Artur Barciś
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Biography: Artur Barciś ([ˈartur ˈbarʲʨ̑ĩɕ]; born 12 August 1956) is a Polish actor. His television appearances include Krzysztof Kieślowski's anthology series Dekalog (1989), the soap opera Aby do świtu... (1992),[1] and Kurierzy ("Couriers"). Since 2006 he has played the lovable neurotic Arkadiusz Czerepach in the comedy series Ranczo ("The Ranch").
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kokawa, Polska
Birthday: August 12, 1956
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Gender: Male
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No End
Overview: 1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-17
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A Short Film About Killing
Overview: Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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A Short Film About Love
Overview: 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-21
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Mall Girls
Overview: Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Talking Heads 2021
Overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Miodowe Lata od kuchni
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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The Faithful River
Overview: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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Immensity of Justice
Overview: A disengaged graduate expects his father's friend to recruit him into law, but instead learns about a murder case with a verdict he aims to challenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-03-08
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Decalogue IV
Overview: A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Decalogue VIII
Overview: Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Came the Uhlans
Overview: In a post-State gmina Osiek, on August 15th the plaque commemorating the liberation of the town from the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1920 will be unveiled. Vogt wants the event to be festive and to contribute to the promotion a the forgotten gmina. He needs a veteran, but where will he find a veteran of the 1920 war? Marian, a village shopkeeper, promises to “find” a veteran in excha
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-08-14
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Overview: The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Man of Iron
Overview: In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-07-27
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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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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
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Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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Jak to się robi z dziewczynami
Overview: Bohaterami filmu są dwaj przyjaciele, 18-latkowie Bogo i Rychu, postawieni przed wyborami okresu dojrzewania. Obaj mają kłopoty z kobietami. Bogo jest typem "twardziela", który - przekonany o własnej skuteczności w podrywaniu dziewczyn - nie zwraca uwagi na stosowane środki. Rychu to marzyciel, zagubiona ofiara losu; nigdy dotąd nie miał dziewczyny. Bogo postanawia mu pomóc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-11-15
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Ranczo Wilkowyje
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Controlled Conversations
Overview: Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Feeder
Overview: Ziggy is a teenager suffering from bulimia. One day, he’s being told by his father that he needs to be sent to the hospital. He decides to prevent this and finds allies in his cause. However, in the meantime, he discovers that something dangerous lives inside of him, something that wants to come out at all costs. Will he be able to hide it any longer? The film is a horror-coming-of-age story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-04-27
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Decalogue IX
Overview: Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Decalogue VI
Overview: A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-09-04
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A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Overview: The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Polonia Restituta
Overview: A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Polowanie
Overview: Outraged by corruption in his small town, a family man runs for mayor but discovers that staying true to his principles may come at a devastating cost.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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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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Odlot
Overview: The protagonist of this drama series is Rafał Michalski. After graduating from vocational school, he tries to pass to a technical school. It fails. Takes a job in a car factory - in a locksmith shop. The shy boy becomes the object of his friends' jokes. She also finds no support in the family - her mother is busy running the house, her sister is preparing for her exams for studies, and her father has an absorbing job. At work, Rafał meets the nice Hanka. Maybe friendship with her will turn into a deeper feeling?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Forgotten Love
Overview: A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-09-26
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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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Colonel Kwiatkowski
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Bejbis
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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Wstyd
Overview: A 12-year-old girl is brutally raped. The perpetrator is one of the three 40-year-old men with whom the girl had previously had contacts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman
Overview: Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where almost everything was forbidden?
