Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Also Known As: Збигнев Запасевич
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Birthday: September 13, 1934
Deathday: July 14, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blind Chance
Overview: Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-01-10
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The Promised Land
Overview: In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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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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Tylko Beatrycze
Overview: Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-02-09
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Without Anesthesia
Overview: A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-27
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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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Matylda's Birthday
Overview: Matylda reflects on her life on her 30th birthday.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-03-18
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Ostatnie takie trio
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-04-29
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Demons of War
Overview: A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-03-20
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Kłopotliwy gość
Overview: Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Tango
Overview: The famous play by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Maciej Englert. A 1999 production.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-25
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In Broad Daylight
Overview: Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-03-16
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Pigs
Overview: In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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Sposób bycia
Overview: A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-25
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Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Overview: Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Koty to dranie
Overview: Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Barrier
Overview: A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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Pictures from Life
Overview: Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-21
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Idol
Overview: In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-10-07
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The Contract
Overview: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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Egzekutor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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From a Far Country
Overview: This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Baryton
Overview: A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-25
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Two for the Seesaw
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Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-06
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Childish Questions
Overview: A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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The Story of Sin
Overview: A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-06-03
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The Wicket Gate
Overview: Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Camouflage
Overview: A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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Laura
Overview: Laura is personnel manager in a hospital. Her father-in-law was a high ranking cadre, her mother-in-law is an influential functionary, it is only her husband - director of an archives - who is unfit for everything. Laura does not like to be home. During one of her rovings she meets her former classmate, who wants to break into the world of pop music with a new band.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Piękna twarz
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Czerwona łata
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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O sławnym człowieku
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-04-14
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Garby
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-07-30
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Jak bóg Maior utracił tron
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Wojna z rzeczami
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-07-22
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Jak Gyom został starszym panem
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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The Biggest Quarrel
Overview: The protagonists of the film are three brothers: Eino, Aho and Laje. The brothers live from the cultivation of the family land. Eino works from dawn to night. Aho likes to spend time playing at a nearby inn. Laje once helps Eino, and once accompanies Aho. Once Aho gets cheated by playing dice and losing his family land. The brothers set off in search of a job. They reach a road fork. Eino wants to go left, Aho to the right, and Laje agrees once with one, once with the other brother. The brothers, unable to convince each other for their reasons, start a great quarrel.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-11-29
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The Trial
Overview: An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Po upadku
Overview: A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Wiano
Overview: A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-14
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The Mother of the Kings
Overview: Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Persona non grata
Overview: A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Hope
Overview: Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to Benedict Weber, gallery owner and art connoisseur. Francis comes to his gallery. Blackmails him, that will provide police record, unless the image in three days back in place.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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The Fall
Overview: On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Salvation
Overview: A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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A Chance
Overview: Zbyszek volunteers as an organ donor for his friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Man of the Crowds
Overview: Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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The Maids of Wilko
Overview: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-04
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Stand off
Overview: In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by plane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-04-29
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Behind the Wall
Overview: Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-19
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Ways in the Night
Overview: Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-09
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Imperative
Overview: Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Will There Be a War
Overview: A documentary in which a picture of pre-war Poznan is reconstructed with the help of archival materials from regional collections and staging. The structural axis of the film is a radio broadcast from August 1939 with the participation of well-known and respected residents of the city, who answer the question: is there going to be a war?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-08-19
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Placówka
Overview: The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Ktokolwiek wie...
Overview: A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy
Overview: A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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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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Con Amore
Overview: Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the sick Eve.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-05-24
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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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Weekend Stories: Deceptive Charm
Overview: An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-03-24
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Revisited
Overview: In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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The Supplement
Overview: An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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Obcy musi fruwać
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Akcja pod Arsenałem
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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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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Mazepa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-29
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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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Convicted
Overview: A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-02-02
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...jestem przeciw
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
Overview: Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-09
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
Overview: Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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The Deserters
Overview: Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
Genres: Comedy History War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Kordian
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Original Language: pl
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Wyspy szczęśliwe
Overview: A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-11-24
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Choinka strachu
Overview: August 1980, Strikes break out on the coast. The famous writer cannot decide whether to take the side of the oppositionists or wait for the course of events to unfold. A few months later, he meets an SB agent who followed him as a writer in the 1950s. They remember the Stalinist times.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-20
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