
Józef Pieracki
Actor · 1909 – 1988 · Grębów, Polska
Movies23
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.
Movie7.7FantasyMysteryDuring the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Movie6.5ComedyFamilyChildren of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself.
Rodzina Leśniewskich
1983 · 2 votes
- Movie6.2Drama
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
Zofia
1976 · 4 votes
Movie4.9Science FictionA mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
Movie6.8ComedyTwo friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
Movie6.2DramaRumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
Movie10.0DramaPresenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.
Movie6.4DramaRomanceSet in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
- Movie10.0Drama
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
Decyzja
1960 · 1 votes
Movie6.4FantasyHorrorA pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
Movie6.2Science FictionTV MovieEngineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.
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.
Movie7.1DramaA day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
- Movie5.0Comedy
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Liczę na wasze grzechy
1964 · 2 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieA Polish soldier settles on a small island, where he operates a lighthouse. Absorbed by reading, he does not fulfill his duties.
Latarnik
1977
Movie8.0WarDramaAn unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
1961 · 2 votes
- Movie4.3TV MovieDrama
After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Movie7.3ComedyTadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Movie6.2RomanceComedyThe Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Movie5.6RomanceComedyWłodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeRetired police captain Siwy recounts to a reporter how he undertook a final, private investigation into the suspicious death of Ewa Salm, known as “Princess.” Though her testimony had secured a conviction, Siwy doubted the man’s guilt and set out to uncover the real killer—risking his own life to see justice done.
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
Series6
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.
TV8.0Action & AdventureCrimeŻycie na gorąco
1979 · 2 votes
TV7.5DramaCrimeThe series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
TV6.4DramaAction & AdventurePolish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
TVDramaUkład krążenia
1977
TV7.0DramaEngineer Bogdan Zawada moves to the construction of a port on the Baltic Sea. The man tries to arrange his personal and professional life in a new environment.
Znaki szczególne
1977 · 2 votes