Włodzimierz Skoczylas

Acting

Włodzimierz Skoczylas

Born — Died

1923-05-07 — 1993-09-29

Place of birth

Jabłonowo k. Brodnicy, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

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

Doktor Ewa poster
9.0

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Doktor Ewa

1971

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

Kapitan Sowa na tropie poster
7.2

Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

1965

The Saragossa Manuscript poster
7.7

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

The Saragossa Manuscript

1966

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy poster
7.5

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

1980

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

Fiasco of Operation Terror poster
7.0

The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.

Fiasco of Operation Terror

1981

Memoirs of a Sinner poster
6.9

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

Memoirs of a Sinner

1986

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober poster
6.6

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

1988

The Haunted poster
6.2

1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.

The Haunted

1982

Co dzień bliżej nieba poster
NR

After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there.

Co dzień bliżej nieba

1984

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

1960s · 18 titles

The Saragossa Manuscript poster
7.7

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

The Saragossa Manuscript

1966

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

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

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

The Knave of Spades poster
7.5

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.

The Knave of Spades

1960

The Barrel Organ poster
7.0

This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.

The Barrel Organ

1968

A Lady from the Window poster
7.5

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

A Lady from the Window

1964

Zawsze w niedziele poster
6.3

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.

Zawsze w niedziele

1966

The Two Who Stole the Moon poster
5.2

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.

The Two Who Stole the Moon

1962

No artwork available
NR

Polish TV movie.

Pieczona gęś

1967

The Last Ride poster
6.7

Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.

The Last Ride

1963

Good Sins poster
8.2

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

Good Sins

1963

No artwork available
5.5

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.

Tysiąc talarów

1960

Stajnia na Salvatorze poster
9.0

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.

Stajnia na Salvatorze

1967

No artwork available
NR

Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.

Martians

1967

Silent Traces poster
9.0

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.

Silent Traces

1961

Bicz Boży poster
6.8

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.

Bicz Boży

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Compartment for a Hundred People and More

1965

1950s · 12 titles

Octopus Cafe poster
6.9

Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.

Octopus Cafe

1959

Five Boys from Barska Street poster
5.9

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

Five Boys from Barska Street

1954

The Eighth Day of the Week poster
5.6

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.

The Eighth Day of the Week

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

Załoga poster
8.0

Antek is an inexperienced seaman favored by his teachers. On his first trip to the sea he learns the hardships of the work and almost causes a tragedy.

Załoga

1952

The Noose poster
7.1

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

The Noose

1958

Warszawska syrena poster
9.0

A fairy tale film based on an ancient legend about the founding of Warsaw and the good fairy Sirene of the Mazovian forests, who became the patron saint of the city.

Warszawska syrena

1956

The Hours of Hope poster
6.4

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

The Hours of Hope

1955

Historia jednego myśliwca poster
6.5

The film follows the exploits of Stefan as he fights against the Nazis as a RAF pilot.

Historia jednego myśliwca

1958

Król Maciuś I poster
6.5

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results

Król Maciuś I

1958

Magical Bicycle poster
4.5

The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...

Magical Bicycle

1955

No artwork available
7.5

A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to kindergarten.

Irene, Go Home!

1955

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

Doktor Ewa poster
9.0

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Doktor Ewa

1971

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

Kapitan Sowa na tropie poster
7.2

Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

1965

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy poster
7.5

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

1980

Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa

1967

Przyłbice i kaptury poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Przyłbice i kaptury

1986

No artwork available
NR

After the end of the war, the Polish authorities try to detain the head of the Warsaw Gestapo.

Powrót doktora von Kniprode

1966