Witold Skaruch

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Parę osób, mały czas
5.8
The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.
Drama
Haracz szarego dnia
1

Haracz szarego dnia

Mar 26, 1984
The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and Zosia, are ordered to blow up a railway bridge during a military transport crossing. The task is completed, but with great losses.
Drama
Wyrok
1

Wyrok

Jan 21, 1962
An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.
Drama
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
Ostatnia akcja
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Ostatnia akcja

Sep 10, 2009
When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on.
Comedy
Milczące ślady
1

Milczące ślady

Sep 19, 1961
A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.
Action
Republika nadziei
1

Republika nadziei

Oct 14, 1988
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
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
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
De la veine à revendre
6.7
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Comedy
Rzeczywistość
1

Rzeczywistość

Apr 28, 1961
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.
Drama
Na krawędzi
1

Na krawędzi

Mar 09, 1973
A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich.
Action
Pogoń za Adamem
5

Pogoń za Adamem

Dec 22, 1970
A film director uses a South American premiere of his latest picture to reconnect with his old friends from the Warsaw Uprising, the protagonists of his movie.
Drama
Szkice węglem
1

Szkice węglem

Nov 25, 1957
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Drama
Marsjanie
1

Marsjanie

Jan 01, 1967
Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
Science Fiction
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
Ajlawju
6.1

Ajlawju

Jun 18, 1999
A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.
Comedy
Train de nuit
7.553

Train de nuit

Sep 06, 1959
Jerzy, élégant quadragénaire, quitte Łódź pour la presqu'île d'Hel, sur la Mer Baltique, à bord d'un train bondé. Ayant oublié son billet, il monte dans le wagon-lits et loue, auprès du conducteur une cabine "Messieurs" à son usage exclusif. Mais celle-ci est déjà investie par une ravissante blonde...
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
Plus fort que la tempête
7.3
Adaptation du roman Le Déluge (Potop) de Henryk Sienkiewicz (1886). Pendant la Première guerre du Nord en 1655 entre protestants suédois et catholiques de la République des Deux Nations (Pologne-Lituanie), des nobles de la République des Deux Nations se rallient à Charles X Gustave, roi de Suède, pendant que d'autres restent fidèles au polonais Jean II Casimir Vasa.
History
Dom wariatów
5.6

Dom wariatów

Sep 10, 1985
The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.
Drama
Nie lubię poniedziałku
7.391
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Comedy
Nieznany
1

Nieznany

Oct 13, 1964
Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
War
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
Widziadlo
5.1

Widziadlo

Jul 05, 1984
Set in the early years of the century. A story of a country gentleman haunted by the memory of his first wife. His current wife, had enough of his obsession and has taken a lover, who is mysteriously paralyzed. Meanwhile, main character's son gets his first taste of sensual experience with a mute peasant girl.
Drama
Pieklo i niebo
6

Pieklo i niebo

Sep 19, 1966
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.
Comedy
Ktokolwiek wie...
1

Ktokolwiek wie...

Oct 14, 1966
A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
Drama
Sprawa hrabiego Rottera
1
A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.
Crime
Tabliczka marzenia
7

Tabliczka marzenia

Aug 09, 1968
A fifteen-year old Ludka navigates first love and frustrations related to failures of the adult world during summer holidays.
Comedy
Nic śmiesznego
7.007

Nic śmiesznego

Feb 02, 1996
Suit la vie hilarante et maladroite du réalisateur Adam Miauczynski. Sa carrière et ses relations amoureuses en souffrent, mais comme son manque total de bon sens est à l'origine de ses problèmes, il ne sait pas comment remettre les choses en ordre.
Comedy
Najlepszy kolega
7

Najlepszy kolega

Jan 19, 1981
A school reunion is called to commemorate Adam, who died during the Second World War while defending a bridge. Unexpectedly, Adam shows up just before the ceremony. It turns out that he was only wounded, and after a war started a family and lived an ordinary life. To avoid the truth from spreading town Adam is asked to leave so that he can still be revered as a hero.
Drama
Tak tak
4

Tak tak

Jan 21, 1993
Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
Comedy
Dwa księżyce
5.6

Dwa księżyce

Dec 09, 1993
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 visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Drama
Kochajmy syrenki
5.8

Kochajmy syrenki

Apr 25, 1967
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.
Music
Na białym szlaku
1

Na białym szlaku

May 15, 1963
Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.
Drama
Hydrozagadka
6.2

Hydrozagadka

Apr 30, 1971
L'approvisionnement en eau de la ville s'est inexplicablement arrété au cours d'une vague de chaleur à Varsovie. Les scientifiques et un détective tentent désespérément de résoudre le mystère....
Crime
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
Les Possédés
5.4

Les Possédés

Feb 24, 1988
Russie, 1870. Un groupe de jeunes révolutionnaires anarchistes entreprend de renverser le régime tsariste par la violence. Leurs attaques créent un climat de psychose et de méfiance mutuelle au sein de la population, mais en réalité, tant les révolutionnaires que les répresseurs sont manipulés par un individu diabolique.
Drama
Celuloza
5.6

Celuloza

Apr 27, 1954
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.
Drama
Zamach
6.8

Zamach

Jan 12, 1959
Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
War
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
Pan Wolodyjowski
7.1

Pan Wolodyjowski

Mar 28, 1969
En 1668, le colonel polonais Michał Wołodyjowski, qui s'est récemment retiré dans un monastère, est rappelé au service actif et prend en charge les défenses de la frontière orientale de la Pologne contre les hordes tatares envahissantes et les armées ottomanes.
History
Szczęściarz Antoni
5

Szczęściarz Antoni

Mar 03, 1961
A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
Comedy
Pasja
5

Pasja

Mar 14, 1978
The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
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
Oficer
7.3

Oficer

Jun 13, 2005
Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.
Drama
Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
7.6
Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.
Comedy