Franciszek Pieczka
Also Known As: Франтишек Печка
Biography: Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954) he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar. He has starred in over a hundred films, both Polish and foreign. He has been awarded and honored many times for his individual roles, as well as his contribution to the development of theater and film art. He is an honorary citizen of the Godów commune. In 2015, he was awarded the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franciszek Pieczka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Godów, śląskie, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 23, 2022
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The Promised Land
Overview: In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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Bigos
Overview: The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-01-14
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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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Kalosze szczęścia
Overview: Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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Requiem
Overview: Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-run death. A community's pain reverberates through fractured relationships and the burden of funereal responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Lost Feelings
Overview: One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-10-21
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Nad rzeką
Overview: A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Sun Rises Once a Day
Overview: After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-04-04
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Late Afternoon
Overview: Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-02-18
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Through Nine Bridges
Overview: A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Liberation: Battle for Berlin
Overview: In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-11-04
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The Cask of Amontillado
Overview: Professor Montresor, being the object of his friends' jokes, prepares his revenge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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The Office
Overview: Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-14
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Przystań
Overview: Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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Pełnia nad głowami
Overview: Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-06-27
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Legenda
Overview: Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-20
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Punkt wyjścia
Overview: A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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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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A Round Week
Overview: Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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Wiśnie
Overview: Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Ciosy
Overview: Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer Stefan Przewłocki. A literary widow gives Wiktor the materials for the deceased's last novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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Do domu
Overview: A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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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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La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka
Overview: TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the grounds of the mine.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Wcześnie urodzony
Overview: A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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Ördög vigye
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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The Scar
Overview: When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-06
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Apricots in the Baskets
Overview: Greek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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Somosierra. 1808
Overview: The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-12-03
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Friend of the Jolly Devil
Overview: A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is determined to help his "father" and answers a mysterious call. He must seek the Spirit of Darkness and defeat him if the woodsman is to see again. During his search for the Spirit he encounters a friendly monster who helps the boy in his quest. They are able to survive every dangerous test on their way and the final confrontation.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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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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Big Bang
Overview: A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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The Peasants
Overview: In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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Jasminum
Overview: The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-06-29
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Thanks for Every New Morning
Overview: This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something more better than is in Ukraine. As the times go by, the friens of family live in Austria. And now for change the family visit "a better life" in west Europe and they found out how it is to be something second-rate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1994-11-03
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Ranczo Wilkowyje
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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The Woodpecker
Overview: A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Budapest Tales
Overview: "Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-03-02
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Miracle in Cracow
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-12-02
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The Story About Master Twardowski
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Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-03-11
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The Girls of Nowolipki
Overview: Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Overview: Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-03-14
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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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The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-11-07
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History of Cinema in Popielawy
Overview: The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all of whom bear the name Jozef. Since he is the sixth consecutive son to be called Jozef, he is nicknamed Szustek (meaning "sixth one").
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-11-01
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Racławice. 1794
Overview: The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-05
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Till Eulenspiegel
Overview: In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
Genres: Adventure History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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Chrześniak
Overview: The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-21
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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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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Overview: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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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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The Beads of One Rosary
Overview: The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-24
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The Faithful River
Overview: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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The Mother of the Kings
Overview: Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Burial of a Potato
Overview: Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Johnnie Waterman
Overview: On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-02-17
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Fariaho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-01
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Jadup and Boel
Overview: In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. Jadup, the town's respected and popular mayor, remembers, though, how he mistrusted Boel and did not help her through this difficult time; HE didn't even notice THAT Boel loved him. Jadup's confrontation with the past gives him a new, critical view of his current situation and surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-12
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Austeria
Overview: During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-03-28
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All Souls' Day
Overview: A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-05
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The Woman Across the Way
Overview: A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-24
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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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Disgrace
Overview: Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a dark secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-11-11
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Syzyfowe prace
Overview: 1890s, Russian-occupied Poland. When Marcin Borowicz begins his gymnasium education, he is confronted with brutal indoctrination and attempts of resistance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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The Lynx
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-15
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Slate
Overview: A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Land Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-03-19
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Miraculous Place
Overview: A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he finds himself in an environment that he not only does not know, but also does not understand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Heart and Sweetheart
Overview: A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage on her road to fulfilling her dream is the entrance exam to the ballet school in Gdansk. To make it there in time, she escapes from the orphanage, taking newly hired educator Kordula with her. They travel all the way across Poland, hiding from the police and meeting people who help them in need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-08-12
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
Overview: The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
Overview: The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
Overview: The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-15
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
Overview: The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-01-15
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Glass Ball
Overview: Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-09-26
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Memoirs of a Sinner
Overview: A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-20
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The Wedding
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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April
Overview: Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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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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Pograbek
Overview: Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to his infertility. However, the woman that promised him one has changed her mind, and now the provincial gigolo is trying to make his wife pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-06-28
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Sprawa się rypła
Overview: During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact, alive. If successful, they will be able to pocket the gifts that have been issued to her for reaching the ripe old age of 100, thus inspiring his neighbor's, Kadela's, jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-08-19
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Memories of a River
Overview: In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-02-08
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The Linnet
Overview: Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-09-13
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Kein Wort von Einsamkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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Rykowisko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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David
Overview: Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-27
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Overview: The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
Overview: While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a child together. When their study draws to an end, Christiane and Hatem have to decide if they want to share their future together. After Hatem explains to Christiane that as a woman she will not be able to work in Syria, Christiane suggests moving to the GDR together. For Hatem, however, this is out of the question, since he considers it a betrayal of his country. Thus, the two young people are forced to go separate ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Overview: After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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Quo Vadis
Overview: Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for his concubine. For Lygia, a Christian, being a pagan's concubine is a severe sin and disgrace. However, when Vinicius is wounded, Lygia cares for him, and starts to reciprocate his feelings. Vinicius, in return, becomes interested in Christian learning and asks Apostle Peter to teach him. In the meantime, Emperor Nero accuses Christians of having started a great fire in Rome. He encourages the imprisonment, torture and murder of his Christian subjects.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Son of the Snow Queen
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-08-05
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Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen
Overview: The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best incidentally, the sensitivities of the victims and the perpetrators, to seemingly trivial expressions, gestures, sentences becomes the main thing.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Aktor Pana Boga
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-01-18
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Grzech Antoniego Grudy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-07-08
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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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Skinny and Others
Overview: A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Placówka
Overview: The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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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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Skąpani w ogniu
Overview: Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-05
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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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The White Mazurka
Overview: A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-02-19
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Good Sins
Overview: A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Their Everyday Life
Overview: After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-05-10
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Szabla od komendanta
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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Kareta
Overview: A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Gold Duck
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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A Hole in the Ground
Overview: An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-06-12
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The Nest
Overview: Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Matthew's Days
Overview: A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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A Generation
Overview: Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-01-26
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Mother Joan of the Angels
Overview: A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-02-09
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Dark River
Overview: Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-02-18
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Axiliad
Overview: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-13
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Overview: During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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Thief
Overview: A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-11-27
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Hospital
Overview: 1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Powrót po śmierć
Overview: One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.
Genres: Crime TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-02
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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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Drugi brzeg
Overview: A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-04-30
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The Beads of One Rosary
Overview: The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-24
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Cnota
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-12-15
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