Andrzej Szczepkowski
Also Known As: Анджей Щепковский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sucha Beskidzka, Poland
Birthday: April 26, 1923
Deathday: January 31, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Kalosze szczęścia
Overview: Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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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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Mansarda
Overview: After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-27
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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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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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Green, Bygone...
Overview: A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Sons and Comrades
Overview: A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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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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Rajski ptak
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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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 Young Magician
Overview: A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic and wants to learn more. He becomes proficient in tricks and also discovers his telekinetic powers. Unfortunately that further alienates him from his peers and his parents are afraid of his powers. Things change when a national emergency arises and the government asks him to help. After success he becomes a hero and is accepted by all. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Citizen Piszczyk
Overview: This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-16
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Overview: The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Penguin
Overview: A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-04-18
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Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Overview: A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-14
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The Computer King
Overview: Marcin is an exceptionally gifted child - a computer genius. The enigmatic "Computer King" has therefore set his sights on him. He resides in the netherworld where he exercises his power over famous deceased scientists and artists. He's going to use them to snatch the young programmer away from the real world and into his own kingdom. Now every machine Marcin comes across may well be a bringer of his doom.
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Original Language: pl
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Drugi człowiek
Overview: A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-19
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The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest
Overview: A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-04
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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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Sekret Enigmy
Overview: Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939; they ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France.
Genres: History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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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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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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The Wedding
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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Wawelski convuntus dowódców
Overview: A TV special - host Irena Dziedzic interviews notable figures of Polish history at the Wawel Castle.
Genres: TV Movie History Documentary
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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The Gorgon Case
Overview: In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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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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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Overview: A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-08-10
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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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Nights and Days
Overview: A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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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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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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Dotknięci
Overview: Polish film directed by Wieslaw Saniewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
Overview: In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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2 x 2 = 4
Overview: This documentary promotes the new post-war social and political order in Poland and condemns people opposed to the people's rule.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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