Władysław Kowalski
Also Known As: Владислав Ковальский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Żurawce, lubelskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: February 24, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 29, 2017
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The Double Life of Véronique
Overview: Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-15
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Avalon
Overview: In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-20
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Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Overview: Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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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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Louise's Garden
Overview: A young girl meets a gangster at a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-04-11
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Komediantka
Overview: A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-05-04
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Gold Dreams
Overview: The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Overview: A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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Queen of the Angels
Overview: The film takes place in two spaces of time. Modern history tells the story of a passing relationship crisis doctor James with her teacher Maria. During the night shift, Jacob is trying to calm the boy. Experiencing a shock that pushes him into the inner journey in time past, in the regions of childhood, to the genesis of his fears and frustrations. The second story waged simultaneously with the first takes place in the nineteenth century, in a nobleman's manor where Maria takes care of the ailing heiress Elizabeth. Elizabeth's daughter, Zofia, is expecting a baby. — Polish Wikipedia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Return to Earth
Overview: After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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1968. Happy New Year
Overview: Spring of 1968, Warsaw. The fight for influence between top level Communist officials is the background to a developing love story between a young couple who are engaged in student protests. Both the young couple and their parents will pay a high price for their decisions, and their Jewish roots, which up until now seemed to have no meaning, but which will soon determine their fates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Lesser Evil
Overview: There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-10-23
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Poznań 56
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-11-28
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Close-Ups
Overview: 37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Decalogue VII
Overview: As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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111 dni letargu
Overview: A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Żółw
Overview: Rafał is suspected of killing a turtle that fell out of the balcony.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Shivers
Overview: A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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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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The Master and Margarita
Overview: The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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Niezawodny system
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-05-18
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Był sobie dzieciak
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-07-31
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Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Overview: Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-03-02
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Medium
Overview: Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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Patrząc pod słońce
Overview: Holidays spent by a couple in love are disrupted by the appearance of a stranger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-04-12
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Goodbye to the Past
Overview: An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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To Kill This Love
Overview: The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-12-10
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The Young Magician
Overview: A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic and wants to learn more. He becomes proficient in tricks and also discovers his telekinetic powers. Unfortunately that further alienates him from his peers and his parents are afraid of his powers. Things change when a national emergency arises and the government asks him to help. After success he becomes a hero and is accepted by all. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Overview: The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Panny i wdowy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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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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Body
Overview: A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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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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Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
Overview: Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Damaged
Overview: Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-12-24
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Gods
Overview: Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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Goodnight
Overview: Two neighbours living in one block of flats share the same dreams at night - they murder each another.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-11
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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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Without Love
Overview: Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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The Road West
Overview: In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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Samson
Overview: The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-11
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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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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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Where Are You, Louise?
Overview: Mysterious creatures that have landed on the ground in a flying saucer, encouraging the people they meet to undergo experimental research in exchange for gaining youth and immortality.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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Spona
Overview: Set in Polish high school in the year 1969, a story about a group of first year students who are trying to get through the year by finding a way around an eccentric history teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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No More Divorces
Overview: Three short segments about love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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The Bait
Overview: A star New York City detective is investigating the beating of a young girl. Following the crime trail he finds new victims. As the bodies start to pile up, so does the list of possible suspects. This "Who Done It" starts to look like a "Who Didn't Do It" with a surprising twist when love, romance, envy and rage collide.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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Deborah
Overview: In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-11-07
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Pan Tadeusz
Overview: A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-18
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Sauna
Overview: A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-27
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Les Milles
Overview: In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-22
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Katyn
Overview: On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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The Day of the Big Fish
Overview: A mature man recalls his youthful love and comes to the town where he once met a woman who was important to him. However, it is hard to turn back time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-05-29
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Postcard from a Journey
Overview: A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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The Killer Leaves a Trace
Overview: In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
Genres: War Action Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-08-18
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Red Rowan
Overview: The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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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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Mystification
Overview: Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.
Genres: Mystery Thriller History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Love at Twenty
Overview: Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-22
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Zabawa w chowanego
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Smaller Sky
Overview: A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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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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Merry Christmas
Overview: Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-12-21
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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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Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831
Overview: Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-14
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Nikt nie jest winien
Overview: A famous writer suspects that his wife is cheating on him and tries to find out who her lover is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Skarga
Overview: A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to bury their son despite the refusal from the communist authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-12-18
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Kordian
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-11-21
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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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Pěsti ve tmě
Overview: The year is 1936, the nervous atmosphere of the Nazi threat penetrates into the sport. Upgrade boxe Vilda Jakub will compete with German Kurt Schaller. The Nazis decisions are used in order to win his master even the dirtiest means. Vilda inspect their game and focus on the preparation of environmental events. The story culminates in the victory of one of the two lovers, between which Vilda tense moments in the decision.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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