Marian Opania
Also Known As: M. Opania
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marian Opania (born 1 February 1943) is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in over 50 films since 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Opania, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Puławy, Rzesza Niemiecka (obecnie Poland)
Adult: No
Birthday: February 01, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Man of Iron
Overview: In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-07-27
Popularity:
The Last Room on the Left
Overview: A young man knocks on the door of an old boarding house, hoping to rent a room. The owner answers the door in her bathrobe. She is hoping to get rid of the unexpected guest, but when she learns that he might be a prospective lodger, she agrees to show him around. The house is rather shabby and it keeps getting weirder with each room they see and each boarder they meet… The young man wants out, but leaving turns out to be pretty hard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-20
Popularity:
Case Unknown
Overview: An arrogant medical man discovers there's more to his new patient than he imagined in this drama from Polish filmmaker Feliks Falk. Dr. Konstanty Grot is an ambitious young doctor who is determined to make a name for himself, to the point that his wife often accuses him of being more interested in his career than in her. Grot believes that he can earn the respect of his peers by successfully treating a supposedly incurable patient, and he believes he may have found a likely candidate in Pawel Plocki, a mental patient who can barely function. Grot signs Plocki out of the mental hospital where he's been treated for years and moves him into his own home; in time, Plocki shows genuine improvement, and Grot thinks he?s beaten the state medical establishment at their own game. But that?s before Grot learns some secrets about his patient that cast his condition in a new and disturbing light.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-04
Popularity:
The Collector
Overview: Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-09-14
Popularity:
The Republic of Children
Overview: In the winter of 1903, a group of characters painted by the master escapes from Jacek Malczewski's paintings.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-07-30
Popularity:
Soccer Poker
Overview: Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-31
Popularity:
Piksele
Overview: A single mobile phone links disparate lives as mishaps take it from a tabloid journalist, to a rehab facility, a war veteran — and beyond.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-11-09
Popularity:
Pełnia nad głowami
Overview: Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-06-27
Popularity:
Kłopotliwy gość
Overview: Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-05
Popularity:
Salvation
Overview: A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-09-15
Popularity:
The End of the World, or Egg Nogg 4
Overview: Agnieszka and Marcin's love is blooming, just like Kasia and professor Wolanski. Grandma Solska only dreams of the wedding of her only grandchild - However, his former lover, Bozenka, stands in the way of the happiness of young Zawada. Mrs. Wolanska decides to radically change her life and disappears in mysterious circumstances. Peace of Piotr and Marlenka is disturbed by the unexpected visit of his mother from overseas – And some very compromising photos trigger an avalanche of events. The real end of the world is underway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-01-07
Popularity:
Promotion
Overview: After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to persuade its inhabitants to modernize their surroundings
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-03-30
Popularity:
On, ona, oni
Overview: Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-12
Popularity:
Wyłap
Overview: A young PhD student is trying to get 34 dogs for his research.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-29
Popularity:
Stajnia na Salvatorze
Overview: WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-10-06
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Inner State
Overview: December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-25
Popularity:
Bezkresne łąki
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Popularity:
Weiser
Overview: The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-18
Popularity:
Chopin: Desire for Love
Overview: The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-01
Popularity:
Golem
Overview: Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-18
Popularity:
The Moment of Peace
Overview: The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-25
Popularity:
Horror Story
Overview: A man, right after his graduation, seeks a dream job in a corporation. The corporate world, however, appears to him as a higher and higher nonsense and repetitive mindless scheme. While looking for a job, the protagonist moves into a cheap flat that resembles a house from horror movies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-11-17
Popularity:
Saved by a Miracle
Overview: The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Years passed, and the "miraculously saved" person did not keep his promise. Now feeling that it is probably time to die, he decides to fulfill his obligations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-05-01
Popularity:
Wesoła noc smutnego biznesmena
Overview: A businessman staying at the hotel orders a girl from an escort agency.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-10-10
Popularity:
Sobie król
Overview: A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-05-10
Popularity:
Shivers
Overview: A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-23
Popularity:
Przyspieszenie
Overview: A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-04
Popularity:
I Am Burning!
