Artur Żmijewski
Also Known As: Artur Marek Żmijewski
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Artur Żmijewski (b. 10 April 1966 in Radzymin) is a Polish movie and stage actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Artur Żmijewski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Radzymin, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: April 10, 1966
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Male
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Pigs 2: The Last Blood
Overview: Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-04-05
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Katyn
Overview: On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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Demons of War
Overview: A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-03-20
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The Crown Witness
Overview: Blacha, an ex-middleman in the criminal underground, is the key witness in an enormous Pruszkow mafia bust. As such he is kept under lock and key hidden away from the world. Intent on getting an interview with the ex-gangster is Marcin Kruk, whose pregnant wife was collateral damage in a mafia car-bomb several years back with Blacha being his main suspect. Fortunately Blacha holds Marcin's journalistic work in very high regard, hence agrees to an exclusive interview in a secluded hotel in the Hel peninsula. There he retreads his criminal life...
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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Immensity of Justice
Overview: A disengaged graduate expects his father's friend to recruit him into law, but instead learns about a murder case with a verdict he aims to challenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-03-08
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Amok
Overview: Entertaining movie about the early days of Polish stock exchange in the beginning of 80's. Young TV reporter is sucked into the inferno of easy money, deception, crime, sex and drugs. Sometimes like Kieslowski's moral tales, sometimes like Pasikowski's brutal fables, even sometimes like "Once upon a time in America". Fantastic creations of Baka as Maks and Majchrzak as Rekin /the Shark/ - evil incarnated.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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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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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Overview: The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Breaking the Limits
Overview: Based on true events. In 1980s Poland, Jerzy Górski is a young man who finds the determination to struggle against his drug addiction through athletic training, with the aim of competing in the US Ironman Triathlon.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-11-17
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30 Door Key
Overview: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-02
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Stones for the Rampart
Overview: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-03-07
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Never in My Life!
Overview: Judyta is a middle-aged housewife whose peaceful life suddenly falls apart due to divorce. But soon she finds the strength to carry on fighting for her happiness, a place in the sun and love of her life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Inventory
Overview: Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-23
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Blood of the Innocent
Overview: A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Far from the Other
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Anger
Overview: Pawel and Magda escape to a secluded old house in Poland where Pawel spent his summers. What they don't realize is that Pawel's younger brother, Piotr, has run away from juvenile hall and is hiding at the house. The brothers' bittersweet reunion becomes a cruel yet emotional contest when criminal friends of Piotr's arrive at the house and threaten Pawel and Magda. Only Piotr can stop the cruel game -- but will he?
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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My Father's Bike
Overview: Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-07-27
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In Desert and Wilderness
Overview: In Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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Oszukane
Overview: Two very similar teenagers discover that they are sisters. They were separated in the hospital and went to live with two different families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Gnoje
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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How to Get Rid of Cellulite
Overview: Comedy about female friendship, subjected to an extreme test. Two girlfriends - Eva and Maya - are introduced in an exclusive spa with a beautiful masseuse, Cornelia, which involves them in a whirlpool of crazy adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-02-04
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Shrew
Overview: A producer celebrated for the idealized families she depicts on screen must make some changes when she realizes her personal life is in total disarray.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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Why?
Overview: A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-04-18
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Panny i wdowy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Escape
Overview: Budapest, 1948. Gyula Molnár, interpreter to the Supervisory Committee of the Allied Powers, is carried away from a party by plain-cloth police investigators. Recsk, 1950. Molnár, having attempted an escape and with a wound made by a bullet in his neck - is doggedly trying to get into the brigade of brick-layers, as escape is easiest from there.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1997-02-13
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Last Mission
Overview: Andre, an assassin working on behalf of French government goes to Poland to kill Polish businessman Muran.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-01-02
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The Rite of Passage
Overview: A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Who Is Joe Louis?
Overview: The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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First Million
Overview: Beginning of 1990. Old friends , Frik, Kurtz i Piki, making money on the stock exchange.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Bitter-Sweet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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Pitbull: Tough Women
Overview: Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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Panic Attack
Overview: Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Ławeczka
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-08-27
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Clergyman
Overview: In 2011, a psychiatric patient is visited by a postulate. The patient is a retired head of the "D" Group – a secret department of the Security Service to fight against the Polish Catholic church. Murders, beatings, blackmails, provocations, robberies, those are standard methods of operation for its officers. The postulate wants to unravel the mystery of the death of priest Roman Kotlarz, a parish priest from Pelagow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
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Przystań
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-30
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3 dni bez wyroku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Black Mercedes
Overview: In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, an investigator tries to unravel the mysterious murder of a prominent attorney's wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Deserter's Gold
Overview: "Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Deszczowy żołnierz
Overview: After being raped by her lover, Anna, lawyer investigating top-level corruption, nearly hits an amnesiac man while driving. This event begins a series of flasbacks back to communist takeover of Poland in 1949.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-03-14
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Pigs
Overview: In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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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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The Last Schoolbell
Overview: As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Karol, który został świętym
Overview: A children's movie about John Paul Pope the second. It combines animations, archived material and amature film. It tells the story about his childhood.
Genres: Family Animation History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-03-21
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Pigs 3
Overview: Having spent years in prison, Franz Maurer is released and goes out into a new Poland, where nothing is as he remembered it to be. Who and what is waiting for the man who, for the last 25 years... hasn’t been doing anything? How will he find himself in a world where old principles and loyalty have ceased to exist? We will get to know that when fate reunites Franz and “Nowy”. Their meeting will change everything.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Solid Gold
Overview: Kaja Miller is a police officer that is abducted and abused on one of her missions. Eight years later she meets her former boss Nowicki, who takes her to Gdynia with the task of exposing a large criminal circuit.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
Overview: The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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