Józef Pieracki

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Cendres et diamant
7.4

Cendres et diamant

Oct 03, 1958
En 1945, la Pologne est déchirée par les luttes impitoyables qui opposent partisans des Allemands et des Soviétiques. Un jeune homme chargé de tuer un dirigeant communiste, prend peu à peu conscience des horreurs de la guerre.
Drama
Pożegnania
5.5

Pożegnania

Oct 13, 1958
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Drama
Zagubione uczucia
5

Zagubione uczucia

Oct 21, 1957
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 and gets into trouble.
Drama
Palace Hotel
1

Palace Hotel

Jul 15, 1983
The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.
Drama
Dwa żebra Adama
7

Dwa żebra Adama

Jan 24, 1964
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.
Comedy
Spotkania
5

Spotkania

Nov 18, 1957
Four stories showing the various facets of love.
Drama
Lokis: Rękopis profesora Wittembacha
6.2
Au 19e siècle un pasteur qui étudie le folklore dans les régions éloignées d'Estonie est invité chez avec un jeune noble dont la mère est séquestrée et folle. Elle aurait été attaquée jeune femme par un ours, et les paysans locaux chuchotent que le jeune homme serait le fils d'un ours. Un jour l'épouse du jeune noble se retrouve avec une morsure et le jeune homme a disparu dans les bois....
Fantasy
Kłopotliwy gość
7

Kłopotliwy gość

Oct 05, 1971
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
Comedy
Ósmy dzień tygodnia
5.3

Ósmy dzień tygodnia

Aug 26, 1958
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.
Drama
Ciosy
1

Ciosy

Jun 01, 1981
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 nothing to do with his father. The turning point is the death of his friend Wiarecki, an outstanding writer Stefan Przewłocki. A literary widow gives Wiktor the materials for the deceased's last novel.
Drama
Sygnały
5

Sygnały

Oct 09, 1959
A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.
Crime
Zabicie ciotki
6.5

Zabicie ciotki

Sep 20, 1985
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it...
Drama
Kalosze szczęścia
4.8

Kalosze szczęścia

Oct 20, 1958
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 Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Comedy
Przeklęta ziemia
1

Przeklęta ziemia

Oct 24, 1983
Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
Drama
Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz
7.4
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Comedy
Cztery pory roku
4

Cztery pory roku

Sep 01, 1985
A portrait of the director's family painted against a backdrop of changing seasons. A deep reflection on the meaning of existence and the inevitability of passing time and death.
Drama
Hrabina Cosel
6.7

Hrabina Cosel

Sep 06, 1968
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
History
L'art d'être aimé
7.5

L'art d'être aimé

Jan 11, 1963
Dans un avion à destination de Paris, Felicia, une célèbre actrice polonaise, se remémore les dernières années de sa vie. Elle se rappelle de la Seconde guerre mondiale pendant laquelle elle a dû, au prix de nombreux sacrifices, cacher l’homme qu’elle aimait de la Gestapo. Sa lutte acharnée pour le sauver l’a conduit jusqu’à collaborer avec l’ennemi, ce dont elle devra répondre une fois la guerre terminée.
Drama
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
Decyzja
1

Decyzja

Oct 28, 1960
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
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
Tarpany
5

Tarpany

Feb 14, 1962
In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.
Drama
Żółw
1

Żółw

Jan 01, 1973
Rafał is suspected of killing a turtle that fell out of the balcony.
Drama
Katastrofa
6

Katastrofa

Feb 22, 1966
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
Drama
Ciemna rzeka
5

Ciemna rzeka

Feb 18, 1974
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
Drama
Polonia Restituta
1

Polonia Restituta

May 18, 1981
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Drama
Chrześniak
1

Chrześniak

Jan 21, 1986
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 have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
Drama
Rajska jabłoń
4.7

Rajska jabłoń

Apr 14, 1986
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Drama
Pogrzeb świerszcza
4

Pogrzeb świerszcza

Oct 23, 1978
Seven-year-old Marek - a lonely boy, lost, desperately seeking warmth and love. His parents are two young scientists, completely devoted to their careers. She is just finishing her doctoral thesis, he is sketching new projects to promote him. They apply rigor and ruthless discipline to the child. No bond connects them with a child. They do not try to understand his needs, have no idea about his dreams, problems. Marek falls into severe depression. In the doctor's office, Marek notices a cat. He is awakened by the overwhelming desire to have his own pet - a longed-for friend. Of course, the parents do not even want to hear about it. Marek secretly, for buying pocket money, he buys a cricket - a creature that is small enough to hide from the eyes of his parents.
Family
Pętla
7.103

Pętla

Jan 20, 1958
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Drama
Krzyz Walecznych
6.4

Krzyz Walecznych

Mar 27, 1959
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.
Drama
L'étoile du silence
4.7

