Jan Nowicki
Jan Nowicki (5 November 1939 – 7 December 2022) was an actor and writer, known for The Hourglass Sanatorium, The Third Part of the Night or Big Shar. He appeared in over 100 films and television episodes since 1963.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.986 |
| Birthday | 1939-11-05 |
| Place of Birth | Kowal, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska |
| Also Known As |
1964
The First Day of Freedom
6.5/10
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 concentrati...
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The First Day of Freedom
1991
Prisoners of War
10/1
A documentary about Hungarian prisoners of war in the World War II
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Prisoners of War
2003
The Five Obstructions
6.902/183
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrat...
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The Five Obstructions
1976
Tylko Beatrycze
7/1
Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.
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Tylko Beatrycze
1966
13 piętro
0/0
A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor.
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13 piętro
1986
Hülyeség nem akadály
10/1
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Hülyeség nem akadály
1990
Potyatusok
10/1
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to esc...
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Potyatusok
1983
The Land of Mirage
10/1
Officer Karikas from Petersburg should be in Saratov with her servant,in the way he played cards and losing much,even to stuck in the hotel.Local offi...
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The Land of Mirage
1977
Red Thorns
0/0
A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar...
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Red Thorns
2022
The Perfect Number
5.6/7
The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to g...
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The Perfect Number
1983
Big Shar
6.7/30
Fresh out of prison, a seasoned poker hustler finds himself teaching the trade to a young cab driver chasing his first big win.
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Big Shar
1985
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
6.9/93
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...
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
1997
Sztos
6.5/31
Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. P...
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Sztos
1963
New Year's Eve Adventure
9/1
A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.
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New Year's Eve Adventure
1986
Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
6.44/67
Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets....
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
1984
Diary for My Children
6.9/35
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin...
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Diary for My Children
1974
Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem
7/1
Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.
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Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem
1974
Hour After Hour
8/1
Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers.
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Hour After Hour
1996
Poznań 56
6.313/8
The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the director, who was a nine-year-old boy at the time,...
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Poznań 56
1974
A Story in Red
9/1
Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village
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A Story in Red
1975
Dostojeństwo rodzinnego domu
0/0
A critique of consumerist life.
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Dostojeństwo rodzinnego domu
1977
Krótka podróż
8/1
A study of two people involved in the story of the love triangle. However, not the plot itself is the essence of the film. It is a study of moral atti...
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Krótka podróż
1990
Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
7.5/2
During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station in Koluszki. Railway communications are disrupted...
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Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
1966
Barrier
6.8/22
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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Barrier
1980
Golem
6.871/70
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 release...
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Golem
2023
Life in the Mud is Golden
6/2
A talented boy from the block dreams of making an album together with complete members of a hip-hop band. It's not easy for him. An alcoholic father,...
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Life in the Mud is Golden
2005
Tulips
5.364/11
The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the...
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Tulips
2011
Daas
6.2/6
In 1776 Vienna, imperial counselor Henryk Klein investigates allegations that the charismatic Jewish nobleman Jakub Frank is a fraud whose sect has ru...
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Daas
1987
Diary for My Loves
7.026/19
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
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Diary for My Loves
1972
The Anatomy of Love
5/8
A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
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The Anatomy of Love
2001
Przedwiośnie
6/9
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution,...
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Przedwiośnie
1999
Daughters of Fortune
5.071/7
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
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Daughters of Fortune
1996
Children and Fish
7.125/4
Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertis...
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Children and Fish
1986
The Girls of Nowolipki
6.5/8
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
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The Girls of Nowolipki
1968
Korn's Password
6.2/4
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.
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Korn's Password
1998
History of Cinema in Popielawy
6.028/18
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History of Cinema in Popielawy
1998
Magneto
7/1
Years later, Lena returns to Poland, accompanied by a French journalist, to learn the truth about her father.
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Magneto
1965
The Ashes
6.7/18
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...
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The Ashes
1996
The Seventh Room
6.5/13
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a...
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The Seventh Room
1994
At the End of the World
7/1
The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands, usin...
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At the End of the World
1980
The Inheritance
6.667/18
During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to hav...
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The Inheritance
1993
SuperWizja
0/0
A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost...
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SuperWizja
2007
Nie ma takiego numeru
5/2
A classic of cinema with a twist, that is, the story of how to intelligently empty the casino safe where the gambling underworld launders government m...
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Nie ma takiego numeru
1973
Scorpio, Virgo and Sagittarius
10/1
Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a myster...
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Scorpio, Virgo and Sagittarius
1978
The Two of Them
6.111/18
Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.
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The Two of Them
2012
Polish Roulette
5.3/20
As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of...
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Polish Roulette
1989
Lava
5.633/15
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.
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Lava
1972
The Third Part of the Night
7/97
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a l...
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The Third Part of the Night
2004
The Unburied Man
6/7
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of...
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The Unburied Man
2009
Revisited
7/1
In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan N...
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Revisited
1982
Wasted Lives
8.5/2
In the first half of the fifties Júlia, the weaver meets engineer Szél on a visit with "educative" purpose, who raises his three children alone in a m...
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Wasted Lives
1991
Panny i wdowy
5.8/12
Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the...
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Panny i wdowy
1981
In Broad Daylight
6.4/9
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 t...
