Mieczysław Voit

Acting

Mieczysław Voit

Born — Died

1928-08-02 — 1991-01-31

Place of birth

Kalisz, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Mieczyslaw Voit was born on August 2, 1928 in Kalisz, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He is known for his work on Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), Czarne slonca (1992) and Maskarada (1973). He died on January 31, 1991 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.

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

Calling 07 poster
7.5

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Calling 07

1976

Clouds of War poster
6.4

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.

Clouds of War

1973

Mother Joan of the Angels poster
7.5

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Mother Joan of the Angels

1961

Puppy Love poster
10.0

A drama series about young people on the threshold of maturity. The heroes are young people who have recently graduated from high school. Before them, the first life decisions await, the first "adult" love, as well as the first disappointments and dramas.

Puppy Love

1980

4 Alternative Street poster
8.4

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

4 Alternative Street

1986

Film credits

1980s · 17 titles

No artwork available
NR

A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.

Sąd nad Braćmi Polskimi

1984

No artwork available
NR

During the holidays, a famous actress gets into an affair with a student.

Terrarium

1981

Hidden in the Sun poster
7.0

Artist Janek is waiting for his beloved Joanna. He is worried because he has a feeling that there has been a tragedy the night before. After an hour of waiting, the man departs. He keeps reminiscing about Joanna all the time.

Hidden in the Sun

1980

State of Fear poster
7.7

Realistic depiction of the Polish martial law in 1981. John Malecki is a young actor with good career prospects in a Warsaw theater, preparing to play Hamlet, his dream role. John plans to go to Sweden. Any involvement with the new Solidarnośc movement might put his visa to Sweden at risk. But staying neutral in these times is not an easy task.

State of Fear

1989

Alchemik poster
6.5

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

Alchemik

1989

Sérénité poster
NR

Poland, 1930s. Agata, a twenty-year-old young woman, a niece of the lady of a small manor, is about to get married. This fact causes dramatic changes for three people: Miss Stawro, a music teacher who cares for Agata, and two sixteen-year-old boys, Witek and Stas, who have their own feelings for the girl. However, the closer the wedding date gets, the more the bride-to-be is haunted by morbidly surreal visions related to her troubled past.

Sérénité

1989

No artwork available
NR

A dramatized retelling of the life of the Romanticism painter Piotr Michałowski.

Piotr Michałowski

1989

The Day of the Vistula poster
8.0

Warsaw, September 1944. On the eastern bank of the Vistula, a group of civilians live in a house cut off from the fighting across the river. Tadeusz, a young poet who has lost both legs, struggles with his helplessness as the Warsaw Uprising continues. His younger brother Witek dreams of crossing the river to join the fight, while Tadeusz grows closer to Katarzyna. As soldiers, refugees and resistance fighters pass through the house, its inhabitants confront the devastation of war and the uncertain future of a country caught between two worlds.

The Day of the Vistula

1980

Polonia Restituta poster
10.0

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

Polonia Restituta

1981

ESD poster
8.0

The Borejko family has four daughters — Gabriela, Ida, Natalia and Patricia. Most concern causes the red-haired Ida, whose unusual ideas often end badly, though the girl has the best intentions. Her father, who works at the university as a classical philologist, gives her the idea to found a group called ESD. They want to try out the theory that you are more successful if you send out more positive signals to the environment. Soon this theory will be put to the test. Ida's mother has to go to the hospital and the entire burden of household chores falls on the children.

ESD

1987

Thais poster
4.0

Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.

Thais

1984

Wizja lokalna 1901 poster
6.3

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher in Wrzesnia follows the dictates of the Germans in parliament and insists that the children be taught their religion classes in German. When the children refuse to take part in the classes, they are supported by the local priest, but that does not save them from being beaten. They are also kept after school and tormented in other ways as well. Newspapers, parents, and the nation as a whole get involved, transforming a simple children's strike into a national incident.

Wizja lokalna 1901

1981

Stanisław i Anna poster
9.0

The 17th century, the reign of King Władysław IV. The half-siblings of Stanisław and Anna Oświęcim have been linked by love since childhood. During the feast, a conflict arises between Stanisław and Zebrzydowski, Anna's competitor. Stanisław is wounded in a duel. Anna bandages him in her room. There is a rapprochement between them. Stanisław leaves for the Vatican to obtain a dispensation from the Pope for a wedding with Anna. Meanwhile, Anna repents, misses, prays and refuses to eat. Not a single word is spoken in the movie. The mood is built by Karłowicz's music.

Stanisław i Anna

1987

Klejnot wolnego sumienia poster
7.0

The Republic of Poland of the 16th century. During the period of religious tolerance, the Sieniawski and Bielecki families compete with each other.

Klejnot wolnego sumienia

1983

Komediantka poster
6.3

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

Komediantka

1987

No artwork available
NR

The 8th Plenum of the PZPR is underway. Passengers waiting for a train learn that their traffic has stopped.

