Ludwik Benoit
Also Known As: Людвик Бенуа
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wołkowysk, Polska (obecnie Białoruś)
Birthday: July 18, 1920
Deathday: November 04, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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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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Pełnia nad głowami
Overview: Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-06-27
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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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Kłopotliwy gość
Overview: Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Poradnik matrymonialny
Overview: Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was taken to the hospital, where he is looked after by his sister Krystyna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-26
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The Ambulance Will Come
Overview: After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-08-30
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Father of the Queen
Overview: Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-04-07
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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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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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Sonata marymoncka
Overview: Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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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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Proszę słonia
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-04-05
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Priest Daens
Overview: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Janosik
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Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-04-14
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Fetysz
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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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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Rzeczywistość
Overview: The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Aria for an Athlete
Overview: Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Big Bang
Overview: A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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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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Ostrożnie yeti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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Lenin in Poland
Overview: The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-08
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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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Koniec sezonu na lody
Overview: The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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Hell and Heaven
Overview: A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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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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Pies
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Przygoda Stasia
Overview: The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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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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Swan Song
Overview: After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Milky Way
Overview: An elderly man looks to a mysterious old woman to help him regain his youth, but the woman has her own agenda.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-24
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Not Far from Warsaw
Overview: Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-10-21
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Kochajmy syrenki
Overview: Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1967-04-25
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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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Placówka
Overview: The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Pan Anatol szuka miliona
Overview: Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-03-09
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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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Pan Samochodzik i niesamowity dwór
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Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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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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Fucha
Overview: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice
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Genres: Adventure Family Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-01-09
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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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The Ring and the Rose
Overview: TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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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
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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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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Nights and Days
Overview: A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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Sobótki
Overview: Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-06-23
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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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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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Kolysanka
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Five Boys from Barska Street
Overview: In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1954-02-27
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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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Zátah
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Axiliad
Overview: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-13
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The Holy War
Overview: To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-11-16
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Overview: During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1965-06-10
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