Jan Tesarz
Also Known As: J. Tesarz
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Czechowice-Dziedzice, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: August 04, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 03, 2020
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A Short Film About Killing
Overview: Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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13 piętro
Overview: A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Palace Hotel
Overview: The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-07-15
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Potyatusok
Overview: 1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to escape to Sweden fails and they find themselves in a Polish prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-04-12
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Overview: Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-12
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Decalogue IV
Overview: A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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The Fog
Overview: Post-war movie
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-09-24
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Famous Like Sarajevo
Overview: The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-11-07
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Special Mission
Overview: In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
Genres: Comedy War Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-10-05
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The Last Ferry
Overview: One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info that he is carrying. When the ship is in the middle of the Baltic sea, martial law is declared and the ship is militarized. The captain announces he will turn and return the home port. Many anguished passengers put the life vests on and jump into the sea, where they are picked up by two German ships. The teacher, however, decides to return to Poland and continue the struggle for freedom.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Dostojeństwo rodzinnego domu
Overview: A critique of consumerist life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Balanga
Overview: One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-09-20
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Decalogue V
Overview: Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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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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Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
Overview: A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-03
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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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Kraj świata
Overview: TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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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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Polski Crash
Overview: Early 90's. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The mafia is becoming more and more bold, operating without obstacles across borders. One of the more lucrative "businesses" is the trade in luxury cars, stolen in Germany and transferred to Russia by Russia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-25
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Private Town
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Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-10-06
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Markheim
Overview: Markheim impulsively kills an elderly antique dealer during an attempted robbery. From there Markheim’s sense of reality steadily dissolves in a morass of guilt and shame, until a spectral dog leads him to a shadowy figure who seems to know an awful lot about Markheim and his problems.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-01-28
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Kidnapping in Tiutiurlistan
Overview: Three friends – a rooster, a cat and a vixen – meet the kidnapped princess on the eve of the war between Balbacja and Tiuturlistan. To prevent a war, they try to bring her to her father's house. They tell each other stories from their lives during a journey full of adventures.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-07-28
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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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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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Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Overview: Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-03-02
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Puszka Pandory
Overview: After killing her husband, the beautiful but cunning Lulu evades justice with the help of the people that are in love with her. A Polish teleplay of Frank Wederkind's play that adapts the second part of the story.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Strange Creatures
Overview: A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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No End
Overview: 1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-17
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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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Boxer
Overview: A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-03-03
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Pěsti ve tmě
Overview: The year is 1936, the nervous atmosphere of the Nazi threat penetrates into the sport. Upgrade boxe Vilda Jakub will compete with German Kurt Schaller. The Nazis decisions are used in order to win his master even the dirtiest means. Vilda inspect their game and focus on the preparation of environmental events. The story culminates in the victory of one of the two lovers, between which Vilda tense moments in the decision.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Smacznego, telewizorku
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Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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