
Wojciech Alaborski
Actor · 1941 – 2009 · Drohobycz, Polska [obecnie Ukraina]
Movies20
Movie6.6TV MovieDramaAn odd couple of old people lead their simple lives close to nature. The man is an amateur constructor and his goal now is to build a small river dam to produce electricity for his country house.
Movie5.5DramaRomanceRomance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the son of a murderer, and Zosia, a young woman, come together for a wedding against a backdrop of changing politics, ancient traditions, and the uncertain future of a country.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryIn Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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.
Movie8.1DramaA young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
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Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.
Lupus
1993
MovieDocumentaryTV MovieMost important events of November Uprising in Poland.
Movie6.7DramaIn what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
Movie6.8DramaHistoryThe last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Movie6.7DramaComedyA moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.
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Captain Drawski is ordered to deliver the plane to the repair plant in Bydgoszcz, where the machine will undergo repairs. A young mechanic, Marcin Mercik, is also taken on board (against regulations). During the flight, a malfunction occurs. Drawski and Mercik have to catapult themselves, but the mechanic has never performed similar evolutions. He is paralyzed by fear, so that the plane, which is losing fuel, is in danger of crashing.
Spacer
1972
Movie6.8In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German “Zachęta” cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema.
Movie5.6ComedyCrimeA well-known wheeler dealer joins the underground opposition to avoid responsibility after stealing valuable coins. When he is released from prison, he sets up a private bank with high interest rates together with a Security Service colonel. However, the colonel has bigger ambitions.
Movie10.0HistoryA film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist.
Jarosław Dąbrowski
1976 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryWhen it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues.
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Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.
Laureat
1980 · 1 votes
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A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
111 dni letargu
1985 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must be prepared to show the guest how well the place is being managed.
Mała sprawa
1980 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
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A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.
Series5
TV5.7DramaKryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Kryminalni
2004 · 9 votes
TV7.3DramaThe story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980 · 12 votes
TV7.0Drama1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.
Dyrektorzy
1975 · 1 votes
TV7.0DramaDocumentaryMarszałek Piłsudski
2001 · 3 votes
TV8.0Based on a true story. On August 8, 1956, hour by hour, the story of an accident in the Marcinelle mine in Belgium. More than 250 miners, many of Italian origin, were killed.