
Jan Ciecierski
Actor · 1899 – 1987 · Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
Movies19
Movie7.4DramaWarA young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Movie7.0DramaRomanceZenon Ziembiewicz comes back to his hometown after graduating from the university in Paris. He gets entangled in a love triangle with educated young lady Elzbieta and a common country girl Justyna who gets pregnant.
Granica
1938 · 2 votes
- Movie8.0DramaTV Movie
An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.
Rola
1971 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryYoung Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Movie10.0DramaWarA war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Movie6.2DramaMusicA violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
Movie9.0DramaWarAn old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Pierwsze dni
1952 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaHistoryA retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.
Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...
1971 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaA young Jewish man from Warsaw is imprisoned after an antisemitic incident at his university. He is released when the Second World War breaks out and manages to escape from the ghetto. However, he chooses to leave his hiding place and fight, determined to share the fate of those threatened by the Holocaust. The protagonist is compared to the biblical Samson, who sacrificed his own life.
Samson
1961 · 12 votes
Movie7.0DramaA young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
Movie8.0HorrorTV MovieAn American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him.
Movie8.2ComedyHistoryA carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Movie7.5HistoryDramaThe life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Kazimierz Wielki
1976 · 3 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarA 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.
Movie5.9DramaThe film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
Movie10.0DramaHistoryA 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.
Polonia Restituta
1981 · 1 votes
Movie7.0HistoryMusicPolish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
Movie5.2TV MovieDramaA former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Movie7.0ComedyA young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Nowy
1970 · 3 votes
Series3
TV8.0DramaAction & AdventureA 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.
TV7.5DramaCrimeThe series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
- TV9.0Action & AdventureWar & Politics
Gniewko, syn rybaka
1969 · 1 votes