Włodzimierz Skoczylas
Also Known As: Волдзимеж Скочиляс
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jabłonowo k. Brodnicy, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: May 07, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 29, 1993
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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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The Eighth Day of the Week
Overview: Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-26
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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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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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Stajnia na Salvatorze
Overview: WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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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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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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Zaczarowane podwórko
Overview: A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazing adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Music Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-05-24
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Overview: Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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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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Octopus Cafe
Overview: Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-23
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Historia jednego myśliwca
Overview: The film follows the exploits of Stefan as he fights against the Nazis as a RAF pilot.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-19
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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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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Overview: Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-26
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150km Per Hour
Overview: Young Marcin wishes to escape his life in a village and make a career in a city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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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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Fiasco of Operation Terror
Overview: The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-10
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Memoirs of a Sinner
Overview: A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-20
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Martians
Overview: Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Kraj świata
Overview: TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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The Hours of Hope
Overview: In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-05-09
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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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Opis obyczajów
Overview: Ethnography students do an internship in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, where they meet the Mruk family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-07-06
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Pieczona gęś
Overview: Polish TV movie.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Noose
Overview: A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-01-20
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Zawsze w niedziele
Overview: Three stories centered around sports.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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Hell and Heaven
Overview: A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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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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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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The Barrel Organ
Overview: This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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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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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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Five Boys from Barska Street
Overview: In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-27
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Rzeczpospolita babska
Overview: After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Milion za Laurę
Overview: An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-08
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Good Sins
Overview: A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Irene, Go Home!
Overview: A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-11-26
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Co dzień bliżej nieba
Overview: After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-02-27
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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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Załoga
Overview: Antek is an inexperienced seaman favored by his teachers. On his first trip to the sea he learns the hardships of the work and almost causes a tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-01-27
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A Compartment for a Hundred People and More
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Warszawska syrena
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-07-20
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