Józef Zbiróg
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Będzin, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: March 18, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 10, 2009
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A Lady from the Window
Overview: Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Inland Empire
Overview: As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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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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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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Pensja pani Latter
Overview: The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-05
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"Ty pójdziesz górą..." (Eliza Orzeszkowa)
Overview: A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-03
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Lesson of a Dead Language
Overview: An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-06
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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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Szkice węglem
Overview: The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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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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Jadą goście jadą...
Overview: Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-17
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First Pavilion
Overview: A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house in which his former professor is conducting experiments to shrink people.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-09-02
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Free City
Overview: The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Death of a President
Overview: After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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White Tracks
Overview: Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Back to Life Again
Overview: Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-03-12
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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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Hell and Heaven
Overview: A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Overview: Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
Genres: Comedy Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-06
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More Than Life At Stake Part Three
Overview: The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-26
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Romantyczni
Overview: An intimate psychological drama: the story of two brothers who, in the winter of 1848, waited for the opportunity to enter General Bem's troops in Hungary and experience emotional conflicts in a noble manor, which lead to a fundamental confrontation of attitudes and characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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Birth Certificate
Overview: Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-02
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Echo
Overview: It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-09-25
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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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Where is the General?
Overview: Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Próba ognia
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-05
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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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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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