Zdzisław Kozień
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Pracę artystyczną rozpoczął w czasach okupacji jako aktor-amator. W latach 1948-1952 występował w Teatrze Kolejarza w Krakowie. Od 1953 związany z Teatrem im. Wandy Siemaszkowej w Rzeszowie. Stworzył tu wiele wybitnych kreacji aktorskich, m.in. Cześnika w "Zemście", Majora w "Fantazym", Wojewody w "Mazepie" czy Czepca w "Weselu". W latach 1972-1982 pracował w Teatrze Polskim i Współczesnym we Wrocławiu. Od 1983 ponownie występował w Rzeszowie. Wystąpił w wielu filmach fabularnych (m.in. Człowiek z marmuru jako ojciec Agnieszki) oraz serialach telewizyjnych (m. in. Królowa Bona jako Zygmunt I Stary). Widzowie zapamiętali jego rolę w popularnym serialu telewizyjnym 07 zgłoś się, gdzie zagrał porucznika Antoniego Zubka. Odznaczony m.in. Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski. Pochowany na Cmentarzu Komunalnym Wilkowyja w Rzeszowie.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Birthday: December 04, 1924
Deathday: March 25, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Sto koni do stu brzegów
Overview: World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-18
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Freelancer
Overview: Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-28
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Przeklęta ziemia
Overview: Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-10-24
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Piętno
Overview: Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Republika nadziei
Overview: The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Big Bang
Overview: A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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Gwiazda Piołun
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Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-04-21
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Polowanie na Króla Lira
Overview: A couple of Warsaw actors come to a small town to play in a play staged there. When one of them disappears, the theater director begins a private investigation.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-05-02
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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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Czysta chirurgia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Overview: Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-03-14
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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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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Overview: An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Environs of a Quiet Sea
Overview: Captain Roman Markowski is a sailor. One day, after returning from the sea, his ex-wife calls him. It turns out that their son has disappeared. It also turns out that the boy got to the Maritime School. The captain's life gets complicated when his son suffers a serious accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-02-07
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Rancho Texas
Overview: Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-04-27
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The Palace
Overview: Set in 1944. A shepherd boy enters an abandoned palace he has seen only from the distance since he was a boy. Once he enters the palace, strange things begin to happen as though he was dreaming the events rather than living them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-11-10
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Trzy stopy nad ziemią
Overview: Set in the 70's. A young man decides that after dropping out of school, going to the army is not for him. He decides to become a voluntary miner. He lives with his buddies in barracks, where the only entertainment is ping-pong, and dreams of the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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Before the Day Breaks
Overview: A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-21
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Jan
Overview: The writer Jan Kellert - the author of the widely known book "The Legend of the Vistula", which is part of the canon of pre-war middle school reading, comes from Lublin to Żmurki, where he spent the occupation. The division of the Żmurki estate is to take place the next day. The welcome dinner becomes an opportunity to exchange political views and a critical view of the manor's inhabitants on the current situation.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-08-19
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Przypadki Piotra S.
Overview: The pupil of the orphanage is entering adulthood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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The Golden Mahmudia
Overview: Two youngsters vacationing at the Black Sea sneak onto a mysterious ship and spy the peculiar activities of a treasure-seeking crew. They are discovered and imprisoned as the ship heads for an uncharted island. Their parents put together an expedition and after numerous adventures the treasure hunters are apprehended and the mystery of a secret cove is solved.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-02
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Alabama
Overview: Polish film directed by Ryszard Rydzewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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Coded Message for the Boss
Overview: Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the State Security of the German Democratic Republic and from then on lives a dangerous life as a double agent. When Brandin reaches the breaking point, his marriage starts to unravel because Brandin is not allowed to tell his family about his double life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-11-29
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A Small Town Love Affair
Overview: The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-04-06
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Convicted
Overview: A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-02-02
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Quiet Is the Night
Overview: A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Follies of Miss Eva
Overview: From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-07
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Wściekły
Overview: Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-07
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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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Sonata marymoncka
Overview: Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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Powrót po śmierć
Overview: One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.
Genres: Crime TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-02
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