Katarzyna Łaniewska

Acting

Katarzyna Łaniewska

Born 1933-06-20 · Łódź, Poland

Acting credits

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

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

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

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

Przedwiośnie poster
6.0

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution, rebirth of Poland, war with the Soviets and communist plots.

Przedwiośnie

2001

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

Dzień Wisły poster
8.0

September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...

Dzień Wisły

1980

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

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

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

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

Smolensk poster
2.5

Inspired by true events of 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smolensk, the film tells the partially fictional story of crash and various people affected by the tragedy. The protagonist is a journalist Nina, who refuses to accept the official version of the story and pursues her own independent investigation.

Smolensk

2016

Korczak poster
7.1

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

Korczak

1990

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

Matylda's Birthday poster
NR

Matylda reflects on her life on her 30th birthday.

Matylda's Birthday

1975

Farewell to the Devil poster
6.0

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.

Farewell to the Devil

1957

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
8.5

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

Pożegnanie cesarzy

1988

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

Three Stories poster
5.0

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.

Three Stories

1953

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