Zdzisław Kuźniar

Acting

Zdzisław Kuźniar

Born 1931-07-26

Acting credits

Janek poster
NR

Short film directed by Zygmunt Lech, Starring renowned polish actor Bogusław Linda

Janek

1979

The First Day of Freedom poster
6.5

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

The First Day of Freedom

1964

Permanent Objections poster
7.0

Franek, a petty criminal and gambler, befriends Rysio, who performs inspections of meat plants. Rysio suspects wrongdoings at the slaughterhouse. Franek, despite his age, cannot find a place in life, with nothing achieved and, what's more, still not knowing what to do.

Permanent Objections

1975

The Last Witness poster
5.3

Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.

The Last Witness

1970

Sara's House poster
6.4

This is a tale of a young woman Sara Braga who kills her lovers with the help of her servant Juliusz. She is a succubus and her servant is a personification of Asmodeus.

Sara's House

1987

Vabank poster
7.7

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Vabank

1981

The Promised Land poster
7.3

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

The Promised Land

1975

Legenda poster
4.3

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

Legenda

1971

Full Ahead poster
6.8

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

Full Ahead

1967

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

The Saragossa Manuscript poster
7.8

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

The Saragossa Manuscript

1966

The Killer Leaves a Trace poster
6.5

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

The Killer Leaves a Trace

1967

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

Martwa fala poster
NR

After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.

Martwa fala

1971

Yesterday poster
5.5

Set in the 60's in a provincial town: four high school teenagers approach graduation, but all they think about are The Beatles.

Yesterday

1985

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

Niedziela Barabasza poster
9.0

During a football match, one of the teams' goalkeepers is approached by his wife, who starts an argument.

Niedziela Barabasza

1972

Wolves' Echoes poster
7.4

A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.

Wolves' Echoes

1968

King Size poster
6.8

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.

King Size

1988

Déjà vu poster
6.8

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of thick-headed Odessa locals who think he is a harmless butterfly collector.

Déjà vu

1990

How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms poster
7.6

After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.

How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms

1970

Rok pierwszy poster
9.0

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.

Rok pierwszy

1960

Giuseppe in Warsaw poster
6.2

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

Giuseppe in Warsaw

1964

How to Be Loved poster
7.4

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

How to Be Loved

1963