Michał Żołnierkiewicz

Acting

Michał Żołnierkiewicz

Born — Died

1926-12-30 — 2000-06-19

Place of birth

Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Known for

Acting

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 6 titles

1960s · 10 titles

Barrier poster
6.8

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Barrier

1966

No artwork available
NR

A cinematic grotesque whose protagonist is Mr. Kowalski, who suffers from insomnia.

Niezawodny sposób

1963

Hell and Heaven poster
6.5

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

Hell and Heaven

1966

Mammals poster
5.2

"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting. Accidents, misunderstandings, disagreements, and an outright fight await our absurd protagonists as their trip to nowhere continues, first with one pulling, then the other. What if they were to lose the sleigh? What rules of civilization and partnership would guide them then?

Mammals

1962

Bugler's Monologue poster
7.0

A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music.

Bugler's Monologue

1965

Good Sins poster
8.2

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

Good Sins

1963

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

No artwork available
5.0

A journalist is preparing to take a train trip, when he is confronted by the spirit of professor Ryszpans who tells what happened to him. When he boarded a train standing on a siding, he encountered trackman Wiór with a newspaper informing about the crash of the train and the death of several passengers, including professor Ryszpans. The professor is joined by engineer Zniesławski, who has also heard of the impending disaster and is interested in it from the technical side. On hearing the news of an approaching catastrophe, other passengers leave the train in panic at the next station. However, trackman Wiór manages to hypnotize several travelers who continue with the journey. Ryszpans hears a roar and sees objects crumbling around him, and then turns into a shadow. After hearing the story, the journalist resigns from his train trip.

The Siding

1968

No artwork available
7.0

Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?

Guests Are Coming

1962

The Moonwalkers poster
5.5

A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends.

The Moonwalkers

1960

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