L'étoile du silence

Feb 26, 1960
Une mystérieuse bobine magnétique en provenance de la planète Vénus est découverte en Sibérie. Elle révèle un projet d'attaque de la Terre. Une équipe pluridisciplinaire est aussitôt envoyée sur la deuxième planète du système solaire. Commandée par un astronaute soviétique, Arseniew, elle comprend Saltyk, un spécialiste polonais en cybernétique, Hawling, un physicien américain, Sikarna, un mathématicien hindou, Chen Yi, un philosophe chinois, Brinkmann, un pilote allemand, et Sumiko Ogimura, une doctoresse japonaise. Les neufs spécialistes, épaulés par le robot Omega, vont tenter d'empêcher la guerre...
Science Fiction
Ubranie prawie nowe
1

Ubranie prawie nowe

Apr 30, 1964
After years of working in the city, Róża returns to the countryside. The property she has accumulated draws the attention of local bachelors.
Drama
Zbrodniarz, który ukradł zbrodnię
6.7
A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Mystery
Punkty za pochodzenie
1

Punkty za pochodzenie

Feb 14, 1983
Film about a young man, who wants to become an actor. His rural upbringing is not helpful in achieving his goal, but he overcomes defeat and humiliation with the help of a benevolent old professor.
Drama
Zofia
5.3

Zofia

Nov 28, 1976
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
Drama
Edward i Stefan
1

Edward i Stefan

Jul 08, 1984
Summer 1944. Polish armed forces are being organized in the Lublin region. Edward, one of the generals of the First Army, receives an order to form an artillery division. He counts on the help of Stefan, his old friend who lives in Lublin. However, it turns out that Stefan - a colonel and commander of the Home Army during the occupation - was arrested...
TV Movie
Kto wierzy w bociany?
3.7

Kto wierzy w bociany?

Mar 19, 1971
A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.
Drama
Prawdzie w oczy
3

Prawdzie w oczy

Nov 20, 1970
After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
Drama
Droga na zachód
7

Droga na zachód

Sep 07, 1961
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
War
Ludzie z pociągu
6

Ludzie z pociągu

May 11, 1961
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.
Drama
Wspólny pokój
5.9

Wspólny pokój

Feb 08, 1960
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
Drama
Giuseppe w Warszawie
5.9

Giuseppe w Warszawie

Aug 07, 1964
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Romance
Zimowy zmierzch
5.5

Zimowy zmierzch

Feb 01, 1957
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
Drama
Pamiętnik pani Hanki
8

Pamiętnik pani Hanki

Aug 29, 1963
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
Romance
Chasse aux mouches
5.4

Chasse aux mouches

Aug 19, 1969
Wlodek est un homme timide qui a peur de sa mère ainsi que de sa femme. Cependant, après avoir rencontré Irena, sa vie prend un nouveau tournant.
Romance
La Poupée
6.2

La Poupée

Nov 07, 1968
1878. D'abord modeste commis de brasserie en proie à de régulières humiliations, Stanislaw Wokulski finit par devenir un riche homme d'affaires. Toutefois, il demeure sensible à la misère et aux inégalités sociales. Il s'efforce d'apporter des remèdes à cette situation. Très épris d'une aristocrate ruinée, Izabella Lecka, il l'épouse mais celle-ci le trompera avec un séducteur
Drama
Placówka
5

Placówka

Oct 01, 1979
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.
Drama
Bumerang
5

Bumerang

Nov 08, 1966
A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.
Drama
Cała naprzód
6

Cała naprzód

Apr 14, 1967
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
Comedy
Gdzie jest generał...
7.2
Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.
Comedy
Przyjaciel
5

Przyjaciel

Feb 27, 1965
Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.
Science Fiction
Agnieszka 46
3

Agnieszka 46

Nov 24, 1964
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
Drama
Latarnik
1

Latarnik

Jul 24, 1977
A Polish soldier settles on a small island, where he operates a lighthouse. Absorbed by reading, he does not fulfill his duties.
Drama
Paysage après la Bataille
6
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
Drama
Irena do domu!
7

Irena do domu!

Nov 26, 1955
A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.
Comedy
Pigułki dla Aurelii
5

Pigułki dla Aurelii

Nov 24, 1958
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
Drama
Jutro Meksyk
7

Jutro Meksyk

Feb 11, 1966
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
Drama
Ceremonia pogrzebowa
2

Ceremonia pogrzebowa

Mar 06, 1985
After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Drama
Le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
7.9
Le jeune capitaine Alfonse Van Worden traverse les montagnes de la Sierra Morena pour se rendre à Madrid. Il fait connaissance dans une auberge de princesses maures qui lui prédisent de grands exploits. Mais il devra prouver son courage. D'après le roman éponyme de Jan Potocki.
Drama
Wniebowstąpienie
5

Wniebowstąpienie

Nov 21, 1969
The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
Drama
Płomienie
1

Płomienie

Jan 22, 1977
Presenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.
Drama
07 zgłoś się
7.5

07 zgłoś się

Apr 26, 1987
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Drama
Stawka większa niż życie
8
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
Czarne chmury
7

Czarne chmury

Feb 18, 1974
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
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