
Acting
Tadeusz Kalinowski
Born 1915-06-01 · Leibnitz, Styria, Austria
Acting credits
7.4A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Ashes and Diamonds
1958
7.1A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Knights of the Teutonic Order
1960
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
9.0A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Wiano
1964
6.0A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Boxer
1967
5.7After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.
Rzeczpospolita babska
1969
6.5In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
The Killer Leaves a Trace
1967
7.1A 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
5.8The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Gold Dreams
1962
7.4An 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
8.0Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Sobótki
1966
6.1Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Everything for Sale
1969
6.6Set 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
6.4A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Shadow
1956
NRThe first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3. In 1941, Polish soldier Stanisław Kolicki escapes German captivity only to be mistaken for the dashing Abwehr lieutenant Hans Kloss and recruited by the Soviets as their secret agent J-23. Under deep cover behind enemy lines, he feeds crucial intelligence to the Red Army while outwitting suspicions and dueling wits with the formidable SS officer Hermann Brunner.
More Than Life At Stake Part One
1969
8.0Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.
Pięciu
1964
9.0Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.
The Hot Line
1965
6.4In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
The Hours of Hope
1955
NRThe first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2. “The plot follows the adventures of the heroic crew of the Soviet tank “Rudy” and their loyal dog Szarik as they fight across the Eastern Front in World War II, blending thrilling battles with moments of friendship, compassion, and youthful innocence.
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
1968
7.0A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk
Czerwone berety
1963
9.0A fairy tale film based on an ancient legend about the founding of Warsaw and the good fairy Sirene of the Mazovian forests, who became the patron saint of the city.
Warszawska syrena
1956
6.8Captain 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
NRThe third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
1968
NRThe last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
1968