Irena Netto

Acting

Irena Netto

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Acting

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38 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 20 titles

Goodbye to the Past poster
6.7

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.

Goodbye to the Past

1961

The Voice from Beyond poster
5.8

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.

The Voice from Beyond

1962

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

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

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

How to Be Loved poster
7.4

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

How to Be Loved

1963

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

The Killer Leaves a Trace poster
6.6

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

The Killer Leaves a Trace

1967

The Red and the Gold poster
5.2

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.

The Red and the Gold

1969

No artwork available
5.5

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.

Tysiąc talarów

1960

One Room Tenants poster
6.1

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.

One Room Tenants

1960

Ktokolwiek wie... poster
8.0

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

Ktokolwiek wie...

1966

Agnes 1946 poster
4.3

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.

Agnes 1946

1964

Glass Mountain poster
7.0

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Glass Mountain

1960

The Road West poster
8.5

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.

The Road West

1961

Sobótki poster
8.0

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.

Sobótki

1966

Ostrożnie yeti poster
3.8

Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.

Ostrożnie yeti

1961

Meetings In The Dark poster
8.0

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

Meetings In The Dark

1960

Spóźnieni przechodnie poster
7.0

Five short stories. (1) “Czas przybliża, czas oddala” – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna. (2) “Krąg istnienia” – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by family, she marries a soap manufacturer. (3) “Paryż 1945” – A Polish refugee soldier and an American woman share a fleeting wartime bond before she leaves at dawn. (4) “Stary profesor” – Two men seek an old professor to fulfill a dying prisoner’s last wish; Roger impersonates a former pupil. (5) “Nauczycielka” – Neglected wife Zofia accepts film tests, only to find the director seeks an ordinary woman.

Spóźnieni przechodnie

1962

Bumerang poster
6.5

A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.

Bumerang

1966

1950s · 14 titles

Farewells poster
5.6

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.

Farewells

1958

Rancho Texas poster
8.0

Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.

Rancho Texas

1959

Free City poster
7.2

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

Free City

1958

No artwork available
7.0

Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.

Career

1955

Difficult Love poster
9.0

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a cooperative along Soviet lines, while old Nalepa is staunchly opposed.

Difficult Love

1954

Podhale w ogniu poster
NR

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.

Podhale w ogniu

1956

The Noose poster
7.1

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

The Noose

1958

Two from the Big River poster
6.1

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.

Two from the Big River

1958

The Bus Leaves at 6.20 poster
7.0

A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women.

The Bus Leaves at 6.20

1954

Atlantic Story poster
9.0

The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam.

Atlantic Story

1955

No artwork available
10.0

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.

Trzy kobiety

1957

Signals poster
6.5

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Signals

1959

Pills for Aurelia poster
6.0

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.

Pills for Aurelia

1958

The Stone Sky poster
7.0

The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness.

The Stone Sky

1959