Overview: The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the ghost of the former owner.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-21
Popularity:
SuperWizja
Overview: A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost impossible to return to reality.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-07-14
Popularity:
Baby Boom, or Egg Nogg 5
Overview: Piotruś – together with his wife, mother-in-law and Leopold – moves to a new home: a historic manor house. And Marlenka decides to find a suitable ancestor for her family – one that will fit into the elegant residence… Agnieszka, in turn, is pursuing a career at the university, but right after defending her PHD, she suddenly discovers that she is pregnant. And when little Kuba is born… problems begin! Piotruś accompanies his sister during childbirth and begins to dream of a child himself – to Marlenka’s horror. Marcin, a new father, panics and suddenly disappears. In addition, a mysterious pregnant girl appears in Brzózki and she is looking for Zawada…
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-01-26
Popularity:
Tender Spots
Overview: The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-08-28
Popularity:
Hotel Pacific
Overview: Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-11-27
Popularity:
Beata
Overview: Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-01-19
Popularity:
Westerplatte Resists
Overview: Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-09-01
Popularity:
Marta
Overview: Marta comes to Lublin as a captain of the Polish Army. She is looking for information about her son - Stefan, whom she last saw years ago, when she went with her husband to fighting Spain.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-08-05
Popularity:
Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-01-15
Popularity:
7 Things You Don't Know About Men
Overview: A comedy about the modern days men, and not only...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-02-26
Popularity:
Przypadki Piotra S.
Overview: The pupil of the orphanage is entering adulthood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-05-26
Popularity:
Controlled Conversations
Overview: Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-12-13
Popularity:
More Than Life At Stake Part One
Overview: The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-12
Popularity:
Ferry
Overview: 1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-11
Popularity:
Gods
Overview: Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-10-10
Popularity:
Off We Go!
Overview: A humorous and emotional story of a family as unpredictable as a tornado. Their life gains momentum when the seniors - Józiek and Ela - decide to set off on a journey through Poland. They want to experience this trip on their own terms: to laugh, to take risk and love as if they were 20. And since their son has no intention to let them go, feisty seniors starts with stealing the iconic car Nysa...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-01-03
Popularity:
The Rite of Passage
Overview: A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-04-09
Popularity:
Wałesa: Man of Hope
Overview: How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man’s metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-09-23
Popularity:
God's Finger
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
Popularity:
Facing the Truth
Overview: After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-11-20
Popularity:
Chronicle of Amorous Accidents
Overview: Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-24
Popularity:
The Killer Leaves a Trace
Overview: In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
Genres: War Action Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-08-18
Popularity:
Decalogue VIII
Overview: Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
Popularity:
The Atlas
Overview: A remote, and a bit crazy to be honest, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient —one who he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and riveting one at that, like an itch you cannot quite scratch. Theories and informed-and-fact-based-gossip flourish all around the place. As luck would have it, so does the conflict as what to do with him. The situation is close to exploding, but the Atlas won’t stir. Or will he?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-06-19
Popularity:
Sauna
Overview: A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-27
Popularity:
The Spider Women
Overview: Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-09-16
Popularity:
Don Gabriel
Overview: The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-01
Popularity:
The Doll
Overview: Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-11-07
Popularity:
Człowiek z...
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-27
Popularity:
Ostatni po Bogu
Overview: Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-12
Popularity:
Wierne blizny
Overview:
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-10-04
Popularity:
Morning Stars
Overview:
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-08
Popularity:
Pearl in the Crown
Overview: When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-01-27
Popularity:
Goryl, czyli ostatnie zadanie...
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-01
Popularity:
Śpiewy po rosie
Overview: Film directed by Wladyslaw Slesicki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
It's in the Bank
Overview: Three old men get caught by the police during the bank heist. The problem is, that they didn't steal anything.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-08-15
Popularity:
The Neighbours
Overview: A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-05
Popularity:
Hero of the Year
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
Popularity:
Love at Twenty
Overview: Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-22
Popularity:
A Slip-Up
Overview: The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-10-17
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Skok
Overview: Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-10
Popularity:
Index
Overview: The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-25
Popularity:
War of Love
Overview: Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors even more eager to conquer them. Adaptation of the classic comedy by Aleksander Fredro.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-10-08
Popularity:
Panna z mokrą głową
Overview: A young lady from a good home, full of life, wins the hearts of the greatest gloomy people and turns people into people open to the world. He infects everyone with kindness and optimism, even when misfortunes fall on the family. Resolute and resourceful, she takes matters into her own hands, but will fate be favorable to her and happiness will smile at her?
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-04-21
Popularity:
Dotknięci
Overview: Polish film directed by Wieslaw Saniewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-01
Popularity:
All and Nobody
Overview: City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-02-20
Popularity:
Weryfikacja
Overview: Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-09-07
Popularity: