
Acting
Adam Perzyk
Born 1926-01-14 · Warsaw, Poland
Acting credits
A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
Sobie król
1974
6.5Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
The First Day of Freedom
1964
7.3A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Passenger
1963
6.0A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Boxer
1967
7.9Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).
I Am Burning!
1968
7.2During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
The Deluge
1974
6.9A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Cooked Doves
1966
6.8A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Barrier
1966
7.5A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.
Niedziela sprawiedliwości
1966
8.0An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
Weekendy
1963
9.01944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Rok pierwszy
1960
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
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
Bigos
1966
6.9Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Octopus Cafe
1959
6.0A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.
Farewell to the Devil
1957
7.0At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
The Law and the Fist
1964
6.5The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
Wniebowstąpienie
1969
6.3A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Markiza de Pompadour
1966
7.8In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
Frozen Flashes
1967
6.5A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Hell and Heaven
1966
6.8The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Gangsters and Philanthropists
1963
6.9The 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
The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.
Trochę nadziei
1972
9.0Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.
Trzy kroki po ziemi
1965