Magda Teresa Wójcik
Also Known As: Magda Teresa Dąbrowska
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wilno, wileńskie, Rosja (obecnie Litwa)
Birthday: June 10, 1934
Deathday: September 17, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Man of Marble
Overview: A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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W cieniu nienawiści
Overview: In 1943, Ewa decides to take care of her Jewish neighbour's daughter and brings her home just for a few days. When the ghetto uprising begins, the woman keeps on looking after the little girl.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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Through Nine Bridges
Overview: A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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The Finger of God
Overview: The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-08-03
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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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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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Smak wody
Overview: Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Nothing Stands in the Way
Overview: Jerzy and Zofia are offered a job in Africa. A married couple is faced with the dilemma of leaving or taking care of the man's mother and her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-02-16
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The Mother of the Kings
Overview: Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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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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Tętno
Overview: In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-12
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Who Is Joe Louis?
Overview: The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Bajland
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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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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Mother Joan of the Angels
Overview: A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-02-09
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Elegia
Overview: Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-11-29
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Without Anesthesia
Overview: A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-27
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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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Mysz
Overview: One of the classes of the Warsaw high school boycotts the test in chemistry lessons. A schoolgirl who has not succumbed to pressure from her peers becomes the target of their revenge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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