Michał Szwejlich
Also Known As: Michał Mosze Szwejlich
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wilno, wileńskie, Rosja (obecnie Litwa)
Birthday: December 21, 1910
Deathday: December 27, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Gorgon Case
Overview: In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Wedle wyroków twoich...
Overview: As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-09-03
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The Peasants
Overview: In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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Polonia Restituta
Overview: A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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The Twenties, the Thirties
Overview: On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-19
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Austeria
Overview: During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-03-28
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Overview: Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Kolysanka
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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