Wacław Kowalski
Also Known As: Вацлав Ковальский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gżatsk [present Gagarin] Russia
Adult: No
Birthday: May 02, 1916
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 27, 1990
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Bigos
Overview: The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-14
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Komedia z pomyłek
Overview: The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Overview: A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Western
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Our Folks
Overview: Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Legenda
Overview: Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-20
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A Cure for Love
Overview: An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Przystań
Overview: Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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The Knave of Spades
Overview: A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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Kłopotliwy gość
Overview: Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Signals
Overview: A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Kwiat paproci
Overview: By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Forbidden Songs
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Genres: Music War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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The Codes
Overview: An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-12-25
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Overview: Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Trzy starty
Overview: Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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The Refuge
Overview: In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-09-25
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Liczę na wasze grzechy
Overview: A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1964-02-03
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The Doll
Overview: Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-11-07
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Soldier of Victory
Overview: Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Difficult Love
Overview: A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-04-10
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Janosik
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Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-04-14
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Red Rowan
Overview: The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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Copernicus
Overview: A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Na przełaj
Overview: After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-06-25
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Kierunek Berlin
Overview: Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-01-17
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Kardiogram
Overview: A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-04
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Sobie król
Overview: A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-05-10
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Overview: Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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Klub kawalerów
Overview: A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Szkice węglem
Overview: The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Overview: A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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Album polski
Overview: University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-05-08
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Tysiąc talarów
Overview: An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Wiano
Overview: A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-14
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The Noose
Overview: A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-01-20
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Free City
Overview: The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Overview: The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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The Bus Leaves at 6.20
Overview: A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Drugi człowiek
Overview: A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-19
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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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Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Overview: Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-24
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Barwy walki
Overview: Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-06-17
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Back to Life Again
Overview: Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-03-12
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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Overview: Three stories about life problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Komedie pomyłek
Overview: Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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Big Deal
Overview: Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-06-13
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Shoot Paragon!
Overview: A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-20
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Ferry
Overview: 1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-11
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Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...
Overview: A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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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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Land
Overview: Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-02-25
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Take It Easy
Overview: The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Adventure in Marienstadt
Overview: While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-01-25
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy
Overview: A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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Cooked Doves
Overview: A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-12
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-05-22
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I Hate Mondays
Overview: An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Operation "Brutus"
Overview: Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-11
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Don Gabriel
Overview: The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Rzeczpospolita babska
Overview: After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Złote koło
Overview: An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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Where is the General?
Overview: Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Overview: A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-08-10
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Kalosze szczęścia
Overview: Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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Milion za Laurę
Overview: An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-08
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
Overview: After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.
Genres: Comedy Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-06
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Agnes 1946
Overview: A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-24
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Ostatnie dni
Overview: As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-09
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Victory
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Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Frozen Flashes
Overview: In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Under the Phrygian Star
Overview: Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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Tomorrow Mexico
Overview: A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-02-11
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No More Divorces
Overview: Three short segments about love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Overview: During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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Szczęściarz Antoni
Overview: A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Naganiacz
Overview: 1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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Rok pierwszy
Overview: 1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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Cyrograf dojrzałości
Overview: 18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-08-20
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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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