Barbara Rachwalska

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Córeczka
1

Córeczka

Jul 22, 1965
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
Drama
Dwie godziny
6

Dwie godziny

Dec 09, 1957
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.
Drama
Król Maciuś I
6

Król Maciuś I

Apr 08, 1958
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
Family
Sposób bycia
3.5

Sposób bycia

Jan 25, 1966
A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.
Drama
Wolny strzelec
1

Wolny strzelec

Oct 28, 1987
Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother.
Drama
Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
1

Szaleństwa Panny Ewy

Jan 07, 1985
From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.
Adventure
Chłopi
5.6

Chłopi

Dec 07, 1973
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.
Drama
Jasne łany
1

Jasne łany

Dec 25, 1947
A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
Drama
Rozmowy Kontrolowane
6.613

Rozmowy Kontrolowane

Dec 13, 1991
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
Comedy
Kobieta w kapeluszu
6.5

Kobieta w kapeluszu

Sep 02, 1985
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Drama
Komedianty
4

Komedianty

Feb 02, 1962
Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Drama
Żołnierz zwycięstwa
1
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
Drama
Eva veut dormir
6.8

Eva veut dormir

Mar 17, 1958
Ewa Bonecka est arrivée dans une petite ville. Elle est étudiante. Elle est venue à cette soirée, et elle veut obtenir un appartement. Mais c'est impossible car il n'y a pas de chambres libres à l'Hôtel. Elle passe du temps dans la rue où se trouvent un grand nombre de criminels, des prostituées...
Comedy
Kapelusz pana Anatola
6.9

Kapelusz pana Anatola

Nov 11, 1957
Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Comedy
Pensja pani Latter
1

Pensja pani Latter

Sep 05, 1983
The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.
Drama
Tysiąc talarów
4

Tysiąc talarów

Feb 22, 1960
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Comedy
Przerwany lot
1

Przerwany lot

Oct 16, 1964
The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Drama
Jadą goście jadą...
7
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Comedy
Faust
1

Faust

Jun 14, 1976
TV Movie
Uczta Baltazara
5

Uczta Baltazara

Nov 15, 1954
Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
Crime
Ostatni strzał
6

Ostatni strzał

Jan 26, 1959
A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.
Drama
Wolne Miasto
6.8

Wolne Miasto

Sep 01, 1958
Nous sommes en 1939. Dans la ville libre de Gdańsk, le harcèlement et la persécution de la population polonaise par les Allemands s'intensifient. Le 1 er septembre, la Seconde Guerre mondiale commence. Les employés de Poczta Polska se sont barricadés dans son bâtiment et ont résisté aux nazis. Ils comptent sur un soulagement rapide. Cependant, les Allemands amènent l'artillerie, les véhicules de combat et les lance-flammes au combat, et les munitions se terminent avec les défenseurs. Il y a aussi de grandes pertes en personnes. Après 12 heures de combats, les postistes abandonnent et meurent des coups de feu.
War
Les Acteurs Provinciaux
5.9
Un jeune metteur en scène arrive dans une petite ville de province. Krzysztof, l’acteur principal de la troupe pense qu’il détient enfin le moyen de se faire connaître et de rejoindre un théâtre plus prestigieux. Très rapidement, ses espoirs sont déçus mais de plus en plus obnubilé par son rôle, il délaisse totalement sa vie privée et sa femme, Anka.
Drama
Drugi brzeg
1

Drugi brzeg

Apr 30, 1962
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.
Drama
Skąpani w ogniu
5.5

Skąpani w ogniu

Mar 05, 1963
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
Drama
Piąta rano
1

Piąta rano

May 01, 1970
Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
Music
Niech cię odleci mara
5.7
1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
Drama
Uczennica
1

Uczennica

Aug 01, 1982
Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
Drama
Gromada
5

Gromada

Apr 29, 1952
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.
Drama
Koniec nocy
4

Koniec nocy

Dec 21, 1957
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
Drama
La Dernière Étape
7.167

La Dernière Étape

Mar 28, 1948
Pologne, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Martha Weiss, une femme juive, arrive au camp d'extermination d'Auschwitz avec sa famille. Elle se voit attribuer le rôle d'interprète, mais ses proches ont beaucoup moins de chance.
Drama
Józia - Die Tochter der Delegierten
1
1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to the neighbors after Józia visits her relatives in the country. But 10 days can be an eternity for a small child.
Drama
Świadectwo urodzenia
7.3

Świadectwo urodzenia

Oct 02, 1961
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.
Drama
Przygoda na Mariensztacie
5.5
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
Comedy
Nowy
7

Nowy

Jan 09, 1970
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Comedy
Obcy w lesie
1

Obcy w lesie

Mar 22, 1972
A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
Drama
Cham
5

Cham

Apr 22, 1980
Fucha
6

Fucha

Jan 14, 1985
International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Trzy starty
1

Trzy starty

Oct 25, 1955
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Drama
Beata
6

Beata

Jan 19, 1965
Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
Drama
Carmilla
6.5

Carmilla

Nov 13, 1980
Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
Drama
Noce i dnie
7.1

Noce i dnie

Sep 23, 1975
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.
Drama
Święta wojna
5

Święta wojna

Nov 16, 1965
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
Comedy
Awantura o Basię
6.3

Awantura o Basię

Nov 03, 1959
Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.
Family
Oszołomienie
1

Oszołomienie

Feb 20, 1989
An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
Drama
Stawka większa niż życie
8.037
Stawka większa niż życie is a series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
Drama
Alternatywy 4
8.4

Alternatywy 4

Nov 25, 1986
Alternatywy 4 was a Polish comedy TV series that was finished in 1983. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in Alternatywy 4 was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.
Comedy
Dom
7.5

Dom

Nov 19, 2000

Dom

Drama
Noce i dnie
9

Noce i dnie

Feb 26, 1978
Nights and Days is 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 Dąbrowska 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.
Drama
Janosik
7.2

Janosik

Jul 26, 1974
Janosik était une série télévisée diffusée en Pologne en 1974. Il s'agit d'un célèbre hors-la-loi polonais qui, dans les légendes populaires, vole de l'argent et des biens aux riches et aide les pauvres. La série a été réalisée…
Action & Adventure