Irena Laskowska
Also Known As: I. Laskowska
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Piotrowice, woj. wileńskie, Polska [obecnie Piotrowice, Litwa]
Adult: No
Deathday: December 06, 2019
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Passerby
Overview: The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Wiśnie
Overview: Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Last Schoolbell
Overview: As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Bariery
Overview: A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-29
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Citizen Piszczyk
Overview: This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-16
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Bliskie spotkania z wesołym diabłem
Overview: A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a disabled boy.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-06-29
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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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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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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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Godzina W
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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You Will Not Have Peace
Overview: After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-17
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Maria and Napoleon
Overview: In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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The Last Day of Summer
Overview: A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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Doctor Judym
Overview: A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-10-20
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Green Years
Overview: World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.
Genres: Family War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Dom moich synów
Overview: A single woman goes to Warsaw to consult her children about an offer she received.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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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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Man of Marble
Overview: A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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I killed
Overview: During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-04-08
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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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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest
Overview: Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Salto
Overview: A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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Silent Traces
Overview: A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-19
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Everything for Sale
Overview: Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-01-28
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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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Kontrybucja
Overview: A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Don Gabriel
Overview: The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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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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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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The White Mazurka
Overview: A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-02-19
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The Ring and the Rose
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Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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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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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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Mężczyźni na wyspie
Overview: Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-19
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Escape
Overview: Teenager pretends to be mentally ill to get away from a reformatory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-29
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Pornography
Overview: Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Genres: History War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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