. Józef, overjoyed at the arrival of his countryman, tells the story of the rosary.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-07-17
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On the Banks of the Niemen
Overview: Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between Justyna Orzelska, niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz. Will their love be strong enough to break the mental barrier that separates the world of Bohatyrowicz from the world of Korczyński?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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Mieszczanin szlachcicem
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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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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Sekret Enigmy
Overview: Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939; they ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France.
Genres: History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Overview: A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Maria i Piotr
Overview: A film biography of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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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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Mateo Falcone
Overview: After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-12-21
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Nos
Overview: An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-22
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The Gorgon Case
Overview: In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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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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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Overview: Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-12
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Wniebowstąpienie
Overview: The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-11-21
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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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Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831
Overview: Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-14
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