Zbigniew Sawan

Acting

Zbigniew Sawan

Born 1904-04-14 · Woskresienówka, gubernia kurska, Rosja

Acting credits

Behind the Curtain poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Behind the Curtain

1973

Black Diamonds poster
7.3

Engineer Nawrat, together with the mining crew, takes up the fight to save the local mine from being taken over by foreign capital.

Black Diamonds

1939

Early Spring poster
9.0

Directed by Henryk Szaro.

Early Spring

1928

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dzikuska

1928

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Huragan

1928

No artwork available
4.3

After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...

Funeral Ceremony

1985

Heart on the street poster
NR

A Russian spy enlists naïve Nadia to seduce ministry official Henryk Barczyński and discredit him, but their staged affair turns into genuine love.

Heart on the street

1931

Signals: A Space Adventure poster
5.2

In the middle of the next century, a spaceship loses its bearings, and the commander of another space crew, seemingly on a routine check flight, decides to investigate. The result is an unusual suspense adventure.

Signals: A Space Adventure

1970

No artwork available
2.0

There has been a secret relationship between the nephew of the ordinate - Jan, and his older cousin Xymena. However, Jan falls in love with the foster daughter of the ordinate, the young Krystyna. The ordinate does not consent to marriage, because Krystyna is his illegitimate daughter, and thus Jan's cousin. But it turns out that Jan is not the son of the general's brother ...

Honor dziecka

1976

No artwork available
NR

Fioretta, who works at the circus, is the favorite of the entire staff. Her beauty and charm do not go unnoticed by outsiders either, and the wealthy industrialist Eugeniusz Rańcewicz begins to take an interest in her. Fascinated by her, he abandons his plans to marry another woman. One day, gypsies set fire to the circus grounds and steal Fioretta's two favorite horses. Livenzo comes to her aid.

Pałac na kółkach

1932

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Człowiek o błękitnej duszy

1929

The Wicket Gate poster
5.5

Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship.

The Wicket Gate

1974

Operation Arsenal poster
6.8

In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German “Zachęta” cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema.

Operation Arsenal

1977

Aria for an Athlete poster
6.8

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.

Aria for an Athlete

1979

The Ashes poster
6.7

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.

The Ashes

1965

Hydro-Puzzle poster
6.0

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

Hydro-Puzzle

1971

Nuremberg Epilogue poster
8.7

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

Nuremberg Epilogue

1971

The Catastrophe poster
8.0

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

The Catastrophe

1966

Klejnot wolnego sumienia poster
7.0

The Republic of Poland of the 16th century. During the period of religious tolerance, the Sieniawski and Bielecki families compete with each other.

Klejnot wolnego sumienia

1983

No artwork available
10.0

A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.

Visit of a President

1961

A Round Week poster
9.0

Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.

A Round Week

1977

No artwork available
7.0

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.

I Died So I Could Live

1984