Henryk Rzętkowski
Actor
Movies13
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Przeznaczenie
1928
Movie10.0RomanceDramaFranka, a Warsaw prostitute, is wounded with a knife by a pimp. She ends up in the hospital, where the doctor caring for her, who wants to help her break with her past, offers her a job as a maid in the countryside. Desiring to forget the torments of her past life, the girl agrees. In the countryside she meets Pawel, a simple country boy whom she seduces. The infatuated Pawel, to whom Franka reveals her past, marries her. However, the monotonous rural life bores Franka, longing for a big-city life, and when Pawel leaves for a few days, she escapes with a man she meets casually to Warsaw, where she leads the life of a cabaret chansonist. After a few years she returns, bringing with her an illegitimate child. Pawel forgives her and takes her back under his roof. But this is not the end of Pawel's ordeal....
Cham
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWarA young married couple is torn apart by WW1. When the news comes of her husband's death, Wanda marries another man, not knowing that her loved one is somewhere deep in the east.
Mogiła nieznanego żołnierza
1927 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryYoung Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Movie6.7ComedyMusicJulek doesn't want to work, he prefers to sing on the street and marry his beloved. His family doesn't want to hear about it, to which Julek sings in the voice of Eugeniusz Bodo: "That's just how cold-hearted I am..."
Pieśniarz Warszawy
1934 · 3 votes
Movie6.0RomanceThe son of a miller, following his call, flees to the sea, but after several years he returns to his family and to his childhood romance, Hanka.
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Movie4.7ComedyNikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
Nikodem Dyzma
1956 · 6 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
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceAfter becoming a licensed engineer abroad, Lucyna comes back to Poland and looks for a job. Because her wealthy father thinks it's inappropriate for a girl to work, she decides to put on men's clothes and get a job as Julian Kwiatkowski.
Movie6.8ComedyA wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.
- Movie5.5Comedy
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Tysiąc talarów
1960 · 2 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyThree short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.