Sylwester Przedwojewski
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Długosiodło, Polska
Adult: No
Deathday: February 02, 2015
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Na melinę
Overview: A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Nazajutrz po wojnie
Overview: On the last day of the war, a Polish soldier whose family was murdered meets his German enemy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-10
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Walkover
Overview: Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-04
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Sposób bycia
Overview: A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-25
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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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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Overview: Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Sceny nocne
Overview: Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-03-13
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Special Mission
Overview: In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
Genres: Comedy War Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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The Marriage of Convenience
Overview: Małżeństwo z rozsądku ("Marriage of Convenience") is a Polish musical comedy from 1966 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Gorzka miłość
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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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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A Jungle Book of Regulations
Overview: Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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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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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Overview: Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-11
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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Overview: Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-11-21
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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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Zamach stanu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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Pobojowisko
Overview: Soon after the end of the war, a former officer moves to a small seaside town in the Recovered Lands. The situation in this post-German territory is still unsettled.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-09
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Checkmate!
Overview: Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Markiza de Pompadour
Overview: A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-03
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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Kazimierz Wielki
Overview: The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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The Twenties, the Thirties
Overview: On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-19
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Cześć kapitanie
Overview: A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Rainy July
Overview: A woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-02-21
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Free City
Overview: The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Husband of His Wife
Overview: Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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I Hate Mondays
Overview: An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Overview: Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-11
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Overview: Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Nafta
Overview: Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Passenger
Overview: A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-20
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Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Overview: Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-24
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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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Pejzaż z bohaterem
Overview: Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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Cooked Doves
Overview: A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-12
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Cierpkie głogi
Overview: A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-25
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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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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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When Love Was a Crime
Overview: A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Overview: A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Westerplatte Resists
Overview: Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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Kwestia sumienia
Overview: During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
Genres: History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-11-27
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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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Szkice warszawskie
Overview: Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-30
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Shoot Paragon!
Overview: A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-20
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The Touch of the Night
Overview: Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-01-11
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More Than Life At Stake Part Three
Overview: The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-26
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Romantyczni
Overview: An intimate psychological drama: the story of two brothers who, in the winter of 1848, waited for the opportunity to enter General Bem's troops in Hungary and experience emotional conflicts in a noble manor, which lead to a fundamental confrontation of attitudes and characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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Facing the Truth
Overview: After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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Nuremberg Epilogue
Overview: Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-07
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Agent #1
Overview: Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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The Moonwalkers
Overview: A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-18
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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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The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Overview: The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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Korn's Password
Overview: An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-21
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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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Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Overview: Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-09
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Ostatni strzał
Overview: A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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Zmowa
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Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-09-25
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Wniebowstąpienie
Overview: The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-11-21
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Naganiacz
Overview: 1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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Wherever You Are...
Overview: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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The Leaves Have Fallen
Overview: Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-17
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Daze
Overview: An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-02-20
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Nocny gość
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-05-07
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