Gustaw Holoubek
Birthday: Born in 1923-04-21 in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Deathday: 2008-03-06
Polish actor, director and politician, best known for his acting roles in The Noose, The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.
TV Credits
Królewskie sny
Character: król Władysław II Jagiełło
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Theatre Macabre
Character:
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors....
Ogniem i mieczem
Character: Senator Kisiel
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Mistrz i Małgorzata
Character: Woland
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Movie Credits
With Fire and Sword
Character: senator Kisiel
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century....
The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Don Pedro Velasquez
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
Pearls and Ducats
Character: Franciszek X
A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her....
An Uneventful Story
Character: Professor
A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from t...
Killing Auntie
Character: Mistyk
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it......
Spóźnieni przechodnie
Character: Edward (segment 1) / Himself (segment 5) (uncredited)
Five short stories....
Coloured Stockings
Character: Caretaker (segment "Jadźka")
Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter....
Naprawdę wczoraj
Character: Captain Stołyp
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized....
Daimler-Benz Limousine
Character: Maks Feliński
Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action....
Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Character: Sądej
Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft....
Gangsters and Philantropists
Character: 'Profesor' the gangster ("Professor")
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom....
Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
Character: Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika (voice)
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Marysia i Krasnoludki
Character: Sadełko (voice)
King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring....
Operacja Samum
Character: Shopsowitz
The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?...
The Woodpecker
Character: Thief (voice) (uncredited)
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away....
Kartoteka
Character: Protagonist
A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war....
Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Wit Stwosz
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow....
Childish Questions
Character: Profesor
A 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....
Sons and Comrades
Character: Roullot
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests....
The Master and Margarita
Character: Woland
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov....
Goodbye to the Past
Character: Oskar Rennert
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories....
How Far, How Near
Character: Maks
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....
Erotique
Character:
A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid....
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Character: Bermudez
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma....
The Stars Must Burn
Character: Narrator (voice)
The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young....
In Broad Daylight
Character: investigating judge
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission....
A Room with a View on the Sea
Character: Professor Jan Leszczyński
Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man....
The Law and the Fist
Character: Andrzej Kenig
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....
The Noose
Character: Kuba Kowalski
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life....
Siegfried
Character: Stefan Drawicz
The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences....
The Game
Character: Husband
Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction....
The Taste of the Black Earth
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands....
One Room Tenants
Character: Dziadzia
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....
Write and Fight
Character: Investigator
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband....
Salto
Character: Host
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd....
A Very Christmas Story
Character: God (voice)
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacation. Since there is much to do on the earth, a substitute - the Angel of Death - is found for the job. Right from the start he runs into bad luck and what is more a beautiful blonde - the Guardian Angel - is bothering him. Little Angelica moves o...
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Character: Cammerschulze (voice)
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself....
Opening Tomorrow
Character: Zenon Wiewiórski
A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous....
Listy miłosne
Character: Teresa's Father
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The Book of Great Wishes
Character: Adam Ostrowski
Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life....
Polar Bear
Character: Henryk Fogiel
A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear....
Farewells
Character: Mirek
The 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....
Maria and Napoleon
Character: Napoleon I Bonaparte / Napoleon Beranger
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....
The Hourglass Sanatorium
Character: Dr. Gotard
Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares....
Men of the Blue Cross
Character: Narrator (voice)
The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking....
Time Past
Character: Kurt von Steinhagen
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters....
Oczy niebieskie
Character: profesor Ani i Jacka; we śnie Święty Piotr
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Character: Mariuszek's Alter Ego (voice)
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive....
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Character: Zygmunt Sekułowski
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation....
Lava
Character: Hermit-Gustaw / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear....
Soldier of Victory
Character: Feliks Dzierżyński
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs....
Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
Character: Doctor Paweł
"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe....
Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Character: Doctor Baltazar Charbonneau
Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in Paris and calls for the famous Dr. Cherbonneau, suspected of being a charlatan. Citing the teachings of the East, Cherbonneau offers the patient an "avatar", a reincarnation of the soul, which takes a different body......
Through the Fifth Dimension
Character: Doktor Kopot
Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures....
In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
Character: Dyapanazego
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him ...
Colonel Wolodyjowski
Character: Priest Kamiński (voice) (uncredited)
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies....
Weryfikacja
Character: Gucio Nawrot
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest....