Maria Kaniewska

Maria Kaniewska

Birthday: 1911-05-27

Place of Birth: Kijów, Rosja (obecnie Ukraina)

Biography: Maria Kaniewska (27 May 1911 in Kiev - 11 December 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish actress, screenplay writer, film director. In 1960 she received a bronze lion award at the Venice Film Festival.

Movies

Adam's Two Ribs
Adam's Two Ribs

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian...

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The Knave of Spades
The Knave of Spades

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, ju...

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Two Hours
Two Hours

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Comp...

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Król Maciuś I
Król Maciuś I

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the cou...

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Kocie ślady
Kocie ślady

A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring....

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Zaczarowane podwórko
Zaczarowane podwórko

A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazin...

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Mansarda
Mansarda

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of hi...

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Ewa Wants to Sleep
Ewa Wants to Sleep

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to s...

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Jasne łany
Jasne łany

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not l...

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The Refuge
The Refuge

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The lo...

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Satan from the Seventh Grade
Satan from the Seventh Grade

A smart teenager Adam Cisowski is asked by his teacher to help him solve the mysterious case of robb...

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The Border
The Border

Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. He...

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Unvanquished City
Unvanquished City

Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then pro...

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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Kapelusz pana Anatola

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat g...

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150km Per Hour
150km Per Hour

Young Marcin wishes to escape his life in a village and make a career in a city....

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Meetings In The Dark
Meetings In The Dark

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life du...

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Pięciu
Pięciu

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, ...

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Zawsze w niedziele
Zawsze w niedziele

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeepe...

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Śmierć w środkowym pokoju
Śmierć w środkowym pokoju

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy....

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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mist...

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Abel, Your Brother
Abel, Your Brother

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tr...

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Birth Certificate
Birth Certificate

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes...

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Winter Twilight
Winter Twilight

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (...

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Husband of His Wife
Husband of His Wife

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Ba...

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Bicz Boży
Bicz Boży

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will repo...

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Wolna sobota
Wolna sobota

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Trzy starty
Trzy starty

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer -...

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Man - Woman Wanted
Man - Woman Wanted

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The ...

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The Warsaw Debut
The Warsaw Debut

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka"....

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Spotkania
Spotkania

Four stories showing the various facets of love....

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H.M. Deserters
H.M. Deserters

Set in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Itali...

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Hacker
Hacker

Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of...

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Bad Luck
Bad Luck

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one...

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The Last Stage
The Last Stage

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination ca...

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Nina's Journey
Nina's Journey

Nina's Journey is a feature film, but with an authentic narrator. We follow Nina and her family duri...

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Horizontal Landscape
Horizontal Landscape

Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When thei...

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