Jan Świderski
Also Known As: Ян Свидерский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chmieliniec, Polska
Birthday: January 01, 1916
Deathday: January 01, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Troje i las
Overview: A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-01-18
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Full Moon
Overview: A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to live in a small community of cabins and summer homes in a lake-filled region north of Warsaw. His interactions with the villagers, including a drunkard and other eccentrics, provide an informative background for what happens next. The ex-architect's wife is a professional singer who has not abandoned the city or her life -- and she soon arrives to spend some time with her very changed husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-11-13
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Forbidden Songs
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Genres: Music War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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Lovers from Marona
Overview: Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-25
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Far Is the Road
Overview: After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-10
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
Overview: After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.
Genres: Comedy Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-06
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Unvanquished City
Overview: Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-12-07
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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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Pierwsze dni
Overview: An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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The Spiral
Overview: In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-09-21
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The Ashes
Overview: Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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The Impossible Goodbye
Overview: All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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Career
Overview: Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-03-26
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