
Franciszek Pieczka
Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954) he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar. He has starred in over a hundred films, both Polish and foreign. He has been awarded and honored many times for his individual roles, as well as his contribution to the development of theater and film art. He is an honorary citizen of the Godów commune. In 2015, he was awarded the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franciszek Pieczka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.047 |
Birthday | 1928-01-18 |
Place of Birth | Godów, śląskie, Polska |
Also Known As | Франтишек Печка, |

1975

The Promised Land
7.3/72
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait...
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The Promised Land

1966

Bigos
0/0
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
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Bigos

1971

Hydro-Puzzle
6.172/32
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
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Hydro-Puzzle

1958

Kalosze szczęścia
4.8/4
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 Krak...
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Kalosze szczęścia

2001

Requiem
6/1
Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-r...
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Requiem

1957

Lost Feelings
5/1
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 an...
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Lost Feelings

1962

Nad rzeką
0/0
A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol.
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Nad rzeką

1972

The Sun Rises Once a Day
5.5/2
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebe...
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The Sun Rises Once a Day

1965

Late Afternoon
4.5/2
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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Late Afternoon

1972

Through Nine Bridges
0/0
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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Through Nine Bridges

1971

Liberation: Battle for Berlin
7.2/24
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
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Liberation: Battle for Berlin

1972

The Cask of Amontillado
0/0
Professor Montresor, being the object of his friends' jokes, prepares his revenge.
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The Cask of Amontillado

1969

The Office
0/0
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
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The Office

1971

Przystań
0/0
Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bos...
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Przystań

1983

Pełnia nad głowami
6/1
Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and pr...
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Pełnia nad głowami

1971

Legenda
3/2
Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
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Legenda

1972

Punkt wyjścia
0/0
A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.
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Punkt wyjścia

1971

Kłopotliwy gość
7/1
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
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Kłopotliwy gość

1977

A Round Week
0/0
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
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A Round Week

1979

Wiśnie
0/0
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in...
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Wiśnie

1990

Potyatusok
0/0
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to esc...
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Potyatusok

1981

Ciosy
0/0
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 not...
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Ciosy

1990

Do domu
0/0
A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.
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Do domu

1983

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
0/0
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi

1984

La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka
0/0
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the gro...
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La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka

1986

Wcześnie urodzony
0/0
A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.
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Wcześnie urodzony

1992

Ördög vigye
0/0
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Ördög vigye

1992

Apricots in the Baskets
0/0
Greek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
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Apricots in the Baskets

1976

The Scar
6.338/37
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist par...
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The Scar

1978

Somosierra. 1808
0/0
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the comman...
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Somosierra. 1808

1987

Friend of the Jolly Devil
5.7/3
A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is d...
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Friend of the Jolly Devil

1988

Famous Like Sarajevo
2/1
The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...
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Famous Like Sarajevo

1986

Big Bang
6.2/4
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guest...
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Big Bang

1973

The Peasants
5.6/6
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 a...
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The Peasants

2006

Jasminum
6.3/29
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugeni...
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Jasminum

1994

Thanks for Every New Morning
8/3
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone...
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Thanks for Every New Morning

2007

Ranczo Wilkowyje
5.4/13
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Ranczo Wilkowyje

1971

The Woodpecker
5.9/9
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
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The Woodpecker

1977

Budapest Tales
6/7
"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...
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Budapest Tales

2004

Miracle in Cracow
3.25/2
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Miracle in Cracow

1996

The Story About Master Twardowski
5/1
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The Story About Master Twardowski

1986

The Girls of Nowolipki
6/6
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
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The Girls of Nowolipki

1983

An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
4.3/3
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill

1967

Where Is the Third King?
5.667/6
Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
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Where Is the Third King?

1995

The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates
7.2/8
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The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates

1998

History of Cinema in Popielawy
6.3/11
The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all of...
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History of Cinema in Popielawy

1980

Racławice. 1794
0/0
The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of th...
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Racławice. 1794

1975

Till Eulenspiegel
6/6
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...
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Till Eulenspiegel

1986

Chrześniak
0/0
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...
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Chrześniak

1993

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
4.2/4
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life...
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski

1990

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
6.1/18
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

1970

Album polski
0/0
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.
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Album polski

1980

The Beads of One Rosary
6.1/7
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him....
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The Beads of One Rosary

1987

The Faithful River
5.2/3
Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of...
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The Faithful River

1987

The Mother of the Kings
6.2/6
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their ne...
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The Mother of the Kings

