
Tadeusz Kalinowski
Actor · 1915 – 1969 · Leibnitz, Styria, Austria
Movies22
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.
Movie6.0ActionDramaA promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Movie5.7ComedyWarAfter the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
Rzeczpospolita babska
1969 · 11 votes
Movie6.1DramaWajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Movie7.1DramaA day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Movie7.1AdventureDramaA tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceA peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Wiano
1964 · 1 votes
Movie6.5WarActionIn the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
Movie6.5DramaWarFreed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
Movie7.4DramaAn actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
Movie5.9DramaIn war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
MovieWarDramaThe first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2. “The plot follows the adventures of the heroic crew of the Soviet tank “Rudy” and their loyal dog Szarik as they fight across the Eastern Front in World War II, blending thrilling battles with moments of friendship, compassion, and youthful innocence.
Movie6.4WarDramaIn the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
Movie5.8DramaThe inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Movie5.7DramaThree idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Movie8.0DramaJadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Sobótki
1966 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyTo secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
Movie7.0DramaA young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk
Czerwone berety
1963 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarDuring World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest.
Movie6.4CrimeDramaA man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Movie6.8DramaCaptain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
Skąpani w ogniu
1963 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ActionDramaA ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.
Skarb kapitana Martensa
1957 · 2 votes
Series2
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.
TV7.8Action & AdventureWar & PoliticsCzterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.