Wiesław Gołas
Also Known As: Веслав Голас, W. Golas
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kielce, świętokrzyskie, Polska
Adult: No
Deathday: September 09, 2021
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Wózek
Overview: A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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Rancho Texas
Overview: Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-04-27
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Hydro-Puzzle
Overview: Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-30
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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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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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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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Dzień Wisły
Overview: September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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What is Dudek?
Overview: The "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker during rehearsals. The stars of Polish acting could be seen on stage, accompanied by excellent songs by Wojciech Młynarski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Brunet Will Call
Overview: Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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Przeraźliwe łoże
Overview: Tom arrives in a strange city, where he meets casino owners who are hiding a secret.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-05-26
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Man - Woman Wanted
Overview: Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he has to work for some time, of course, as a woman. He gets a job as a domestic helper. However, he has no luck with employers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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Wife for an Australian
Overview: A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-06-16
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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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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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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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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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Miasteczko
Overview: A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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Nowy pracownik
Overview: A new employee has to deal with the horrors of bureaucracy in this satirical short poking fun at the insititutions of the Polish People's Republic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Skinny and Others
Overview: A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Clinch
Overview: A young factory worker takes up on boxing as a way to find himself and advance his chances for the future. But the difficulties of sorting himself out in the crooked boxing environment hold him back in the beginning, until he arrives for tournament in Chicago, where he can prove himself. In the end, he wins over his Yank opponent, an amateur below his ranking, and is back in the factory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-22
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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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Filip z konopi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Hello, Fred the Beard
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Genres: Comedy Music Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-10-16
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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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Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy
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Genres: Drama Romance History Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-02-15
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The Mystery of the Old Garden
Overview: A group of teenagers dream of adventures and experiencing something unusual, mysterious and romantic. The boys play treasure hunters and detectives in an old park adjacent to a modern housing estate. By accident, the heroes find the trail of a youth gang that stole the documentation of a sensational preparation that can be used in the preparation of animal feed. The gang members manage to suspect the inventor of the preparation, the engineer Tyc. His son, Andrzej, and his friends decide to expose the real criminals and find maps that are to indicate the place of the hidden treasure.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-12-03
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Glass Mountain
Overview: A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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The Castellan's Daughter
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Polonia Restituta
Overview: A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Alice
Overview: Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Queenie wants to kill him. So Rabbit packs up to leave the country. When Alice finds this out she commits suicide which brings her into a fantasy world.
Genres: Drama Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-29
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Markiza de Pompadour
Overview: A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-03
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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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The Impossible Goodbye
Overview: All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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Polish Film Chronicle 59/52AB
Overview: All celebrities hurry in order to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Polish Film Chronicle. On this occasion, there’s a special episode of the Chronicle directed by Andrzej Munk and performed by Wieslaw Golas: a pastiche of a typical episode with fixed elements - documentation of succeses achieved by Polish workers, artists, sportsmen, and cameramen of the Polish Film Chronicle.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Cześć kapitanie
Overview: A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Mieszczanin szlachcicem
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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The Deluge
Overview: During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
Genres: History Adventure War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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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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Piąta rano
Overview: Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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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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The Haunted
Overview: 1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-07-25
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Świat grozy
Overview: Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically.
Genres: Comedy Horror Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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Czas może powrócić
Overview: Polish TV film.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Kwestia sumienia
Overview: During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
Genres: History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-11-27
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New Year's Eve Adventure
Overview: A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-12-30
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How to Be Loved
Overview: An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-01-11
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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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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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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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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Lotna
Overview: Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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A Jungle Book of Regulations
Overview: Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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Dezerter
Overview: A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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The Touch of the Night
Overview: Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-01-11
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Nowy
Overview: A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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Little Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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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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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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Kareta
Overview: A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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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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Husband of His Wife
Overview: Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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Beata
Overview: Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-01-19
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A Hole in the Ground
Overview: An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-12
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Mały
Overview: A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Przeklęte oko proroka
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-02-18
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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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Szabla od komendanta
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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The Wedding Night During the Daylight
Overview: The end of the 70s of the last century. A team of surveyors goes to a small provincial town. Magister ( Jan Nowicki ) and the experts accompanying him plan to build a new road in the vicinity. The geodesists' projects arouse the indignation of one of the local farmers, Biernacki ( Wiesław Gołas ). The envisaged route is to run through the land belonging to it. To save his patrimony, Biernacki is ready to pay a bribe. The dispute between the host and the surveyors is cruelly resolved in front of the party dignitaries participating in the nearby banquet. Jerzy Gruza's painting is a sharp satire of manners, criticizing social relations from the end of the Gierek era.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-12-02
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Dłużnicy śmierci
Overview: Poland 1946. Militia looks for commander of anticommunist partisans called Grom (Thunder). It quickly comes out that militiamen have to discover a rat in their group.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-20
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Oko proroka
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-09
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Heat
Overview: Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – they sing easily.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-02
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Bad Luck
Overview: To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-04-04
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Latawiec
Overview: Jan comes to a mountain town to test a new model of a hang-glider. There he meets a young teacher.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-05-18
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