Acting

Stanisław Niwiński

Born 1932-05-08 · Warsaw, Poland

Acting credits

The Night of the Generals poster
6.8

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

The Night of the Generals

1967

Passenger poster
7.3

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

Passenger

1963

No artwork available
NR

The film shows Poland regaining independence in 1918 and the formation of the first government of the Republic of Poland.

RP's First Days

1989

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

The Gorgon Case poster
5.5

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect.

The Gorgon Case

1977

Virtuti poster
6.0

Second half of September 1939. Lt. Brejer, along with a detachment of his sappers, receives orders to blow up the bridge. The promised explosives do not arrive. So Brejer gets the order to withdraw and reunite with the rest of the division. Along the way, suffering hunger and discomfort along with his soldiers, he joins various divisions, collects survivors and fights. From a German prisoner of war, he finally learns that the Soviets have entered Poland. Finally, he and his men manage to reach his home unit, but that unit has just surrendered to the Germans.

Virtuti

1989

Rodzina Milcarków poster
7.0

The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.

Rodzina Milcarków

1962

Green Years poster
8.0

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

Green Years

1980

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bołdyn

1981

Black Feet poster
6.6

A group of Boy scouts who name themselves Black Feet learn lessons about honor and brotherhood in a camp.

Black Feet

1987

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

The Peasants poster
5.8

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.

The Peasants

1973

Rendes-Vous with a Spy poster
6.7

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

Rendes-Vous with a Spy

1964

Czarne skrzydła poster
7.0

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.

Czarne skrzydła

1963

It Started Yesterday poster
8.0

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.

It Started Yesterday

1961

Westerplatte Resists poster
7.1

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

Spotkanie w 'Bajce' poster
10.0

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.

Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

1962

Hubal poster
7.4

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.

Hubal

1973

Karino poster
7.0

The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.

Karino

1977

Polonia Restituta poster
10.0

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

Polonia Restituta

1981

Jarosław Dąbrowski poster
10.0

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist.

Jarosław Dąbrowski

1976

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

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

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

The Catastrophe poster
8.0

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

The Catastrophe

1966

Na własną prośbę poster
8.0

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.

Na własną prośbę

1980