Mieczysław Kalenik

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Le Premier Jour de la Liberté
6.4
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
Drama
Elementarz
1

Elementarz

Jan 01, 1978
The characters from Marian Falski's Elementarz come to life as protagonists of a chronicle drama from the 1960s and then protagonists of a new wave plot from the 1970s. The voiceover adjusts its tone and message to the image, staying within the world of the primer.
Animation
Les chevaliers teutoniques
7.3
En Pologne, au XIVème. Zbyszko de Bogdaniec, un jeune chevalier polonais, voyage avec son oncle Mathieu sur la route de Cracovie quand il rencontre la jeune Danusia, suivante de la duchesse Anne de Mazovie et fille du célèbre Jurand de Spychow, ennemi juré des chevaliers Teutoniques. Ceux-ci cherchent à se venger des humiliations répétées que leur a fait subir Jurand enlèvent Danusia....
Adventure
Somosierra. 1808
1

Somosierra. 1808

Dec 03, 1978
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid
Documentary
Smarkula
6

Smarkula

Jun 07, 1963
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Comedy
Godziny nadziei
5.7

Godziny nadziei

May 09, 1955
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
War
Album polski
1

Album polski

May 08, 1970
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.
Drama
Życie raz jeszcze
5

Życie raz jeszcze

Mar 12, 1965
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Drama
Makbet
1

Makbet

Jun 30, 1969
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
La Nuit des généraux
6.8
Varsovie, 12 décembre 1942. Une prostituée vient d'être sauvagement assassinée. Selon un témoin, le meurtrier serait un général de la Wehrmacht. L'enquête est confiée au major Graü. Ce dernier ne tarde pas à suspecter trois hommes : le général Kahlenberg, le général Seidlitz-Gabler et le général Tanz, un homme parfois sujet à des pulsions maniaques, mais également un héros, le général favori d'Hitler. Durant une soirée organisée par la femme du général Gabler, sa fille Ulrike est présentée à Tanz, en vue de favoriser leur mariage. Mais celle-ci tombe dans les bras de Hartmann, un caporal revenant du front russe affecté auprès de Kahlenberg.
Thriller
Westerplatte
6.8

Westerplatte

Sep 01, 1967
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
War
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
Hrabina Cosel
6.5

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
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
Tout est à vendre
5.9

Tout est à vendre

Jan 28, 1969
La disparition de l'acteur principal du plateau de tournage inquiète son réalisateur Andrzej. Il se lance dans un voyage à la recherche de l'acteur avec un jeune acteur et la femme et la femme de l'acteur disparu.
Drama
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
Tecumseh
4.4

Tecumseh

Jul 01, 1972
At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast hunting grounds at ludicrously low prices without any bloodshed. Harrison, Governor of Indiana, has made and broke no less than fifteen such treaties, driving increasing numbers of Indians out to the infertile West. To put a stop to this criminal practice, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh tries to unite the Native Americans.
Western
Sublokator
7.6

Sublokator

Jan 07, 1967
A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
Comedy
Une fille a parlé
6.8

Une fille a parlé

Jan 26, 1955
Stach est un grand garçon malheureux, livré à lui-même, et dont les seules ressources sont de « chaparder » du charbon dans les trains allemands en gare de Varsovie. Un jour il trouve enfin du travail comme apprenti menuisier et découvrira un monde nouveau parmi ses compagnons de l'entreprise et auprès de jeunes qu'il retrouve à la sortie. Il apprend qu'un philosophe s'est penché sur le problème de l'exploitation de l'ouvrier par le patron capitaliste puis il découvre la valeur de l'opposition à l'occupation allemande à travers les harangues d'une fille énergique et décidée : « une fille a parlé » et Stach découvre l'amour en même temps que l'idéal patriotique. Bien que le thème principal ici traité soit l'héroïque résistance polonaise à l'occupant nazi, ce film, d'inspiration marxiste, comporte des éléments subversifs tendant à démontrer l'efficacité de l'idéologie communiste à laquelle l'auteur oppose un christianisme désuet et inopérant.
War
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
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