Paweł Nowisz
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Birthday: January 15, 1940
Deathday: October 15, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Short Working Day
Overview: A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-11-02
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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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The End of the World, or Egg Nogg 4
Overview: Agnieszka and Marcin's love is blooming, just like Kasia and professor Wolanski. Grandma Solska only dreams of the wedding of her only grandchild - However, his former lover, Bozenka, stands in the way of the happiness of young Zawada. Mrs. Wolanska decides to radically change her life and disappears in mysterious circumstances. Peace of Piotr and Marlenka is disturbed by the unexpected visit of his mother from overseas – And some very compromising photos trigger an avalanche of events. The real end of the world is underway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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ESD
Overview: The Borejko family has four daughters - Gabriela, Ida, Natalia and Patricia. Most concern causes the red-haired Ida, whose unusual ideas often end badly, though the girl has the best intentions. Her father, who works at the university as a classical philologist, gives her the idea to found a group called ESD. They want to try out the theory that you are more successful if you send out more positive signals to the environment. Soon this theory will be put to the test. Ida's mother has to go to the hospital and the entire burden of household chores falls on the children.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Wyłap
Overview: A young PhD student is trying to get 34 dogs for his research.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-29
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Remis
Overview: The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-07-14
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Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2
Overview: Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-09-27
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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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Soccer Poker
Overview: Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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Aquarium
Overview: Film based on the book of Viktor Suvorov, a former Soviet military intelligence officer. The story of the strange friendship between the two GRU officers. That relationship began in the Soviet military range where daring young officer Witek action drew the attention of Colonel Kravcov. With the protection of Colonel Witek gets to the interview. Price to be paid for this "favor" is the total loyalty to his patron.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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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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Chopin: Desire for Love
Overview: The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Zabić na końcu
Overview: Two workers, bored with their current situation, decide to rob a famous movie director.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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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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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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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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Doctor Semmelweis
Overview: The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-20
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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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Kamień na kamieniu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Warsaw: Year 5703
Overview: In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Pułapka
Overview: An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-12-05
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Po własnym pogrzebie
Overview: The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).
Genres: War TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-05-13
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Kraj świata
Overview: TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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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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Polski Crash
Overview: Early 90's. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The mafia is becoming more and more bold, operating without obstacles across borders. One of the more lucrative "businesses" is the trade in luxury cars, stolen in Germany and transferred to Russia by Russia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-25
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20 lat później
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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Nie było słońca tej wiosny
Overview: A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Quiet Is the Night
Overview: A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Top Dog
Overview: An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-07-24
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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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1968. Happy New Year
Overview: The events concerning the March 1968 student demonstrations in Poland are seen through the eyes of young people rebelling against the government and the communist politicians trying to halt the protests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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The Moth
Overview: This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan is the host of a nightly talk show in which he counsels people who call in with their problems. He is dedicated to helping these lonely souls but becomes increasingly disturbed when his co-workers and supervisors at the radio station do not appreciate his program; they seem unable to grasp the importance of what he is doing. Aside from that, Jan's private life is frayed around the edges. His wife is a heavy drinker and his mistress has no comprehension about who he is or what he is doing. Jan's frustration over this lack of recognition builds to an explosive level, threatening to upset the balance of his daily life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-10-10
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Przygody Joanny
Overview: Christmas is coming. Little Ania dreams of a doll she saw in a shop window.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Tomorrow's Weather
Overview: A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-10-02
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Taekwondo
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-02-14
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Return of the Pied Piper
Overview: The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-18
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Puszka Pandory
Overview: After killing her husband, the beautiful but cunning Lulu evades justice with the help of the people that are in love with her. A Polish teleplay of Frank Wederkind's play that adapts the second part of the story.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Silent Night
Overview: Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Rykowisko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Mishmash, or Egg Nogg 3
Overview: Kasia still lives in the village of Brzozki and fights off her unwanted suitor Staszek. Unexpectedly, her son Marcin returns to Poland and immediately runs into trouble. The boy has an idea for an unusual business. At this time, a crisis breaks out in Warsaw in the Wolanski family, Wolanska publishes a controversial book, her husband and daughter Agnieszka - rebel and run away from home. They first decide to visit Piotr, who today leads a comfortable life with his wife Marlena. Then they set off into the unknown, and this trip will become legendary again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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Money Is Not Everything
Overview: The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-05
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Złoty środek
Overview: Raised in Warsaw's Praga, Mirka graduated from the prestigious faculty of law. It would seem that her profession would even be detracted from the honor of a family with cunning roots. The girl's grandfather and father pride themselves on stays in numerous prisons. However, Mirka's legal knowledge can be very useful in the fight to save the old tenement house. As a result of a suspicious transaction, the tenement house where Mirka has been living since childhood is to be demolished. All the leads lead to the law firm "Łopian i Pokrzywa", which is just looking for a new lawyer - a man. In order to help the inhabitants of the family tenement house, Mirka must engage in a daring hoax. She is helped by her uncle Bogumił, a makeup artist and a representative of a sexual minority. Thanks to him, a beautiful girl will turn into a handsome young man and hire him in a suspicious office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Boys Don't Cry
Overview: A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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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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Provocateur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Fluke
Overview: Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-08-20
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The Planet 'Tailor'
Overview: In the 50's a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emegency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a second lease on life the tailor thinks that while in a coma he has communicated with the distant stars. He gives up tailoring and turns to the stars. He engages his friends in a village to build an observatory. He becomes recognized and for a time being even the authorities back him up. But then comes bitter awakening: his wife can't take his obsessions anymore and leaves him. The town council calls upon him to close his work as the first Sputnik goes into space. Then he is invited to an astronomical convention, He becomes the sensation of the conference, not however, as a amateur astronomer, but by guessing the clothing measurements of the delegates. Back home he realizes that his dream may be over, but he cannot help gazing at the sky. Written by Polish Cinema Database
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-18
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Killer
Overview: An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-17
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Fever
Overview: The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-04
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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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By the River Nowhere
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-01-23
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Colonel Kwiatkowski
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Little Rose
Overview: Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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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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Cynga
Overview: A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a camp in Siberia. He will spend the war in a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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