
Magdalena Zawadzka
Actor · b. 1944 · Filipowice, Małopolskie, Poland
Magdalena Zawadzka-Holoubek (born October 29, 1944) is a Polish stage and film actress. She is the wife of actor Gustaw Holoubek and the mother of cinematographer Jan Holoubek. She gained wide popularity after the 1968 film Colonel Wolodyjowski (Pan Wołodyjowski), in which she played the role of Basia Wołodyjowska.
Movies21
Movie7.0HistoryAdventureIn 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Movie6.1ComedyMusicIn late 1950s Poland, jazzman Fabian returns from England and forms a swing big band that quickly rises to fame. Their glamorous new singer, the enigmatic Modesta, becomes both the group’s star and Fabian’s love interest. As their success begins to resemble a Hollywood musical, the authorities take a growing interest in their world of music and romance.
Movie7.5CrimeDramaA prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.
Niedziela sprawiedliwości
1966 · 2 votes
Movie4.5ComedyAfter discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea…
Movie6.9ComedyA young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Movie8.0DramaJacek, a young violinist, falls in love with reciprocity with the cellist Ania. Ania's mother is against this relationship. So she sends Jacek to Cracow to get an antique violin. In the meantime, he and Ania go to New York. Jacek returns to Warsaw as soon as possible. However, the last train from Krakow has already left. On the platform, however, he meets people who are going to Katowice, from where the fastest train to Warsaw leaves. On the train, Jacek meets miners who are going to Warsaw to protest. He accidentally gets soiled with coal, which causes airport security to take him for one of the protesting miners who want to plant a bomb on the plane. Jacek runs onto the runway, but on the stairs to the plane is hit by anti-terrorists trying to prevent the alleged bombing.
Oczy niebieskie
1994 · 2 votes
Movie6.7DramaComedyA moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.
Movie6.9DramaHistoryA family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Movie7.5ComedyA pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
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.
Movie6.5DocumentaryA moving documentary depicting a recent and very candid interview with Wojciech Mlynarski, in which we learn about previously unknown archival photographs and music videos. The film is complemented by more than 30 statements from his closest friends who collaborated with the artist on many occasions: Janusz Gajos, Janusz Glowacki , Jerzy Derfl, Janusz Senta, Wlodzimierz Korcz, Ewa Bem, Janusz Stoklosa, Irena Santor, Michal Bajor, Magda Zawadzka, Krystyna Janda, Family and those who worked with and for him: prominent composers, actors, singers. This extraordinary film shows the true face and difficulties that Wojciech Mlynarski faced, not only as an artist, but also as a person.
Młynarski. Piosenka finałowa
2017 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTV MovieThe fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
- Movie7.0ComedyDrama
Four friends work out the interests of a dishonest businessman.
Goodbye Rockefeller
1993 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaA man and a woman pose as a couple to enter a photography contest.
Zakochani są między nami
1965 · 2 votes
- Movie4.7Drama
A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.
Mały
1970 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaA film director uses a South American premiere of his latest picture to reconnect with his old friends from the Warsaw Uprising, the protagonists of his movie.
Pogoń za Adamem
1970 · 2 votes
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
Movie4.3DramaDuring their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.
- Movie10.0DramaRomance
Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.
Movie5.8DramaTV MovieA woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Movie7.0ActionDramaPolish businessman Jarek Branicki organizes a beauty pageant. As the man in charge, he expects his girlfriend to win it and suggests this outcome to the judges. At the same time, however, he is on the verge of bankruptcy and tries to escape the country after being cornered by his creditors. Recognized by a passenger on the train, he flees and finds refuge in the underground passages of Warsaw’s central railway station.
Series6
TV3.0Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryHorror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.
Theatre Macabre
1971 · 3 votes
TV7.0DramaSet in the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the miniseries presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society as told through the life of the Niechcic family.
TV6.0Comedy39 i pół is a Polish comedy-drama television series that appeared on TVN for three seasons from March 4, 2008 through December 1, 2009. The series tells the story about Darek, a man just before his 40th birthday who wants go back to his wife and teenage son.
39 i pół
2008 · 14 votes
TV8.0Żegnaj Rockefeller
1993 · 2 votes
TVDramaSci-Fi & FantasyThe Master and Margarita is a Polish television production of Polish Film Producers Teams, based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
TV8.4Action & AdventureDramaPrzygody pana Michała
1969 · 7 votes