Wieńczysław Gliński
Also Known As: Венчислав Глинский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Astrakhan, Russian SFSR [present Russia]
Birthday: May 10, 1921
Deathday: July 08, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Kanal
Overview: During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-04-20
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Spotkania
Overview: Four stories showing the various facets of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-18
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Before Twilight
Overview: The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Romance Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-05-15
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The Secret of Marabou's Code
Overview: Kajetan, a dog and famous detective, and his assistant, Cat Makawity, try to solve the mystery of the director's disappearance and the problems of other creatures from the neighbourhood. Only the Secret of Marabou’s Code can stop Chameleon, a dangerous criminal.
Genres: Animation Family Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-04-01
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Who Is That Man?
Overview: The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-04
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All The Saints
Overview: As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Father of the Queen
Overview: Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-04-07
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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Bezkresne łąki
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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A Cure for Love
Overview: An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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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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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
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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Where Is the Third King?
Overview: Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-20
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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Overview: Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-11
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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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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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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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Ultimatum
Overview: Based on actual events in 1982, the film recreates a hostage-taking in Switzerland. Four men storm the Polish embassy: a criminal, a crazed killer, a student and an idealist. When the embassy is stormed by the police, the four captors react differently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-12-29
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Uczennica
Overview: Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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Planeta - Ziemia
Overview: The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Stars Meet in Moscow
Overview: Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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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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What Will My Wife Say to This?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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The Nutcracker
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-12-25
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Big Beat
Overview: At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-03-26
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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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Echo
Overview: It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-09-25
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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Overview: This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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The Last Ride
Overview: Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-08-06
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In Any Weather
Overview: A young sea rescuer tries to find his place in the difficult world of his work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-30
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Liberation: The Break Through
Overview: A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-05-08
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Sprawa pilota Maresza
Overview: A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-04-07
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No More Divorces
Overview: Three short segments about love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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Szerokiej drogi, kochanie
Overview: A character study of a group of people stuck in each other's company during a long night in a small roadside garage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-04-18
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Romans Teresy Hennert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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