Daniel Olbrychski
Birthday: 1945-02-27
Place of Birth: Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Olbrychski (Polish pronunciation: [ɔlˈbrɨxskʲi]; born 27 February 1945) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.
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The Promised Land
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
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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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A Love in Germany
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that ...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...
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The Butler
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whos...
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The Last Days
Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...
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It's Me, the Thief
A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the ...
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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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Raz, jeszcze raz
The movie is an attractive comedy of mistakes with large dose of humor and action. At the same time ...
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Salt
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested w...
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Flash Back
A man alone in an empty house somewhere in the Solagne region of France. Despite the pleasent light ...
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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to...
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The New Order
A Ukranian flight engineer must infiltrate a highly secretive cult in order to save his abducted son...
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Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki...
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Gebürtig
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identi...
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The Birch Wood
A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make ...
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The Turkish Gambit
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novel...
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Bolero
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) ...
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Dangerous Moves
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and politica...
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Wizja lokalna 1901
More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 ch...
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Two Words as the Key
Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold a...
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Tolko ne seychas
1953. A Russian soldier stationed in Poland falls in love with a local girl. Their forbidden romance...
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Legend No. 17
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of...
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Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a...
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The Trout
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a n...
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Rosa Luxemburg
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 2...
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Rome Wants Another Caesar
In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled....
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'vo...
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Lesser Evil
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It wa...
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Poznań 56
The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the ...
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From a Far Country
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne ...
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Roly Poly
Based on a screenplay by Stanislaw Lem. The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved...
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Battle of Warsaw 1920
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ol...
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Odwrócona góra albo film pod strasznym tytułem
An adaptation of the book by Jerzy Niemczuk. The protagonists are strange but friendly creatures inh...
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Hans Kloss: More Than Death at Stake
The cinema war-action movie takes place partly during WWII and partly in 1975 in Spain. The main cha...
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Children and Fish
Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One d...
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The Story About Master Twardowski
On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who resc...
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The Vulture
Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he sa...
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Decalogue III
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz...
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The Silence Of Elsewhere
Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne is waiting for her h...
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The Structure of Crystal
Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives tak...
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Różaniec z granatów
Fall 1944. A wounded Polish officer, Ryszard, is brought to the Allied field hospital. He notices an...
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Transatlantis
In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the he...
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The Cop & the Girl
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl...
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Family Life
A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his grave...
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Jowita
Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he m...
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Agnus Dei
Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the coun...
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The Fall of Italy
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are cont...
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Zoo
Martina lives in the Rome's zoo, because her father is the guardian. She becomes friend with a young...
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Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defe...
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Revisited
In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great acto...
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The Deluge
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the...
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The Barber of Siberia
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...
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So Much for Justice!
Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), t...
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Powstaniec 1863
A gripping story about a man who was the terror of the Russian Empire: the legendary figure of a Pol...
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Faust
Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil of...
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Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic
The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As ...
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The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, wil...
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Persona non grata
A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife....
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A Man and His Dog
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means....
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The Ashes
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at th...
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The Maids of Wilko
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a c...
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Roza
In an inn in Trieste, Kyveli, wife of a political prisoner of the junta, falls in love with an old s...
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Scenes From The Director's Life
Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz, perf...
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Screen Tests
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a work...
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Makbet
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth ...
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Nitschewo
Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance, whic...
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Milady
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors....
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Anthony Zimmer
François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up o...
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Ivan & Abraham
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes fr...
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Examination
A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be...
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Fanciful
After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and ...
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We Summon You
A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of...
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If You Go Away
The fate of a religious and a young woman intertwine when they both suffer the loss of a loved one....
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To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it....
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Przedwiośnie
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1...
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Le Monde Désert
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two friends, one a homosexual and the other a writer, fal...
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Then There Will Be Silence
Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans...
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The Jeweller's Shop
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-...
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1953. Fight for Hope
Boxing was an iconic sport discipline at the time of Poland’s first post-war world championship in b...
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Nietzsche in Russia
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious c...
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Maryla. Tak kochałam
The documentary shows unique, unknown footage from the archives of Polish Television. The film crew ...
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Escape
Budapest, 1948. Gyula Molnár, interpreter to the Supervisory Committee of the Allied Powers, is carr...
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Z miłości
A young married couple decides to appear in a porn movie to shore up their joint budget....
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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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If I Were 1000 Years Old
A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the ...
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Everything for Sale
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND...
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Gulczas, what do you think...
A feature film starring mostly the participants of the first edition of Polish "Big Brother" reality...
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Hunting Flies
Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan...
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Landscape After Battle
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are ...
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The Wedding
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to...
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Hidden Reserves
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, b...
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The Revenge
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldie...
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The Perfect Guy for My Girlfriend
When Kostek gets in the wrong taxicab and sees Luna, it is love at first sight. But Luna already has...
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Rola
An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of...
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Winter's Daughter
For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor wh...
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Wounded in the Forest
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order t...
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Marie Curie
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes w...
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Laços de Sangue
Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is...
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Casablanca, Casablanca
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to...
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Miracle
Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds ...
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Countess Cosel
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a Germ...
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The Pacifist
A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being...
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Pilate and Others
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of t...
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Studniówk@
Students in the final year of high school are preparing for prom. The anticipation of the prom distr...
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Van Goghs
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional s...
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Dear Karl
A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious f...
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The Marriage of Convenience
Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a yo...
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Dagny
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famo...
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Love Steps
The story revolves around Elisa, a young talented ballet dancer. After an unjust accusation at her s...
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Weekend Stories: The Last Circle
An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time...
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Lepiej być piękną i bogatą
There is a strike at the spinning mill in Łódź. Among the protesters, Dorota Waltz, the granddaughte...
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Pestka
Agatha is reaching her 40s, but despite her many romances she has not started a family. She lives as...
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Passenger from San Francisco
Our film portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service. Sent in...
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Bastard
Ambrus, the canon pretender and Gerzson, the stinking rich lawyer, taking advantage of a sect and a ...
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What a Country!
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself ...
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Liberation: Breakthrough
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhi...
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Sequence of Feelings
A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo a...
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Liberation: The Battle of Berlin
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stali...
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Butterflies
In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape ...
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Politics
Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years....
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Break Point
A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and...
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Bird Talk
Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and s...
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Smród
A wino bumps into a 25-year-old man waiting at the train station. This accidental encounter turns in...
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Indián
Andrew is a tough businessman and an arrogant workaholic. He runs a large, successful company in Pra...
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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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Kung-fu
A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when ...
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Titanium White
Dominik, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to ...
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The Last Wager
Orestes is a journalist who used to be part of a radical left-wing group. When two of the people who...
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Axiliad
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents ...
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DJ
The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What hap...
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...jestem przeciw
A girl who overdosed on drugs dies in the intensive care unit. The doctor on duty notifies the manag...
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Skok
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take p...
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War of Love
Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors ev...
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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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Boxer
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the O...
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The Hexer
A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destin...
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Jacek
Friends, fellow artists and members of anti-communist underground remember "the Polish bard" Jacek K...
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The Deluge: Postscriptum
Despite the anti-Semitic campaign launched by the Polish People's Government in the late 1960s, dire...
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Short Breath of Love
Having been captured, an Afghan officer decided not to return to his homeland. He settled in Finland...
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Pan Olbrychski
Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor D...
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Bittersweet Longing...
A group of Georgian scientists traveling to Poland for a scientific symposium are housed in an old f...
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On The Set
Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. ...
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Notturno
Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. This is the sh...
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Wesele
The guests of a wedding face their fears when they are visited by strange apparitions...
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