
Zdzisław Karczewski
Actor · 1903 – 1970 · Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
Movies23
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.
Movie6.8ComedyTwo friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
- Movie10.0Drama
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
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
Movie6.5DramaWarFreed 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.
Movie7.0DramaThe miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
Czarne skrzydła
1963 · 2 votes
Movie7.7ComedyTwo quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Movie10.0DramaWarA war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Movie7.5WarDramaWhile hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
Movie8.0ComedyBolek, a young locksmith’s apprentice, fights off two suspicious men to defend a friend and, fleeing the police, hides at a party where guests mistake him for the wealthy but naïve Lolek.
Bolek i Lolek
1936 · 2 votes
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.
MovieDramaJan Polaski, after graduating from an aviation school, returns to his hometown as an aviation officer.
Pod Twoją obronę
1933
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA spy film about Professor Skalski's invention - rays that could stop engines, thus avoiding wars - which becomes the focus of foreign intelligence. In order to take over the discovery, a secret agent is sent to reach the invention via the professor's son.
Movie5.3ComedyRomanceAn old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
Movie6.9WarDramaThe movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
Movie6.3DramaWarA group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
Movie6.0DramaA young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.
Movie9.0DramaA gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.
Troje i las
1963 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThree separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Trzy starty
1955 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarA war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.
Movie10.0ComedyWarThe first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Don Gabriel
1966 · 1 votes
Movie8.3ComedyHistoryA carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Movie8.0WarDramaBasia and her aunt live in peace far away from war efforts. One day that peace is shattered when a concentration camp prisoner, a communist activist seeks refuge in their house.
Series1
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.