
Acting
Zygmunt Malawski
Born 1923-08-03 · Skarżysko-Kamienna, świętokrzyskie, Polska
Acting credits
5.8A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.
Kocie ślady
1971
7.5Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
Night Train
1959
6.2A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
Salvation
1972
7.6A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
Mother Joan of the Angels
1961
9.0After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
Obok prawdy
1965
6.8In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Maria and Napoleon
1966
6.9One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, know for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
Man on the Tracks
1957
Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas.
Profesor na drodze
1973
6.3In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.
The Mother of the Kings
1987
5.5Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship.
The Wicket Gate
1974
6.9Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Octopus Cafe
1959
4.8The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
Samson
1961
7.0Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Kapelusz pana Anatola
1957
6.5Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Story of the Golden Boot
1961
7.0The 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
5.8In 1905 partitioned Poland, a bomb moves through the anarchist underground as revolutionaries prepare to strike against Tsarist rule.
Fever
1981
8.0Set 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
8.0A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder.
Głos ma prokurator
1965
9.0A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Green, Bygone...
1976
10.025-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war.
Julia, Anna, Genowefa...
1968
6.4A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet.
The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest
1963
7.3An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
Złote koło
1971
10.0A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.
Drugi brzeg
1962
7.5The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Kazimierz Wielki
1976