Zygmunt Malawski

Acting

Zygmunt Malawski

Born — Died

1923-08-03 — 1983-08-30

Place of birth

Skarżysko-Kamienna, świętokrzyskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

More Than Life At Stake

1968

Doktor Ewa poster
9.0

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Doktor Ewa

1971

Droga poster
7.4

Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He is always ready to solve the problems of others, although he is usually not very good at it. His favorite saying is “absolutely”.

Droga

1975

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

Dyrektorzy

1975

Mother Joan of the Angels poster
7.5

A 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

Night Train poster
7.6

Two 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

Film credits

1970s · 20 titles

A Room with a Sea View poster
6.2

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.

A Room with a Sea View

1978

Kocie ślady poster
5.8

A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.

Kocie ślady

1971

Heads and Tails poster
7.5

In spring of 1954, thanks to amnesty, Marcin Nowak - a political prisoner - get released from prison and tries turn his life back to normal

Heads and Tails

1975

Where the Water Is Pure and the Grass Is Green poster
10.0

The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.

Where the Water Is Pure and the Grass Is Green

1977

Placówka poster
5.3

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

Placówka

1979

Reverse Gear poster
7.0

The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son.

Reverse Gear

1978

A Face of an Angel poster
8.0

Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

A Face of an Angel

1971

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

Złote koło poster
7.3

An 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

No artwork available
7.0

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

Salvation poster
6.2

A 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

Green, Bygone... poster
9.0

A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling

Green, Bygone...

1976

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 Wicket Gate poster
5.5

Accomplished 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

Hour After Hour poster
8.0

Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers.

Hour After Hour

1974

Operation "Brutus" poster
9.0

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.

Operation "Brutus"

1971

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

The Refuge poster
7.5

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.

The Refuge

1978

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

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

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

Warsaw Sketches poster
7.0

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.

Warsaw Sketches

1970

1960s · 22 titles

Mother Joan of the Angels poster
7.5

A 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

Maria and Napoleon poster
6.8

In 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

Obok prawdy poster
9.0

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Obok prawdy

1965

The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest poster
6.4

A 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

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

Glass Mountain poster
7.0

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Glass Mountain

1960

Głos ma prokurator poster
8.0

A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder.

Głos ma prokurator

1965

Drugi brzeg poster
10.0

A 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

No artwork available
NR

The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.

Nad Odrą

1966

Story of the Golden Boot poster
6.5

Set 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

No artwork available
7.0

Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?

Guests Are Coming

1962

A Lady from the Window poster
7.5

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

A Lady from the Window

1964

No artwork available
NR

Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.

Martians

1967

Time Past poster
NR

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.

Time Past

1961

Samson poster
4.8

A young Jewish man from Warsaw is imprisoned after an antisemitic incident at his university. He is released when the Second World War breaks out and manages to escape from the ghetto. However, he chooses to leave his hiding place and fight, determined to share the fate of those threatened by the Holocaust. The protagonist is compared to the biblical Samson, who sacrificed his own life.

Samson

1961

More Than Life At Stake Part One poster
NR

The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3. In 1941, Polish soldier Stanisław Kolicki escapes German captivity only to be mistaken for the dashing Abwehr lieutenant Hans Kloss and recruited by the Soviets as their secret agent J-23. Under deep cover behind enemy lines, he feeds crucial intelligence to the Red Army while outwitting suspicions and dueling wits with the formidable SS officer Hermann Brunner.

More Than Life At Stake Part One

1969

Then There Will Be Silence poster
5.0

Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.

Then There Will Be Silence

1966

The Impossible Goodbye poster
6.7

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

The Impossible Goodbye

1962

Place on Earth poster
8.0

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.

Place on Earth

1960

No artwork available
NR

Polish TV movie.

Pieczona gęś

1967

Zwariowana noc poster
6.0

Three Polish resistance fighters hide in an old castle inhabitated by an old baroness and her relatives.

Zwariowana noc

1967

Julia, Anna, Genowefa... poster
10.0

25-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

1950s · 5 titles

Series credits

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

More Than Life At Stake

1968

Doktor Ewa poster
9.0

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Doktor Ewa

1971

Droga poster
7.4

Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He is always ready to solve the problems of others, although he is usually not very good at it. His favorite saying is “absolutely”.

Droga

1975

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

Dyrektorzy

1975