Wanda Jarszewska

Acting

Wanda Jarszewska

Born 1888-11-03 · Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]

Acting credits

Skłamałam poster
8.5

Hela Urbankówna, a poor country girl, comes to the capital to look for work.

Skłamałam

1937

Leper poster
7.3

Stefcia Rudecka starts working as a governess in an aristocratic house. Waldemar, the young heir, falls in love with her but his well-off family is not eager to accept the woman he loves.

Leper

1936

The November Night poster
9.0

Grand Duke Konstanty marries Countess Joanna Grudzińska. However, Joanna still loves Major Łukasiński, and she agreed to the marriage out of a sense of patriotic duty. Łukasiński is arrested. The November Uprising breaks out. The conspirators capture Belweder Palace. Joanna hides Konstanty from them.

The November Night

1932

Granica poster
7.0

Zenon Ziembiewicz comes back to his hometown after graduating from the university in Paris. He gets entangled in a love triangle with educated young lady Elzbieta and a common country girl Justyna who gets pregnant.

Granica

1938

Dyplomatyczna żona poster
8.5

The director of the Warsaw operetta has problems with putting together a team. He cares very much about acquiring the star of the stage - Jadwiga Janowska. However, she is currently in Paris with her husband, diplomat Henryk de Fontana. It turns out that Ambassador Rossi falls in love with her. Jadwiga goes to Warsaw, where in her apartment her friend Apolonia trains a young adept Wanda to play on stage.

Dyplomatyczna żona

1937

Wife and Not Wife poster
9.0

Disappointed with her life so far, Irena leaves her husband Zenon and leaves for Paris . He lives a free life there with his lover Duval. The millionaire Geist, her secret admirer, who insidiously led to the separation of her husband, being his false friend, learns about it. Desperate Zeno, who tries to commit suicide, enters the care of nurse Nelly, who also looks after little Tola; an emotional bond is born between them. Meanwhile, Irena, summoned by a millionaire planning a wedding with her, returns to Warsaw , where further complications arise between her, Geist, lover and husband.

Wife and Not Wife

1941

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pan Twardowski

1921

Love in the Army poster
7.0

Seven young men gather at a manor in August 1914 to form the nascent First Uhlan Regiment, riding off to war amid budding loves and sudden loss. Fifteen years later, the survivors reunite and confront how the conflict irrevocably altered their lives and relationships.

Love in the Army

1934

The Screw-Up poster
6.8

Polish comedian Adolf Dymsza cross-dressing and masquerading as a woman in order to gain the confidence of his sweetheart's domineering guardian.

The Screw-Up

1937

Druga młodość poster
3.7

A middle-aged woman takes a young lover, and leaves her husband and family to live with him. Her lover tires of her, and tosses her out and she wanders around pawning her jewelry in order to live. She makes a last visit to her family, planning suicide after she sees them.

Druga młodość

1938

Doktór Murek poster
8.5

The life story of Franciszek Murka, a municipal official. He is dismissed from his job as a result of unfounded slander about his alleged left-wing political past. After losing his government job, he assumes the identity of a foreigner named Franz Klamm and makes a career for himself in the aristocratic salons of Warsaw as a master of the occult.

Doktór Murek

1939

The Toy poster
10.0

A landowner meets a cabaret dancer in Warsaw who unexpectedly accompanies him to his rural estate, shocking his household. When his son arrives with his fiancée, the dancer is hidden in the gamekeeper’s cottage, sparking suitors among the gamekeeper’s son and later the landowner’s own son.

The Toy

1933

The Quack poster
7.0

A renowned surgeon, abandoned by his wife and daughter, gets robbed and loses his memory. Wandering around the countryside, he becomes a village healer and performs operations.

The Quack

1937

Ty, co w Ostrej świecisz Bramie poster
7.0

Ryszard Malewicz, a young inventor, is out of work. He had been waiting for months for a response from the ministry to which he had sent plans for his invention, an explosive of extraordinary power. Desperate Ryszard is comforted by his mother and his fiancée Maria.

Ty, co w Ostrej świecisz Bramie

1937

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Przygody pana Antoniego

1913

Kosciuszko at the Battle of Raclawice poster
7.0

An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.

Kosciuszko at the Battle of Raclawice

1938

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pod jarzmem tyranów

1916

Spy poster
6.5

A spy film about Professor Skalski's invention - rays that could stop engines, thus avoiding wars - which becomes the focus of foreign intelligence. In order to take over the discovery, a secret agent is sent to reach the invention via the professor's son.

Spy

1933

The Twelve Chairs poster
6.1

The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book

The Twelve Chairs

1933

Love, Cherish, Respect poster
7.0

Pharmacy trainee Władzio is a shy young man with a good heart, in love with lovely Loda.

Love, Cherish, Respect

1934

Life Sentence poster
6.8

Before the court pending trial of the girl who killed her child. She faces the death penalty. Only defender Christina, did not believe in her guilt. From Jackie she finds out how it came to this tragic event ...

Life Sentence

1933

Police Chief Antek poster
6.8

A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.

Police Chief Antek

1935

Córka generała Pankratowa poster
7.0

The dramatic story of the love between the daughter of a tsarist general and a Polish revolutionary who plans to assassinate her father.

Córka generała Pankratowa

1934

No artwork available
10.0

Intrigue and love affairs at the court of the Saxon King Augustus the Strong, who can bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and is fighting with the Swedish King Charles XII for control of Poland. When Charles marches against Russia with his troops and suffers defeat, the way is clear for Augustus, who gains the crown of Poland. But he is already old and ill. When he dies in Warsaw, his heart is brought to Dresden by Saxon horsemen.

August der Starke

1936