1990

Burial of a Potato
7.7/3
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who f...
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Burial of a Potato

1994

Johnnie Waterman
7.4/16
On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal...
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Johnnie Waterman

1983

Fariaho
0/0
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Fariaho

1988

Jadup and Boel
6.1/5
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to...
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Jadup and Boel

1983

Austeria
6.7/19
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified t...
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Austeria

1961

All Souls' Day
6.7/6
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 warti...
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All Souls' Day

1978

The Woman Across the Way
0/0
A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husb...
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The Woman Across the Way

1974

The Deluge
7.3/79
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love...
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The Deluge

2023

Disgrace
0/0
Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a dark...
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Disgrace

2000

Syzyfowe prace
7.9/4
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Syzyfowe prace

1982

The Lynx
6.8/10
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed N...
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The Lynx

1976

Slate
5/19
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
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Slate

1992

The Land beyond the Rainbow
0/0
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
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The Land beyond the Rainbow

1994

Miraculous Place
7.167/3
A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he find...
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Miraculous Place

2014

The Heart and Sweetheart
5.4/7
A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage o...
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The Heart and Sweetheart

1968

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
0/0
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One

1968

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
0/0
The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two

1968

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
0/0
The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three

1972

Glass Ball
0/0
Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
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Glass Ball

1968

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
0/0
The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four

1986

Memoirs of a Sinner
6.8/15
A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
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Memoirs of a Sinner

1973

The Wedding
7.3/20
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...
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The Wedding

1961

April
0/0
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to...
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April

1993

Two Moons
5.6/5
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 visito...
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Two Moons

1993

Pograbek
6/1
Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to hi...
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Pograbek

1985

Sprawa się rypła
6.5/10
During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact, alive. If...
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Sprawa się rypła

1990

Memories of a River
5.5/2
In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he fin...
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Memories of a River

1982

The Linnet
7.2/24
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple o...
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The Linnet

1990

Kein Wort von Einsamkeit
0/0
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Kein Wort von Einsamkeit

1987

Rykowisko
6/1
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Rykowisko

1979

David
5.3/7
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly conv...
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David

1991

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
6.1/16
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe

1981

Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
0/0
While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a c...
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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

2006

The Eighth Day of the Week
7/1
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends...
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The Eighth Day of the Week

2001

Quo Vadis
5.7/55
Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian comman...
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Quo Vadis

2017

Son of the Snow Queen
4.5/2
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Son of the Snow Queen

1968

Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen
0/0
The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best inci...
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Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen

2019

Aktor Pana Boga
7/1
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Aktor Pana Boga

1975

Grzech Antoniego Grudy
7/1
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Grzech Antoniego Grudy

1967

Skinny and Others
6.8/4
A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
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Skinny and Others

1965

Back to Life Again
5/2
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar St...
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Back to Life Again

1979

Placówka
5/1
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a...
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Placówka

1973

Lazarus' Whims
0/0
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Lazarus' Whims

1963

Skąpani w ogniu
5.5/1
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
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Skąpani w ogniu

1992

Squadron
5.5/8
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this t...
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Squadron

1972

Pearl in the Crown
6.3/9
When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and...
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Pearl in the Crown

1979

The White Mazurka
0/0
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersbu...
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The White Mazurka

1963

Good Sins
8/3
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Good Sins

1963

Their Everyday Life
4/2
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Their Everyday Life

1996

Szabla od komendanta
6.8/5
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Szabla od komendanta

1973

Kareta
0/0
A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.
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Kareta

1976

Gold Duck
0/0
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Gold Duck

1970

A Hole in the Ground
0/0
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he tor...
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A Hole in the Ground

1974

The Nest
5.9/7
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's bor...
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The Nest

1968

Matthew's Days
6.1/9
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-wo...
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Matthew's Days

1955

A Generation
6.8/52
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to th...
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A Generation

1961

Mother Joan of the Angels
7.6/100
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
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Mother Joan of the Angels

1974

Dark River
5/1
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal...
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Dark River

1986

Axiliad
7.1/10
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to...
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Axiliad

1965

The Saragossa Manuscript
7.9/134
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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The Saragossa Manuscript

1988

Thief
0/0
A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.
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Thief

1962

Hospital
8/1
1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded...
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Hospital

1987

Powrót po śmierć
0/0
One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when th...
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Powrót po śmierć

1965

Walkover
6.1/21
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily sty...
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Walkover

1962

Drugi brzeg
0/0
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.
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Drugi brzeg

1980

The Beads of One Rosary
6.1/7
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him....
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