Michał Pawlicki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: September 29, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 29, 2000
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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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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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Republika nadziei
Overview: The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Guilty of Innocence
Overview: This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-02-10
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Weiser
Overview: The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-18
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30 Door Key
Overview: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-02
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Rzeczywistość
Overview: The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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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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On the Banks of the Niemen
Overview: Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between Justyna Orzelska, niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz. Will their love be strong enough to break the mental barrier that separates the world of Bohatyrowicz from the world of Korczyński?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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Konsul
Overview: After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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Szczur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Hotel Pacific
Overview: Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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Checking the King
Overview: Two men in a game of chess. One of the players is a country boy who accidentally discovered a chess talent, and the other is a former lawyer who has not played chess for twenty years. The lawyer tells the story of learning to play chess: during World War II, he was arrested for no reason and imprisoned. One day, while waiting for another interrogation, he stole the book "Chess Review" from the investigating officer's coat. He perfected it for several months and started playing against himself. The intense mental effort led him to a nervous breakdown eventually...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-13
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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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Vabank II
Overview: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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Pavoncello
Overview: In 1912, Szczebieniew, a rich and ailing old man, comes to Italy with his young wife, Zinaida. Bored with his company, she looks for amusement and casual affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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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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Nightmares
Overview: Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-04-16
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Rider of the Flames
Overview: Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedrich Hölderlin secures the position of a private tutor in the home of a banker named Gontard. He is soon torn between his passion for poetry and his love for Susette, the lady of the house. To top it all off, Baron von Sinclair is in love with him. Hölderlin's most beautiful poems are written during this trying time. However, he becomes a total recluse when he loses Susette. The film examines the effects of conflicting demands, both emotional and sensual, that may inspire art. Feuerreiter was screened as part of the New German Films at the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-05-26
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Zakręt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-11
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Holy Week
Overview: During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Łóżko Wierszynina
Overview: Rehearsals for Chekhov's Three Sisters are underway in the theater. The team creating the performance is entangled in complicated relationships, they feel pressure. Success or failure no longer depends only on them, but they still try to realize their own ambitions and dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-11-23
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Bajland
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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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: 1998-01-02
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Bolesław Śmiały
Overview: Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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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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Człowiek z...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Mark of Cain
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Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-27
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