
Acting
Mieczysław Łoza
Born — Died
1916-01-06 — 1982-05-21
Place of birth
Lublin, lubelskie, Polska
Known for
Acting
Credits
49 titles
Known for
7.8Czterej 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
7.2Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
Janosik
1974
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
No synopsis available yet.
Misja
1981
7.0Engineer Bogdan Zawada moves to the construction of a port on the Baltic Sea. The man tries to arrange his personal and professional life in a new environment.
Znaki szczególne
1977
NRA man meets a childhood friend who does not recognize him.
Insomnia Station
1974
Film credits
1980s · 4 titles
6.5A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
Shivers
1981
8.3Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
Mad Dog
1980
6.7When 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
10.0Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive.
Barbed Wire
1983
1970s · 18 titles
NRA man meets a childhood friend who does not recognize him.
Insomnia Station
1974
NRAfter graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.
Martwa fala
1971
5.8A dramatization of problems faced by a young couple in 1970's Poland - job uncertainty, conflicts with parents, living together, unfaithfulness.
To Kill This Love
1972
7.6On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
1970
9.0Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
The Epidemic
1972
A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.
Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
1973
10.0A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.
Signs on the Road
1970
5.0A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
The Anatomy of Love
1972
5.3Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.
The Last Witness
1970
The dispatcher of the Medical Aviation Ambulance Service receives a phone call about the need to transport a patient from hundreds of miles away to Warsaw.
Teraz i w każdą godzinę
1973
7.0A 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
5.9In 1920s Poland, a police commissioner leads the investigation into a series of brutal murders of young boys as the case grows increasingly unsettling and personal.
Quiet Is the Night
1978
10.0After her husband's death Stefania learns that her respected spouse, who was a university professor, had a flat of his own where he lead a second life.
Sekret
1973
8.0Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers.
Hour After Hour
1974
6.0When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.
Leprosy
1971
A precious jewel brought from India by a British general falls prey to his wife.
Diament radży
1971
9.0A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip.
Uciec jak najbliżej
1972
A former concentration camp prisoner appears in a deserted town in the regained western territories. Soon more follow.
Dom
1970
1960s · 13 titles
6.3The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Giuseppe in Warsaw
1964
6.9A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
All Souls' Day
1961
5.2An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
The Red and the Gold
1969
7.0A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
Glass Mountain
1960
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 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
7.7Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Our Folks
1967
4.3A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.
Agnes 1946
1964
6.2A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
The Neighbours
1969
5.7Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.
Skok
1969
7.5Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.
Nafta
1961
8.0A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
Meetings In The Dark
1960
8.0Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
Sobótki
1966
1950s · 10 titles
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
6.8Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Ewa Wants to Sleep
1958
5.8Set in the beginning of World War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops, the movie is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
Lotna
1959
7.0Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Trzy starty
1955
7.1In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
The Depot of the Dead
1959
9.0An old worker secures the future of his steel mill during the war.
Pierwsze dni
1952
7.3A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Polar Bear
1959
7.0The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness.
The Stone Sky
1959
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
6.0Four stories showing the various facets of love.
Spotkania
1957
Series credits
7.8Czterej 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
7.2Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
Janosik
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Misja
1981
7.0Engineer Bogdan Zawada moves to the construction of a port on the Baltic Sea. The man tries to arrange his personal and professional life in a new environment.
Znaki szczególne
1977
