Gustaw Holoubek
Birthday: 1923-04-21
Place of Birth: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Biography: Polish actor, director and politician, best known for his acting roles in The Noose, The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.
Movies
With Fire and Sword
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europ...
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The Saragossa Manuscript
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the for...
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Pearls and Ducats
A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to...
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An Uneventful Story
A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes sto...
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Killing Auntie
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about ki...
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Five short stories. (1) “Czas przybliża, czas oddala” – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Ann...
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Coloured Stockings
The film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable s...
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Naprawdę wczoraj
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unabl...
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The s...
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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft....
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Gangsters and Philanthropists
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philant...
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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
On the planet Transformation, the cruel Prince Saligia steals people’s dreams and turns them into ad...
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Marysia i Krasnoludki
King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs...
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Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach
Two men are having a conversation about life and transience. One of them is terminally ill....
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Odwiedziny o zmierzchu
A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover....
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The Moment of Peace
The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Be...
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Operacja Samum
The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel...
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The Woodpecker
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital af...
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Story of the Golden Boot
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who ...
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Childish Questions
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding in...
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Fatalista
Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz...
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Sons and Comrades
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the si...
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on ...
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Goodbye to the Past
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the place...
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How Far, How Near
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an o...
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Erotique
A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The gir...
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in...
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The Stars Must Burn
The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Social...
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In Broad Daylight
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. ...
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Lord Jim
The play depicts the circumstances of the crash of an old steamer carrying Mohammedan pilgrims and J...
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Pejzaż z bohaterem
Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respec...
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The Law and the Fist
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ru...
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Zniewolony teatr
A film devoted to the difficult fate and dramatic choices of actors during the war – whether to cont...
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The Noose
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain c...
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Siegfried
The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfr...
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The Game
Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an ove...
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The Taste of the Black Earth
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep...
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One Room Tenants
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by ...
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Write and Fight
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breake...
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Salto
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, ...
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A Very Christmas Story
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looki...
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a ...
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Spotkanie wśród gwiazd
Julius Ceasar and Cicero meet in the afterlife and discuss their worldly beliefs and legacy in the m...
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Opening Tomorrow
A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theate...
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Listy miłosne
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man s...
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The Book of Great Wishes
Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to bef...
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Polar Bear
A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos wit...
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Farewells
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-c...
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Maria and Napoleon
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is un...
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through ...
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Men of the Blue Cross
The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous...
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Time Past
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhage...
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Oczy niebieskie
Jacek, a young violinist, falls in love with reciprocity with the cellist Ania. Ania's mother is aga...
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, w...
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hosp...
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Lava
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the...
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Soldier of Victory
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group...
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Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigu...
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Niemcy
A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professiona...
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Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Count Olgierd Łabiński lives in Paris with his beloved wife, but their quiet life is disturbed by th...
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Through the Fifth Dimension
Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimensio...
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In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mi...
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to acti...
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Weryfikacja
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest....
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Passerby
The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects th...
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Kordian
The staging of "Kordian" by Juliusz Słowacki, refers to the November Uprising and attempts to unders...
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The Tin Drum
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...
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Wyspy szczęśliwe
A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer....
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