Jan Peszek
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: February 13, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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The Passage
Overview: A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-21
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Amok
Overview: A man is murdered, but the person responsible avoids being discovered and arrested. A few years later a police inspector suspects he has found evidence in a newly-published book entitled "Amok".
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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Guilty of Innocence
Overview: This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-02-10
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Wrong Approach
Overview: Three generations of one family go for a ride together to teach the youngest how to drive a car. The son cannot control the car, and the father's nervousness makes it even worse. Grandfather decides to take over the role of the teacher, but will this change bring the expected results?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-12-04
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Ferdydurke
Overview: Based on Witold Gombrowicz's novel of the same name, the film follows Prince Ferdinand's comical and existential escapades as he confronts societal pressures and absurdity in his quest for self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-24
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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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Figo Fago
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-07-17
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Żelazna obroża
Overview: Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-04
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Ostrze na ostrze
Overview: The action of the film takes place in the 17th century. Piotr Wolski returns to the country and is appointed juridic governor. A man tries to rule fairly and restore order. He soon falls in love with Konstancja, but his background causes problems.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Overview: The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Death as a Slice of Bread
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-05-07
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30 Door Key
Overview: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-02
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Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Darmozjad polski
Overview: A slice of life type movie. A main plot goes around showing common behavior and psychological portraits of inhabitants of a typical little town in Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-05-04
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SPAM
Overview: A young man is hospitalized in a coma. His case is a mystery to the doctors, because the patient, from a medical point of view completely healthy, is close to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Gwiazda Kopernika
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Genres: Animation Family History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-08
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Farewell to Autumn
Overview: Decadence, homosexuality, excess wealth, infidelity, alcoholism and drugs all played a major role in the decline of aristocracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-09-04
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Letters to Santa 5
Overview: Wojciech, who does not feel the ubiquitous joyful atmosphere, meets someone who changes his holiday plans. In turn, Karina and Szczepan get embroiled in a fight for an inheritance that may divide even their loved ones. They will see if the only thing that comes out well with the family is in the photos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Miało Cię nie być
Overview: A story about a young 17-year-old girl who, confronting a difficult topic in her life, enters the world of her father, with whom she has not been in touch for a long time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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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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Film for Aliens
Overview: Fourteen-year-old Jeremi is a YouTuber. His father works in a space agency and promised to show him a rocket launch, but plans changed at the eleventh hour, and he called off the trip. Instead, the teenager is sent to his grandpa in the countryside. To drag Jeremi away from the Internet, his dad gives him a special mission.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Wedding Guests
Overview: A female photographer from Western Europe drives through Poland and stops in a village. By chance, her eye is caught by the arrival of a wedding party. This marks the point of departure for several stories which unfold during the course of the wedding.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-01-25
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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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V.I.P.
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-10-25
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Inheritance
Overview: When their rich uncle passes, his mansion of intricate puzzles becomes the backdrop for his estranged family's quest to secure a portion of his wealth.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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Private investigation
Overview: Rafal Skonecki loses his family in a car accident, caused by a drunken driver. When he is informed that the investigation is discontinued, he decides to take justice into his own hand.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-09-22
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The King of Life
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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Bermuda Triangle
Overview: Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-17
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Just Friendship
Overview: A multi-layered, touching comedy about a group of friends whose relationships - in the face of life adversities - are exposed to more than one test. Filip risks his face and career for the whim of a crazy collector of Jadźka buttons. The sedate professor refuses his friend's indecent request, but he secretly kidnaps himself in a virtually reckless way. Meanwhile, a close-knit group of friends go to the mountains every year. There they discover a mystery that will change their lives forever. What will they choose? Loyalty or money? Friendship or love? Truth or lie? Own or other luck? Every choice for the heroes of the comedy "Just friendship" means trouble. Who will help them? We know: friends. Because friendship, like no other investment, always pays off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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Dziadku, wiejemy!
Overview: One day Grandpa Jeremi causes such a commotion in the retirement home that he is threatened with transfer to a psychiatric hospital. Marta, his daughter, agrees to take him in, although this is difficult for her, since Jeremi is unpredictable and has a vivid imagination. The situation is complicated by Jagoda, Marta’s daughter, who adores her grandfather and shares his crazy ideas. When Jeremi refuses to live with the family, Jagoda decides to take matters into her own hands. The girl and grandfather embark on an adventurous journey to the legendary ship Light of the Sea.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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Write and Fight
Overview: A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-23
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Szerokiej drogi, kochanie
Overview: A character study of a group of people stuck in each other's company during a long night in a small roadside garage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-04-18
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Overview: Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-26
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Korczak
Overview: The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-05-06
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Listy miłosne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Swan Song
Overview: After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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The Welts
Overview: Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-10-08
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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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Julius
Overview: An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the father lives through his second heart attack and still refuses to change his lifestyle, Julius will have to find a way to influence his behaviour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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The Reformatory
Overview: Magda, a novice director, makes a film about the behavior of young people in extreme situations - specifically, in a correctional home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-11-30
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Les Milles
Overview: In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-22
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The Day of the Big Fish
Overview: A mature man recalls his youthful love and comes to the town where he once met a woman who was important to him. However, it is hard to turn back time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-05-29
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Clergyman
Overview: In 2011, a psychiatric patient is visited by a postulate. The patient is a retired head of the "D" Group – a secret department of the Security Service to fight against the Polish Catholic church. Murders, beatings, blackmails, provocations, robberies, those are standard methods of operation for its officers. The postulate wants to unravel the mystery of the death of priest Roman Kotlarz, a parish priest from Pelagow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
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Signs on the Road
Overview: A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-02
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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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Epizod
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Pierwsza miłość
Overview: Story about youthful love
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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A Gentle Creature
Overview: A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Podróż do Arabii
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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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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Upstairs, Downstairs
Overview: Based on Michał Choromański's novel. Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-08
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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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Polish Shit
Overview: Reactivated music band "The Transistors" sets off for a tour organized by their new manager, debt collector Czeslaw Skandal. Their bus is driven by a friend, Stan Gudeyko, - once a leader of the legendary punk-rock formation "Yperite". On their tour, musicians will encounter many hardships and disappointments, which will put their friendship and patience to the test. They will soon discover that Skandal is cast from a different mold - knows shit about music and has a completely different hobby. Furthermore, the declining music industry is not a place strewn with roses - the cards are dealt here by a mysterious sect of "Showbizians"…
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Zapomniany diabeł
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-12-30
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Nocne graffiti
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Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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Influence
Overview: "Influence" is a story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who prepared the uprising, fought in it and won. "Influence" uses the characteristics of action and thriller movies. Refers to the cinema era - German expressionism, and the atmosphere of the era - the pervasive sense of the end of old world and the birth of the new one, fear of change and at the same time striving for it.
Genres: History Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Hitler Is Truly Dead
Overview: United Europe, the Baltic Sea coast. It is the Day of Thanksgiving, the most important national holiday since the denazification of the late 1960s, carried out almost two decades after the end of World War II. A war won by the Nazis. Europeans denounced the crimes of Nazism and took on themselves the blames of the victors.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
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Ferdydurke
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-24
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