Wiktor Grotowicz
Also Known As: Wiktor Swincow, W. Grotowicz, Виктор Гротович
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Białystok, podlaskie, Polska
Birthday: October 23, 1919
Deathday: December 19, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ashes and Diamonds
Overview: A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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Spotkania
Overview: Four stories showing the various facets of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-18
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Overview: Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-26
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Wiśnie
Overview: Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Signals
Overview: A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Kwiat paproci
Overview: By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Piętno
Overview: Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Here Is My Home
Overview: A young man, Kuba, is returning from the army. At home, an image of misery and despair remains: the father is seriously ill, and the mother has become emotionally attached to the man who exploits her and intends to take over the farm. After the death of his father, the young man guards the farm, but his girlfriend leaves him. Unable to bear the atmosphere of envy and resentment, Kuba leaves for the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Pharaoh
Overview: Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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Fatalista
Overview: Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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The Catastrophe
Overview: A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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Zamach stanu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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Album polski
Overview: University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-05-08
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Doctor Judym
Overview: A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-10-20
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I Like Bats
Overview: Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-07-14
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Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Overview: Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-11
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Synthesis
Overview: In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly becomes a serious threat to humanity. Synteza is an adaptation of a novel by Maciej Wojtyszko.
Genres: Science Fiction Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-06-11
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Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Overview: The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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Weekendy
Overview: An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-12-02
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Giuseppe in Warsaw
Overview: The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Genres: Romance Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-08-07
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Don Gabriel
Overview: The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Long Night
Overview: The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-30
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Agent #1
Overview: Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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Angel of Fire
Overview: Set in the 16th century in the Grand Inqusition period. Ruprecht stops overnight at an inn, and falls in love with the lovely Renata. She however, has fallen under the spell of Count Henryk, whom she believes to be an "angel of fire". The girl eventually brings him before the Inquisition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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Obcy w lesie
Overview: A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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The Lake of Mysteries
Overview: A teenager's world is shattered when her mother marries the father of her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-05-27
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Polar Bear
Overview: A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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The Red and the Gold
Overview: An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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Not Far from Warsaw
Overview: Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-10-21
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The Lost Bridge
Overview: Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-22
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Bumerang
Overview: A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-08
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Podhale w ogniu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-01-25
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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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Agnes 1946
Overview: A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-24
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Sara's House
Overview: This is a tale of a young woman Sara Braga who kills her lovers with the help of her servant Juliusz. She is a succubus and her servant is a personification of Asmodeus.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Shadow
Overview: A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Pills for Aurelia
Overview: Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-24
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Sobótki
Overview: Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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Funeral Ceremony
Overview: After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
Overview: In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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Tamań
Overview: A young Russian officer finds himself in a rundown town and seeks shelter in an abandoned hut while waiting for help.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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Czekam w Monte Carlo
Overview: At the annual car race in Monte Carlo the Polish team consists of driver Piotr and his pilot Jan. They compete with other teams as well as with one another - for the feelings of one woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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