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Miłość na pierwszą stronę
Overview: The story of Nina - a modern day Cinderella and Robert - the son of the presidential couple. She is undergoing a transformation in life and is making her first steps in the paparazzi profession. He also wants to live on his own terms and free himself from the spotlight, which may turn out to be more difficult than he thinks. Only fleeting "front page love" or a great feeling for life will spark between the characters?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Wnyki
Overview: Jakub is coming back to his home town only to discover his former girlfriend has leukemia. He has to confront the past he wanted to escape from.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-12-17
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No Pressure
Overview: After being tricked into dropping everything to save her grandmother's farm, big-city chef Oliwia falls for a handsome farmer who's hiding a secret.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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Private investigation
Overview: Rafal Skonecki loses his family in a car accident, caused by a drunken driver. When he is informed that the investigation is discontinued, he decides to take justice into his own hand.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-09-22
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Love Stories
Overview: Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student puts the teacher in an awkward spot when she reveals her love for him. An 11-year-old informs the priest that she's his daughter. The army officer is pleased when confronted by a past lover. The drug dealer, taken prisoner, must decide whether or not to trust his wife with his hidden loot. In the wrap-up, the elderly accountant passes judgment on all four men. Stuhr acted in films by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who had some input here by offering advice to Stuhr on this screenplay.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Honey Bunny
Overview: A barrier grew between Staszek and Alina, and the intimacy disappeared as time passed. He locks himself in a shed with his rabbits and sorrows. She indulges in relaxing baths. Everything changes when Alinka takes a job as a cuddler at the Honey Bunny salon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-05-27
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Galerianki
Overview: Short film that was later expanded into a feature film with the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Spinning Wheel of Time
Overview: A filmmaker and his wife, an actress visit their cabin in the woods for the first time in 10 years. He sets about filming whatever he can in the area, including an alluring blonde who lives nearby.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-03-30
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Inventory
Overview: Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-23
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Two Moons
Overview: Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka
Overview: Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Decalogue II
Overview: Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Decalogue III
Overview: It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Decalogue I
Overview: Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Decalogue V
Overview: Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Two Crowns
Overview: Recreation of facts and stories of both experts and people who met Maximilian Kolbe and were shocked by his words and actions.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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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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The Last Ferry
Overview: One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info that he is carrying. When the ship is in the middle of the Baltic sea, martial law is declared and the ship is militarized. The captain announces he will turn and return the home port. Many anguished passengers put the life vests on and jump into the sea, where they are picked up by two German ships. The teacher, however, decides to return to Poland and continue the struggle for freedom.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Be Prepared
Overview: Conflicts between the scouts and boys in a reformatory at the common scout camp, are sometimes very strong. One of the scouts dies. Jacek does not trust the police, who recognizes that it was an unfortunate accident. Sam believes in a world of a crystalline division into evil and good. He begins a private investigation. He brings a strict regime to the camp.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Overview: An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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The Peddler
Overview: The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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The Day of the Big Fish
Overview: A mature man recalls his youthful love and comes to the town where he once met a woman who was important to him. However, it is hard to turn back time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-05-29
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Invitation
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Rififi po sześćdziesiątce
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-23
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Człowiek z...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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The Quack
Overview: A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-04-12
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Przemytnicy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-30
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Squadron
Overview: A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Sam pośród swoich
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Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-24
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The Sundial Clock
Overview: The story of a married couple, actress and director, who live in the bosom of nature, in a stream hut, and realize a story about their own lives, thoughts and fantasies. Working on a film is a naive attempt to search for meaning in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Europa Europa
Overview: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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Kolysanka
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Home Chronicles
Overview: The protagonist of the film is a 12-year-old boy - Witek, the son of a small-town miller, a former entrepreneur who, after the war, holed up in a small town as a craftsman. The boy's mother is a beautiful and subtle woman, raising children and raising a home. Through the house of Witek's parents there is a gallery of picturesque characters who are perceived by the child warmly and with humor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-04
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Na planie nowego serialu "Miodowe lata"
Overview: Preview and behind the scenes of the cult Polish series "Miodowe lata".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-09-20
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Little Brother
Overview: A film based on real events about the art of passing, goodness and mercy... The titular Little Brother is based on Alojzy Kosiba, "Alojzeczek" - a fundraiser and almoner who lived in the years 1855-1939. A monk approaching the end of his days wants to save a young boy's life before his earthly farewell.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-04-02
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Virtuti
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Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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Operacja Koza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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