Acting

Stanisław Niwiński

Born May 8, 1932 · Warsaw, Poland

Died May 4, 2002 · aged 69

No biography available.

Known For

The Night of the Generals · 1967

The Night of the Generals

★ 6.81967

MovieThrillerMystery

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

The Gorgon Case · 1977

The Gorgon Case

★ 5.51977

MovieDramaCrime

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect.

The Last Witness · 1970

The Last Witness

★ 5.31970

MovieCrime

Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

Second half of September 1939. Lt. Brejer, along with a detachment of his sappers, receives orders to blow up the bridge. The promised explosives do not arrive. So Brejer gets the order to withdraw and reunite with the rest of the division. Along the way, suffering hunger and discomfort along with his soldiers, he joins various divisions, collects survivors and fights. From a German prisoner of war, he finally learns that the Soviets have entered Poland. Finally, he and his men manage to reach his home unit, but that unit has just surrendered to the Germans.

Rodzina Milcarków · 1962

Rodzina Milcarków

★ 7.01962

MovieDramaWar

The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.

A group of Boy scouts who name themselves Black Feet learn lessons about honor and brotherhood in a camp.

Filmography

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The Night of the Generals · 1967

The Night of the Generals

★ 6.81967

MovieThrillerMystery

German Officer in Warsaw (uncredited)

Prisoner (uncredited

The Gorgon Case · 1977

The Gorgon Case

★ 5.51977

MovieDramaCrime

Dziennikarz

The Last Witness · 1970

The Last Witness

★ 5.31970

MovieCrime

Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.

Militiaman

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

Macek

Rodzina Milcarków · 1962

Rodzina Milcarków

★ 7.01962

MovieDramaWar

The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.

Karol Milcarek

A group of Boy scouts who name themselves Black Feet learn lessons about honor and brotherhood in a camp.

Lesne Oko

Rendes-Vous with a Spy · 1964

Rendes-Vous with a Spy

★ 6.71964

MovieCrime

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

Giedrowski

The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.

Rusin

Polonia Restituta · 1981

Polonia Restituta

★ 10.01981

MovieDramaHistory

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

współpracownik Dmowskiego

Czarne skrzydła · 1963

Czarne skrzydła

★ 7.01963

MovieDrama

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.

Tadeusz Miniewski

Westerplatte Resists · 1967

Westerplatte Resists

★ 7.11967

MovieWarDrama

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

Pvt. Jan Połeć

Spotkanie w 'Bajce' · 1962

Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

★ 10.01962

MovieDrama

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.

Truck Driver

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju · 1967

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju

1967

MovieDramaTV Movie

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

Krzysztof

Where is the General? · 1964

Where is the General?

★ 7.01964

MovieComedyWar

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.

SS Oberleutnant

It Started Yesterday · 1961

It Started Yesterday

★ 8.01961

MovieDrama

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.

Worker (uncredited)

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.

Platoon Leader Józef Alicki

Trzy kroki po ziemi · 1965

Trzy kroki po ziemi

★ 9.01965

MovieDrama

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

Doctor (segment 3)

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.

Pietrek

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.

Officer

A Lady from the Window · 1964

A Lady from the Window

★ 7.51964

MovieRomanceDrama

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

Zbigniew Kalinowski

The Catastrophe · 1966

The Catastrophe

★ 8.01966

MovieDrama

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

Grzegorz Hulewicz

The Hours of Hope · 1955

The Hours of Hope

★ 6.41955

MovieWarDrama

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

(uncredited)

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

mówca podczas otwarcia FSO na Żeraniu

More Than Life At Stake · 1968

More Than Life At Stake

★ 8.01968

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

porucznik Neumann

Clouds of War · 1973

Clouds of War

★ 6.41973

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.

rotmistrz Zaremba

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

inżynier Piotr Gajda, syn Ignacego / dyrektor "Fabelu"

Rusin

Życie na gorąco · 1979

Życie na gorąco

★ 8.01979

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Kornel Preiss, współwłaściciel pensjonatu "Złota Podkowa"

Blisko, coraz bliżej · 1983

Blisko, coraz bliżej

★ 8.01983

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.

doktor Kulicki

Pogranicze w ogniu · 1992

Pogranicze w ogniu

★ 8.31992

SeriesAction & Adventure

Wojciech Matusiak, ojciec Doroty