Kazimierz Opaliński

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La terre de la grande promesse
7.3
Au tournant du siècle, Lódz, en Pologne, était un centre de fabrication de textiles au rythme rapide, regorgeant d'industriels acharnés et de conditions de travail dangereuses. Trois jeunes amis, un Polonais, un Juif et un Allemand, mettent leur argent en commun pour construire une usine. Le film suit leur quête impitoyable de fortune.
Drama
Na melinę
1

Na melinę

Jan 01, 1981
A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
Drama
Komedia z pomyłek
1

Komedia z pomyłek

Jan 01, 1967
The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
Western
Pharaon
6.7

Pharaon

Mar 11, 1966
Évocation de la vie de Ramsès XIII, qui prend le pouvoir à la suite de son père dans une époque difficile, avec une population appauvrie, un système administratif en décadence, une armée en révolte et une caste de grands prêtres puissants.
History
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
Urząd
1

Urząd

Dec 14, 1969
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
Drama
Szyfry
6.6

Szyfry

Dec 25, 1966
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
Drama
Czarne skrzydła
4

Czarne skrzydła

Apr 26, 1963
The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
Drama
Trudna miłość
1

Trudna miłość

Apr 10, 1954
A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.
Romance
Un homme sur la voie
6.8

Un homme sur la voie

Jan 17, 1957
En 1950, la nuit, un train de voyageurs tue un homme sur la voie. Il s’agit d’Orzechowski, ingénieur depuis 1914. Une enquête suit immédiatement. Le témoignage prend la forme de flash-back. Tuszka, le chef de la station, croit Orzechowski était un saboteur...
Drama
Za wami pójdą inni...
1
A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
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
Wiano
1

Wiano

Feb 14, 1964
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Drama
Zaduszki
6.7

Zaduszki

Dec 05, 1961
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 wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
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
Eroica
6.9

Eroica

Jan 04, 1958
Pendant le soulèvement de Varsovie, en 1944,Dzidzius, personnage haut en couleur, est trompé par sa femme. Celle-ci, en fréquentant un officier Hongrois, va amener son infortuné mari à se conduire en héros. Pendant un feu d'artifice où alternent tirs d'obus et quiproquos entre les lignes et les adversaires, Dzidzius se demande que faire d'un message codé et comment poursuivre la lutte. Les détenus d'un camp de prisonniers gardent le moral grâce à une rumeur: le lieutenant Zawistowski aurait sauvé l'honneur du camp en s'évadant. Mais,en vérité, le "héros" se cache dans ce camp et les choses vont mal tourner pour lui...
Comedy
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
Wesele
7.3

Wesele

Jan 09, 1973
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 a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
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
Trzy opowieści
1

Trzy opowieści

Apr 24, 1953
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Action
Bolesław Śmiały
5.8

Bolesław Śmiały

Oct 06, 1972
Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.
History
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
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
Ludzie Wisły
1

Ludzie Wisły

Jul 23, 1938
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
Comedy
Kaule
1

Kaule

May 06, 1967
Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.
Family
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
Dwie brygady
1

Dwie brygady

Sep 01, 1950
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
Drama
Pierwsze dni
1

Pierwsze dni

Mar 04, 1952
An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Drama
Les cinq de la rue Barska
5.4
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Drama
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
Rok pierwszy
1

Rok pierwszy

Sep 22, 1960
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
War
Powrót
5.2

Powrót

Sep 26, 1960
A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
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
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