Eugeniusz Kamiński

Acting

Eugeniusz Kamiński

Born — Died

1931-11-08 — 2018-10-12

Place of birth

Bydgoszcz, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 9 titles

The Possessed poster
5.6

Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.

The Possessed

1988

Wielki wóz poster
5.2

The film is based on true events. Officers locked in a POW camp make a desperate attempt to get out. A group of daredevils undertake to dig an underground tunnel through which they can escape. We learn about their moral dilemmas, solidarity and loyalty to their friends. This is especially emphasized in the last scenes of the film.

Wielki wóz

1987

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

Childhood Sins poster
7.5

An adaptation of B. Prus's novella. The story takes place at the end of the 19th century, in a manor house falling into ruin. The protagonists are children: the steward's son, the countess's daughter, and a peasant child. The 1970s. The story of a twelve-year-old boy, Kazio, who is unruly but has a good heart. He stands up for the weak and oppressed and experiences romantic love for Countess Loni. However, this love forces him to reject friendship. Kazio is deeply affected by this and falls seriously ill.

Childhood Sins

1980

The Mother of the Kings poster
6.3

In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.

The Mother of the Kings

1987

The Birthday poster
8.5

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

The Birthday

1980

Zamach stanu poster
8.0

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.

Zamach stanu

1981

No artwork available
NR

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.

Racławice. 1794

1980

No artwork available
NR

Marta comes to Lublin as a captain of the Polish Army. She is looking for information about her son - Stefan, whom she last saw years ago, when she went with her husband to fighting Spain.

Marta

1984

1970s · 13 titles

Maximatic poster
NR

Set in London, the story revolves around Maximatic, a company specializing in mathematical and computer-based methods for increasing client profits. Its owner, Jonathan Everett, struggles financially when his partner decides to risk a significant sum of money, believing that data analysis and probability can predict the outcomes of games of chance. As events unfold, the seemingly rational project develops into a dangerous obsession, and the search for the mathematical formula for winning leads to a series of dramatic events, including a double murder. The play combines a classic whodunit plot with a reflection on the boundaries of science, chance, and human greed.

Maximatic

1978

Zaczarowane podwórko poster
7.0

A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazing adventures.

Zaczarowane podwórko

1974

How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends poster
7.6

Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.

How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends

1970

Album polski poster
9.0

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

Album polski

1970

The Leaves Have Fallen poster
5.7

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.

The Leaves Have Fallen

1975

Matylda's Birthday poster
NR

Matylda reflects on her life on her 30th birthday.

Matylda's Birthday

1975

Krótkie życie poster
7.0

A thrilling story about the liquidation of a Polish terrorist group in Slovakia in the post-war years.

Krótkie życie

1976

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

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

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

Południk zero poster
9.0

Shortly after World War 2 a militiaman with the help of two Union of Young Struggle members wages war on a local gang terrorising a small Masurian town.

Południk zero

1971

The Ring of Queen Ann poster
6.5

Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.

The Ring of Queen Ann

1971

No artwork available
10.0

A young engineer tries to get a card secret from a dying countess that allows him to make a fortune.

Dama pikowa

1972

Lighter poster
5.0

A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.

Lighter

1970

Heaven on Earth poster
6.0

Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory.

Heaven on Earth

1970

1960s · 14 titles

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

Beata poster
6.5

Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her, runs away from home.

Beata

1965

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju poster
NR

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju

1967

Rzeczpospolita babska poster
5.9

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.

Rzeczpospolita babska

1969

Don Gabriel poster
10.0

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

Don Gabriel

1966

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

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

Westerplatte Resists poster
7.3

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

Westerplatte Resists

1967

No artwork available
NR

Polish TV movie. Lost.

Instrumentum mortis

1965

Otello z M-2 poster
NR

A man believes his wife is cheating on him.

Otello z M-2

1968

Where is the General? poster
7.0

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.

Where is the General?

1964

Life Again poster
5.7

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

Life Again

1965

Pięciu poster
8.0

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.

Pięciu

1964

Miejsce dla jednego poster
10.0

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.

Miejsce dla jednego

1966

1950s · 7 titles

Podhale w ogniu poster
NR

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.

Podhale w ogniu

1956

Free City poster
7.2

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

Free City

1958

Ewa Wants to Sleep poster
6.8

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Ewa Wants to Sleep

1958

The Real End of the Great War poster
8.3

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion

The Real End of the Great War

1957

Eagle poster
6.8

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.

Eagle

1959

No artwork available
NR

Short film starring Zbigniew Cybulski, adapted from Kazimierz Brandys's short story of the same name.

Man Does Not Die

1955

Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru poster
6.0

A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.

Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru

1958

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