Aleksander Bednarz
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Drohobycz, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: January 06, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 27, 2013
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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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Olympic Fire
Overview: During World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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Day of the Wacko
Overview: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Who Never Lived
Overview: A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life undergoes a sudden transformation when routine testing finds out that he is HIV positive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-09-11
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Overview: The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Pigs 2: The Last Blood
Overview: Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-04-05
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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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Tu stoję...
Overview: A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-05-10
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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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The End of Our World
Overview: Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-03-31
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The Last Schoolbell
Overview: As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Nie ten człowiek
Overview: A surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his parents' encouragement, decides to take his first job. Though none too convinced, he starts work as a delivery man. Having set out on his first delivery soon after he witnesses a traffic accident. He ends up giving a statement at the police station. And his plans begin to unravel. By a twist of fate Kuba has no idea about the significance of the part he will have to play on this particular day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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300 Miles to Heaven
Overview: Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-30
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All Will Be Well
Overview: A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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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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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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Bolesław Śmiały
Overview: Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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The Career of Nikos Dyzma
Overview: Nikos is a master of funeral ceremonies (that's undertaker to you and me) who doesn't expect much from life. After drunkenly insulting a diplomat at a party, weird things begin to happen for Nikos. The news that a mysterious stranger offended the hated Deputy Prime Minister galvanizes the political elite assembled at the banquet, and a rumor that Nikos can take care of anything spreads like wildfire, making him an idol of the masses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Squadron
Overview: A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Pearl in the Crown
Overview: When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-01-27
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Stary człowiek i pies
Overview: The film presents the story of Robert - an aging, once-recognized artist who is today struggling with his own complexes and vices, and helplessness towards a new reality that ruthlessly throws him to the margins of existence. One day Robert finds himself in a roadside ditch hit by a dog's car. In a reflex of spontaneous compassion, he takes the dog home and begins to look after him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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Jakub
Overview: A short story about the absence of the father in the life of a 13-year-old boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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Pigs
Overview: In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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Europa Europa
Overview: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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Little Rose
Overview: Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Kryminalni: Misja śląska
Overview: Commissioner Zawada and his team chase the Gravedigger, who kidnaps women and buries them alive.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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Cynga
Overview: A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a camp in Siberia. He will spend the war in a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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