
Acting
Adam Pawlikowski
Born — Died
1925-11-21 — 1976-01-17
Place of birth
Warsaw, Poland
Known for
Acting
Credits
47 titles
Known for
8.0A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
More Than Life At Stake
1968
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
7.7During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
The Saragossa Manuscript
1966
8.0Kolumbowie follows a group of Polish resistance fighters during WWII in the days leading up to the Warsaw Rising.
Colombuses
1970
7.6In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Kanal
1957
6.3Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
Where Is the Third King?
1967
Film credits
1970s · 3 titles
7.0A young Bulgarian inspector Georgiev is in Warsaw to lead an operation to defraud and capture a Dutch-based gang leader involved in currency crimes. To accomplish this task, he needs to use Jeanne as a "decoy duck". She's Bulgarian, married to a gang member.
The Decoy Duck
1974
5.7A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
The Woodpecker
1971
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
1960s · 37 titles
7.7During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
The Saragossa Manuscript
1966
6.3Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
Where Is the Third King?
1967
6.9A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Cooked Doves
1966
6.1Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Everything for Sale
1969
6.7Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...
Goodbye, Till Tomorrow
1960
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
7.4A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
Wolves' Echoes
1968
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
6.7An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Goodbye to the Past
1961
6.8A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Barrier
1966
6.5Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Story of the Golden Boot
1961
6.5A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Hell and Heaven
1966
7.5While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
Wounded in the Forest
1964
Polish TV movie. Lost.
Instrumentum mortis
1965
The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.
More Than Life At Stake Part Three
1969
7.0Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.
The Criminal and the Lady
1963
6.5Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
Zuzanna i chłopcy
1961
6.8Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.
No More Divorces
1964
6.0Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
Kochajmy syrenki
1967
6.1A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
One Room Tenants
1960
5.5The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
Naprawdę wczoraj
1963
7.5A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
Drugi człowiek
1961
5.2Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
The Two Who Stole the Moon
1962
5.8The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Gold Dreams
1962
The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.
Pistolet typu "Walter P-38"
1963
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
The Office
1969
5.7Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
Life Again
1965
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
8.5In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
The Road West
1961
8.5On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
The Nutcracker
1967
7.4A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.
I Would Like to Have a Shave
1966
6.5After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Far Is the Road
1963
8.0A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
Mój stary
1962
8.0Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
Alone in the City
1965
8.0Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
It Started Yesterday
1961
7.5A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them.
Ping-pong
1966
7.5The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
Mrs. Hanka's Diary
1963
1950s · 5 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
7.6In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Kanal
1957
5.6The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Farewells
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
7.3A 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
Series credits
8.0A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
More Than Life At Stake
1968
8.0Kolumbowie follows a group of Polish resistance fighters during WWII in the days leading up to the Warsaw Rising.
Colombuses
1970
