Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Also Known As: Margaret Sophie Stein, M. Zajaczkowska, Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Biography: Malgorzata Zajaczkowska is a Polish film and television actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Birthday: January 31, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Amateurs
Overview: Krzysiek Biuro Rzeczy Osobistych Theater (created by intellectually disabled actors) is the winner of a festival, in which the prize is a performance in a professional theater. With great joy and expectations, Krzysiek and his actors are currently working on a new play "Zorba." It would be great to perform it on a real stage. It turns out, however, that the director of the theater, when offering them assistance, sets certain conditions, and when rehearsals begin, a few professional actors take part: Bartoszek - an aging actor, Olbińska - a former star who now plays lesser roles, and Wiktoria - a star who was acquired by the theater director.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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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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To musi być miłość
Overview: The action of the film takes place during the magical time between Christmas and New Years. The turmoil of love brings the three sisters to the romantic Sopot, where, as part of family deliberations, they have to decide what to do with their romantic life. Though they begin their stay on the couch, Bridget Jones style, they need to quickly establish a plan of action as their guys have just arrived in town begging for a second chance. However, to regain the sisters' trust, they will have to atone for their sins and win their hearts again. Will they make it?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Janosik: A True Story
Overview: The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Overview: Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.
Genres: Drama Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-03
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Skylark
Overview: Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-07
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Tonia
Overview: Tonia lives with her father and grandmother. Her mother is dead, her father is an alcohol abuser and he lost his job. His grandmother decides to send him to work on a construction site in Italy for three months. Tonia will do everything in her power to foil this plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-05-12
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We're All Christs
Overview: Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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Enemies, a Love Story
Overview: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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Next-ex
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-05-28
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Drawn from Memory
Overview: Marek decides to make a documentary about his grandmother. She accepts provided she can fulfill her dream: play a vampire in a series of amateur horror movies. In time, Marek realizes that his grandmother is losing her memory and that he is making a movie totally different from the one he set out to make.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-05-21
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Tomorrow's Weather
Overview: A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-10-02
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Late Bloomers
Overview: Louise, an aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina - a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Louise gets a job caring for her. Neither woman loves the arrangement but it’s time to face the truth about aging. We all have to grow up sometime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Gwiazda Kopernika
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Genres: Animation Family History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-08
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Childish Questions
Overview: A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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The Constant Factor
Overview: A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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Screen Tests
Overview: Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Bajki na dobranoc
Overview: A young cinematographer is hired to work on a puppet film. Soon a tragic accident occurs on the set of production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-06-03
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Seasons of the Heart
Overview: After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-22
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You Are God
Overview: The story of the late 90s generation and the three friends behind the music: Magik, Fokus and Rahim. The fact-based film charts the relentless struggle for success of Paktofonika, against the backdrop of crumbling traditional values in dreary 90s Silesia.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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Walesa: Man of Hope
Overview: How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man’s metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-09-23
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Without Love
Overview: Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Entanglement
Overview: A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Rage
Overview: The young journalist gets offer he can not refuse.He has become a major news journalist. At the same time, he is calling his wife , and she to him is tragic news .He has to make the hardest decision of his life
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-03-17
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Blindness
Overview: A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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Karuzela
Overview: Karuzela is a four person drama. It is a journey inside the souls of the main characters across the reefs of everyday dilemmas - the merry-go-round of life. An individual approach to the subject, obscure narration and absence of easy answers is what allows every viewer to embark on their own journey around the universal story told in the film. They are not even 30 years old and they have problems with finding work. When something comes their way, it is only a temporary 'junk contract'.The characters have to overcome their weaknesses and face the harsh reality.They are taking their life exams and do not want to make wrong choices again.This is a game witch will evoke emotions, allow to identify with the main characters and their complex world
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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Danton
Overview: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Walpurgis Night
Overview: A young journalist pays a visit backstage to interview an opera diva, but the conversation unexpectedly turns into an intricate, sensual game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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Bullets Over Broadway
Overview: After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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Revisited
Overview: In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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The Yellow Scarf
Overview: The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-12-20
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My Wonderful Life
Overview: A caring daughter, a laid-back mother, a popular teacher, a wife you are thick as thieves with – Joanna – is outstanding in each of these roles. But in none of them does she feel like herself. That is why she leads a double life. She has a secret she shares with no-one.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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