Ryszard Kotys
Birthday: Born in 1932-03-20 in Mniów, świętokrzyskie, Polska
Deathday: 2021-01-27
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Stawka większa niż życie
Character: Wiehnert, brytyjski agent Z-82
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: saper
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: Walenciak
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....
Panny i wdowy
Character: więzień komunista
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Ekipa
Character: Buczek, wicepremier i minister gospodarki
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma....
The Alaska Kid
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The Alaska Kid is a 1991 German / Russian / Polish television miniseries, based on Jack London's 1912 short story anthology, Smoke Bellew. First broadcast on the German ZDF network in December 1993, the series stars Mark Pillow as "The Alaska Kid" Jack Bellew, a newspaper reporter on his beat during the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska....
Dom
Character: kapral Patro, były podkomendny Bizanca
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980....
Droga
Character: kuzyn Jadwigi Sęk
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Świat według Kiepskich
Character: Marian Paździoch
Follow the life of a dysfunctional Polish family from Wrocław, who live in an old apartment in Wrocław on 3/4 Ćwiartki street. The show is centered on Ferdynand Kiepski, who tries to make various schemes to improve his financial or life situation, all of which ultimately fail....
Ballada o Januszku
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Niania
Character: Mr. Binderski
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Wiedźmin
Character: centurion
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Przyłbice i kaptury
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Popielec
Character: Waluś
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Movie Credits
Our Folks
Character: Cat Seller (uncredited)
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms....
Crumbs of War
Character: Szaruga
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....
Romans z intruzem
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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....
King Size
Character: Więzień Nosacz
The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia....
Father of the Queen
Character: Zierowski's servant
Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission....
A Lady from the Window
Character: Sailor
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families....
Bermuda Triangle
Character: Mr Wacek (uncredited)
Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness....
Sonata marymoncka
Character: Acting Director
Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland....
A Story in Red
Character: Sexton
Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village...
A Room with a View on the Sea
Character: Worker
Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man....
Pigs 2: The Last Blood
Character: maszynista
Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. W...
Sezon na leszcza
Character: mąż starszej kobiety na stacji benzynowej
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Kanalia
Character: Jefim
A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge....
Golem
Character: Elevator Operator
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven....
Trzy starty
Character: Edek
Three 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....
A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Character: Factory Inspector
The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, an...
Controlled Conversations
Character: Militiaman overhearing Phone Conversations
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland....
Bumerang
Character: Man at the Accident Scene (uncredited)
A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II....
Seychelles
Character: maszynista
A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel....
The Wild One
Character: Mohiła
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Red Rowan
Character: Soldier
The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2....
Kamień na kamieniu
Character: Chłop
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Erratum
Character: ojciec Michała
Michał, a former musician who gave up his dreams and became an accountant, is asked by his boss to retrieve a truck he had shipped from America. The destination is Michael's former hometown, a port town which Michal left in a hurry years earlier. After retrieving the truck, Michał is involved in a serious accident which forces him to stay in town and reconcile several broken relationships....
Dziewczyna z dobrego domu
Character: Man by the Cloakroom (uncredited)
Instead of coming to her own engagement party, Joanna throws herself into New Year's Eve partying. Her fiancé follows her lead....
Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Character: Łabiński's Butler
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......
Sobótki
Character: Sentry
Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father....
Then There Will Be Silence
Character: Soldier making a Deceased List (uncredited)
Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans....
The Catastrophe
Character: Militiaman (uncredited)
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses....
Ściana czarownic
Character: Ryszard Parzeniec
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart....
Wezwanie
Character: Edward
A family drama set in a Polish village - a woman recounts her life after her husband's death, focusing on the differences between her two sons and the tragedy that befalls one of them....
Lesson of a Dead Language
Character: strażnik jeńców
An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances....
Zemsta
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry....
The Secret of a Wild Forest
Character: Pińczuk
Tadeusz, a junior high school student, visits to his forester grandfather who lives in an ancient forest. During one of the hunts, his grandfather tells him about the rumors circulating around about a treasure sunk in the lake....
The Story About Master Twardowski
Character: diabeł marszałek polny
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Po upadku
Character: dyrektor Rozpuda
A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception....
Piggate
Character: Simpson
The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig....
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Character: Cellulose Maker
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature ...
Top Dog
Character: Kazik Danielak
An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career....
Fortune
Character: Kasiarz Ważych
Post-WWI the Polish currency is practically worthless, and a timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, a temptress, and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars....
Clergyman
Character: Tailor
In 2011, a psychiatric patient is visited by a postulate. The patient is a retired head of the "D" Group – a secret department of the Security Service to fight against the Polish Catholic church. Murders, beatings, blackmails, provocations, robberies, those are standard methods of operation for its officers. The postulate wants to unravel the mystery of the death of priest Roman Kotlarz, a parish priest from Pelagow....
