
Gabriela Kownacka
Actor · 1952 – 2010 · Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
Movies24
Movie4.5DramaA story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
Movie6.0DramaA teenage girl named Gabi has a crush on an older guy. She's trying to pursue her feelings.
Powiedz to, Gabi
2003 · 3 votes
Movie6.4Science FictionComedyScope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.
Movie7.2ComedyFamilyThe TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into their set, vanishing from the living room. Their three bewildered children must band together to pull Mom and Dad back out of the television before they’re lost forever.
Smacznego, telewizorku
1992 · 6 votes
Movie7.3TV MovieA film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Sauna
1992 · 3 votes
Movie8.1DramaA young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Movie6.3DramaA man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
Movie6.1ComedyCrimeTwo broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film.
Movie6.5Science FictionHistoryA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
Hanussen
1988 · 25 votes
Movie7.0ComedyActionJurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...
Movie6.6DramaFantasyStory about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Movie9.0DramaYoung Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.
Spokojne lata
1982 · 1 votes
Movie6.5RomanceDramaA simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
Movie5.4DramaSet in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left for Australia.
Movie6.8ComedyMusicThe revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.
Movie5.9ComedyA sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Movie7.3DramaFantasySet 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.
Movie8.0DramaSocial drama which addresses the problems faced by delinquent young people and how difficult it can be to change their way of life. Czesiek is a young hooligan who who comes into contact with Marek, a sociology student and tries to change his lifestyle but receives no support from the local youth organisation. His comrades look on him as a deserter whilst Marek is only interested in him as a subject to be studied.
Rebus
1977 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaSet in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Movie10.0DramaA young lab technician, threatened by a blackmailer, descends into madness.
Movie6.5TV MovieDramaThe film is set in a house where a thug terrorizes a certain unhappy family. He is a psychologist and TV personality, she is a musicologist. The extreme situation in which they unexpectedly find themselves makes them wake up ghostly. Resentments and frustrations hidden on a daily basis erupt with redoubled force. As a result, husband and wife play a ruthless psychological game between themselves instead of uniting in the face of danger.
Nieproszony gość
1987 · 2 votes
Movie8.5DramaWarThe four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
Movie7.1ComedyEmotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertising agency, faces a life choice: her ex-husband, who returns from the US after ten years, her current lover, an architect, or her former love from school...
- Movie9.0ComedyRomance
Little town. Józef Struziak, a local veterinarian, is bored with his wife Anna and her passion - ballet. He secretly meets his lover in his office. One day, a student, Wiktor Malec, comes to the vet for his internship ...
Pas de deux
2002 · 1 votes
Series2
TV6.2ComedyRodzina zastępcza was a popular Polish primetime comedy series broadcast on Polsat from February 23, 1999 to December 20, 2009. In 2004 the title was changed to Rodzina zastępcza plus and the series got longer episodes, as well as more regular characters and locations. The series told the story of the Kwiatkowski family, Anka and Jacek, their biological children Majka and Filip, as well as three children they adopted one day - Eliza, Zosia and Romek.
Rodzina zastępcza
1999 · 13 votes
TV8.0DramaMatki, żony i kochanki
1996 · 4 votes