Acting

Kazimierz Opaliński

Born February 22, 1890 · Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Przemyśl, Poland)

Died June 6, 1979 · aged 89

Kazimierz Opaliński (22 February 1890 – 6 June 1979) was a Polish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1936 and 1975. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript · 1966

The Saragossa Manuscript

MovieFantasyMystery

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

The Promised Land

The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

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 Deluge

The Deluge · 1974

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 Wedding

The Wedding · 1973

MovieDramaFantasy

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.

The People of the Vistula

The People of the Vistula · 1938

The People of the Vistula

MovieComedyDrama

A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.

Pharaoh

Pharaoh · 1966

MovieHistoryDrama

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.

The Codes

The Codes · 1966

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.

Bad Luck

Bad Luck · 1960

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Filmography

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The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript · 1966

The Saragossa Manuscript

MovieFantasyMystery

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Hermit / Sheik

The Promised Land

The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

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.

Maks' Father

The Deluge

The Deluge · 1974

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.

Imperial envoy

The Wedding

The Wedding · 1973

MovieDramaFantasy

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.

Father

The People of the Vistula

The People of the Vistula · 1938

The People of the Vistula

MovieComedyDrama

A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.

Skipper Dobrziałkowski

Pharaoh

Pharaoh · 1966

MovieHistoryDrama

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.

Beroes

The Codes

The Codes · 1966

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.

Pieczara

Bad Luck

Bad Luck · 1960

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Prison Warden

All Souls' Day

All Souls' Day · 1961

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.

Skotnicki

Kaule

Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.

Vater Pietsch

Wiano

MovieDramaRomance

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

Staszek's Father

Two Brigades

Two Brigades · 1950

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.

Jerzy Borowicz

Difficult Love

Difficult Love · 1954

MovieRomanceDrama

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.

Nalepa, Hanka's father

Eroica

MovieComedyDrama

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.

Polish Commandant (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")

Pierwsze dni

Pierwsze dni · 1952

An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.

Stanisław Wysmyk

Sprawa do załatwienia

Sprawa do załatwienia · 1953

Sprawa do załatwienia

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.

Director, Train Passenger

Hell and Heaven

Hell and Heaven · 1966

Hell and Heaven

MovieComedyFantasy

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

Ignacy Zasada

Nights and Days

Nights and Days · 1975

Nights and Days

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.

Rejent Joachim Ostrzeński

Komedia z pomyłek

Komedia z pomyłek · 1967

Komedia z pomyłek

MovieWesternComedy

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.

Judge

Five Boys from Barska Street

Five Boys from Barska Street · 1954

Five Boys from Barska Street

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

Machinist

Pan Anatol szuka miliona

Pan Anatol szuka miliona · 1959

Pan Anatol szuka miliona

MovieComedyCrime

Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.

Rapaczyński

Komedie pomyłek

Komedie pomyłek · 1968

Komedie pomyłek

MovieComedyDrama

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.

Edward Richards / Judge

Tajemnica dzikiego szybu

Tajemnica dzikiego szybu · 1956

Tajemnica dzikiego szybu

MovieAdventureFamily

Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.

Kropa

The Others Will Follow

The Others Will Follow · 1949

The Others Will Follow

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.

Antique Dealer

Clouds of War

Clouds of War · 1973

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.

Sękosz, mieszczanin z Lecka

Nights and Days

Nights and Days · 1978

Nights and Days

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.

Joachim Ostrzeński, stryj Barbary

Ziemia obiecana

Ziemia obiecana · 1978

Ziemia obiecana

Baum, ojciec Maksa

Professor Tutka Club

Professor Tutka Club · 1967

Professor Tutka Club

Professor Tutka is a storyteller in little café.

Doktor