Henryk Machalica
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chybie k. Cieszyna, śląskie, Polska
Birthday: June 18, 1930
Deathday: November 01, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Alchemik
Overview: An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Passion
Overview: The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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Ciosy
Overview: Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer Stefan Przewłocki. A literary widow gives Wiktor the materials for the deceased's last novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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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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The Faithful River
Overview: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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Red Thorns
Overview: A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-01-20
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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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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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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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An Immoral Story
Overview: Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
Overview: A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Overview: A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-12
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Racławice. 1794
Overview: The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-05
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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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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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Pensja pani Latter
Overview: The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-05
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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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The Story About Master Twardowski
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-03-11
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Nocny gość
Overview: Biography film directed by Stanislaw Rózewicz.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Apple Tree of Paradise
Overview: Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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Around Midnight
Overview: A man has a mysterious power which causes the death of each person he condemns.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-05-20
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Tętno
Overview: In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-12
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Fachowiec
Overview: Kazimierz Zaliwski was born into an intellectual family, he graduated from high school, and knows two foreign languages. The foreman, in love with his daughter, decides not to continue his studies. He wants to take a job as a locksmith in a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-11
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The Lynx
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-15
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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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Rodzina Połanieckich
Overview: The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-04
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Skok
Overview: Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-10
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She-Wolf
Overview: In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-04-11
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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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The Book of Great Wishes
Overview: Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-01
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Squadron
Overview: A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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The Ring and the Rose
Overview: TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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Dzień kolibra
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-11-19
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Deserter's Gold
Overview: "Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Piggate
Overview: The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-03-29
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Błąd w rachunku
Overview: The institute of genetics announced that a dangerous virus had been discovered. What was the motive behind this discovery? The film deals with the quest for fame at all costs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-04-06
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