Czesław Piaskowski
Also Known As: Czeslaw Piaskowski
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)
Adult: No
Birthday: May 13, 1903
Age: 122 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 11, 1994
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Overview: A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Western
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A Cure for Love
Overview: An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Przystań
Overview: Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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Podróżni jak inni
Overview: A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-27
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Journey for One Smile
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Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Two Hours
Overview: Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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Identification Marks: None
Overview: After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with his estranged wife, visiting old friends, and savoring some last moments of freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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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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Wraki
Overview: Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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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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Stajnia na Salvatorze
Overview: WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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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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Bitwa o Kozi Dwór
Overview: A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-02-22
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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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Rachunek sumienia
Overview: The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1964-11-16
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The Doll
Overview: Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-11-07
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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 Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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The Others Will Follow
Overview: A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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Copernicus
Overview: A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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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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Glass Mountain
Overview: A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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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 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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Place on Earth
Overview: A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1960-03-21
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Lotna
Overview: Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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Martians
Overview: Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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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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Kazimierz Wielki
Overview: The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Night Train
Overview: Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-09-06
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The People from the Train
Overview: A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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All Souls' Day
Overview: A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-12-05
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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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The Deluge
Overview: During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
Genres: History Adventure War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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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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The Stone Sky
Overview: The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-11-16
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Gold Dreams
Overview: The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Silent Traces
Overview: A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-09-19
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The Impossible Goodbye
Overview: All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Overview: The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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Silence
Overview: Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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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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Don Gabriel
Overview: The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Komedie pomyłek
Overview: Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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The Barrel Organ
Overview: This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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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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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 Taste of the Black Earth
Overview: During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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Red Rowan
Overview: The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-17
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Szkice warszawskie
Overview: Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-30
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Ostatnie dni
Overview: As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-05-09
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More Than Life At Stake Part Four
Overview: The fourth of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 8 and 9.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: ab
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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More Than Life At Stake Part Five
Overview: The fifth of the six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 14 and 15.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Ferry
Overview: 1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-12-11
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Scorpio, Virgo and Sagittarius
Overview: Poetically shown story of love, passion, loyalty, betrayal of trust, and death. Three young friends travel round Poland and do the living acting out religious scenes and selling holy photo images at church fairs. Problems appear right after the theft of their camera.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-02-13
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Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...
Overview: A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Cierpkie głogi
Overview: A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-10-25
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Operation "Brutus"
Overview: Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-11
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Obcy w lesie
Overview: A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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Niedziela sprawiedliwości
Overview: A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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In Any Weather
Overview: A young sea rescuer tries to find his place in the difficult world of his work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-04-30
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Overview: Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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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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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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Two Brigades
Overview: A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Shadow
Overview: A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Boxer
Overview: A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-03-03
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Cyrograf dojrzałości
Overview: 18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-08-20
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Chleb
Overview: The year 1920, Polish lands beyond the Vistula, the Polish-Bolshevik war continues. Felix Dzerzhinsky travels by train with the army. In July, his appeal to the people was published, in which he warned that from now on, the punishment for theft or inciting robbery would be death by shooting. When a group of hungry, destitute boys break into the wagon during a stop, one of them is captured and brought before the revolutionary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-21
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