Edwin Petrykat
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Częstochowa, śląskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: February 11, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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On, ona, oni
Overview: Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-12
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The Last Ferry
Overview: One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info that he is carrying. When the ship is in the middle of the Baltic sea, martial law is declared and the ship is militarized. The captain announces he will turn and return the home port. Many anguished passengers put the life vests on and jump into the sea, where they are picked up by two German ships. The teacher, however, decides to return to Poland and continue the struggle for freedom.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Seychelles
Overview: A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Obcy musi fruwać
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Olympics 40
Overview: The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out out that he is a prisoner and nothing more. But that plants the seed and the Pole proposes and Olympics 40 to be held among the prisoners. They ingeniously make a flag and medals, set up a number of races; a croaching hop race is unwittingly organized by a German prison guard who uses it as a torture. The German lieutenant knows that something is going on but cannot find out. Finally the Germans realize the idea and the Polish chief is sent to concentration camp but the others disobey the orders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-23
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Our Folks: The Beginning
Overview: Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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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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Little Moscow
Overview: During the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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The Return of She-Wolf
Overview: A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess attacks the fiancée.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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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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Kung-fu
Overview: A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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March Caresses
Overview: Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Some of them were forced to leave their country for having Jewish origin. And for political reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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