Tadeusz Kalinowski

Acting

Tadeusz Kalinowski

Born — Died

1915-06-01 — 1969-08-22

Place of birth

Leibnitz, Styria, Austria

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

More Than Life At Stake

1968

Ashes and Diamonds poster
7.4

A 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

Four Tank-Men and a Dog poster
7.8

Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.

Four Tank-Men and a Dog

1966

Knights of the Teutonic Order poster
7.1

A 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

Boxer poster
6.0

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Boxer

1967

The First Day of Freedom poster
6.5

Freed 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

Film credits

1960s · 26 titles

Knights of the Teutonic Order poster
7.1

A 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

Boxer poster
6.0

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Boxer

1967

The First Day of Freedom poster
6.5

Freed 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

Rzeczpospolita babska poster
5.9

After 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

Everything for Sale poster
6.1

Wajda'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

Wiano poster
9.0

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Wiano

1964

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two poster
NR

The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4.

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two

1968

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One poster
NR

The 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

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three poster
NR

The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three

1968

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

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

No More Divorces poster
6.8

Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.

No More Divorces

1964

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four poster
NR

The 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

Gold Dreams poster
5.8

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

Gold Dreams

1962

The Holy War poster
5.4

To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).

The Holy War

1965

Life Again poster
5.7

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

Life Again

1965

More Than Life At Stake Part One poster
NR

The 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

Czerwone berety poster
7.0

A young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk

Czerwone berety

1963

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

The Pier poster
6.0

After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades.

The Pier

1969

The Neighbours poster
6.2

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

The Neighbours

1969

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

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

No artwork available
NR

The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.

Nad Odrą

1966

Pięciu poster
8.0

Historical 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

The Hot Line poster
9.0

Przybora, an engineer, undertakes the construction of a modern mine. His fiancée supports him in the hardships of his work.

The Hot Line

1965

1950s · 7 titles

Ashes and Diamonds poster
7.4

A 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

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

Five Boys from Barska Street poster
5.9

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

Five Boys from Barska Street

1954

The Hours of Hope poster
6.4

In 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

Warszawska syrena poster
9.0

A 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

Shadow poster
6.4

A 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

Skarb kapitana Martensa poster
7.0

A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.

Skarb kapitana Martensa

1957

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