Krzysztof Zaleski
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Świętochłowice, Poland
Birthday: September 03, 1948
Deathday: October 20, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sztos
Overview: Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. Preparations take many months, but the action ends differently than it was planned.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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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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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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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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Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem
Overview: Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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A Room with a View on the Sea
Overview: Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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Private Town
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Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-10-06
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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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Konsul
Overview: After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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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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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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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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Nothing But Fear
Overview: TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-03-28
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O rany, nic się nie stało!!!
Overview: Roberto is a young Cuban who is visiting Poland. And times are not merry - the Cuban conflict is about to begin. His stay is not successful, so Roberto returns to his country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-26
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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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Samowolka
Overview: Do jednostki wojskowej przyjeżdżają nowi poborowi. Starsi koledzy ostrzegają ich przed Tygrysem, byłym kryminalistą, faktycznym władcą kompanii, słynącym z bezwzględności i sadyzmu. Co gorsza jest on w praktyce bezkrany, gdyż przełożeni chociaż wiedzą o jego wybrykach, nie reagują. Już pierwsze dni służby wystawiają cierpliwość świeżo upieczonych "kotów" na ciężką próbę. Grupka starszych żołnierzy, czekających na przejście do rezerwy bije, upokarza i demoluje dobytek poborowych. Ich okrucieństwu i złośliwości najodważniej próbuje przeciwstawić się niejaki Kowalski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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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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Męskie sprawy
Overview: Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-20
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O dwóch takich, co nic nie ukradli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Czarne słońca
Overview: Multiple recidivist Tadeusz Wilk out of jail thanks to an amnesty. He has no idea where to go and what to do with themselves. Post lays down back behind bars.Wolf meets Celine and tells the woman that she is his mother. Mysterious, strangely behaving stranger arouses more and more anxious new parents
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-09-14
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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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Saved by a Miracle
Overview: The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Years passed, and the "miraculously saved" person did not keep his promise. Now feeling that it is probably time to die, he decides to fulfill his obligations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Chance
Overview: Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately as he does. His adversary is a possessed sports instructor, gaining growing control over the students and authorities. His methods are questionable and his influence dangerous, but the handball team's prospects look good and the school needs success...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-18
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Łóżko Wierszynina
Overview: Rehearsals for Chekhov's Three Sisters are underway in the theater. The team creating the performance is entangled in complicated relationships, they feel pressure. Success or failure no longer depends only on them, but they still try to realize their own ambitions and dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-11-23
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Bajland
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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My Mother's Lovers
Overview: Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very mature son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-05-02
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Kill Me, Cop
Overview: The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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Głosy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-07-26
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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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A Woman Alone
Overview: Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-15
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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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Eminent Domain
Overview: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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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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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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