Jarema Stępowski
Actor · 1925 – 2001 · Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska
Movies22
Movie6.2DramaRumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
Movie5.6DramaRomanceThe story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Movie6.2RomanceComedyThe Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Movie5.1ThrillerDiver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.
Wraki
1957 · 6 votes
Movie6.8ComedyEwa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Movie7.0AdventureFamilyTwo friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.
Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
1956 · 3 votes
Movie7.3DramaFamilyA young lady from a good home, full of life, wins the hearts of the greatest gloomy people and turns people into people open to the world. He infects everyone with kindness and optimism, even when misfortunes fall on the family. Resolute and resourceful, she takes matters into her own hands, but will fate be favorable to her and happiness will smile at her?
Panna z mokrą głową
1994 · 4 votes
Movie3.8ComedyAbsurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.
Ostrożnie yeti
1961 · 6 votes
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.
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
Movie7.0ComedyA young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Nowy
1970 · 3 votes
Movie5.5DramaThe life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
Movie6.5ComedyFantasyA bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Movie6.3ComedyTV MovieA daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Markiza de Pompadour
1966 · 4 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
Movie8.3ComedyHistoryA carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Movie4.5ActionDramaThe last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
Movie3.3ComedyThe hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch - Vladimír is married, Irena is married. But as they say, opportunity makes the thief, so it's no wonder that Tůma has his work cut out for him, and Irena, too, sometimes recovers only at the last minute. And she doesn't even know that her husband is coming to visit her...
Movie6.5DramaA woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
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.
Movie6.3ComedyCrimeA journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
Kryptonim Nektar
1963 · 4 votes
Movie5.9ComedyMusicJoanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a young, talented, but poor painter. However, the girl's father, Kazimierz Burczyk, decides to find a suitable husband for her himself. A shrewd tradesman, unwilling to disclose his income, searches for a candidate whose professional position would justify his possession of a villa, a car and many other material possessions. In the end, his choice falls on Andrew, who is unsuccessfully trying to sell paintings under the walls of Warsaw's Barbican.