Józef Nowak

Acting

Józef Nowak

Born 1925-04-08 · Kończyce, małopolskie, Polska

Acting credits

The Verdict poster
9.0

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

The Verdict

1962

No artwork available
NR

The school incident of the disappearance of a watch became a pretext for the filmmakers to faithfully show an interesting social layer, to present the life of the school community, Agnieszka's conflicts with her parents and the emerging sympathy for a boy.

Agnieszka

1973

No artwork available
NR

The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life.

Planeta - Ziemia

1970

Legenda poster
4.3

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

Legenda

1971

Zakręt poster
10.0

A psychological study of a successful man, completely devoted to his professional work, for whom the first vacation in years becomes an opportunity to reflect on the illusory value of civilizational progress, opposed to the purity and harmony of the natural world, and to compare his own life with the model of others. Stefan is in charge of the construction of a large investment. He fears imminent old age. He visits a friend who lives in a mountain solitude. They witness a tragic accident - a young mountaineer falls off a cliff. They bring help. Stefan notices the emptiness of his family life. His wife wants to leave him, he still believes in the possibility of saving their marriage. During a trip together they get into a car accident. An encounter with Stefan's son, Andrew, occurs, forcing him to make a harsh assessment of his life.

Zakręt

1977

Dezerter poster
6.5

A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...

Dezerter

1958

Through the Fifth Dimension poster
5.0

Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures.

Through the Fifth Dimension

1973

Culling poster
NR

Chief Forester Szymon from the observation tower sees a professor in the forest, walking through his district. Szymon and his wife Celina later engage in a disagreement due to his indifference and refusal to react on the professor’s illegal hunting. Celina would like to see Szymon as he used to be - rebellious, but Szymon prefers not to lean out. He is aware that everyone is responsible for the evil that permeates the country - some by their actions, others by their conformism.

Culling

1972

Drugi człowiek poster
7.5

A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.

Drugi człowiek

1961

Bad Luck poster
6.8

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.

Bad Luck

1960

Man on the Tracks poster
6.9

One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, know for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?

Man on the Tracks

1957

The Peasants poster
5.8

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.

The Peasants

1973

No artwork available
7.0

Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas.

Profesor na drodze

1973

No artwork available
NR

The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.

Bigos

1966

Westerplatte Resists poster
7.1

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.

Westerplatte Resists

1967

The Law and the Fist poster
7.0

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.

The Law and the Fist

1964

Eroica poster
6.9

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.

Eroica

1958

Red Rowan poster
7.0

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

Red Rowan

1970

Hubal poster
7.4

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.

Hubal

1973

The Warsaw Debut poster
7.0

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

The Warsaw Debut

1951

Hydro-Puzzle poster
6.0

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

Hydro-Puzzle

1971

Jarosław Dąbrowski poster
10.0

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist.

Jarosław Dąbrowski

1976

The Return poster
6.0

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.

The Return

1960

Drugi brzeg poster
10.0

A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

Drugi brzeg

1962