Stacja

1987

No artwork available
7.5

Young master Henry and his peer, the son of a rich Tatar landowner Salim Mirza, fall in love with the same girl. Hania is an orphan, the daughter of Henry's father's faithful servant. There is a fierce rivalry between the young men for the girl's favor, and it ends in a duel in which both are wounded. After recovering, Henry learns that Hania has passed smallpox and has been disfigured. The girl rejects Selim's proposals and joins a convent.

Hania

1984

1970s · 18 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

The Hourglass Sanatorium poster
7.5

Józef visits a dilapidated sanatorium to see his father, undertaking a strange journey through its many rooms, each of which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams, and nightmares.

The Hourglass Sanatorium

1973

The Story of Sin poster
5.6

A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.

The Story of Sin

1975

The Wedding poster
7.3

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 Wedding

1973

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment poster
5.3

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

1971

The Moonlit Road poster
6.0

Julian, a young man who came back home after years of studying abroad finds his life in turmoil after falling for his stepmother, while his dead mother's spirit haunts the family house, intent on revenge.

The Moonlit Road

1973

Charade poster
10.0

A young lab technician, threatened by a blackmailer, descends into madness.

Charade

1977

No artwork available
NR

A young girl wants to have a dog, but must instead settle with a dog toy, which she treats as if it was alive.

Najpiękniejszy na świecie

1976

Journey for One Smile poster
7.8

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking and using every transport they can find.

Journey for One Smile

1972

Passion poster
6.8

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.

Passion

1978

Nights and Days poster
7.1

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.

Nights and Days

1975

Lesson of a Dead Language poster
6.7

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.

Lesson of a Dead Language

1979

No artwork available
7.0

A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in philosophy

Śnić we śnie

1979

Red Thorns poster
NR

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.

Red Thorns

1977

No artwork available
7.0

Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.

Hasło

1977

Mniejszy szuka Dużego poster
NR

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.

Mniejszy szuka Dużego

1976

Mazepa poster
9.0

King Jan Kazimierz, Mazepa, a young Cossack from the king's entourage, and Zbigniew, the voivode's son from his first marriage, are all in love with Amelia, the voivode's wife. Dramatic coincidences and misunderstandings lead to a tragic ending. Zbigniew commits suicide, Amelia dies, the voivode orders Mazepa to be captured, stripped naked, and tied to a horse, after which he releases him, while he himself kills himself with a dagger in front of the king.

Mazepa

1976

Bolesław Śmiały poster
6.6

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

Bolesław Śmiały

1972

1960s · 15 titles

Mother Joan of the Angels poster
7.5

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Mother Joan of the Angels

1961

Knights of the Teutonic Order poster
7.1

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Knights of the Teutonic Order

1960

Pharaoh poster
6.8

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.

Pharaoh

1966

Interrupted Flight poster
9.0

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

Interrupted Flight

1964

No artwork available
NR

Vladislav Ikonomov's student film made at Łódź Film School.

Za oknem

1961

Komedie pomyłek poster
NR

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

Komedie pomyłek

1968

No artwork available
NR

Actor Henryk bets his friend that he will make his ex, Tatiana, come back to him in half an hour.

Febliki Tatiany

1963

All Souls' Day poster
6.9

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.

All Souls' Day

1961

Loneliness of the Couple poster
9.0

The film is a psychological study addressing the problem of lack of inner resilience in the face of misfortune. The death of a son, trampled by frightened horses, disrupts the peace and happiness of the family of Pastor Hubina. Mentally broken wife Edyta (Barbara Horawianka) leaves to join her sister in Prague and there meets music teacher von Kschitzky, with whom she returns after some time, entrusting him with teaching music to her daughter Olesia. The teacher is a follower of Nazi ideology and practice. Edith begins to show more and more interest in him, and he ostentatiously seeks her favor.

Loneliness of the Couple

1969

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg poster
9.0

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1967

Marysia i Krasnoludki poster
8.0

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.

Marysia i Krasnoludki

1961

No artwork available
NR

The second of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 2 and 4.

More Than Life At Stake Part Two

1969

The Lost Bridge poster
8.0

Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.

The Lost Bridge

1963

No artwork available
NR

Mirosława Marcinkiewicz's short film made at the Łódź Film School. Lost

Niedziela we dwoje

1961

The Road West poster
8.5

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.

The Road West

1961

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

Calling 07 poster
7.5

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Calling 07

1976

Clouds of War poster
6.4

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.

Clouds of War

1973

Puppy Love poster
10.0

A drama series about young people on the threshold of maturity. The heroes are young people who have recently graduated from high school. Before them, the first life decisions await, the first "adult" love, as well as the first disappointments and dramas.

Puppy Love

1980

4 Alternative Street poster
8.4

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

4 Alternative Street

1986

Nights and Days poster
8.0

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.

Nights and Days

1978