Ryszard Pietruski
Also Known As: Рышард Петруский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wyszecino, powiat wejherowski, pomorskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: October 07, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 14, 1996
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Nazajutrz po wojnie
Overview: On the last day of the war, a Polish soldier whose family was murdered meets his German enemy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-10
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Smażalnia Story
Overview: Dwaj multi-instrumentaliści, Broda i Redaktorek, po kilku latach muzykowania w Finlandii wracają promem do kraju objętego stanem wojennym. Tomaszow Maz
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-17
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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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At the Height of Summer
Overview: A married couple from the city goes to a lodge for the summer. Despite the idyllic surroundings, the woman is more and more anxious. The locals tell the story of a sunken tourist, the husband ignores his wife's growing fear. Meanwhile, a stranger comes to the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-04-28
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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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Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Overview: A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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The Knave of Spades
Overview: A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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Kłopotliwy gość
Overview: Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Golem
Overview: Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-18
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Journey for One Smile
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Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Kwiat paproci
Overview: By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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A Lady from the Window
Overview: Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Overview: Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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Trzy kobiety
Overview: Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-05-06
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Gangsters and Philantropists
Overview: The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-02-15
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Here Is My Home
Overview: A young man, Kuba, is returning from the army. At home, an image of misery and despair remains: the father is seriously ill, and the mother has become emotionally attached to the man who exploits her and intends to take over the farm. After the death of his father, the young man guards the farm, but his girlfriend leaves him. Unable to bear the atmosphere of envy and resentment, Kuba leaves for the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Rachunek sumienia
Overview: The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-16
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The Woodpecker
Overview: A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Seychelles
Overview: A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Kartoteka
Overview: A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-15
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Książę sezonu
Overview: Stefan Pulman, a lonely Varsovian, spends his vacation every year in a quiet guesthouse. He makes very real marriage plans. The object of his sighs is beautiful Susanna.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Where Is the Third King?
Overview: Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-20
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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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Place on Earth
Overview: A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-21
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Dark River
Overview: Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-02-18
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Stacja
Overview: The 8th Plenum of the PZPR is underway. Passengers waiting for a train learn that their traffic has stopped.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Album polski
Overview: University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-05-08
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Firesite
Overview: A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Wirus
Overview: An unknown terrorist infects computer networks with the most important institutions in the country with the virus. It paralyzes hospitals, trains, aircraft control system. Suspicions fall on Michal, a thirty-year-old IT genius and owner of a small computer company. Michal must prove he is innocent. He agrees to the proposal to cooperate with the prosecutor.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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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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Szczur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Cześć kapitanie
Overview: A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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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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Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Overview: Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-11
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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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The Game
Overview: Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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Makbet
Overview: A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-30
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Pięciu
Overview: Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-02
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Long Night
Overview: The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-30
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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 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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Marta
Overview: Marta comes to Lublin as a captain of the Polish Army. She is looking for information about her son - Stefan, whom she last saw years ago, when she went with her husband to fighting Spain.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-08-05
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Kwestia sumienia
Overview: During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
Genres: History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-11-27
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Janka - Spełnione marzenie
Overview: A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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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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Five and Half of Pale Joe
Overview: A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Road West
Overview: In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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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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Nikt nie woła
Overview: Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-10-31
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The Cruise
Overview: A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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One Room Tenants
Overview: A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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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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The Law and the Fist
Overview: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-09-14
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Father
Overview: A young boy must go to school with his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-16
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Lepiej być piękną i bogatą
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-10-22
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Brunet Will Call
Overview: Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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Wolves' Echoes
Overview: A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Człowiek z M-3
Overview: A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-02-21
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Skinny and Others
Overview: A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Barwy walki
Overview: Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-06-17
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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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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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Ostatni po Bogu
Overview: Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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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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Złote koło
Overview: An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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The Last Ride
Overview: Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-08-06
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Overview: Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Aria for an Athlete
Overview: Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Operation "Himmler"
Overview: A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Europa Europa
Overview: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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The Siding
Overview: A journalist is preparing to take a train trip, when he is confronted by the spirit of professor Ryszpans who tells what happened to him. When he boarded a train standing on a siding, he encountered trackman Wiór with a newspaper informing about the crash of the train and the death of several passengers, including professor Ryszpans. The professor is joined by engineer Zniesławski, who has also heard of the impending disaster and is interested in it from the technical side. On hearing the news of an approaching catastrophe, other passengers leave the train in panic at the next station. However, trackman Wiór manages to hypnotize several travelers who continue with the journey. Ryszpans hears a roar and sees objects crumbling around him, and then turns into a shadow. After hearing the story, the journalist resigns from his train trip.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-04
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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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Shoot Paragon!
Overview: A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-20
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Hunting Flies
Overview: Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-08-19
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Pills for Aurelia
Overview: Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-24
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Sobótki
Overview: Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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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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All and Nobody
Overview: City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-02-20
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Szczęściarz Antoni
Overview: A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Crystal
Overview: Before his son's matura exam a father tries to bribe the exam committee.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-04
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Naganiacz
Overview: 1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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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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The Return
Overview: A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-26
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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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