Jan Machulski
Also Known As: Ян Махульский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Łódź, łódzkie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: July 03, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 20, 2008
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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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Killer
Overview: An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-17
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Zrcadlení
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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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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Journey for One Smile
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Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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The Last Action
Overview: When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Overview: An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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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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Love in an Underground Passage
Overview: Another film from the TV series "Polish Holidays", this time illustrating a holiday not entirely Polish, but already firmly rooted in the native reality - Valentine's Day. The script for it was written by Jerzy Pilch. For the famous writer, winner of the Nike Award, this is the second encounter with this cycle: earlier he wrote the script for the excellent "Yellow Scarf". His collaboration with director Janusz Majewski resulted in a story full of humor and charm, treating love with a slight wink of the eye and a touch of nostalgia. Wojciech Malajkat, who also played the main role, is a great merit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Coloured Stockings
Overview: Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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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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Pigs 2: The Last Blood
Overview: Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-04-05
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Roly Poly
Overview: Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-17
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Rachunek sumienia
Overview: The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-16
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Wycieczka w nieznane
Overview: A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Eagle
Overview: Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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Cudze szczęście
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Overview: Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-03-14
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Historia jednego myśliwca
Overview: The film follows the exploits of Stefan as he fights against the Nazis as a RAF pilot.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-19
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Three Stories
Overview: The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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Izkustvenata patitza
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1974-05-17
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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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Unser fremdes Kind
Overview: Anna and Pawel Kowalski lead a happy life in Gdansk, Poland, until their 8 year old son Tomek gets hit by a car. Not only is Tomek badly injured, his father proves not to be suitable as a blood donator. Pawel accuses his wife of betrayal of confidence, but she knows that only her husband can be the father of their child. She fears the worst: if Pawel isn't the biological father, she cannot be the biological mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-22
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Nie ma takiego numeru
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Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-12-06
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Miss Wet T-Shirt
Overview: "Miss Wet T-Shirt" is a humorous and thought-provoking story of a widowed man in his fifties who rebels against the degradation of the world around him, full of corruption and moral ambiguity. Władysław did not always act honestly in life, so his wife left him. Soon she was gone forever and only after her death did he understand his mistake. He tries to redeem guilt, adhering to the principle that no one can escape from responsibility for committed sins, for existence in the world of evil. The hero heads a group of so-called defenders of morals, actively participates in combating the progressive demoralization of society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-04-20
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Wolna sobota
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Last Day of Summer
Overview: A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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The Young Magician
Overview: A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic and wants to learn more. He becomes proficient in tricks and also discovers his telekinetic powers. Unfortunately that further alienates him from his peers and his parents are afraid of his powers. Things change when a national emergency arises and the government asks him to help. After success he becomes a hero and is accepted by all. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Vinci
Overview: The sophisticated thief of art Robert "Cuma" Cuminski is released on probation from the local prison by the corrupt Doctor Wiaderny to organize the theft of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting "Lady with Ermine" for the dealer Gruby. Three years ago, Cuma was accidentally arrested by the snoopy detective Wilk after a successful heist in the house of the collector Lehman, but he has not ratted his comrade Julian.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Nightingales of Poznań
Overview: A twelve-year-old choir boy is going through a crisis caused by problems in his parents' marriage.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-13
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Emilia
Overview: "Emilia" is a parody of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelia". The title heroine was brought up in very specific conditions. Her parents could not transfer enough affection and knowledge to the growing child. Therefore, the girl created her own inner world in her mind, to live in complete isolation from the environment. One day, 19-year-old Emilia finds her life goal - she decides to do good around her. Unfortunately, bad luck means that people who meet on their way do not really need any help from her ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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First Pavilion
Overview: A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house in which his former professor is conducting experiments to shrink people.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-09-02
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Associate Professor H.
Overview: The title character is a professor looking to replace humans with cyborgs. His supremely creepy assistant Traumer, strikingly played by Majewski regular Andrzej Rausz, is one such creation. Professor H. intends to transpose Traumer’s brain with that of a renowned scientist, but is in for a surprise.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-08-30
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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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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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The Game
Overview: Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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I ty zostaniesz Indianinem
Overview: Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-02
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
Overview: This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Zawsze w niedziele
Overview: Three stories centered around sports.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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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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Inner Life
Overview: The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Z tamtej strony tęczy
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-04-06
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Tabliczka marzenia
Overview: A fifteen-year old Ludka navigates first love and frustrations related to failures of the adult world during summer holidays.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-08-09
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Polish Death
Overview: Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-04-27
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Prawdziwie magiczny sklep
Overview: A father takes his son to a truly magical toy store.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-17
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Creation
Overview: A music conductor, and family man, gets involved in a tragic accident. Luckily the operating surgeon has developed a pioneering medical solution. Loosely based on Roald Dahl's short story “William And Mary”.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-31
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Dezha vyu
Overview: The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-04-18
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D.I.L.
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-09-22
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Olek
Overview: When in a small village appears a little boy named Olek, the life of its inhabitants change. Olek senses danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Overview: The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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Visit of a President
Overview: A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-21
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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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Przystań
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-30
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Wyspa złoczyńców
Overview: A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.
Genres: Family Adventure Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-04-05
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Kill Me, Cop
Overview: The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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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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Squadron
Overview: A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Far Is the Road
Overview: After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-10
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1409. Afera na zamku Bartenstein
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Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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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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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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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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Pigs
Overview: In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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A Generation
Overview: Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-01-26
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Pogoń za Adamem
Overview: A film director uses a South American premiere of his latest picture to reconnect with his old friends from the Warsaw Uprising, the protagonists of his movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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State of Fear
Overview: Realistic depiction of the Polish martial law in 1981. John Malecki is a young actor with good career prospects in a Warsaw theater, preparing to play Hamlet, his dream role. John plans to go to Sweden. Any involvement with the new Solidarnośc movement might put his visa to Sweden at risk. But staying neutral in these times is not an easy task.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Index
Overview: The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Overview: Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in Paris and calls for the famous Dr. Cherbonneau, suspected of being a charlatan. Citing the teachings of the East, Cherbonneau offers the patient an "avatar", a reincarnation of the soul, which takes a different body...
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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It Started Yesterday
Overview: Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-12
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