Acting

Danuta Wodyńska

Born May 31, 1922 · Lwów, Polska (obecnie Ukraina)

Died July 4, 2001 · aged 79

No biography available.

Known For

The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

★ 7.41975

MovieDramaHistory

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

The Birch Wood · 1970

The Birch Wood

★ 6.61970

MovieDrama

A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.

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

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.

Countess Cosel · 1968

Countess Cosel

★ 7.01968

MovieHistoryRomance

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

Filmography

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The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

★ 7.41975

MovieDramaHistory

Müllerowa

The Birch Wood · 1970

The Birch Wood

★ 6.61970

MovieDrama

A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.

Katarzyna

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

Kobuzowa (uncredited)

Franusiowa (uncredited)

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.

Stawicka

Countess Cosel · 1968

Bielińska

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

Julcia (uncredited)

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

Basement Owner

The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a voyage in time, during which she relives the memories of her idyllic childhood.

Bogna's Teatcher (uncredited)

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto · 1961

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

★ 8.01961

MovieWarDrama

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

Kirstie (uncredited)

Nights and Days · 1975

Nights and Days

★ 7.11975

MovieDramaHistory

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.

Klimecka

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem · 1962

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem

★ 8.01962

MovieAdventureComedy

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.

Woman on the Street (uncredited)

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

Woman Riding To Częstochowa

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach · 1970

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

★ 6.41970

MovieFantasyHorror

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.

Żdanowa

A Cure for Love · 1966

A Cure for Love

★ 7.41966

MovieComedyCrime

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

Cashier

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

Wacek's Mother (uncredited)

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.

Angelika's Mother (uncredited)

Gangsters and Philanthropists · 1963

Gangsters and Philanthropists

★ 6.81963

MovieActionComedy

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

Judge's Maid (segment nr 1)

An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.

Post Office Clerk

Lovers from Marona · 1966

Lovers from Marona

★ 9.01966

MovieDrama

Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.

Eufrozyna Pogorzelska

Ktokolwiek wie... · 1966

Ktokolwiek wie...

★ 8.01966

MovieDrama

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

Laundry Woman

After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize.

Malwina's Mother

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Woman in Line

Kryptonim Nektar · 1963

Kryptonim Nektar

★ 6.21963

MovieComedyCrime

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.

Beverage Seller (uncredited)

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

handlarka na bazarze

Polskie drogi · 1977

Polskie drogi

★ 7.21977

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.

Tereska, gospodyni księdza Pycnika

Nights and Days · 1978

Nights and Days

★ 8.01978

SeriesDrama

Set in the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the miniseries presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society as told through the life of the Niechcic family.

Klimecka

Ziemia obiecana · 1978

Ziemia obiecana

★ 8.01978

Series

Mullerowa, matka Mady

Marszałkowa Bielińska, matka hrabiny Denhoffowej