Józef Kondrat
Actor · 1902 – 1974 · Prömsel, Galicia, Austro-Węgry [obecnie Przemyśl, podkarpackie, Polska]
Movies24
Movie8.5ComedyMusicThe director of the Warsaw operetta has problems with putting together a team. He cares very much about acquiring the star of the stage - Jadwiga Janowska. However, she is currently in Paris with her husband, diplomat Henryk de Fontana. It turns out that Ambassador Rossi falls in love with her. Jadwiga goes to Warsaw, where in her apartment her friend Apolonia trains a young adept Wanda to play on stage.
Dyplomatyczna żona
1937 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaAn intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
Weekendy
1963 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Movie5.3TV MovieDramaStudy of a man obsessively seeking revenge.
Wystrzał
1966 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA cinematic ode to actor Adolf Dymsza, one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema. The film combines footage from Dymsza's new movies and contextualises in the frame story of Mr. Dodek, a retired actor who recounts his past exploits while trying to earn an allotment for a plot of land.
Pan Dodek
1971 · 2 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomanceThe 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.
Movie6.8DramaConcentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend and co-prisoner leads to open revolt. The film brings a new view of human degradation during fascism by a tragic story of one man whose only chance for survival is to accept the rules of an unequal game.
Movie7.0DramaWarThe fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.
Rodzina Milcarków
1962 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaEngineer Nawrat, together with the mining crew, takes up the fight to save the local mine from being taken over by foreign capital.
Movie7.5ComedyAn eager inventor, Fredek, develops a “telefonowizor” combining audio and video calls but neglects his fiancée Irma in the process. Public demonstrations inadvertently expose private, embarrassing moments, alienating buyers and provoking conflicts, turning his revolutionary device into a fiasco that disrupts rather than improves people’s lives.
Fredek uszczęśliwia świat
1936 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Sprawa do załatwienia
1953 · 2 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaMania is the illegitimate child of a girl from the suburbs of Krakow and a lawyer. Bowing to the will of the family, he abandons the girl, leaving a large monetary "compensation". The girl dies, but before she dies she leaves a certain Mr. Majcherek a letter and a document, proving that Mania will be able to receive the money when she comes of age. The dishonest Majcherek (knowing the contents of the letter) must therefore wait 20 years to be able to apply for Mania's hand and thus come into possession of her property. Unaware of anything, Mania lives in the suburbs with Maciejowa (who took her in as a child) thinking that she is her daughter. When Majcherek begins to adore Mania it turns out that she already has two rivals - boys from the neighborhood. That's when the fourth one appears - handsome Zygmunt. Mania loses her head for Zygmunt. What she doesn't know is that he is in fact her real father's upbringing....
Królowa Przedmieścia
1938 · 3 votes
Movie6.7DramaAll the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
Movie6.8ComedyRomancePoor musician Alojzy Kędziorek is in love with Sagankiewicz's daughter Renata, who is reciprocated, but her family wants to marry her off to the wealthy butcher Baleron. Hipek, Alojzy's friend, sells his song to the theater director. The song becomes a huge hit. Alojzy is mistakenly locked up in a newly opened psychiatric hospital. He manages to escape. He goes to the theater where his song is being sung. He receives thunderous applause and an order for new songs. Renata's family agrees to her marriage to Kędziorek.
Movie5.5DramaTwo travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
Komedianty
1962 · 2 votes
Movie8.7DramaHistoryReproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Movie7.0TV MovieHorrorAn adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, transposed to a contemporary setting. A couple visits a remote asylum where the woman knows the staff, only to discover that the institution is overrun and the lines between doctors and patients have collapsed.
System
1981 · 1 votes
Movie6.5FamilyA 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
Król Maciuś I
1958 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarThe strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
Wniebowstąpienie
1969 · 2 votes
Movie6.1ComedyThe first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book
Movie6.5CrimeEngineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
Uczta Baltazara
1954 · 2 votes
Movie6.8ComedyA wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.
Movie5.5DramaTV MovieA young boy must go to school with his father.
Movie5.8RomanceComedyA comedy of errors, whose main characters are a revue star Lidia Relska and the secretary of an oil tycoon Stefan. While in Cracow, the girl passes herself off as another person, which leads to many amusing misunderstandings, and this is only the beginning of the confusion.