Włodzimierz Kwaskowski
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)
Adult: No
Birthday: July 31, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 22, 1990
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Wózek
Overview: A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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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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Magical Bicycle
Overview: The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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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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Gold Dreams
Overview: The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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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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Ray
Overview: Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist government and local nobles don't take kindly to his presence and try to sabotage him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-04-26
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Overview: A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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Bicz Boży
Overview: A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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Milioner
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-05
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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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Bermuda Triangle
Overview: Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-17
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Republika nadziei
Overview: The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Story of the Golden Boot
Overview: Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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Teenager
Overview: A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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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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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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Miasteczko
Overview: A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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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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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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Hello, Fred the Beard
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Genres: Comedy Music Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-10-16
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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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Glass Mountain
Overview: A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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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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"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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Zamach stanu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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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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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Overview: An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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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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Farewells
Overview: The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-13
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Goodbye to the Past
Overview: An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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What Will My Wife Say to This?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Farewell to the Devil
Overview: A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Mother of the Kings
Overview: Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Alone in the City
Overview: Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-12-25
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Dwoje bliskich obcych ludzi
Overview: A young couple decides to divorce.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-07-07
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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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Przygoda Stasia
Overview: The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Return of the Pied Piper
Overview: The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-18
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Three Stories
Overview: The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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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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The Depot of the Dead
Overview: In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-08-10
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Placówka
Overview: The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Red Rowan
Overview: The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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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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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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No More Divorces
Overview: Three short segments about love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Overview: During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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The Weather Forecast
Overview: When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-11-14
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