Krzysztof Kowalewski
Also Known As: K. Kowalewski
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 06, 2021
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Amateurs
Overview: Krzysiek Biuro Rzeczy Osobistych Theater (created by intellectually disabled actors) is the winner of a festival, in which the prize is a performance in a professional theater. With great joy and expectations, Krzysiek and his actors are currently working on a new play "Zorba." It would be great to perform it on a real stage. It turns out, however, that the director of the theater, when offering them assistance, sets certain conditions, and when rehearsals begin, a few professional actors take part: Bartoszek - an aging actor, Olbińska - a former star who now plays lesser roles, and Wiktoria - a star who was acquired by the theater director.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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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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Teddy Bear
Overview: En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-04
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The Wedding Day
Overview: The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 80 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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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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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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The Office
Overview: Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-14
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Skradziona kolekcja
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-08-20
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The Career of Nikos Dyzma
Overview: Nikos is a master of funeral ceremonies (that's undertaker to you and me) who doesn't expect much from life. After drunkenly insulting a diplomat at a party, weird things begin to happen for Nikos. The news that a mysterious stranger offended the hated Deputy Prime Minister galvanizes the political elite assembled at the banquet, and a rumor that Nikos can take care of anything spreads like wildfire, making him an idol of the masses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Tango
Overview: The famous play by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Maciej Englert. A 1999 production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-25
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King Ubu
Overview: A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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And a Warm Heart
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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Komediantka
Overview: A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-05-04
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Brunet Will Call
Overview: Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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Krime Story. Love Story
Overview: A small-time thief and his best friend get hired to rob a wealthy businessman, but things start to go sideways once the job is done.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Overview: Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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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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1968. Happy New Year
Overview: Spring of 1968, Warsaw. The fight for influence between top level Communist officials is the background to a developing love story between a young couple who are engaged in student protests. Both the young couple and their parents will pay a high price for their decisions, and their Jewish roots, which up until now seemed to have no meaning, but which will soon determine their fates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Lesser Evil
Overview: There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-10-23
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Co lubią tygrysy
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-04-24
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Richie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Never in My Life!
Overview: Judyta is a middle-aged housewife whose peaceful life suddenly falls apart due to divorce. But soon she finds the strength to carry on fighting for her happiness, a place in the sun and love of her life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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A Jungle Book of Regulations
Overview: Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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Caesarean Section
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Jeśli się odnajdziemy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Jest sprawa...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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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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New York, 4 A.M.
Overview: A sleepy provincial town with only one "Błysk" bar. If it weren't for the nearby prison, it would be forgotten to the world. This is how guests come. Agnieszka works in the bar and dreams of New York . Krzysiek and Józek love the girl. Józek tells her about a militia van carrying money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Sons and Comrades
Overview: A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy
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Genres: Drama Romance History Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-02-15
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Maria and Napoleon
Overview: In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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Pan profesor
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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In Desert and Wilderness
Overview: In Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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Łukasz
Overview: The film deals with the issues of adolescents. The protagonist - Łukasz, a serious young man, falls into conflicts with his surroundings due to his uncompromising attitude.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Rewizor
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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Janka - Orły i Wilki
Overview: A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The first of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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Janka - Spełnione marzenie
Overview: A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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Penguin
Overview: A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-04-18
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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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The Deluge
Overview: During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
Genres: History Adventure War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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Miłość z listy przebojów
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-08-12
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Knights of the Teutonic Order
Overview: A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Overview: Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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The Criminal and the Lady
Overview: Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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Miejsce dla jednego
Overview: The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-26
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Overview: A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Gimbaza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-08-15
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The Emergency Exit
Overview: A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-12-25
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Esterhazy
Overview: The story of a small Esterhazy and his research of Bunnies's Paradies that truly existed between East and West part of the Berlin Wall.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Overview: A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Męskie sprawy
Overview: Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-20
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Z tamtej strony tęczy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-04-06
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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
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Spacer
Overview: Polish TV movie.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-24
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Lighter
Overview: A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-07-02
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Ja wam pokażę!
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-02-10
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April
Overview: Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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Proceder
Overview: A Polish language biographical drama about the rapper Tomasz Chada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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Dublerzy
Overview: A couple of friends, Max and Leo spend some time in Sicily, the island that is associated with mafia. Strange events on one wedding of a mafioso's daughter near the city of Trapani, bring them back to Warsaw. Yet, the criminal leaders, particularly Don Antonio Gambini, are also in Poland where they have a job to do. Unintentionally, Max and Leo are brought into a plot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-06-14
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Spona
Overview: Set in Polish high school in the year 1969, a story about a group of first year students who are trying to get through the year by finding a way around an eccentric history teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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Me and My Father
Overview: A businessman must balance personal and professional obligations after his father is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Overview: The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Horror in Happy Swamp
Overview: A grotesque story, based on Michal Choromanski's novel, about a polluted area where gas leaking from a swamp causes noses to drop off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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Złoty środek
Overview: Raised in Warsaw's Praga, Mirka graduated from the prestigious faculty of law. It would seem that her profession would even be detracted from the honor of a family with cunning roots. The girl's grandfather and father pride themselves on stays in numerous prisons. However, Mirka's legal knowledge can be very useful in the fight to save the old tenement house. As a result of a suspicious transaction, the tenement house where Mirka has been living since childhood is to be demolished. All the leads lead to the law firm "Łopian i Pokrzywa", which is just looking for a new lawyer - a man. In order to help the inhabitants of the family tenement house, Mirka must engage in a daring hoax. She is helped by her uncle Bogumił, a makeup artist and a representative of a sexual minority. Thanks to him, a beautiful girl will turn into a handsome young man and hire him in a suspicious office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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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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The Twenties, the Thirties
Overview: On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-19
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Grzech Antoniego Grudy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-07-08
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Człowiek z...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Goryl, czyli ostatnie zadanie...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Special Mission
Overview: In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
Genres: Comedy War Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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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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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
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Kung-fu
Overview: A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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Gold Duck
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Sekret
Overview: After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he used to lead an alternative life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-10-05
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The Nest
Overview: Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Rodzina Leśniewskich
Overview: Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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The Big Picnic
Overview: Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Operacja Koza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Is There an Eligible Girl Here?
Overview: A young country boy travels with his godfather to find a bride for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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Odwrócona góra albo film pod strasznym tytułem
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Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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Piotrek trzynastego 3: Dziecku rozmaryn
Overview: The third part of the American horror movie parody, this time targets "Rosemary's Baby" and "Halloween".
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-04-22
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