Józef Nowak

Acting

Józef Nowak

Born — Died

1925-04-08 — 1984-01-16

Place of birth

Kończyce, małopolskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 25 titles

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

Jarosław Dąbrowski poster
10.0

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

Jarosław Dąbrowski

1976

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

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

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
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

A Hole in the Ground poster
8.0

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.

A Hole in the Ground

1970

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

How It's Done poster
7.3

Two ambitious men — one, a self-described director, another, a self-described writer, meet on a train to Zakopane and decide to make a movie together.

How It's Done

1974

Kardiogram poster
8.2

A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.

Kardiogram

1971

No artwork available
5.5

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.

Facing the Truth

1970

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

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne poster
6.7

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne

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

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

Kłopotliwy gość poster
7.0

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

Kłopotliwy gość

1971

Jeszcze słychać śpiew.  I rżenie koni... poster
7.0

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.

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...

1971

Full Moon poster
7.4

A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to live in a small community of cabins and summer homes in a lake-filled region north of Warsaw. His interactions with the villagers, including a drunkard and other eccentrics, provide an informative background for what happens next. The ex-architect's wife is a professional singer who has not abandoned the city or her life -- and she soon arrives to spend some time with her very changed husband.

Full Moon

1979

Shoot Paragon! poster
7.7

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.

Shoot Paragon!

1970

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

Nowy poster
7.0

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

Nowy

1970

It's Spring, Sergeant poster
7.4

In Trzebiatów, a small town, there is an unusual bustle. A crowd of residents has gathered in the market square to welcome their beloved MO sergeant, Władysław Lichniak. The sergeant has just returned from his written high school final exam. The residents, who adore him, make sure he has the right conditions to study. They have limited their alcohol consumption and maintain order in the town themselves. Unfortunately, a fight breaks out and disturbs the sergeant's peace.

It's Spring, Sergeant

1974

No artwork available
8.0

Two neighbours living in one block of flats share the same dreams at night - they murder each another.

Goodnight

1971

No artwork available
6.8

A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.

Dom

1970

1960s · 19 titles

Mężczyźni na wyspie poster
7.0

Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.

Mężczyźni na wyspie

1962

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

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy poster
7.0

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy

1967

Countess Cosel poster
7.0

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.

Countess Cosel

1968

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

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

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

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

The Neighbours poster
6.2

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

The Neighbours

1969

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

Westerplatte Resists poster
7.3

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

Ostatni po Bogu poster
8.0

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.

Ostatni po Bogu

1968

Barwy walki poster
9.0

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.

Barwy walki

1964

Silent Traces poster
9.0

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.

Silent Traces

1961

Korn's Password poster
6.2

An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.

Korn's Password

1968

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

Ostrożnie yeti poster
3.8

Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.

Ostrożnie yeti

1961

The Unknown poster
8.0

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.

The Unknown

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Księżyc z Alabamy

1961

1950s · 8 titles

Cellulose poster
6.5

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Cellulose

1954

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

Dezerter poster
6.5

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

Dezerter

1958

Soldier of Victory poster
10.0

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.

Soldier of Victory

1953

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

Adventure in Marienstadt poster
6.5

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men

Adventure in Marienstadt

1954

The Warsaw Debut poster
7.0

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

The Warsaw Debut

1951

Under the Phrygian Star poster
6.4

Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".

Under the Phrygian Star

1954

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