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In Broad Daylight
1984
Vieras
0/0
A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
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Vieras
1989
Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
6/4
Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has...
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Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
1990
Diary for My Father and My Mother
6.6/11
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...
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Diary for My Father and My Mother
2001
The Miraculous Mandarin
7/1
A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok
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The Miraculous Mandarin
1992
The Great Post Office Robbery
10/1
The heroes of this crime-comedy attempt to get hold of money by a funny trick. They start operating the new post-office of the housing estate a week b...
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The Great Post Office Robbery
1978
The Spiral
6.733/15
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agit...
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The Spiral
1976
Nine Months
6.1/20
Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.
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Nine Months
1996
Oh, oh Juliet
0/0
Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and their alternate fate had they survived the events of...
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Oh, oh Juliet
2006
Autor wychodzi
0/0
A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she is just a heroine in the movie and nothing really d...
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Autor wychodzi
1987
Siegfried
5.4/9
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...
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Siegfried
1987
The Magnate
5.2/10
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
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The Magnate
2015
11 Minutes
5.515/67
The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.
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11 Minutes
1994
Fetus
9/1
This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another...
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Fetus
1969
Colonel Wolodyjowski
7/60
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern front...
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
2010
Fenomen
2.3/3
Olive is the daughter of a millionaire, spoiled by her loving dad, who fulfills her every whim. Deep down she dreams of true romantic love. Her best f...
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Fenomen
2017
Fanatyk
6.732/41
As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family.
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Fanatyk
1979
Nightmares
6.286/14
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a...
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Nightmares
2011
Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
4.8/14
The plot is a series of unfortunate events happening to unremarkable characters. The father of the main character, Sigismund, unexpectedly decides to...
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
1978
Just Like at Home
4.7/6
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back to his fo...
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Just Like at Home
2002
E=mc²
6.221/61
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, mercile...
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E=mc²
2009
Before Twilight
6/3
The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.
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Before Twilight
2000
Little Vilma: The Last Diary
4.25/4
The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under Stalinist period when seve...
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Little Vilma: The Last Diary
1992
Ruthless Times
7/1
Hungary, end of World War II. Five Hungarian soldiers desert their troop which has been directed to Germany. They are escaping with the help of a stam...
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Ruthless Times
1971
Family Life
5.667/15
A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his gravely ill father. Upon entering the dark confines of...
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Family Life
2001
Listy miłosne
7/1
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of th...
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Listy miłosne
1996
The Wedding Night During the Daylight
4/1
The end of the 70s of the last century. A team of surveyors goes to a small provincial town. Magister ( Jan Nowicki ) and the experts accompanying him...
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The Wedding Night During the Daylight
1996
Smugglers
6.353/17
"Ladybug," "Silent" and "Cobra" are 19-year-old young men who have everything, but want even more. They are smugglers working for "Black" - the head o...
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Smugglers
1988
Ich liebe dich - April! April!
8/1
The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of anno...
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Ich liebe dich - April! April!
1993
The Spider Women
6.714/7
Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They b...
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The Spider Women
1984
Salvation
9/1
Bulgarian prisoners of war escape from the Germans in the town of Ohrid.
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Salvation
1982
Crab and Joanna
4.25/4
Just before the end of an 18-month-long journey from Africa, a fishing ship is sent on another 2-month cruise. The crew members miss their loved ones...
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Crab and Joanna
1973
The Hourglass Sanatorium
7.538/144
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conju...
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
1989
Notes on Love
5/6
Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love as t...
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Notes on Love
1979
On the Move
5/4
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens he...
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On the Move
1984
To See the Light
7/1
1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with people with their hats in hand, and among them st...
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To See the Light
1997
Deszczowy żołnierz
5.667/3
After being raped by her lover, Anna, lawyer investigating top-level corruption, nearly hits an amnesiac man while driving. This event begins a series...
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Deszczowy żołnierz
1981
A Mother, a Daughter
7.5/2
Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.
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A Mother, a Daughter
1970
A Hole in the Ground
8/1
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he tor...
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A Hole in the Ground
1975
Nights and Days
6.9/13
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a...
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Nights and Days
1974
Lost Night
3.75/4
Returning from Rome, Warsaw writer Wacław Kisielecki's car breaks down late one evening on a country road, forcing him and his chauffeur, Konstanty, t...
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Lost Night
1998
Młode Wilki 1/2
4.9/16
The second part of a story about young people entering adulthood in the harsh reality of predatory capitalism. The action takes place in 1994, a few m...
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Młode Wilki 1/2
1989
Upstairs, Downstairs
8/1
Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.
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Upstairs, Downstairs
1973
Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
7/0
A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.
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Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
1982
Spokojne lata
9/1
Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.
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Spokojne lata
1978
November Night
0/0
Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama takes place on two levels - historical and metaph...
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November Night
1998
So-Called Humanity in Madness
0/0
A theatrical attempt to reconstruct the last, lost play by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. An amalgam of themes permeating the author's oeuvre.
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So-Called Humanity in Madness
2006
The Foundation
8/1
A sophisticated conman starts a foundation helping the victims of drunk drivers. In reality, all the money goes to his own pocket.
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The Foundation
2013
Demons Years Later
0/0
At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the uniqu...
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