Barbara Wrzesińska

Acting

Barbara Wrzesińska

Born

1938-01-15 (88)

Place of birth

Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

1970s · 18 titles

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

A Woman's Decision poster
5.2

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.

A Woman's Decision

1975

Dagny poster
4.2

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.

Dagny

1977

To Kill This Love poster
5.8

A dramatization of problems faced by a young couple in 1970's Poland - job uncertainty, conflicts with parents, living together, unfaithfulness.

To Kill This Love

1972

Possession poster
4.0

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.

Possession

1973

150km Per Hour poster
7.0

Young Marcin wishes to escape his life in a village and make a career in a city.

150km Per Hour

1972

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

Signs on the Road poster
10.0

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

Signs on the Road

1970

No artwork available
10.0

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.

Pejzaż z bohaterem

1971

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

Copernicus poster
6.0

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

Copernicus

1973

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

Awards and Decorations poster
9.0

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.

Awards and Decorations

1974

Dulscy poster
6.0

Set at the end of the XIX-th century. Madame Dulska is the sole and absolute ruler of her house in Cracow. She is ruthless, greedy and oversensitive of the reputation of her family. To protect his son from temptations she overlooks the affair he is having with the maid. Young Dulski first wants to marry the girl, but then yields to his mother demands and turns his interest to a cousin. Everything returns to normal: his father has his habitaul visits to a brothel, his son to a cabaret and Madame Dulska safeguards her reign.

Dulscy

1976

Rush Hour poster
5.5

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

Rush Hour

1974

No artwork available
8.0

A study of two people involved in the story of the love triangle. However, not the plot itself is the essence of the film. It is a study of moral attitudes, it tells about dying physically, as well as about the dying of feelings.

Krótka podróż

1977

No artwork available
10.0

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

Something for Something

1977

No artwork available
NR

Television theatre adaptation of a Robert Thomas play. In an isolated, snow-covered house eight women are preparing for a family gathering. The domestic peace is suddenly disturbed when they discover that the owner of the house has been murdered. Cut off from the world, unable to call for help, so they are forced to solve the mysterious crime by themselves.

Eight women

1970

1960s · 7 titles

The Ashes poster
6.7

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.

The Ashes

1965

The Structure of Crystal poster
7.1

Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.

The Structure of Crystal

1969

The Nutcracker poster
8.5

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.

The Nutcracker

1967

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

Two Gentlemen 'N' poster
6.9

Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.

Two Gentlemen 'N'

1962

Sposób bycia poster
4.2

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

Sposób bycia

1966

Alone in the City poster
8.0

Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.

Alone in the City

1965

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