Witold Pyrkosz
Also Known As: Витольд Пыркош
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Krasnystaw, lubelskie, Polska
Birthday: December 24, 1926
Deathday: January 01, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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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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King Size
Overview: The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-02
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Killer 2
Overview: Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-01-08
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The Neighbours
Overview: A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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All and Nobody
Overview: City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-02-20
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Na własną prośbę
Overview: The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-05-06
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Kamienne tablice
Overview: The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were in the country. But one day, while in the cinema, he watches a newsreel of the shocking riots in Poznan. Deeply moved by the events that are taking place in the country John is faced with a fundamental problem of the determination of his own nationality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-10-22
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Jeśli serce masz bijące
Overview: A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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Milioner
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-05
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A Lady from the Window
Overview: Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Return to Earth
Overview: After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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Famous Like Sarajevo
Overview: The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-11-07
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Niedziela pewnego małżeństwa w mieście przemysłowym średniej wielkości
Overview: The Milewskis are a middle-aged couple. Witold and Magda, both occupied with careers in managerial positions, create a solid, well-matched relationship. They have no children - this is Magda's decision, who preferred to pursue a career rather than take care of diapers. However, little remains of the bond they had at the beginning. Each Sunday, each of them cheats on their partner, and they both know nothing about it. Everything changes when Witold's younger brother Franek, a handsome geologist, shows up at their place.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-27
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Aquarium
Overview: Film based on the book of Viktor Suvorov, a former Soviet military intelligence officer. The story of the strange friendship between the two GRU officers. That relationship began in the Soviet military range where daring young officer Witek action drew the attention of Colonel Kravcov. With the protection of Colonel Witek gets to the interview. Price to be paid for this "favor" is the total loyalty to his patron.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Gorzka miłość
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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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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Zabić na końcu
Overview: Two workers, bored with their current situation, decide to rob a famous movie director.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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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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Con bravura
Overview: Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rather unconventional nun and an intrigued young man – each of them bears secrets and the encounter could incite a flaming romance, though one suffocated by war.Munk set the film in the mountain capital of Zakopane and its vicinity, allowing breathtaking views from a cable car and using his experiences of the Nazi occupation in the area to add gritty reality. The director plays a cameo as a priest with several of his industry friends also making appearances.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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Tamań
Overview: A young Russian officer finds himself in a rundown town and seeks shelter in an abandoned hut while waiting for help.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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A Little Girl from the Hotel 'Excelsior'
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-19
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Hazardziści
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Kazimierz Wielki
Overview: The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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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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Blue Room
Overview: In the nineteenth century, a young couple head to the countryside to spend the weekend together. On the train they encounter a mysterious Englishman heading for the same destination. Suspicious of this individual, they take the room next to his - the titular Blue Room - and a mystery ensues...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Catastrophe
Overview: A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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Then There Will Be Silence
Overview: Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-17
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Sobótki
Overview: Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Overview: Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Diament radży
Overview: A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-15
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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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Yokohama
Overview: An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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Vabank
Overview: October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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The Constant Factor
Overview: A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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Pięciu
Overview: Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-02
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The Killer Leaves a Trace
Overview: In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
Genres: War Action Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-08-18
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Skok
Overview: Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-10
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I killed
Overview: During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-04-08
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The Vampire
Overview: Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy.
Genres: Horror Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-11
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Ostatni po Bogu
Overview: Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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Day of Purification
Overview: The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-02
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
Overview: The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
Overview: The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-15
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
Overview: The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-15
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Martwa fala
Overview: After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Flying Machines Versus Mr. Samochodzik
Overview: Mr. Samochodzik with his friend Joanna and her son Piotr are going on vacation to a mountain village. Peter dreams of adventures, and his imagination is focused on discovering weirdness. Here he eavesdrops on a conversation which shows that a man and a woman are planning a murder. It turns out, however, that the mysterious man is the author of crime novels Mr. Arizona, who uses the advice and ideas of his servant Sophia. The mistake is explained, Mr. Samochodzik, Joanna and Piotr gain new friends and thanks to them they meet the Italian film crew making the film in this area. Unfortunately, a real misfortune falls on the filmmakers: the main role star - beautiful Diana - mysteriously disappears. There is a break in shooting. The producer of the film seems distraught, but Mr. Arizona suspects that the actress's disappearance is an advertising gimmick. The friends start investigating on their own.
Genres: Family Adventure Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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The Birthday
Overview: The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-23
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Silent Traces
Overview: A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-19
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Only the Dead Can Answer
Overview: Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-02
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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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Bajland
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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Thursdays for the Poor
Overview: A young doctor has been assigned to a hospital in the provinces, in the lakes district of northern Poland. The area is a playground with hunting lodges for the priviledged, the local politicians cover up any leaks to the public. The doctor discovers a case of drunken driving but is silenced by blackmail in the court. He tries to fight back but has a love affair with the unfaithful wife of the town's Mayor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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And All That Jazz
Overview: Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Vabank II
Overview: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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Szwedzi w Warszawie
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Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Overview: Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Ide as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-01
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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Overview: An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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3 dni bez wyroku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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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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Rififi po sześćdziesiątce
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-23
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Zejście do piekła
Overview: Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-12-02
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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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White Tracks
Overview: Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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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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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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Bo oszalałem dla niej
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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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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Rykowisko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Good Sins
Overview: A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Meta
Overview: Kazik and Władzio, two old friends meet again after many years. Kazik, a small-time swindler and playboy confesses that he needs a place to live, so Władzio offers for him to move in his apartment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-06
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The Lodger
Overview: A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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Szabla od komendanta
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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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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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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Venus of Ille
Overview: A statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue - and can’t get it off.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Shadow
Overview: A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Nagrody i odznaczenia
Overview: 1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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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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The Unknown
Overview: Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-13
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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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Leprosy
Overview: When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-12-02
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Without Anesthesia
Overview: A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-27
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Sonata marymoncka
Overview: Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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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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Drugi brzeg
Overview: A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-04-30
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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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