Tomasz Zaliwski
Birthday: Born in 1929-12-15 in Warsaw, Poland
Deathday: 2006-07-13
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Stawka większa niż życie
Character: major LWP
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....
Czterej pancerni i pies
Character: kapral podchorąży Daniel Łażewski „Magneto”
Czterej 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, ...
Pan na Żuławach
Character: Sawicki
The history of returnees from France who returned to Poland after World War II. The action of the series covers the years 1946 - 1956. A group of Poles living in France - emigrants from the 1930s - undertake the drainage and development of lands in Żuławy Wiślane. The new settlers set up a company headed by their leader - Kazimierz Mikuła....
Boża podszewka. Część druga
Character: woźnica
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Dom
Character: ojciec Ewy
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980....
Dom
Character: ojciec Ewy Talar
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980....
Droga
Character: zaziębiony kierowca MPK
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Dyrektorzy
Character: mężczyzna śledzący Wanada
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Kuchnia polska
Character: pułkownik Świątek
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Trzecia granica
Character:
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Polskie drogi
Character: Grządziela, kolejarz
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Odejścia, powroty
Character:
A dramatic story about a young man entangled in complicated matters of war, conspiracy and political struggle. The action of each part of the triptych presents one day from different years. These are fictionalized experiences of an authentic participant of the Polish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation....
Podziemny front
Character: (uncredited)
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The First Day of Freedom
Character: Officer
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...
Romans z intruzem
Character: Major Wilczynski
End of August 1939. The Polish-German border is crossed by a German defector from the Wehrmacht, Ernst Hoffman, with the information that on August 26 at 4:45 Germany will attack Poland....
Magical Bicycle
Character: Romanian cyclist (uncredited)
The 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 ......
The Neighbours
Character: Malina
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager....
The Faithful River
Character: Hubert Olbromski
Set 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....
Dzień Wisły
Character: Polish Army Lieutenant
September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a whe...
Przeklęta ziemia
Character: Jan's father
Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ......
Crumbs of War
Character: Platoon leader
A young partisan named Derkacz is fighting in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. In order to transport the wounded commander, he takes a horse from a nearby village along with its owner, teenage Józek....
Jeśli serce masz bijące
Character: Karol Precela
A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men....
1968. Happy New Year
Character: Colonel Świątek
Spring of 1968, Warsaw. The fight for influence between top level Communist officials is the background to a developing love story between a young couple who are engaged in student protests. Both the young couple and their parents will pay a high price for their decisions, and their Jewish roots, which up until now seemed to have no meaning, but which will soon determine their fates....
Katastrofa w Gibraltarze
Character: Tadeusz Klimecki, szef sztabu
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The Ashes
Character: Poniatowski's Companion
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival....
Zamach stanu
Character: Maciej Rataj, marszałek Sejmu
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Polonia Restituta
Character: Maciej Rataj, poseł na Sejm Ustawodawczy
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, W...
Pastorale heroica
Character: dowódca leśnych
War film directed by Henryk Bielski....
Chrześniak
Character: komendant MO
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead....
Penelopy
Character: szyper w porcie
Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City....
The Birthday Trip
Character: Stasiek, overtjener
When 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....
Around the World with Bolek and Lolek
Character: Jimmy Pif-Paf / Old Priest
Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts....
Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Groom (uncredited)
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Wirus
Character: nowy dyrektor "Eurobanku"
An unknown terrorist infects computer networks with the most important institutions in the country with the virus. It paralyzes hospitals, trains, aircraft control system. Suspicions fall on Michal, a thirty-year-old IT genius and owner of a small computer company. Michal must prove he is innocent. He agrees to the proposal to cooperate with the prosecutor....
The Leaves Have Fallen
Character: przewodnik partyzantów, głos lektora z radia
Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war....
Death of a President
Character: Maciej Rataj
After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination....
Zawsze w niedziele
Character: Jan Grochowiak ("Second Sunday")
Three stories centered around sports....
The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Character: Capt. Studniarz
A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer....
Uczennica
Character: ojciec Anny
Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier....
Olympic Fire
Character: Wacek
During World War 2 Polish skiers take up a fight against the Germans and become couriers, delivering mail to Budapest....
Agent #1
Character: Sailor (voice) (uncredited)
Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis....
Muffin
Character: Karol's father
A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city....
Three Stories
Character: Jędrek (segment 2)
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation....
Samson
Character: Prisoner (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....
Full Moon
Character: Wojtek
A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to live in a small community of cabins and summer homes in a lake-filled region north of Warsaw. His interactions with the villagers, including a drunkard and other eccentrics, provide an informative background for what happens next. The ex-archite...
Quiet Is the Night
Character: Police Commander Teofil Herman
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with....
The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Character: Duży
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ......
Thais
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Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself....
The Gorgon Case
Character: Policjant
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving ...
Signs on the Road
Character: Michalak
A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace....
Party przy świecach
Character: Józef Gańko
The marriage struggling with financial problems decides to impress visiting relatives....
The Doll
Character: Aristocrat
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....
Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Character: Camp Manager
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....
Two Gentlemen 'N'
Character: Staszek
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation....
Two from the Big River
Character: Marian
A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents....
A Slip-Up
Character: [obsada aktorska]
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse...
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Character: Yugoslavian Officer
On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe....
Fiasco of Operation Terror
Character: Wincenty
The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals....
The Crossing
Character: kapitan "Bartek", dowódca oddziału AL
WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions....
Dłużnicy śmierci
Character: Jeżewski
Poland 1946. Militia looks for commander of anticommunist partisans called Grom (Thunder). It quickly comes out that militiamen have to discover a rat in their group....
The Attempt
Character: Olek
Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera....
Eroica
Character: Hungarian Officer (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own....
The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Mona
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
The Hexer
Character: wójt z Blaviken
A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect th...
Passion
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The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow 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....