
Acting
Bronisław Darski
Born 1905-03-12
Acting credits
8.0In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine. The going will be tough as the place is closely guarded by the Nazis. But despite a denunciation from a traitor and several violent deaths, they get going and the operation is a success. But the Red Army is approaching and now the coal production must not be sabotaged anymore. On the contrary, the partisans must prevent the Germans from destroying the steel mill and the coal mine...
The Steel Hearts
1948
7.0A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
Jasne łany
1947
A mother is looking for a missing child with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp.
Ślepy Tor
1948
9.0An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Pierwsze dni
1952
6.4Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.
Husband of His Wife
1961
6.2The 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
7.0A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.
The Bus Leaves at 6.20
1954
6.9Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
Treasure
1949
6.5Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
Zuzanna i chłopcy
1961
6.9Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Octopus Cafe
1959
6.8Ewa 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
7.0Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
The Warsaw Debut
1951
A mother is looking for her missing child, with whom she lost contact while in a concentration camp. The film was completed in 1948, but it was banned from distribution by the government, until finally releasing in 1991.
Powrót
1991
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
Preparations for a rural folk festival. The shop manager, GS Patyk, quietly resells the goods to a private shopkeeper.
W chłopskie ręce
1947
8.3A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Good Sins
1963
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Tysiąc talarów
1960
6.4The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.
Border Street
1949
9.0A 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
3.3The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch - Vladimír is married, Irena is married. But as they say, opportunity makes the thief, so it's no wonder that Tůma has his work cut out for him, and Irena, too, sometimes recovers only at the last minute. And she doesn't even know that her husband is coming to visit her...
What Will My Wife Say to This?
1958
7.0A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Sprawa do załatwienia
1953
7.5A 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
7.4Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Forbidden Songs
1947
3.8Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.
Ostrożnie yeti
1961