Marian Kociniak

Marian Kociniak

Birthday: 1936-01-11

Place of Birth: Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska

Biography: Marian Kociniak (11 January 1936 – 17 March 2016) was a film, television, voice and radio actor and comedian. He was best known from portraying Franciszek Dolas, a main character in the 1969 film How I Unleashed World War II. Kociniak also had main and secondary roles in films such as Morning Stars (1979), Danton (1983), Fucha, Bermuda Triangle (1987), Circus is Leaving (1987), Yesterday Goodbye (1993), Sir Thaddeus (1999), Kalipso (2000), and The Last Action (2009), as well as in television series such as Janosik (1974), Jan Serce (1981), Sukces (1995), and The Deep End (2013). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Kociniak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Movies

The Sun Rises Once a Day
The Sun Rises Once a Day

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist...

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How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms
How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms

After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in su...

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The Last Action
The Last Action

When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on....

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How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German bor...

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How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends

Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Ita...

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Barrier
Barrier

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland....

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Gangsters and Philanthropists
Gangsters and Philanthropists

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philant...

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The Two Who Stole the Moon
The Two Who Stole the Moon

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. ...

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The Woodpecker
The Woodpecker

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital af...

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Skinny and Others
Skinny and Others

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who fa...

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Janosik
Janosik

In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility ...

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Pan profesor
Pan profesor

Ludwik Sempoliński as a professor at the State Higher School of Theater Arts in Warsaw....

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Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Gwiazda Wytrwałości

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet...

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Wiano
Wiano

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land a...

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Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader ...

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Cyrk odjeżdża
Cyrk odjeżdża

The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. ...

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Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany
Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany

Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where...

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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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Innocent Sorcerers
Innocent Sorcerers

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces...

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Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in ...

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Danton
Danton

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

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The Last Days
The Last Days

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...

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Rififi po sześćdziesiątce
Rififi po sześćdziesiątce

A group of retirees, wanting to help a friend, plan to break into a bank....

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Maria and Napoleon
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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Czerwone berety
Czerwone berety

A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk...

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Operation "Brutus"
Operation "Brutus"

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led ...

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Ostatni po Bogu
Ostatni po Bogu

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of th...

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Morning Stars
Morning Stars

A Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive....

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Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne
Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard...

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Fucha
Fucha

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb....

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Przy torze kolejowym
Przy torze kolejowym

February 1943. A Jewish woman jumps out of a train and severely hurts herself. Other people arrive a...

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Miłość z listy przebojów
Miłość z listy przebojów

Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl...

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Schwarzes Gold
Schwarzes Gold

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Playing with the Devil
Playing with the Devil

The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war....

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Sobótki
Sobótki

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not...

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Niemcy
Niemcy

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professiona...

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Smacznego, telewizorku
Smacznego, telewizorku

The TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into...

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