Henryk Hunko

Acting

Henryk Hunko

Born — Died

1924-06-25 — 1985-07-12

Place of birth

Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 10 titles

Synthesis poster
7.0

In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly becomes a serious threat to humanity. Synteza is an adaptation of a novel by Maciej Wojtyszko.

Synthesis

1984

No artwork available
2.0

Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.

Piętno

1985

The Weather Forecast poster
6.7

When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.

The Weather Forecast

1983

Mad Dog poster
8.3

Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.

Mad Dog

1980

Cuckoo in a Dark Forest poster
4.9

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.

Cuckoo in a Dark Forest

1985

A Woman Alone poster
6.6

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.

A Woman Alone

1987

A Party for Ten, Plus Three poster
7.1

A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.

A Party for Ten, Plus Three

1980

Long Night poster
NR

The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.

Long Night

1989

Pełnia nad głowami poster
8.0

Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.

Pełnia nad głowami

1983

Pensja pani Latter poster
10.0

The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.

Pensja pani Latter

1983

1970s · 28 titles

No artwork available
7.0

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.

Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych

1973

Milioner poster
7.0

The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.

Milioner

1977

The Scar poster
6.6

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.

The Scar

1976

No artwork available
NR

A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.

Through Nine Bridges

1972

No artwork available
6.2

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.

Zofia

1976

Flames poster
10.0

Presenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.

Flames

1977

Strach poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Strach

1975

Z tamtej strony tęczy poster
4.6

Teresa is an attractive 30-year-old doctor. She divides her stable life between work, caring for her younger sister Ania, a high school student, and her romance with Jan, a well-off lawyer who wants to marry her. However, Teresa postpones her decision to marry until Ania becomes independent. One day, she unexpectedly meets Tomek, a young photographer, who soon confesses his love to her, making her question her loyalty to Jan.

Z tamtej strony tęczy

1973

The Epidemic poster
9.0

Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.

The Epidemic

1972

Fortune poster
NR

A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars.

Fortune

1973

Passion poster
6.8

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.

Passion

1978

Kardiogram poster
8.2

A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants.

Kardiogram

1971

God's Finger poster
6.2

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

God's Finger

1973

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

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

Her Portrait poster
6.2

Danka was an unwanted child. From an early age she had to cope on her own. Despite harsh conditions and difficult experiences, she has not lost her dignity, has remained true to her ideals, and has a sense of integrity and honesty. When the opportunity to conditionally shorten her sentence in a correctional institution by getting married hits her, she rejects the tempting offer. She doesn't want to hurt the man she doesn't love, who has shown her a lot of heart. Danka's friend has taken advantage of her conditional release, without hiding what her motives are, by the way.

Her Portrait

1974

Is There an Eligible Girl Here? poster
7.3

A young country boy travels with his godfather to find a bride for him.

Is There an Eligible Girl Here?

1977

No artwork available
7.0

A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.

Diament radży

1971

Grzech Antoniego Grudy poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Grzech Antoniego Grudy

1975

Signs on the Road poster
10.0

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

Signs on the Road

1970

Quiet Is the Night poster
5.9

In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal.

Quiet Is the Night

1978

Kaszëbë poster
8.0

A disturbed woman, still reeling over the death of her lover finds solace in a Swedish sailor amidst the regional conflicts of the late nineteenth century.

Kaszëbë

1971

No artwork available
7.0

A psychological drama about a mother and daughter. The first was once a journalist and a brave soldier, the second interrupted her studies in philosophy

Śnić we śnie

1979

No artwork available
NR

A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.

Obcy w lesie

1972

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

Random Love Story poster
7.5

This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.

Random Love Story

1974

Przystań poster
9.0

Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .

Przystań

1971

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

1960s · 15 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

Giuseppe in Warsaw poster
6.3

The 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

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń poster
6.9

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń

1961

The Doll poster
6.6

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

The Doll

1968

Lenin in Poland poster
5.5

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.

Lenin in Poland

1966

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

No artwork available
10.0

A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.

Decyzja

1960

Unloved poster
5.2

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.

Unloved

1966

Wounded in the Forest poster
7.5

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.

Wounded in the Forest

1964

Skąpani w ogniu poster
6.8

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

Skąpani w ogniu

1963

Skok poster
5.7

Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.

Skok

1969

No artwork available
5.0

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

Liczę na wasze grzechy

1964

Barwy walki poster
9.0

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.

Barwy walki

1964

The Contribution poster
10.0

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.

The Contribution

1967

Glass Mountain poster
7.0

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Glass Mountain

1960

1950s · 7 titles

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