Grażyna Krukówna
Also Known As: Grażyna Kruk-Frymar, Grażyna Kruk-Schejbal, Grażyna Kruk, Grażyna Krukówna-Frymar
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Łódź, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
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Erratum
Overview: Michał, a former musician who gave up his dreams and became an accountant, is asked by his boss to retrieve a truck he had shipped from America. The destination is Michael's former hometown, a port town which Michal left in a hurry years earlier. After retrieving the truck, Michał is involved in a serious accident which forces him to stay in town and reconcile several broken relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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The Dancing Hawk
Overview: "The Dancing Hawk" refers to the son of a peasant who senses he can climb to the job in troubled times by playing his cards right. His slavery to work match his ambitions, and gradually he reaches the social position he desires. But the costs have included a dehumanized soul and a loss of a moral conscience. People have had to pay for his advancement, including those nearest to him. The downfall is equally painful: either imprisonment or the easy wasy out are offered as the alternatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Roman and Magda
Overview: A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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Szklany dom
Overview: The main character of the film has just received her dream apartment in an old tenement house. However, it is not allowed to enjoy it for too long. When he returns home with the child, it turns out that the tenement house has disappeared. The woman's goal is to find her own home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-12-10
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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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Louder Than Bombs
Overview: Set in a small Polish town, "Louder Than Bombs" tells the coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while hosting his buffoonish out-of-town relatives who disparage his small town life as a mechanic in his father's garage. In addition, Marcin must face the news that his lifelong girlfriend has decided to leave Poland to live in the U.S. If he doesn't act quickly, he may never see her again.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Index
Overview: The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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The Smaller Sky
Overview: A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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Triumph of the Spirit
Overview: During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Kung-fu
Overview: A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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