Ferdynand Matysik

Acting

Ferdynand Matysik

Born — Died

1931-04-21 — 2021-05-09

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Known for

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

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.

More Than Life At Stake

1968

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

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.

Dyrektorzy

1975

Boża podszewka. Część druga poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Boża podszewka. Część druga

2005

Życie na gorąco poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Życie na gorąco

1979

Droga poster
7.4

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”.

Droga

1975

Blisko, coraz bliżej poster
8.0

The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.

Blisko, coraz bliżej

1983

Film credits

1980s · 15 titles

Kung-Fu poster
6.5

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.

Kung-Fu

1980

Shivers poster
6.5

A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.

Shivers

1981

No artwork available
3.7

Set in the 70's. A young man decides that after dropping out of school, going to the army is not for him. He decides to become a voluntary miner. He lives with his buddies in barracks, where the only entertainment is ping-pong, and dreams of the opposite sex.

Trzy stopy nad ziemią

1986

Olympics 40 poster
7.5

The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out out that he is a prisoner and nothing more. But that plants the seed and the Pole proposes and Olympics 40 to be held among the prisoners. They ingeniously make a flag and medals, set up a number of races; a croaching hop race is unwittingly organized by a German prison guard who uses it as a torture. The German lieutenant knows that something is going on but cannot find out. Finally the Germans realize the idea and the Polish chief is sent to concentration camp but the others disobey the orders.

Olympics 40

1980

I Like Bats poster
4.6

Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.

I Like Bats

1986

Powinowactwo poster
NR

1982, martial law is in force. Krzysztof works as a teacher. Since his wife Gosia left for a scholarship in Baltimore, he has been living alone. He misses her and often writes letters to her. He hopes that she will leave Poland and join him, but at the moment this is impossible. One night, he has a strange dream. In it, he is running through a mist-covered meadow full of purple flowers. Nearby, on a railway embankment, he hears a woman's delirious cries. In the darkness, the lights of a passing train slowly begin to grow brighter. Before he can save her, the dream ends. When Krzysztof has the same dream a month later, he wonders about its meaning. After receiving a letter from his wife saying that she intends to remarry, Krzysztof feels lost. While browsing through an atlas of reproductions of paintings, he comes across the works of a young painter. As he looks through them, he discovers that the paintings correspond to his visions. Krzysztof decides to find the artist.

Powinowactwo

1984

Cuckoo in a Dark Forest poster
4.9

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.

Cuckoo in a Dark Forest

1985

No artwork available
NR

Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.

Powrót do Polski

1988

Na całość poster
9.0

Two young men from the margins of society start a spiral of crime that gets out of control.

Na całość

1986

The Smaller Sky poster
7.0

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.

The Smaller Sky

1981

No artwork available
7.0

Jerzy and Zofia are offered a job in Africa. A married couple is faced with the dilemma of leaving or taking care of the man's mother and her sister.

Nothing Stands in the Way

1981

The Emergency Exit poster
6.8

A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce.

The Emergency Exit

1982

No artwork available
NR

A clerk looks after a flower that reminds him of his former sweetheart. A man's affection for a plant makes his mother jealous.

Tango z kaszlem

1988

Penelopy poster
4.7

Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.

Penelopy

1989

Meta poster
5.0

Kazik and Władzio, two old friends meet again after many years. Kazik, a small-time swindler and playboy confesses that he needs a place to live, so Władzio offers for him to move in his apartment.

Meta

1981

1970s · 26 titles

The Deluge poster
7.2

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 Deluge

1974

Index poster
6.8

The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.

Index

1977

The Epidemic poster
9.0

Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.

The Epidemic

1972

Pilot Pirx's Inquest poster
5.9

Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

1979

Who Believes in Storks? poster
4.4

A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.

Who Believes in Storks?

1971

No artwork available
7.0

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.

Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych

1973

Signs on the Road poster
10.0

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.

Signs on the Road

1970

Rush Hour poster
5.5

The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill.

Rush Hour

1974

Muffin poster
5.2

A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.

Muffin

1973

A Story in Red poster
9.0

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village

A Story in Red

1974

The Anatomy of Love poster
5.0

A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.

The Anatomy of Love

1972

Merry Christmas poster
8.0

Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.

Merry Christmas

1977

Nos poster
4.0

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

Nos

1971

Kardiogram poster
8.2

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

Kardiogram

1971

Wyjazd służbowy poster
NR

The protagonist is preparing for a year-long business trip to Hungary. The trip appears to be a promotion, but in reality it is tantamount to losing his position. At the same time, his wife has already started an affair with his deputy, who is also his successor.

Wyjazd służbowy

1976

No artwork available
10.0

Based on a novella by Ivan Turgenev, Pierwsza milość is the story of a 15 year old boy and a 21 year old girl who develop an ill-fated romance.

First Love

1971

No artwork available
7.0

A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.

Before the Day Breaks

1977

Sekret poster
10.0

After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he lead a second life.

Sekret

1973

Hour After Hour poster
8.0

Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers.

Hour After Hour

1974

Grzech Antoniego Grudy poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Grzech Antoniego Grudy

1975

The Refuge poster
7.5

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.

The Refuge

1978

No artwork available
10.0

The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.

Day of Purification

1970

No artwork available
6.0

A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.

Operation "Himmler"

1979

Roman and Magda poster
4.3

A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.

Roman and Magda

1979

Pułapka poster
6.0

Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.

Pułapka

1971

The Investigation poster
6.0

A Scotland Yard officer investigates the mysterious disappearance of a series of corpses. Based on the novel by Stanisław Lem.

The Investigation

1974

1960s · 13 titles

Full Ahead poster
6.8

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

Full Ahead

1967

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń poster
6.9

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń

1961

Our Folks poster
7.7

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.

Our Folks

1967

Skok poster
5.7

Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.

Skok

1969

Only the Dead Can Answer poster
6.5

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.

Only the Dead Can Answer

1969

The End of Our World poster
10.0

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it

The End of Our World

1964

Sobótki poster
8.0

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.

Sobótki

1966

White Tracks poster
8.0

Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.

White Tracks

1963

The Catastrophe poster
8.0

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

The Catastrophe

1966

Między brzegami poster
7.0

A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.

Między brzegami

1963

No artwork available
9.0

Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?

Fatalista

1968

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

The Hot Line poster
9.0

Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.

The Hot Line

1965

1950s · 3 titles

Series credits

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

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.

More Than Life At Stake

1968

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

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.

Dyrektorzy

1975

Boża podszewka. Część druga poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Boża podszewka. Część druga

2005

Życie na gorąco poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Życie na gorąco

1979

Droga poster
7.4

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”.

Droga

1975

Blisko, coraz bliżej poster
8.0

The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.

Blisko, coraz bliżej

1983

Znaki szczególne poster
7.0

Engineer Bogdan Zawada moves to the construction of a port on the Baltic Sea. The man tries to arrange his personal and professional life in a new environment.

Znaki szczególne

1977

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Misja

1981