Leonard Pietraszak
Also Known As: Leonard Józef Pietraszak
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bydgoszcz, Polska
Birthday: November 06, 1936
Deathday: February 01, 2023
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Vabank
Overview: October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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King Size
Overview: The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-02
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Wedding Night
Overview: Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-06
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ESD
Overview: The Borejko family has four daughters - Gabriela, Ida, Natalia and Patricia. Most concern causes the red-haired Ida, whose unusual ideas often end badly, though the girl has the best intentions. Her father, who works at the university as a classical philologist, gives her the idea to found a group called ESD. They want to try out the theory that you are more successful if you send out more positive signals to the environment. Soon this theory will be put to the test. Ida's mother has to go to the hospital and the entire burden of household chores falls on the children.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Vabank II
Overview: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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Menedżer
Overview: After the death of the director of the Polish company "Gont", the competition for his position begins. It is attended by the chief accountant Joachim Mackiewicz. However, the fight for the director's chair is skilfully manipulated by a certain Szczurowski. Mackiewicz, who wants to remain honest at all costs, quickly becomes his victim. At the same time, serious problems arise in Joachim's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Krótka podróż
Overview: A study of two people involved in the story of the love triangle. However, not the plot itself is the essence of the film. It is a study of moral attitudes, it tells about dying physically, as well as about the dying of feelings.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-04-08
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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Overview: Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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Octopus Cafe
Overview: Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-23
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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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Komedianty
Overview: Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-02-02
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Brzydkie kaczątko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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To the Last Drop of Blood
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-10-27
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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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Historia jednego myśliwca
Overview: The film follows the exploits of Stefan as he fights against the Nazis as a RAF pilot.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-19
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Inspekcja pana Anatola
Overview: PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-08-31
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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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150km Per Hour
Overview: Young Marcin wishes to escape his life in a village and make a career in a city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Wielki układ
Overview: 40-year-old engineer Marek Kołodziejski comes to his hometown after fifteen years. He wants to take revenge on his friends who kicked him out of the band for appropriating the authorship of the project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
Overview: A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-14
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The Devil from Seventh Grade
Overview: Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-07-28
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Zawsze w niedziele
Overview: Three stories centered around sports.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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Rodzina Połanieckich
Overview: The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-04
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Kontrybucja
Overview: A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Ktokolwiek wie...
Overview: A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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Przygody Joanny
Overview: Christmas is coming. Little Ania dreams of a doll she saw in a shop window.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Edward and Stefan
Overview: Summer 1944. Polish armed forces are being organized in the Lublin region. Edward, one of the generals of the First Army, receives an order to form an artillery division. He counts on the help of Stefan, his old friend who lives in Lublin. However, it turns out that Stefan - a colonel and commander of the Home Army during the occupation - was arrested...
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-07-08
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Bermuda Triangle
Overview: Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-17
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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Overview: On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.
Genres: Comedy War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-02
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The Real End of the Great War
Overview: Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-10-10
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Chronicle of Amorous Accidents
Overview: Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-11-24
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I'm a Butterfly
Overview: Funny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and fall in love. But there are three problems: his wife and two children. He must choice what is more importent for him - family or Irena.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-09-10
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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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Everything for Sale
Overview: Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-01-28
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Znikąd donikąd
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-08-15
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Czerwone berety
Overview: A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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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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W te dni przedwiosenne
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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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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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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Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-04
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Letters to Santa
Overview: A romantic comedy set on Christmas Eve in Warsaw and centered around a series of characters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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Women's Day
Overview: Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for better wages and an improved standard of living is dishonesty, employee exploitation, and fraud.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-05-08
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Argument About Basia
Overview: Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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