
Acting
Emilia Krakowska
Born
1940-02-20 (86)
Place of birth
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Emilia Krakowska (born 20 February 1940 in Poznań) is Polish entertainer, film and theater actress. She graduated from High School in Drezdenko. A graduate of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw (1963). She played in the following theaters: Powszechny in Warsaw (1964-1968), National (1968-1978), Contemporary in Warsaw (1978-1985) and Variety in Warsaw (1985-1991) and Teatr Powszechny in. Jan Kochanowski in Radom in 2008; Wrocław Comedy Theatre, Drama Theatre; Alexander Hungarian Białystok and the New Theatre in Słupsk. She is a film actress, and consolidated her position as the participation in a number of television series. In the 1980s, she was a member of the National Council for Culture. She…
Known for
7.3The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980
8.5No synopsis available yet.
On the Edge
2013
7.3A TV adaptation of Władysław Stanisław Reymont's most famous novel, realistically depicting Polish rural life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Against the broad backdrop of rural community life, inextricably linked to the rhythm of nature throughout the four seasons, the complicated and often dramatic story of the Boryna family unfolds.
The Peasants
1972
7.4Marianek 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
7.4At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.
The Promised Land
1975
NROn the eve of World War II, Polish families are getting ready to defend the city.
Gdansk '39
1989
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
5.4Wojciech, who does not feel the ubiquitous joyful atmosphere, meets someone who changes his holiday plans. In turn, Karina and Szczepan get embroiled in a fight for an inheritance that may divide even their loved ones. They will see if the only thing that comes out well with the family is in the photos.
Letters to Santa 5
2022
5.3Convinced he can charm any woman, a tenacious flirt sets his sights on a headstrong bride-to-be engaged to the son of an ambitious politician.
Kiss, Kiss!
2023
2000s · 2 titles
6.2The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
E=mc²
2002
6.0One day a commuter, who happens to be a burglar, finds a dead body on a train. As he was just returning from a burglary and not wanting to draw attention to himself, he decides to get rid of the corpse himself. Little does he know that the body is about to embark on one hell of a journey...
The Body
2003
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 8 titles
6.0A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Sunday Pranks
1988
7.0Wrocław, 1947. A young man, a former Home Army soldier, faces political and moral dilemmas before deciding on his future path in life. The protagonist of the film, Ryszard, has not revealed himself. He first works in the militia, then as a driver for the director of a wagon factory. He becomes involved with Karolina, who is older than him, becomes the lover of Zula, his employer's wife, and develops deep feelings for the beautiful and sensitive Blanka. Ryszard cannot find his place and ends up alone. Finally, he decides to take advantage of the amnesty decree and reveal himself.
Amnesty
1982
4.0Maria is consumed by sadness over her inability to have a child. She and her husband had chosen not to have children when they were younger, and now she fears it may be too late. Maria travels to her childhood home, where she discovers that she is pregnant. The news restores her zest for life and renews her faith in people. More cheerful and hopeful, she decides to return home to her waiting husband.
The Taste of Water
1980
8.0The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.
Chrześniak
1986
7.1The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man.
Tender Spots
1981
7.0As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
Wedle wyroków twoich...
1984
8.0World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.
Salad Days
1980
After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.
The Ambulance Will Come
1983
1970s · 24 titles
7.4At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.
The Promised Land
1975
6.9Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Brunet Will Call
1976
6.6A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.
The Birch Wood
1970
5.8In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
The Peasants
1973
7.3Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
The Wedding
1973
6.8A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Without Anesthesia
1978
7.8The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came across their trail and the criminals were soon captured. And then the real bomb went off. It turned out that the thieves were not people listed in the police annals or even in contact with the criminal world. All the robbers had a reputation as "respectable citizens", by no means suffering from a lack of cash.
Hazardziści
1975
NRA descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
Red Thorns
1977
7.3Two ambitious men — one, a self-described director, another, a self-described writer, meet on a train to Zakopane and decide to make a movie together.
How It's Done
1974
There has been a secret relationship between the nephew of the ordinate - Jan, and his older cousin Xymena. However, Jan falls in love with the foster daughter of the ordinate, the young Krystyna. The ordinate does not consent to marriage, because Krystyna is his illegitimate daughter, and thus Jan's cousin. But it turns out that Jan is not the son of the general's brother ...
Honor dziecka
1976
6.4Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
The Shadow-Line
1976
6.0Ten-year-old Kajetan is fascinated by the young MO lieutenant Wandalin. He would like to meet him, so he is delighted when he learns that the man will become his stepfather. A wonderful bond develops between them. Kajetan's mother dies; the boy is afraid that he will be a stranger to his stepfather. He decides to win his approval. He tries several feats, but to no avail.
Najlepsze w świecie
1977
5.2A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death.
The Frozen Heart
1979
On August 1, 1944, Warsaw holds its breath as Home Army couriers spread word that “W-hour” is at 17:00. A platoon under “Czarny” must assault German barracks without the expected backup—an order they follow at the risk of collective suicide.
Godzina W
1979
7.0The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba.
W te dni przedwiosenne
1975
Zbyszek volunteers as an organ donor for his friend.
A Chance
1970
A critique of consumerist life.
Dostojeństwo rodzinnego domu
1975
6.0A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Copernicus
1973
10.0The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.
Hotel klasy lux
1979
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Wiśnie
1979
7.0After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.
You Will Not Have Peace
1978
9.0Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
A Round Week
1977
7.0A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Nowy
1970
4.7Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them.
Seksolatki
1972
1960s · 7 titles
6.3A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
Penguin
1965
A new employee has to deal with the horrors of bureaucracy in this satirical short poking fun at the insititutions of the Polish People's Republic.
Nowy pracownik
1966
NRThe "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker during rehearsals. The stars of Polish acting could be seen on stage, accompanied by excellent songs by Wojciech Młynarski.
What is Dudek?
1967
6.4A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve
1966
6.0After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades.
The Pier
1969
7.0A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer.
Wycieczka w nieznane
1968
8.0Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
The Unknown
1964
Series credits
7.3The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980
8.5No synopsis available yet.
On the Edge
2013
7.3A TV adaptation of Władysław Stanisław Reymont's most famous novel, realistically depicting Polish rural life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Against the broad backdrop of rural community life, inextricably linked to the rhythm of nature throughout the four seasons, the complicated and often dramatic story of the Boryna family unfolds.
The Peasants
1972
7.4Marianek 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
NROn the eve of World War II, Polish families are getting ready to defend the city.
Gdansk '39
1989
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Ziemia obiecana
1978
7.5No synopsis available yet.
The Recipe
2021


