Marek Kondrat
Also Known As: Марек Кондрат
Biography: Marek Tadeusz Kondrat (born 18 October 1950) is a former Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director. He is a graduate of the Jan Śniadecki High School No. 30 in Warsaw. In 1972, he graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (PWST). He played his first role as a child in 1961 film Historia żółtej ciżemki. Between 1972-1973, he worked at the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice. He also worked at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw (1973–1984, 1987–1988), French Institute (1984), New Theatre (1985–1986), Comedy Theatre (1989), Za Dalekim (1990), Ateneum Theatre (1992–1999) and Zygmunta Hübner's Theatre (2002). His most notable roles, which made him one of the most popular actors in Poland, are featured in such films as Janusz Majewski's 1975 film Hotel Pacific, Andrzej Wajda's 1976 film Smuga cienia where he played the role of Joseph Conrad, Krzysztof Zanussi's 1981 biographic film From a Far Country, Janusz Majewski's 1985 comedy film C.K. Dezerterzy, Kazimierz Kutz's 1996 film Pułkownik Kwiatkowski, Marek Koterski's 2002 film Day of the Wacko and 2006 film We're All Christs. In 2002, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2007, he planned to revolutionize the Polish domestic wine market by introducing Winarium wine stores in every city with a population of over 100,000. On 19 September 2015 he married Antonina Turnau, daughter of Grzegorz Turnau. Source: Article "Marek Kondrat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: October 18, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Pan Tadeusz
Overview: A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-18
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Day of the Wacko
Overview: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Killer
Overview: An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-17
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With Fire and Sword
Overview: In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-02-08
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Hamadria
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Genres: Thriller Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Deserters
Overview: Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
Genres: Comedy History War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Deserter's Gold
Overview: "Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Polish Cuisine
Overview: A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Killer 2
Overview: Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-01-08
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Money Is Not Everything
Overview: The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-05
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Pigs
Overview: In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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The Land of Mirage
Overview: Officer Karikas from Petersburg should be in Saratov with her servant,in the way he played cards and losing much,even to stuck in the hotel.Local officials took him for anticipated auditor.With this error starting a chain of events.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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Devilish Education
Overview: Gosia is a beautiful and innocent young maid on the catholic countryside tending the cattle. One summer day she is having a bath in the river naked as god created her. On the next day a stranger appears painting and painting all day long. As they talk the black dressed suddenly shows her a picture showing her naked in the river. At first she is very ashamed, but then she begins to forget her shyness.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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Hacker
Overview: Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of complete submission to his clever friend Turbo - and he, in turn, guarantees him the easy money and attention to a long-legged beauty.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Playing with the Devil
Overview: The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-14
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
Overview: Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-09
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From a Far Country
Overview: This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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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
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A Room with a View on the Sea
Overview: Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
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Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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Richie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Operacja Samum
Overview: The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-05-07
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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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Czy ktos mnie kocha w tym domu
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Story of the Golden Boot
Overview: Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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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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The End of the Holiday
Overview: A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-03-31
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Childhood Sins
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Overview: A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-12
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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
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Taranthriller
Overview: Looking for a place to conduct research, docent Marek and his family move into an old villa where strange events take place.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Pastorale heroica
Overview: War film directed by Henryk Bielski.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-16
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Po własnym pogrzebie
Overview: The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).
Genres: War TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-05-13
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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
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Reverted
Overview: Young democracy activist is being chased by police in a very funny way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-03
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Po upadku
Overview: A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Pułapka
Overview: An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-12-05
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Szczur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Shadow-Line
Overview: Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-09-06
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Colonel Kwiatkowski
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Nothing Funny
Overview: One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Yokohama
Overview: An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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Skutki noszenia kapelusza w maju
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Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-05-02
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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
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Vieras
Overview: A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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Obywatel świata
Overview: Old friends come to the reunion of alumni, for whom the meeting after many years is an opportunity for memories, but also comparisons of who have been most successful in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Childish Questions
Overview: A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Między brzegami
Overview: A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-02-08
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We're All Christs
Overview: Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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Lava
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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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
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Trzeci
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Bitter-Sweet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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Nocne graffiti
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Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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The Day of the Cat
Overview: The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. From a meeting with the Spanish royal couple, he hopes media attention and a popularity boost. He does not suspect that his closest confidant Pfiff, of all people, is intriguing against him in order to come to power himself. But he does not even shy away from misusing his family for his own purposes. Soon, the president has to fight not only for his political position, but also for his marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-21
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Self-Portrait with a Lover
Overview: It is July 1995. Kuba Mitura and his little daughter, Zuza, come to a great concert organised by Jurek Owsiak. Kuba tells the girl the story of his youth. It is 1988. The nineteen-year-old Kuba is a rebellious boy with two-coloured hair. He does not study or work. He lives with his father, a retired military man, bitter and apodictic and with his aunt. One day Kuba meets Diana, a beautiful and eccentric woman, a dozen or so years older than him, a person from the "hostile world". However, the two of them become friends. The father throws Cuba out of the house when he introduces Diana as his fiancée. Soon Diana and Cuba get married to a "hippie", but the military policemen, who have been sent by the father, take Cuba away. In the army, Cuba is doing absurd exercises under the watchful eye of Corporal Kos trying to raise him. The father takes the oath and Diana, who confesses to Cuba that she is pregnant and wants to give birth. But Cuba does not want to become a father.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Lesson of a Dead Language
Overview: An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-06
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Father's Law
Overview: When the ex-racing driver's teenage daughter is brutally raped, her father seeks justice on his own.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Danton
Overview: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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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
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Lepiej być piękną i bogatą
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-10-22
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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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Człowiek z...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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The House of Fools
Overview: The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-10
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Weekend Stories: Little Faith
Overview: A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-03-24
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No End
Overview: 1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-17
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Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris
Overview: An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries and paradoxes that need to be enlightened.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-11-02
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Overview: Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
Genres: Animation Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-03-02
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Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-04
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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
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Eminent Domain
Overview: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
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Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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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
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Mark of Cain
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Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-27
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