Stanisław Milski
Also Known As: Stanislaw Milski, Stanisław Hołyst, Станислав Мильский
Biography: SEE RANK Stanislaw Milski (I) (1897–1972) Actor Stanislaw Milski was born on February 8, 1897 in Czchów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary as Stanislaw Holyst. He was an actor, known for Gruby (1972), Lydia Ate the Apple (1958) and Black Cross (1960). He died on September 4, 1972 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Czchów, Austro-Węgry (present Poland)
Birthday: February 08, 1897
Deathday: September 04, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Ashes and Diamonds
Overview: A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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Farewells
Overview: The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-10-13
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Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Overview: A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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Signals
Overview: A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Overview: An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Where is the General?
Overview: Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Nikodem Dyzma
Overview: Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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A Lady from the Window
Overview: Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Coloured Stockings
Overview: Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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The Peasants
Overview: In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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Mansarda
Overview: After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-27
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
Overview: Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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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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Miasteczko
Overview: A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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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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Książę sezonu
Overview: Stefan Pulman, a lonely Varsovian, spends his vacation every year in a quiet guesthouse. He makes very real marriage plans. The object of his sighs is beautiful Susanna.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Kierunek Berlin
Overview: Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-01-17
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Obok prawdy
Overview: After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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The Eighth Day of the Week
Overview: Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-08-26
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Interrupted Flight
Overview: The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest
Overview: A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-04
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Profesor Zazul
Overview: Tichy is caught by a storm on the side road, and therefore forced to seek shelter in strange looking house. He is welcomed by Profesor Zazul, who devoted his life to cloning experiments. Based on a short story by Stanisław Lem featured in Memories of Ijon Tichy.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-08-27
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The Chase
Overview: At a stable a group of horses are poisoned. Suspicion falls on Bronka, the local vet. The woman must prove her innocence and find the real culprit.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-07-22
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The Ring of Queen Ann
Overview: Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.
Genres: Adventure Family History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Gromada
Overview: The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-04-29
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Cross of Valor
Overview: Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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I Hate Mondays
Overview: An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Loneliness of the Couple
Overview: A psychological drama film based on a story by Karol Ludwik Koniński.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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The Game
Overview: Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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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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Knights of the Teutonic Order
Overview: A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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The Noose
Overview: A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-01-20
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The Red and the Gold
Overview: An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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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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Shoot Paragon!
Overview: A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-20
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More Than Life At Stake Part Six
Overview: The sixth and final episode compilation of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 16 and 17.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Nuremberg Epilogue
Overview: Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-07
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Land
Overview: Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-02-25
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What Will My Wife Say to This?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Countess Cosel
Overview: The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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Birth Certificate
Overview: Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-02
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Polar Bear
Overview: A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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The Lost Bridge
Overview: Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-03-22
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Echo
Overview: It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-09-25
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Cooked Doves
Overview: A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-05-12
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Bicz Boży
Overview: A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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The Depot of the Dead
Overview: In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-08-10
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A Generation
Overview: Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-01-26
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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
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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Farewell to the Devil
Overview: A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Hours of Hope
Overview: In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1955-05-09
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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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Good Sins
Overview: A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Victory
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Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Kryptonim Nektar
Overview: A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-10-11
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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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Cellulose
Overview: Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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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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Sprawa pilota Maresza
Overview: A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-04-07
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Pills for Aurelia
Overview: Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-11-24
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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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It Started Yesterday
Overview: Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-12
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Little Dramas
Overview: Two stories showcasing the problems children face while growing up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-14
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