Acting

Bolesław Płotnicki

Born June 17, 1913 · Kijów, Rosja (obecnie Ukraina)

Died September 7, 1988 · aged 75

No biography available.

Known For

Only the Dead Can Answer · 1969

Only the Dead Can Answer

★ 6.51969

MovieCrime

Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career.

MovieHistoryAdventure

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

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.

Naked Among Wolves · 1963

Naked Among Wolves

★ 6.31963

MovieDramaWar

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

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

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.

Mister Blot's Academy · 1984

Mister Blot's Academy

★ 5.81984

MovieFantasyFamily

Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa’s classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is the subject. Adaś learns about the miracles of the enchanted land, but also gets to know its dark secrets.

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Only the Dead Can Answer · 1969

Only the Dead Can Answer

★ 6.51969

MovieCrime

Doctor Boleslaw Sedlak

Starzec I

MovieHistoryAdventure

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

Priest

The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

★ 7.41975

MovieDramaHistory

Malinowski (voice) (uncredited)

Naked Among Wolves · 1963

Naked Among Wolves

★ 6.31963

MovieDramaWar

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

Kodiczek

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

Antoni Walendowski

Railway Worker (uncredited)

Mister Blot's Academy · 1984

Mister Blot's Academy

Don Kichot

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.

Ziemiomysł, Mieszko's father

When Love Was a Crime · 1968

When Love Was a Crime

★ 10.01968

MovieDramaWar

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.

Gardener

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.

Colonel

A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation.

Reformatory Director

A family drama set in a Polish village - a woman recounts her life after her husband's death, focusing on the differences between her two sons and the tragedy that befalls one of them.

Wojciech Zawada

Two from the Big River · 1958

Two from the Big River

★ 6.11958

MovieDramaRomance

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.

(uncredited)

The Voice from Beyond · 1962

The Voice from Beyond

★ 5.81962

MovieDrama

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.

Barański

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

Sergeant Kamejczuk (voice) (uncredited)

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni... · 1971

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...

★ 7.01971

MovieDramaHistory

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.

Prisoner (uncredited)

The End of the Holiday · 1975

The End of the Holiday

★ 7.41975

MovieRomanceDrama

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.

Jurek's Grandfather

Journey for One Smile · 1972

Journey for One Smile

★ 7.81972

MovieFamilyAdventure

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking and using every transport they can find.

Doctor

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.

Ludwik Stankiewicz

Heaven on Earth · 1970

Heaven on Earth

★ 6.01970

MovieWar

Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory.

Gerdele

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.

Medic Karol Szwedowski

The Law and the Fist · 1964

The Law and the Fist

★ 7.01964

MovieWarDrama

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.

Attorney

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.

Manager

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.

Józef Podlasiński, konspirator AL

4 Alternative Street · 1986

4 Alternative Street

★ 8.41986

SeriesComedy

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

Antoni Kierka

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.

Korzycki, mieszczanin z Lecka

Janosik · 1974

Janosik

★ 7.21974

SeriesAction & Adventure

Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.

Józek, góral

Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He is always ready to solve the problems of others, although he is usually not very good at it. His favorite saying is “absolutely”.

Szczepan Chliwa, ojciec Kazika

A drama series about young people on the threshold of maturity. The heroes are young people who have recently graduated from high school. Before them, the first life decisions await, the first "adult" love, as well as the first disappointments and dramas.

Dr. Stefan Rylski

Ziemia obiecana · 1978

Ziemia obiecana

★ 8.01978

Series

Malinowski - dubbing Jerzego Obłamskiego