Gustaw Holoubek
Also Known As: Густав Холоубек, Густав Голубек, Густав Холубек
Biography: Polish actor, director and politician, best known for his acting roles in The Noose, The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Adult: No
Deathday: March 06, 2008
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With Fire and Sword
Overview: In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-02-08
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The 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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Pearls and Ducats
Overview: A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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The Office
Overview: Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-14
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An Uneventful Story
Overview: A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-12
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Killing Auntie
Overview: A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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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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Naprawdę wczoraj
Overview: The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-08
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Overview: Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Overview: Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Gangsters and Philantropists
Overview: The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-02-15
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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
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Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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Marysia i Krasnoludki
Overview: King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach
Overview: Two men are having a conversation about life and transience. One of them is terminally ill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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The Moment of Peace
Overview: The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-25
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Odwiedziny o zmierzchu
Overview: A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-05
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Operacja Samum
Overview: The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-05-07
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The Woodpecker
Overview: A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Kartoteka
Overview: A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-15
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Story of the Golden Boot
Overview: Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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Childish Questions
Overview: A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Fatalista
Overview: Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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Sons and Comrades
Overview: A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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Goodbye to the Past
Overview: An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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How Far, How Near
Overview: A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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Hamlet x 5
Overview: Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
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Erotique
Overview: A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Overview: As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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The Stars Must Burn
Overview: The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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In Broad Daylight
Overview: Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-03-16
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A Room with a View on the Sea
Overview: Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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Lord Jim
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-05-06
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Pejzaż z bohaterem
Overview: Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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The Law and the Fist
Overview: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-09-14
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Zniewolony teatr
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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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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Siegfried
Overview: The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-09
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Myśmy już byli
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-11-24
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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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The Taste of the Black Earth
Overview: During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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One Room Tenants
Overview: A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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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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Salto
Overview: A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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A Very Christmas Story
Overview: Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacation. Since there is much to do on the earth, a substitute - the Angel of Death - is found for the job. Right from the start he runs into bad luck and what is more a beautiful blonde - the Guardian Angel - is bothering him. Little Angelica moves out in search of Santa Claus. Christmas Day is coming soon, so she wants to fulfill her Christmas wish - to find money to save her orphanage from closing down. On the way the little girl meets an accountant named Claus who has stolen a huge amount of money. He is being chased by a bunch of bumbling hoodlums.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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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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Spotkanie wśród gwiazd
Overview: Julius Ceasar and Cicero meet in the afterlife and discuss their worldly beliefs and legacy in the modern day.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Opening Tomorrow
Overview: A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Listy miłosne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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The Book of Great Wishes
Overview: Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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Polar Bear
Overview: A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Farewells
Overview: The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-13
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Maria and Napoleon
Overview: In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Overview: Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Men of the Blue Cross
Overview: The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-10-12
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Time Past
Overview: Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-11
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Oczy niebieskie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-14
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Overview: Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
Genres: Animation Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-03-02
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
Overview: Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Lava
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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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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Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
Overview: "A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Niemcy
Overview: A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German citizens, and their greater humanitarian sensibilities, the family is divided in how to deal with Joachim's presence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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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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Through the Fifth Dimension
Overview: Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-05-05
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In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
Overview: In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him too, and drives another men so crazy that they kill her another couple of times. Finally, Tadeusz, the arch-rebel, leads a mob on a raid of the old manor.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-04-15
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
Overview: In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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Weryfikacja
Overview: Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-09-07
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Passerby
Overview: The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Kordian
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-11-21
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The Tin Drum
Overview: Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-02
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Wyspy szczęśliwe
Overview: A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-11-24
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