Jerzy Nowak
Also Known As: Ежи Новак, Ezhi Novak
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brzesko, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: June 20, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 26, 2013
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Three Colors: White
Overview: Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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Medium
Overview: Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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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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Sędziowie. Tragedya
Overview: An old man appears in Samuel's inn and seek revenge on the owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-11-29
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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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Camera Buff
Overview: Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-11-16
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Julie Walking Home
Overview: Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-04
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The Beard
Overview: Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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Hasło
Overview: Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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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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End of the Lonely Farm Berhof
Overview: Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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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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Stajnia na Salvatorze
Overview: WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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A Story in Red
Overview: Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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From a Far Country
Overview: This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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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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Eagle
Overview: Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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Egzekutor
Overview: Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in love with his college friend, Maja, without reciprocity. However, the girl decided to get involved with a wealthy man from the criminal world. Meanwhile, as part of his student internship, Alex takes care of a former employee of the Security Office, Franciszek Kozar. The elderly and sick man suffers greatly. His only desire is euthanasia. For some time, Kozar has been persuading his guardian to help him commit suicide for a few thousand dollars. Finally, Alex agrees. His financial situation improves significantly. With the money he earns, he rents a luxury apartment and changes his lifestyle. From then on, he decides to provide services to people who want to end their lives but are unable to do it themselves...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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Copernicus
Overview: A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Overview: A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-12
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Sobótki
Overview: Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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Ściana czarownic
Overview: A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-02-14
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Place on Earth
Overview: A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-21
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Manhunt
Overview: Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with his own past...
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-10-16
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Fog
Overview: Ewa decides to end her romance with Alek. From the mountain guesthouse they go by car to Warsaw. . . Kim, after being released early from prison, returns to his wife, Jola, who lives in a lonely house. Here he finds a man who claims he has been hired for hard work. Kim wants to find out if Mietek is not Jola's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-02-04
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Bigda is Coming!
Overview: The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to be a cunning populist and an immoral politician, ready for any tricks for the sake of his goals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-11-29
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Nie było słońca tej wiosny
Overview: A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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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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Gnoje
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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The Existence
Overview: An aging Polish thesp looks death in the eye as he prepares for the inevitable in the absorbing, well-mounted docu "The Existence." While thesp Jerzy Nowak ("Schlindler's List," "Promised Land") addresses a number of concerns about the end of his life, the film explores the question of what will happen to his body after he donates it to medical science. Subject is handled respectfully and tastefully, balancing the clinical with the personal. Pic will thrive on the fest circuit and can expect a long life via Euro pubcaster outlets. (c) Variety
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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August Sky – 63 Days of Glory
Overview: A decades-old diary found at a construction site reveals the harrowing account of a professor in hiding during the early days of the Warsaw Uprising.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Meetings In The Dark
Overview: A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-05-16
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The Unknown
Overview: Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-13
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Pięciu
Overview: Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-02
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Lenin in Poland
Overview: The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-08
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
Overview: This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Lovers from Marona
Overview: Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-11-25
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Lava
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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Zofia
Overview: Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-11-28
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Love Stories
Overview: Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student puts the teacher in an awkward spot when she reveals her love for him. An 11-year-old informs the priest that she's his daughter. The army officer is pleased when confronted by a past lover. The drug dealer, taken prisoner, must decide whether or not to trust his wife with his hidden loot. In the wrap-up, the elderly accountant passes judgment on all four men. Stuhr acted in films by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who had some input here by offering advice to Stuhr on this screenplay.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Alchemik
Overview: An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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The Egg
Overview: It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Horror Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-11-29
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Co jest w człowieku w środku
Overview: A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-12-02
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Wyspa R.O.
Overview: "Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret corner of the world which was once inhabited by convicts, where only one lonely guard remains. Lenica was one of the most important creators of Polish poster art and his films have been honored at many international festivals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Overview: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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Legenda Tatr
Overview: Andrzej, who lives in the lowlands, comes to Zakopane. He rents a carriage and orders himself to be taken to the Strążyska Valley.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-01-30
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Wherever You Are...
Overview: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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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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Schindler's List
Overview: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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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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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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Cabin Fever
Overview: The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze inside the frozen cabin walls in 30-below-zero weather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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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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Dezerter
Overview: A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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Umarli rzucają cień
Overview: Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-06
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Full Ahead
Overview: Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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Podhale w ogniu
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-01-25
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The Revenge
Overview: A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On this day, the tongue-tied Cupbearer asks a braggart courtier, Papkin, to sue on his behalf for the hand of the widow Hanna. Papkin succeeds and
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-10-04
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Krab i Joanna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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Mystification
Overview: Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.
Genres: Mystery Thriller History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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A Gentle Creature
Overview: A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Our God's Brother
Overview: In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-08
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Elegia
Overview: Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-11-29
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Scratch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
Overview: Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-09
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Wściekły
Overview: Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-07
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The Hexer
Overview: A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect the human race from any misfortune. The witcher Geralt of Rivia must find the young princess Ciri, kidnapped by enemies. Only her return to the small kingdom of Cintra, which was attacked by aggressors, can restore peace and order there. The brave witcher sets off on a journey, long, distant and deadly.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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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 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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დინოზავრის კვერცხი
Overview: A group of Georgian scientists traveling to Poland for a scientific symposium are housed in an old fortress . A middle-aged man , a descendant of Polish nobles , falls in love with one of the members of the group . Love turns the previously modest , inconspicuous scientist into a charming woman . After returning from a business trip, his lover soon visits him in his homeland .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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