Katarzyna Łaniewska

Acting

Katarzyna Łaniewska

Born — Died

1933-06-20 — 2020-12-07

Place of birth

Łódź, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

1990s · 9 titles

Burial of a Potato poster
8.2

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.

Burial of a Potato

1990

Love Stories poster
6.8

Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student puts the teacher in an awkward spot when she reveals her love for him. An 11-year-old informs the priest that she's his daughter. The army officer is pleased when confronted by a past lover. The drug dealer, taken prisoner, must decide whether or not to trust his wife with his hidden loot. In the wrap-up, the elderly accountant passes judgment on all four men. Stuhr acted in films by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who had some input here by offering advice to Stuhr on this screenplay.

Love Stories

1997

Korczak poster
7.1

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Korczak

1990

Taekwondo poster
7.0

South Korean Kim lives alone in Warsaw, Poland, where he teaches taekwondo. His wife and daughter live in Berlin, just six hours away by train, but he's been traveling around Europe for 10 years and hesitates to even send a birthday card to his daughter. One day, he finds the bag of a woman, Yola (Eva Gabriluk), who has been pickpocketed, and the two become close. Another chance encounter with a delinquent young man, Mihau (Pavogiu Bourcik), brings them together, and they become an important part of Kim's life. Through Yola, Kim reconnects with lost feelings of love, and the always-flirtatious and unruly Mihau reminds him of his own restless youth...

Taekwondo

1998

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle poster
4.4

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle

1993

The Birthday Trip poster
6.0

When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.

The Birthday Trip

1990

Królestwo Zielonej Polany poster
NR

The main character of the film is a little boy named Marek, who from an enemy of nature becomes its devoted friend. Before this happens, however, fate plays quite a trick on him. At first, however, nothing foreshadows this. Marek arrives in the forest with a school trip. He quickly separates himself from the rest of the children, after which he gives vent to his hooligan fantasy. He destroys an anthill, cuts a tree with a knife, tries to catch a spider. When he fails, he starts chasing a butterfly. He doesn't know that under this figure hides the prince of white and black magic. Wanting to punish the unruly boy, the sorcerer reduces him to the size of an insect. Mark, reduced to the size of an insect, must learn to live in completely new conditions. This is by no means easy.

Królestwo Zielonej Polany

1994

Two Moons poster
6.0

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.

Two Moons

1993

Ptaszka poster
NR

Kazimierz Lipecki lives in a small town, with his three children. The mother died during childbirth, the youngest, a four-year-old girl, did not develop normally. When the grandmother, the pillar of home life, is also gone, Kazimierz Lipecki and his two older children, thirteen-year-old Łukasz and eleven-year-old Ula, start a desperate fight to defend simple, superior values - mutual love and family bonds.

Ptaszka

1995

1980s · 8 titles

Interrogation poster
7.1

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

Interrogation

1989

Egg Nogg poster
7.3

Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that was not accepted to college. Resigned returns home and agrees to the wedding. Meanwhile, on the eve of the wedding the postman brings the notice of acceptance to the university.

Egg Nogg

1988

Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2 poster
7.0

Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.

Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2

1989

The Day of the Vistula poster
8.0

Warsaw, September 1944. On the eastern bank of the Vistula, a group of civilians live in a house cut off from the fighting across the river. Tadeusz, a young poet who has lost both legs, struggles with his helplessness as the Warsaw Uprising continues. His younger brother Witek dreams of crossing the river to join the fight, while Tadeusz grows closer to Katarzyna. As soldiers, refugees and resistance fighters pass through the house, its inhabitants confront the devastation of war and the uncertain future of a country caught between two worlds.

The Day of the Vistula

1980

Fik-Mik poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fik-Mik

1988

Childhood Sins poster
7.5

An adaptation of B. Prus's novella. The story takes place at the end of the 19th century, in a manor house falling into ruin. The protagonists are children: the steward's son, the countess's daughter, and a peasant child. The 1970s. The story of a twelve-year-old boy, Kazio, who is unruly but has a good heart. He stands up for the weak and oppressed and experiences romantic love for Countess Loni. However, this love forces him to reject friendship. Kazio is deeply affected by this and falls seriously ill.

Childhood Sins

1980

No artwork available
8.5

Tomasz, an old peasant, tries to find himself in the new reality after the First World War.

Pożegnanie cesarzy

1988

No artwork available
6.0

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

"Ty pójdziesz górą..." (Eliza Orzeszkowa)

1980

1970s · 9 titles

Złote koło poster
7.3

An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.

Złote koło

1971

Matylda's Birthday poster
NR

Matylda reflects on her life on her 30th birthday.

Matylda's Birthday

1975

Album polski poster
9.0

University 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

Abel, Your Brother poster
6.1

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.

Abel, Your Brother

1970

Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany poster
9.0

Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon.

Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany

1974

No artwork available
6.0

On August 1, 1944, Warsaw holds its breath as Home Army couriers spread word that “W-hour” is at 17:00. A platoon under “Czarny” must assault German barracks without the expected backup—an order they follow at the risk of collective suicide.

Godzina W

1979

Promotion poster
7.0

After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize.

Promotion

1975

No artwork available
NR

The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.

Trochę nadziei

1972

Nowy poster
7.0

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Nowy

1970

1960s · 11 titles

Rok pierwszy poster
9.0

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.

Rok pierwszy

1960

The Lodger poster
7.5

A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.

The Lodger

1967

Interrupted Flight poster
9.0

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

Interrupted Flight

1964

My Second Marriage poster
7.0

After the death of his wife, Marcin stays alone with his growing son on the farm.

My Second Marriage

1964

Rendes-Vous with a Spy poster
6.7

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

Rendes-Vous with a Spy

1964

No artwork available
5.5

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.

Tysiąc talarów

1960

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime poster
7.0

Retired police captain Siwy recounts to a reporter how he undertook a final, private investigation into the suspicious death of Ewa Salm, known as “Princess.” Though her testimony had secured a conviction, Siwy doubted the man’s guilt and set out to uncover the real killer—risking his own life to see justice done.

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime

1969

Miejsce dla jednego poster
10.0

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.

Miejsce dla jednego

1966

Trzy kroki po ziemi poster
9.0

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

Trzy kroki po ziemi

1965

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

No artwork available
NR

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

Nad Odrą

1966

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits

Spellbinder poster
7.7

A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.

Spellbinder

1995

Dom poster
7.3

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Dom

1980

Miodowe lata poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Miodowe lata

1998

Doktor Ewa poster
9.0

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Doktor Ewa

1971

Plebania poster
5.5

Plebania is a Polish soap opera broadcast from October 5, 2000 to January 27, 2012 on TVP1. The series is about the lives of ordinary people in the fictional Polish village of Tulczyn. The plot revolves around the family, religious, and social issues of the village inhabitants with central roles played by a parish priest, his family and friends, and a wealthy business man known for shady dealings. Plebania is the second-longest Polish soap opera.

Plebania

2000

Tulipan poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Tulipan

1987

Gruby poster
8.0

Seventh-grade students are just starting their studies in a newly opened school in a small town in the Recovered Territories, right after the end of the war. The difficult process of assimilation of the settlers who came to Lower Silesia in 1946, the echoes of the war: the subversive actions of Werwolf, the actions of the looters - constitute the background for the adventures taking place in the foreground.

Gruby

1973