Henryk Modrzewski
Also Known As: Henryk Zasacki
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kańczuga, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Polska)
Birthday: May 12, 1897
Deathday: October 04, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Adam's Two Ribs
Overview: An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-01-24
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The Knave of Spades
Overview: A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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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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Król Maciuś I
Overview: A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
Genres: Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-04-08
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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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Forbidden Songs
Overview: Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Genres: Music War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1947-01-08
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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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Coloured Stockings
Overview: Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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Teenager
Overview: A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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Trzy kobiety
Overview: Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-05-06
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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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Treasure
Overview: The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1949-02-15
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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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Szkice węglem
Overview: The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Tysiąc talarów
Overview: An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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Goodbye to the Past
Overview: An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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Rainy July
Overview: A woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-02-21
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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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Free City
Overview: The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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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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Zobaczymy się w niedzielę
Overview: Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-01-11
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Profesor Wilczur
Overview: Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1938-10-17
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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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Adventure in Marienstadt
Overview: While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-01-25
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Two Gentlemen 'N'
Overview: Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Time Past
Overview: Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-11
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The Warsaw Debut
Overview: Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
Genres: History Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1951-03-04
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Sprawa do załatwienia
Overview: A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Young Chopin
Overview: Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1952-03-25
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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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