Jan Kurnakowicz
Actor · 1901 – 1968 · Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Movies17
Movie6.0WarDramaWarsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.
Movie7.0DramaA young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
Jasne łany
1947 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRyszard Malewicz, a young inventor, is out of work. He had been waiting for months for a response from the ministry to which he had sent plans for his invention, an explosive of extraordinary power. Desperate Ryszard is comforted by his mother and his fiancée Maria.
Ty, co w Ostrej świecisz Bramie
1937 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryYoung Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Movie7.0ComedyA series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Sprawa do załatwienia
1953 · 2 votes
Movie7.5DramaRomanceA young locksmith, Jerzy, builds an airplane. By chance, he meets the Brazilian millionaire Tomasz Kotlica and his daughter Janina. Witold Siemacki, an aviator, stands in the way of Jerzy's career and happiness.
Dziewczyna szuka miłości
1938 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaHistoryAn exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.
Movie7.0HistoryMusicPolish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
Movie7.3MusicWarSet during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Movie10.0DramaWarTwo-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
Movie6.3Jan Winkler borrows 1,000 zł from a respected professor in exchange for introducing young women to dubious “scientific” experiments. He uses the money to buy a nightclub and falls for prosecutor Alicja Horn.
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
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Sygnaly is a 1938 Polish drama directed by Joseph Lejtes about a pair of jewel thieves. A older man and a young woman, with the elder manipulating the frail one into the world of crime.
Sygnały
1938 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ComedyTwo noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
Zemsta
1957 · 4 votes
Movie5.1DramaHistoryKing Sigismund II Augustus of Poland secretly falls in love with Barbara Radziwiłłówna, a noblewoman of Lithuanian magnate lineage, defying his mother Queen Bona’s plans to wed him to a French princess.
Movie6.5DramaA woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
Movie7.3CrimeDramaBielecki becomes determined to become a famous writer, but the means he employs in achieving his goal are far from ethical. Bielecki discourages his friend Jerzy Gorski by telling him his new work is rather poor, driving him into despair. But Bielecki is such a good friend that he even provides Gorski with the morphine so he can overdose too. With Gorski out of the way, Bielecki can now peddle his friend's book as his own. However, it doesn't take long for Bielecki's evil ways to catch up to him.