Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Birthday: Born in 1927-07-09 in Warsaw, Poland
Deathday: 1977-10-09
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Stawka większa niż życie
Character: SS-Untersturmführer Max Abusch
Stawka większa niż życie is a 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....
Karino
Character: Małecki
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Theatre Macabre
Character:
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors....
Theatre Macabre
Character: Server
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors....
Wakacje z duchami
Character: Graf
Three boys are investigating a ruins of the old fortress during summer vacations....
Trzecia granica
Character:
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Kolumbowie
Character: powstaniec
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Polskie drogi
Character: Karol Maria Fabiankiewicz, nauczyciel tańca
An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland....
Movie Credits
The First Day of Freedom
Character:
Freed 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 e...
Motodrama
Character: Journalist
An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer....
Hydro-Puzzle
Character: Doctor Plama
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As....
Heads Full of Stars
Character: Ksiadz kapelan
Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike....
The Sun Rises Once a Day
Character: Moskała
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts....
Adam's Two Ribs
Character: Lisiecki
An 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....
Przystań
Character: Stablehand
Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head ....
I Would Like to Have a Shave
Character: The Barber
A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath....
Gold Dreams
Character: Gabryś
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible....
Karino
Character: Małecki
The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse....
Milioner
Character: Stasio, kierownik sklepu
The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors ar...
What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Character: Father
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring....
Pictures from Life
Character:
Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland....
How to Be Loved
Character: Journalist Zenon on the Plane
An 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....
Rachunek sumienia
Character: Wójcik
The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life....
The Woodpecker
Character: Zdzicho
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away....
Wycieczka w nieznane
Character: Screenwriter
A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer....
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
Character: Tour Guide
Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury....
Dog
Character: Tenant
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Red Rowan
Character: Sergeant Kojtycz
The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2....
Her Portrait
Character: Henio
Danka was an unwanted child. From an early age she had to cope on her own. Despite harsh conditions and difficult experiences, she has not lost her dignity, has remained true to her ideals, and has a sense of integrity and honesty. When the opportunity to conditionally shorten her sentence in a correctional institution by getting married hits her, she rejects the tempting offer. She doesn't want to hurt the man she doesn't love, who has shown her a lot of heart. Danka's friend has taken advantag...
Hazardziści
Character: Zdzisław Jaskólski, uczestnik napadu
The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came across their trail and the criminals were soon captured. And then the real bomb went off. It turned out that the thieves were not people listed in the police annals or even in contact with the criminal world. All the robbers had a reputation as "...
How It's Done
Character: Zdzisław Kozłowski
Two guys came to Zakopane to write screenplay and make movie. They are complete amateurs and don't have any ideas. Maybe only one idea is to find actress, but it's not so simple....
Rekolekcje
Character: Zdzisiek
Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art....
The Catastrophe
Character: Kotarski
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses....
Na krawędzi
Character: CIA Employee #1
A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich....
Adventure with a Song
Character: Drybek
Based on motifs from Jurandot and Sart's operetta "Miss Polonia," this musical comedy tells the story of a star of the Opole Festival who tries to make a career in Paris. After winning the Audience Award at the Opole Festival, young singer Mariola leaves for Paris to pursue a career there. However, her performances are not successful. She tries to hide this fact and uses various methods to sign a contract. Her beloved, the young composer Piotr, discovers the truth about her alleged career, while...
Christmas Eve
Character: Witold
A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve....
Śmierć w środkowym pokoju
Character: Photographer Wójcik
The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy....
Trzy kroki po ziemi
Character: Doctor (segment 3)
Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski....
Ktokolwiek wie...
Character: Stefa's Husband
A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search....
Long Night
Character: Antoszka
The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew....
Komedie pomyłek
Character: Hans Kusche (segment "Comedy From Errors")
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works....
Matthew's Days
Character: Miller (voice) (uncredited)
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope....
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Character: Italian Soldier (uncredited)
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis....
The Red and the Gold
Character: Franciszek Knaps
An 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....
One Room Tenants
Character: Józef Bednarczyk
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s....
Personal Search
Character: Roman
Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass....
Salto
Character: Rotmistrz
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd....
Seksolatki
Character: Józef
Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them....
The Cruise
Character: Engineer Mamon
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship....
A Party for Ten, Plus Three
Character: Karolak
A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way....
Samson
Character: ONR Member (uncredited)
The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising....
The Ascended
Character: Arkaszka Kozłowski
Two simple men win the lottery and decide to spend the money on their first plane flight and some other pleasures. But all that does not bring enough happiness to their lives....
Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Character: Władek Brzeski
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs....
Father
Character: Saint Francis
A young boy must go to school with his father....
Brunet Will Call
Character: Karol
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet....
Nos
Character: Major Kowalew
An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted....
Maria and Napoleon
Character: Józef Poniatowski
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly....
Bumerang
Character: Drunkard
A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II....
The Doll
Character: Maruszewicz
Set 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....
Barwy walki
Character: Captain
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region....
Skąpani w ogniu
Character: "Spring"
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there....
Ostatni po Bogu
Character: Doctor Bryl
Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea....
The Law and the Fist
Character: Czesiek
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people....
Złote koło
Character: Semko
An 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....
Full Ahead
Character: Leon / Journalist
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures....
Giuseppe in Warsaw
Character: Market Seller
The 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....
Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Character: Tour Participant
A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student....
Aktorka
Character: Mikołaj Jazykow
A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism....
Hotel Pacific
Character: Grela
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell....
Barrier
Character: Magazine Salesman
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland....
How Far, How Near
Character: Włodek
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way....
How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
Character: Italian Soldier
After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook....
Take It Easy
Character: Traktorzysta Podoba
The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacl...
A Hole in the Ground
Character: Firefighter
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project....
Frozen Flashes
Character: Woodcutter
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally becom...
Leprosy
Character: Tuś
When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal....
No More Divorces
Character: "Estrada" Manager (Segment 3)
Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life....
Merry Christmas
Character: sprzedawca choinek, konkurent "Ruiny"
Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends....
The Holy War
Character: Manager Kożuszek
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski)....
Boxer
Character: Reporter
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics....
The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Don Roque Busqueros
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
The Barrel Organ
Character: Paweł
This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus....
Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
Character: Benek and 5 other roles
A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia. They are linked by the actor who plays the main characters in all the stories. And although he creates a different character each time, all of them - like pieces of a mosaic - form a portrait of one man. It was an excellent idea on the part of the director to entrust this task to an actor who was extremely popular in the 1970s and had many "unforgettable performances" to his credit. Zdzisław Maklakiewicz...