Acting

Czesław Piaskowski

Born May 13, 1903 · Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)

Died March 11, 1994 · aged 90

No biography available.

Known For

The Hourglass Sanatorium · 1973

The Hourglass Sanatorium

★ 7.51973

MovieDramaFantasy

Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

Komedie pomyłek · 1968

Komedie pomyłek

1968

MovieComedyDrama

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

The Last Stage · 1948

The Last Stage

★ 7.21948

MovieDrama

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

The Deluge · 1974

The Deluge

★ 7.21974

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.

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.

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.

Filmography

Sort

The Hourglass Sanatorium · 1973

The Hourglass Sanatorium

★ 7.51973

MovieDramaFantasy

Wax Figure of Otto von Bismarck

Passenger (uncredited)

Komedie pomyłek · 1968

Komedie pomyłek

1968

MovieComedyDrama

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

Hadleyburg Citizen (uncredited)

The Last Stage · 1948

Production Design

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

Engineer (uncredited)

The Deluge · 1974

The Deluge

★ 7.21974

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.

A Monk at Jasna Góra (uncredited)

Assistant Production Design

Assistant Production Design

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Guard in Prison (uncredited)

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.

A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.

Assistant Production Design

Niedziela sprawiedliwości · 1966

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

★ 7.51966

MovieCrimeDrama

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

Conductor

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.

Militiaman in Jelonek's Apartment (uncredited)

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

Adam

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.

Painter

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

Construction Manager

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

Railwayman (uncredited)

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Elevator Operator

The Barrel Organ · 1968

The Barrel Organ

★ 7.01968

MovieTV MovieDrama

This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.

Potter (uncredited)

Set in the beginning of World War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops, the movie is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.

Man (uncredited)

The People from the Train · 1961

The People from the Train

★ 6.31961

MovieDramaWar

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

Man with a Case

All Souls' Day · 1961

All Souls' Day

★ 6.91961

MovieDrama

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.

Partisan

Przeor Kordecki – obrońca Częstochowy · 1934

Przeor Kordecki – obrońca Częstochowy

1934

MovieDramaHistory

Pre-war Polish film about the siege of Jasna Góra, which took place during the Swedish invasion of Poland.

Production Design

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

Caretaker (uncredited)

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.

„ślepy” grajek, konspirator GL

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.

mieszczanin z Lecka (nie występuje w napisach)

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.

Kozdra

Ziemia obiecana · 1978

Ziemia obiecana

★ 8.01978

Series

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