
Acting
Danuta Wodyńska
Born 1922-05-31 · Lwów, Polska (obecnie Ukraina)
Acting credits
7.0Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.
A Generation
1955
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
7.3At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.
The Promised Land
1975
7.0Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
The Attempt
1959
4.3Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
Legenda
1971
6.8To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Bad Luck
1960
4.9The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a voyage in time, during which she relives the memories of her idyllic childhood.
Femina
1991
9.0Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.
Lovers from Marona
1966
8.0Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.
I ty zostaniesz Indianinem
1962
6.9A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Nights and Days
1975
6.4A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
1970
7.0After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize.
Promotion
1975
6.6A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.
The Birch Wood
1970
7.4An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
A Cure for Love
1966
7.0The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
Countess Cosel
1968
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
7.0Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.
Checkmate!
1967
8.0An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
1961
6.3A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
Kryptonim Nektar
1963
8.0A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
Mój stary
1962
7.0A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Nowy
1970
9.0University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Album polski
1970
7.6An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.
Motodrama
1971
8.0A 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