Provincial Actors
Character: Majchrzak
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints...
A Woman Alone
Character: Władek
Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike....
Shivers
Character: Guard
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts....
Olympics 40
Character: strażnik Schlappke
The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out out that he is a prisoner and nothing more. But that plants the seed and the Pole prop...
Battle of Westerplatte
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This harrowing war film is an epic dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The Battle of Westerplatte that began on 1 September 1939 will forever be remembered as the one that announced the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Over one week, fewer than 200 Polish soldiers fought against heavy German bombardment and in the process came to symbolize the power of resistance. As the violence rages, a complex battle of a more personal nature plays out between two Polish commanders ...
Eucalyptus
Character: Sony's father
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Les Enfants du vent
Character: miller
It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of Resistance fighters have taken refuge in the mountains, and they manage to hook up with three local youngsters. All six of them are being hunted by the Germans, and they are also being looked for by an adult who wants to take them to greater safety. Along the way, the children occasionally put on spontaneous theatricals....
The Killer Leaves a Trace
Character: Worker dragging a Dressing Table (uncredited)
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files....
Skok
Character: Wiktor's Friend
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery....
Konsul
Character: Local Communist Party Secretary
After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes....
Return of the Pied Piper
Character: Szczur
The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town....
Poczmistrz
Character: Kola
Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer....
Wolves' Echoes
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East....
The Red and the Gold
Character: Antoni Zapieralski
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....
The Last Witness
Character: Fugitive Prisoner (uncredited)
Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure....
A Generation
Character: Jacek
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
Character: Soviet Sapper ("The Seashore") (uncredited)
The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8....
Who Believes in Storks?
Character: Militiaman (voice) (uncredited)
A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend....
Gods
Character: Członek komisji etyki lekarskiej
Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa....
Miracle Seller
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A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives....
Silent Traces
Character: Stusina (as Ryszard Kotas)
A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him....
It's Only Rock
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Polish musical film with leading Polish rock bands from the '80...
Two Moons
Character: Policjant
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor....
Swan Song
Character: Customs Officer
After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he ha...
The Twenties, the Thirties
Character: Grześ' Coach
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform....
She-Wolf
Character: Oleksiak
In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf....
Nos
Character: Barber
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....
Bolesław Śmiały
Character: Man In River
Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski....
Signs on the Road
Character: Bulaga
A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace....
Barbed Wire
Character: telefonista Józek
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Character: złodziej I
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz....
White Tracks
Character: Bjorn
Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions....
The Doll
Character: Bidder
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....
Only the Dead Can Answer
Character: Marcin Pakosz
Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career...
The Return of She-Wolf
Character: Inspector
A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess attacks the fiancée....
The Pier
Character: Andrzej's Friend
After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades....
Sunday Children
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A young couple who are unable to have children make a deal with a poor woman to buy her illegitimate child rather than wait through the time-consuming process of legal adoption....
Sam pośród swoich
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Rykowisko
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Wolna sobota
Character: Kierowca ciężarówki
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Strach
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The Epidemic
Character: Porter
Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man....
Lost Night
Character: Stanisław
A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the severely run-down estate himself since his mother's death....
Pills for Aurelia
Character: Man in a Flower Shop
Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo....
The Crossing
Character: "Lont", członek oddziału AK
WWII. Joined forces of Polish and Russian partisans (despite they are in conflict) stand against German Sturmwind I & II actions....
Leprosy
Character: Lieutenant Strzałka
When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal....
The Big Picnic
Character: Rysiek's Father
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city....
Dotknięci
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Polish film directed by Wieslaw Saniewski....
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Character: Józef
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....
Co dzień bliżej nieba
Character: Janitor
After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there....
Merry Christmas
Character: drwal
Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends....
Vabank
Character: Melski - bileter w byłym kinie Duńczyka - "krawiec"
October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it....
Vabank II
Character: Melski - współpracownik Kwinty
A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager....
The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Van Worden's Father's Servant
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
Black Feet
Character: Marek's Caretaker
A group of Boy scouts who name themselves Black Feet learn lessons about honor and brotherhood in a camp....
Big Shar
Character: Kanciarz we Wrocławiu
Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads for the town of Lutyn where he runs a con and attracts the interest of Jurek, a young cab driver who imagines himself a great grifter. Szu ("Sharp") teaches Jurek a few tricks enabling the young man to win some money in Wroclaw, then Sharp departs with Jola, a prostitute who offers him a mark. How that plays out, Jurek's determination to win big, Sharp's cold calculations, and the wages of sin await...
Two from the Big River
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A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents....
Dezha vyu
Character: Коппола, гангстер
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA....
Sezon na bażanty
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