Krzysztof Chamiec
Also Known As: Кшиштоф Хамец
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Andruga k. Włodzimierza Wołyńskiego, Polska [obecnie Ukraina]
Adult: No
Deathday: October 11, 2001
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The First Day of Freedom
Overview: Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-21
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Kryptonim Nektar
Overview: A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-10-11
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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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Na własną prośbę
Overview: The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-05-06
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Kamienne tablice
Overview: The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were in the country. But one day, while in the cinema, he watches a newsreel of the shocking riots in Poznan. Deeply moved by the events that are taking place in the country John is faced with a fundamental problem of the determination of his own nationality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-10-22
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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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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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Tumor Witkacego
Overview: The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced especially on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Witkacy is one of the outstanding European artists of the early twentieth century. Author of many short stories and plays translated into eighteen languages. Author of his own philosophical system, art theorist, painter of Formist paintings and portraits, a man who left behind a legend of a unique personality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Raport
Overview: A movie director and a TV CEO set out to make a movie about the decline of the human race and civilization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-03-25
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Komedianty
Overview: Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-02-02
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Stardust
Overview: An odd couple of old people lead their simple lives close to nature. The man is an amateur constructor and his goal now is to build a small river dam to produce electricity for his country house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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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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Kierunek Berlin
Overview: Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-01-17
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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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Gold Dreams
Overview: The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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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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Five Boys from Barska Street
Overview: In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-27
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Rodzina Milcarków
Overview: The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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Zamach stanu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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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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Zawsze w niedziele
Overview: Three stories centered around sports.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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The Tender Age
Overview: Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolphe to the screen in amateur format. Armed with a sixteen-millimeter camera and a team of friends, Henri embarks on this adventure, playing the role of Adolphe himself. Despite all the warnings, he lived through the passion and ordeal of the novel's hero, right to the end. Different times and circumstances will not change this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-03
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I killed
Overview: During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-04-08
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Overview: Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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More Than Life At Stake Part Three
Overview: The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-26
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More Than Life At Stake Part One
Overview: The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-06-12
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Martwa fala
Overview: After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Wawelski convuntus dowódców
Overview: A TV special - host Irena Dziedzic interviews notable figures of Polish history at the Wawel Castle.
Genres: TV Movie History Documentary
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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The Turning Point
Overview: In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-20
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Christmas Eve
Overview: A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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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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Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-29
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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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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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Barwy walki
Overview: Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-06-17
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Niedziela sprawiedliwości
Overview: A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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The Devil's Elixirs
Overview: Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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Walkover
Overview: Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-04
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Ostatnie dni
Overview: As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-09
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Victory
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Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Fiasco of Operation Terror
Overview: The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-10
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Weekend z dziewczyną
Overview: During World War 2 a doctor, patiently waiting for the liberation and unwilling to engage in the struggle against the Nazis is forced at a gunpoint by a Polish Resistance soldier to attend to the members of her squad.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-12-25
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The Thirteenth Chamber
Overview: Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two children to the forgotten attic in the house of Blanka's parents. For them, this is the forbidden "thirteenth chamber," and to Kosta, an old glass vase becomes a magic ball with the help of which he can play his favorite play "on fate". The children observe the adults and unconsciously sense that something has gone wrong in Blanka's family. Her dad is a physician and her mother is not happy with him, still recollecting her former wooer Petr who left for India upon his graduation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-04-25
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Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831
Overview: Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-14
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Czekam w Monte Carlo
Overview: At the annual car race in Monte Carlo the Polish team consists of driver Piotr and his pilot Jan. They compete with other teams as well as with one another - for the feelings of one woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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Myshkin
Overview: An adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-20
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