Zdzisław Leśniak
Also Known As: Zdzislaw Lesniak
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Borysław, Polska (obecnie Ukraina)
Adult: No
Birthday: December 13, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 22, 2002
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The First Day of Freedom
Overview: Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-21
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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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Kanal
Overview: During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-04-20
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Mniejszy szuka Dużego
Overview: The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-02-10
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New Year's Eve Adventure
Overview: A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-12-30
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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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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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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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Bad Luck
Overview: To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-04-04
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Decyzja
Overview: A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-10-28
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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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Wycieczka w nieznane
Overview: A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Janosik
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Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-04-14
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Ten okrutny, nikczemny chłopak
Overview: Romek is a boy whom nobody wants and who cannot find love in anyone. His mother has no interest in him at all. The boy gets under the influence of enterprising Janusz. This one teaches him to steal. During the first attempt, he is caught and puts in a juvenile court. The mother decides to take the opportunity to put him in an orphanage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-11-14
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Two from the Big River
Overview: A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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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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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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Around the World with Bolek and Lolek
Overview: Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-15
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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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Heat
Overview: Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – they sing easily.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-02
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Meetings In The Dark
Overview: A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-05-16
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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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I ty zostaniesz Indianinem
Overview: Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-02
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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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The Unknown
Overview: Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-13
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Unloved
Overview: The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-02
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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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Abel, Your Brother
Overview: A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-10-02
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The Real End of the Great War
Overview: Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-10-10
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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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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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Little Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Głos ma prokurator
Overview: A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-05-11
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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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Kareta
Overview: A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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