Kazimierz Opaliński
Also Known As: Казимеж Опалиньский, Казимеж Опалинский, Kazimierz Józef Opaliński
Biography: Kazimierz Opaliński (22 February 1890 – 6 June 1979) was a Polish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1936 and 1975. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Przemyśl, Poland)
Birthday: February 22, 1890
Deathday: June 06, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Na melinę
Overview: A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Overview: A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Western
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Komedia z pomyłek
Overview: The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Pharaoh
Overview: Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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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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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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The Codes
Overview: An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-12-25
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Overview: Five short stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-03
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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Overview: Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Gangsters and Philantropists
Overview: The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-02-15
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Czarne skrzydła
Overview: The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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Difficult Love
Overview: A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-04-10
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Chlopcy
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-06-12
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Man on the Tracks
Overview: One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-01-17
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The Others Will Follow
Overview: A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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Love or a Kingdom
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1936-12-07
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Jadą goście jadą...
Overview: Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-09-17
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Wiano
Overview: A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-02-14
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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 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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Eroica
Overview: Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-01-04
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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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Trzy kroki po ziemi
Overview: Three stories about life problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Komedie pomyłek
Overview: Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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Bardzo starzy oboje
Overview: A marriage celebrates their 50th wedding anniversary while reckoning with the tragic events of their past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-12-06
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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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The Road West
Overview: In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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Three Stories
Overview: The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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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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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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Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Overview: Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-09
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Sprawa do załatwienia
Overview: A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Nowy
Overview: A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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The People of the Vistula
Overview: A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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Kaule
Overview: Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-05-06
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Nights and Days
Overview: A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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The Warsaw Debut
Overview: Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
Genres: History Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1951-03-04
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Two Brigades
Overview: A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Pierwsze dni
Overview: An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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Under the Phrygian Star
Overview: Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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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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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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Szczęściarz Antoni
Overview: A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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Rok pierwszy
Overview: 1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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The Return
Overview: A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-26
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Bad Luck
Overview: To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-04-04
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