Witold Skaruch
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ciechanów, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: January 11, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 17, 2010
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A Few People, a Little Time
Overview: The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Tribute to a Gray Day
Overview: The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and Zosia, are ordered to blow up a railway bridge during a military transport crossing. The task is completed, but with great losses.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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The Verdict
Overview: An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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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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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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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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We're All Christs
Overview: Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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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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Republika nadziei
Overview: The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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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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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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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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Liczę na wasze grzechy
Overview: A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1964-02-03
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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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Two from the Big River
Overview: A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Rzeczywistość
Overview: The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Na krawędzi
Overview: A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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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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Lesson of a Dead Language
Overview: An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-06
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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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Martians
Overview: Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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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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I Love You
Overview: A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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Night Train
Overview: Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-09-06
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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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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 House of Fools
Overview: The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-10
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I Hate Mondays
Overview: An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Mężczyźni na wyspie
Overview: Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-19
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Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
Overview: The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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Back to Life Again
Overview: Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-03-12
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The Phantom
Overview: Set in the early years of the century. A story of a country gentleman haunted by the memory of his first wife. His current wife, had enough of his obsession and has taken a lover, who is mysteriously paralyzed. Meanwhile, main character's son gets his first taste of sensual experience with a mute peasant girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-07-05
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Hell and Heaven
Overview: A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Ktokolwiek wie...
Overview: A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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The Rotter Case
Overview: A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.
Genres: Crime History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-07-15
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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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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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Nothing Funny
Overview: One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Najlepszy kolega
Overview: A school reunion is called to commemorate Adam, who died during the Second World War while defending a bridge. Unexpectedly, Adam shows up just before the ceremony. It turns out that he was only wounded, and after a war started a family and lived an ordinary life. To avoid the truth from spreading town Adam is asked to leave so that he can still be revered as a hero.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-19
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Yes, Yes
Overview: Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Two Moons
Overview: Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy
Overview: A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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Kochajmy syrenki
Overview: Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-25
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Cooked Doves
Overview: A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-12
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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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Lazarus' Whims
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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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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Bo oszalałem dla niej
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Trzy starty
Overview: Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
Overview: Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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The Possessed
Overview: Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-24
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Cellulose
Overview: Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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The Attempt
Overview: Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-01-12
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Funeral Ceremony
Overview: After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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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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Szczęściarz Antoni
Overview: A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Passion
Overview: The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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