Franciszek Pieczka
Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954) he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar. He has starred in over a hundred films, both Polish and foreign. He has been awarded and honored many times for his individual roles, as well as his contribution to the development of theater and film art. He is an honorary citizen of the Godów commune. In 2015, he was awarded the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franciszek Pieczka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8544 |
| Birthday | 1928-01-18 |
| Place of Birth | Godów, śląskie, Polska |
| Also Known As | Франтишек Печка, |
1975
The Promised Land
7.3/87
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe workin...
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The Promised Land
1966
Bigos
0/0
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
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Bigos
1971
Hydro-Puzzle
6/39
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
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Hydro-Puzzle
1958
Kalosze szczęścia
4.833/6
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Krak...
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Kalosze szczęścia
2001
Requiem
6.5/2
Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-r...
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Requiem
1957
Lost Feelings
7/2
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home an...
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Lost Feelings
1962
Nad rzeką
0/0
A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol.
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Nad rzeką
1972
The Sun Rises Once a Day
5.75/4
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebe...
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The Sun Rises Once a Day
1965
Late Afternoon
5.25/4
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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Late Afternoon
1972
Through Nine Bridges
0/0
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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Through Nine Bridges
1971
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
6.769/26
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
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Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1972
The Cask of Amontillado
0/1
Professor Montresor, being the object of his friends' jokes, prepares his revenge.
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The Cask of Amontillado
1969
The Office
0/0
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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The Office
1971
Przystań
9/1
Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bos...
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Przystań
1983
Pełnia nad głowami
8/2
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 pr...
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Pełnia nad głowami
1971
Legenda
4.333/3
Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
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Legenda
1972
Punkt wyjścia
0/0
A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.
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Punkt wyjścia
1971
Kłopotliwy gość
7/4
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Kłopotliwy gość
1977
A Round Week
9/1
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
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A Round Week
1979
Wiśnie
0/0
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in...
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Wiśnie
1990
Potyatusok
10/1
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to esc...
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Potyatusok
1981
Ciosy
7/1
Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants not...
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Ciosy
1990
Do domu
7/1
A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.
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Do domu
1983
Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
10/1
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
1984
La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka
0/0
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the gro...
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La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka
1986
Wcześnie urodzony
0/0
A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.
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Wcześnie urodzony
1992
Ördög vigye
9/1
The devil arrives in Budapest because he has got wind that a hermit scientist has discovered the elixir of eternal life. Soon the lives of oh-so-some...
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Ördög vigye
1976
The Scar
6.5/46
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist par...
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The Scar
1992
Apricots in the Baskets
10/1
Poland, 1991. Two elderly political refugees, Demosthenes and Argyris, take the train from the coal mining region to the cemetery where the former's w...
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Apricots in the Baskets
1978
Somosierra. 1808
0/0
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the comman...
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Somosierra. 1808
1987
Friend of the Jolly Devil
6/8
A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is d...
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Friend of the Jolly Devil
1988
Famous Like Sarajevo
4.333/3
The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...
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Famous Like Sarajevo
1986
Big Bang
6.667/6
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 guest...
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Big Bang
1973
The Peasants
5.8/7
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 a...
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The Peasants
2006
Jasminum
6.2/35
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugeni...
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Jasminum
1994
Thanks for Every New Morning
8/4
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone...
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Thanks for Every New Morning
2007
Ranczo Wilkowyje
5.6/15
Lucy and Kusy have to face quite a problem. From the States suddenly arrives Lucy's mysterious husband Louis. It turns out that their divorce was not...
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Ranczo Wilkowyje
1971
The Woodpecker
5.7/13
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
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The Woodpecker
1977
Budapest Tales
6.3/10
"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...
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Budapest Tales
2004
Miracle in Cracow
5.167/3
Pyotr, a Polish boy from Budapest, has been obsessed with books since childhood, especially one in particular. According to Jewish legend, this book -...
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Miracle in Cracow
1996
The Story About Master Twardowski
4/4
On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions are no...
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The Story About Master Twardowski
1986
The Girls of Nowolipki
6.5/8
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
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The Girls of Nowolipki
1983
An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
5.167/6
A historical drama about Barbara Radziwiłł, whose controversial love affair and marriage with King Sigismund II Augustus defied political opposition i...
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
1967
Where Is the Third King?
6.286/7
Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
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Where Is the Third King?
1995
The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates
7.167/9
The action takes place somewhere among fields, meadows, and forests. The protagonists are simple but extraordinary people: Janka, a dwarf; Morka, a mo...
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The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates
1998
History of Cinema in Popielawy
6.028/18
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History of Cinema in Popielawy
1980
Racławice. 1794
0/0
The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of th...
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Racławice. 1794
1975
Till Eulenspiegel
5.444/9
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...
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Till Eulenspiegel
1986
Chrześniak
8/1
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who...
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Chrześniak
1993
The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
4.333/6
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life...
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
1990
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
6.167/24
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
1970
Album polski
9/1
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
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Album polski
1980
The Beads of One Rosary
6.5/8
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him....
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The Beads of One Rosary
1987
The Faithful River
6.083/6
Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of...
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The Faithful River
1987
The Mother of the Kings
6.3/7
In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.
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The Mother of the Kings
1990
Burial of a Potato
8.25/4
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who f...
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Burial of a Potato
1994
Johnnie Waterman
7.5/22
On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal...
