
Acting
Ludwik Sempoliński
Acting credits
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
Two Brigades
1950
7.6Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa.
Paweł & Gaweł
1938
5.2The 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
6.7A story about a misunderstanding between a hairdresser and world renowned hockey player, due to coincidence, switching their jobs.
A Sportsman Against His Will
1940
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
10.0Filmed shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru is the only Polish film allowed by German occupiers to be completed. Its last known surviving copy was destroyed in the late 1940s. In 1958, Zarzycki remade the film in color under the same title.
Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru
1940
7.0Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
The Warsaw Debut
1951
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
5.1King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland secretly falls in love with Barbara Radziwiłłówna, a noblewoman of Lithuanian magnate lineage, defying his mother Queen Bona’s plans to wed him to a French princess.
Love or a Kingdom
1936
6.8Lieutenant Niko’s family insists he marry a chosen fiancée, but he falls for a beautiful baroness and travels to meet “his betrothed” disguised as his orderly, who impersonates him, only to discover that the baroness is in fact the intended bride. Meanwhile, the baroness and her maid swap identities in turn, leading to a cascade of mistaken identities and a lighthearted resolution when true matches are revealed.
Love Manoeuvres
1935
7.2Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong apartment. Complications arise.
The Apartment Above
1937
8.5The young Count Józio Lulewicz leads a rather dissolute life. At the urging of his friends, he tries to extract a large sum of money from his mother to start an operetta. When she refuses, he defiantly applies to a shoemaker for a job as a terminator. The distraught countess agrees to give her son the money he needs, but Józio is already head over heels in love with his boss's daughter and has no intention of giving up his new job.
Ja tu rządzę
1939
Polish feature film from 1939 , directed by Wanda Jakubowska with a screenplay by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa of the same title. The film was lost during World War II.
On The Niemen
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Ludwik Sempoliński as a professor at the State Higher School of Theater Arts in Warsaw.
Pan profesor
1959
Sygnaly is a 1938 Polish drama directed by Joseph Lejtes about a pair of jewel thieves. A older man and a young woman, with the elder manipulating the frail one into the world of crime.
Sygnały
1938
10.0Three provincial journeymen: a shoemaker - Szydełko, a tailor's - Igiełka, and a carpenter - Wiórek, come to Warsaw, where they end up in the "Pod Apartuszkiem" inn. Soon they unexpectedly win a million zlotys in the lottery. They divide it equally and everyone goes their own way, but they agree on "Under the Apron" next year. After a year, they all meet again. The first two lost all their money, and the third settled down and married Lucia, the daughter of a carpenter.
Trójka hultajska
1937
NRKrajewski, a young bank clerk, is a romantic and dreams of perfect love. One day, he accidentally meets a beautiful girl whom he helps dry her clothes in his apartment after she falls into a puddle while getting off the tram. Enchanted by her beauty and delicacy, he falls madly in love with her, believing that he has found the love of his life. Frania, as the girl is called, disappears every evening, claiming that as a seamstress she has a lot of work and has to work at night as well. In reality, under the assumed name of Irena, she spends her nights as an escort at the Orfeum cabaret. Afraid of losing her beloved, she does not reveal the truth to him. However, the idyll does not last long.
O czym się nie mówi...
1939
When Count Charles Boratynsky leaves, his chauffeur begins claiming to be an aristocrat.
The Honorable Chauffeur
1935