Maja Komorowska
Also Known As: Maja Komorowska-Tyszkiewicz
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: December 23, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Overview: Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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Talking Heads 2021
Overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Overview: Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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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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Marysia i Krasnoludki
Overview: King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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Inventory
Overview: Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-23
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Budapest Tales
Overview: "Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-03-02
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Two for the Seesaw
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Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-06
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Decalogue I
Overview: Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Kaytek the Wizard
Overview: Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day, the troublemaker discovers that he’s got supernatural powers, which completely take over his life.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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How Far, How Near
Overview: A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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The Devil's Elixirs
Overview: Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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A Woman's Decision
Overview: The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-01-21
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Revisited
Overview: In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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At Full Gallop
Overview: Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-04-01
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Versuchung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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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
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The Heart and Sweetheart
Overview: A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage on her road to fulfilling her dream is the entrance exam to the ballet school in Gdansk. To make it there in time, she escapes from the orphanage, taking newly hired educator Kordula with her. They travel all the way across Poland, hiding from the police and meeting people who help them in need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-08-12
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The Maids of Wilko
Overview: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-04
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Behind the Wall
Overview: Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-19
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The Spiral
Overview: In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-09-21
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The Contract
Overview: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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Ways in the Night
Overview: Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-09
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There Was - There Is No More - There Is
Overview: Together with the 12-year-old heroine Krysia, we go on a journey through places and times that were, that are not, and that we want to remember.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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Katyn
Overview: On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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The Wedding
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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Wherever You Are...
Overview: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Overview: Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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Nos
Overview: An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-22
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Family Life
Overview: A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his gravely ill father. Upon entering the dark confines of a house he has not visited in six years, Wit once again finds himself exposed to the idiosyncratic pathologies of his father, sister, and aunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Mountains at Dusk
Overview: An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Overview: After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure
Overview: Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Panny i wdowy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Postcard from a Journey
Overview: A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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System
Overview: An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” updated to the modern world.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-02-09
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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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Niemcy
Overview: A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German citizens, and their greater humanitarian sensibilities, the family is divided in how to deal with Joachim's presence.
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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Motyw
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Original Language: pl
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Pan Olbrychski
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-08-29
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