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Johnnie Waterman
1983
Fariaho
7/1
The puppet player Sebastian Fußberg moves through the country at the end of the fifties. Despite his age, an unwavering dreamer and idealist. But also...
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Fariaho
1988
Jadup and Boel
6.417/6
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to...
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Jadup and Boel
1983
Austeria
6.5/26
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified t...
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Austeria
1961
All Souls' Day
6.857/7
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 warti...
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All Souls' Day
1978
The Woman Across the Way
9/1
A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husb...
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The Woman Across the Way
1974
The Deluge
7.222/90
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love...
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The Deluge
2023
Disgrace
0/0
Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a dark...
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Disgrace
2000
Syzyfowe prace
7.8/6
1890s, Russian-occupied Poland. When Marcin Borowicz begins his gymnasium education, he is confronted with brutal indoctrination and attempts of resis...
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Syzyfowe prace
1982
The Lynx
7.083/12
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed N...
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The Lynx
1976
Slate
5.19/21
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
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Slate
1992
The Land Beyond the Rainbow
10/1
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
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The Land Beyond the Rainbow
1994
Miraculous Place
7.9/4
A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he find...
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Miraculous Place
2014
The Heart and Sweetheart
5.4/7
A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage o...
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The Heart and Sweetheart
1968
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
0/0
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2. “The plot follows the adventures of the her...
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
1968
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
0/0
The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
1968
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
0/0
The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
1968
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
0/0
The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
1972
Glass Ball
10/1
Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
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Glass Ball
1986
Memoirs of a Sinner
6.861/18
A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
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Memoirs of a Sinner
1973
The Wedding
7.3/27
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...
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The Wedding
1961
April
9/1
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to...
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April
1993
Two Moons
6/6
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visito...
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Two Moons
1993
Pograbek
7.333/3
Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to hi...
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Pograbek
1985
Sprawa się rypła
6.708/12
During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact, alive. If...
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Sprawa się rypła
1990
Memories of a River
6.7/3
In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he fin...
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Memories of a River
1982
The Linnet
6.714/35
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple o...
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The Linnet
1990
Kein Wort von Einsamkeit
0/0
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Kein Wort von Einsamkeit
1987
Rykowisko
6/2
The 1970s. Senator Caposta, an American of Polish descent, is due to arrive for trade negotiations. A condition of his arrival is to obtain permission...
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Rykowisko
1979
David
5.3/9
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly conv...
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David
1991
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
6.263/19
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
1981
Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
10/1
While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and have a child...
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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
2006
The Eighth Day of the Week
7/1
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends...
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The Eighth Day of the Week
2001
Quo Vadis
5.6/65
Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian comman...
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Quo Vadis
2017
Son of the Snow Queen
4.7/3
A drama inspired by true events in which good fights evil. Twenty-something mother Anna raises her seven-year-old son alone, barely making ends meet.
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Son of the Snow Queen
1968
Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen
10/1
The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best inci...
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Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen
2019
Aktor Pana Boga
7/1
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Aktor Pana Boga
1975
Grzech Antoniego Grudy
7.5/2
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Grzech Antoniego Grudy
1967
Skinny and Others
7/5
A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
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Skinny and Others
1965
Back to Life Again
5.667/3
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar St...
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Back to Life Again
1979
Placówka
5.333/3
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a...
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Placówka
1973
Lazarus' Whims
10/1
Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.
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Lazarus' Whims
1963
Skąpani w ogniu
6.75/2
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
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Skąpani w ogniu
1992
Squadron
5.8/10
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this t...
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Squadron
1972
Pearl in the Crown
6.5/12
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...
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Pearl in the Crown
1979
The White Mazurka
8/2
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersbu...
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The White Mazurka
1963
Good Sins
8.25/4
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Good Sins
1963
Their Everyday Life
4.25/4
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Their Everyday Life
1996
Szabla od komendanta
7.143/7
In a fairy-tale village lives Jakubek, a former legionnaire. He buried his wife some time ago and now lives with his adult but very shy son Janeczek....
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Szabla od komendanta
1973
Kareta
0/0
A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.
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Kareta
1976
Gold Duck
0/0
The tale of "The Golden Duck" in the reality of 17th-century Warsaw.
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Gold Duck
1970
A Hole in the Ground
8/1
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he tor...
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A Hole in the Ground
1974
The Nest
6.1/8
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 bor...
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The Nest
1968
Matthew's Days
6.269/13
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-wo...
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Matthew's Days
1955
A Generation
6.968/63
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 th...
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A Generation
1961
Mother Joan of the Angels
7.571/120
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
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Mother Joan of the Angels
1974
Dark River
6/2
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal...
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Dark River
1986
Axiliad
6.75/16
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...
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Axiliad
1966
The Saragossa Manuscript
7.753/162
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
1988
Thief
0/0
A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.
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Thief
1962
Hospital
8/1
Confined to a hospital room, a seemingly healthy man endures a surreal night as his space is invaded by a procession of bizarre, dreamlike visitors—ma...
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Hospital
1987
Powrót po śmierć
0/0
One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when th...
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Powrót po śmierć
1965
Walkover
6.273/22
An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
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Walkover
1962
Drugi brzeg
10/1
A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
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Drugi brzeg
1980
The Beads of One Rosary
6.5/8
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him....
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The Beads of One Rosary
2013
Cnota
0/0
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Cnota
1971
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
7.13/23
In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Captain Neustroev's company is selected to hoist the Vi...
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