Edward Rączkowski

Acting

Edward Rączkowski

Born 1911-02-11 · Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland

Acting credits

Father of the Queen poster
6.5

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.

Father of the Queen

1980

Pharaoh poster
6.7

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.

Pharaoh

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

No artwork available
6.3

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.

Zofia

1976

The Weather Forecast poster
6.7

When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.

The Weather Forecast

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Próba Ognia

1976

A Story in Red poster
9.0

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village

A Story in Red

1974

The Border poster
5.4

Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely Justyna Bogutówna, the daughter of a cook. When the canicule comes to an end, Zenon packs his bags and leaves for Paris to study. Returning after a year with a doctorate in political science, he makes a fast and glamorous career. He becomes the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper and, soon after, mayor of the city. He also marries Elzbieta Biecka, but still does not break up with Justyna.

The Border

1978

W te dni przedwiosenne poster
7.0

The 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

Skinny and Others poster
7.0

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Skinny and Others

1967

Silence poster
6.6

Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.

Silence

1963

Apple Tree of Paradise poster
4.8

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

Apple Tree of Paradise

1986

The End of Our World poster
10.0

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it

The End of Our World

1964

God's Finger poster
6.3

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

God's Finger

1973

The Sun Rises Once a Day poster
5.8

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.

The Sun Rises Once a Day

1972

Jeszcze słychać śpiew.  I rżenie koni... poster
7.0

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...

1971

No artwork available
6.8

The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he recalls how he fell in love with a charming Jewish girl before the outbreak of the war. He manages to find her, only she is already married and has a child.

Salty Rose

1983

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop poster
NR

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop

1988

Bewitching Eyes poster
6.5

A Polish folktale set in the Middle Ages, tells the story of a man, whose eyes, or the gaze of them, brings upon death.

Bewitching Eyes

1977

A Party for Ten, Plus Three poster
7.1

A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.

A Party for Ten, Plus Three

1980

No artwork available
NR

By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.

Kwiat paproci

2009

The Keys poster
4.3

During their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.

The Keys

1974

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