Irena Burawska
Actor · 1922 – 2007 · Zakroczym, Polska
Movies17
Movie7.5DramaRomanceA famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.
Movie7.5DramaWitek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Movie6.5DramaBartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-run death. A community's pain reverberates through fractured relationships and the burden of funereal responsibility.
Requiem
2001 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaWhen the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.
Movie6.1RomanceDramaSet during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
MovieHistoryDramaA descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
Movie5.0DramaThe friendship of four men is put to the test after they make a movie together.
4 w 1
2000 · 1 votes
Movie8.3DramaSet in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.
Movie8.0ComedyAn engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Movie9.0WarDramaWWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
Stajnia na Salvatorze
1967 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaFamilyA group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
Jeśli serce masz bijące
1981 · 1 votes
Movie7.3CrimeTV MovieAn unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
Złote koło
1971 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaA pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
- Movie6.5CrimeTV Movie
An old man's death leads to a high-profile police investigation, who connect the crime with the search for lost corsair treasure.
Skarb trzech łotrów
1972 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DramaA young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.
Movie7.0DramaMonday 1978. Little Szymon, playing with his friends, becomes the perpetrator of a car accident in which the parents of a little girl, Magda, die. She herself comes out of the catastrophe unscathed. This event has an indelible mark on the boy's psyche. Twenty years pass. Szymon is a railwayman, Magda works at a cosmetics company. She doesn't remember anything about her childhood, and her life passes between work and disco. Her granddaughter Ola is looked after by her grandmother. During one of the crazy games, a young woman meets Szymon. This is not an accidental meeting, because the man - tormented by guilt - has long tried to find out something about her. Magda initially rejects Szymon's courtship. Over time, however, the mysterious admirer begins to fascinate her.
Movie8.0DramaThe story of a worker who was dismissed for inconvenience to management for making justified and necessary criticisms of the factory's operations.