Teresa Szmigielówna

Acting

Teresa Szmigielówna

Born — Died

1929-10-09 — 2013-09-24

Place of birth

Kobalówka k. Tarnopola, Polska (obecnie Ukraina)

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

Dom poster
7.3

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

Dom

1980

The Foreigner poster
3.9

This story is about a freelance agent who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.

The Foreigner

2003

4 Alternative Street poster
8.4

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

4 Alternative Street

1986

Night Train poster
7.6

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

Night Train

1959

Trzecia granica poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Trzecia granica

1976

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

The Foreigner poster
3.9

This story is about a freelance agent who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.

The Foreigner

2003

All The Saints poster
6.6

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children.

All The Saints

2002

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

Powiedz to, Gabi poster
6.0

A teenage girl named Gabi has a crush on an older guy. She's trying to pursue her feelings.

Powiedz to, Gabi

2003

Rh+ poster
3.9

Things go horribly wrong for Ola and her friends when she tries to help journalist Agata find an interesting subject for an article. Placing a personal ad in the newspaper inadvertently invites the attention of a dangerous person who's now stalking them all, apparently in desperation to know their blood types.

Rh+

2005

No artwork available
6.0

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.

Before Twilight

2009

Miasto z morza poster
6.8

Spring 1923. Krzysztof Grabień, the son of a teacher from a village near Przeworsk, arrives on the Polish coast encouraged by news of the construction of a port in Gdynia. Next to a point recruiting workers, Krzysztof meets Volodya Yazovetsky. The peer persuades him to go into an illegal but profitable business. At the garkuchnya works Lucka Konka, whom Krzysztof likes with reciprocity. Volodya meets French engineers who are to help build the wharves of a future port.

Miasto z morza

2009

1980s · 9 titles

Rośliny trujące poster
6.5

The story takes place in the second half of the 1950s. A young journalist wants to establish himself in his profession and sort out his personal life, but he is unable to distance himself from the grim events he witnesses. He manages to get a job at a popular newspaper. The editor-in-chief sends him to a village near Warsaw, which is to be absorbed by the city, to write a report on the civilizational changes taking place there. The journalist learns the story of a young prisoner awaiting execution on death row and becomes involved in the convict's case.

Rośliny trujące

1988

Woman in a Hat poster
6.6

A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.

Woman in a Hat

1985

Na straży swej stać będę poster
5.0

Set during the World War II. Story follows a young officer, returning home after lost September 1939 campaign, who organizes an underground network, but is betrayed by a girl who had more interest in him than the cause.

Na straży swej stać będę

1984

Boczny tor poster
7.0

Old couple dreams about a cruise.

Boczny tor

1988

Zamach stanu poster
8.0

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.

Zamach stanu

1981

Tribute to a Gray Day poster
10.0

The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and Zosia, are ordered to blow up a railway bridge during a military transport crossing. The task is completed, but with great losses.

Tribute to a Gray Day

1984

Penelopy poster
4.7

Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.

Penelopy

1989

No artwork available
8.0

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.

On, ona, oni

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Biała Gorączka

1981

1970s · 10 titles

Camera Buff poster
7.5

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

Camera Buff

1979

Watercolors poster
8.0

Anka competes for a role in "Swan Lake". The girl's determination is not shared by her boyfriend Marek

Watercolors

1978

Con bravura poster
NR

Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rather unconventional nun and an intrigued young man – each of them bears secrets and the encounter could incite a flaming romance, though one suffocated by war.Munk set the film in the mountain capital of Zakopane and its vicinity, allowing breathtaking views from a cable car and using his experiences of the Nazi occupation in the area to add gritty reality. The director plays a cameo as a priest with several of his industry friends also making appearances.

Con bravura

1972

The Border poster
5.4

Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely Justyna Bogutówna, the daughter of a cook. When the canicule comes to an end, Zenon packs his bags and leaves for Paris to study. Returning after a year with a doctorate in political science, he makes a fast and glamorous career. He becomes the editor-in-chief of the local newspaper and, soon after, mayor of the city. He also marries Elzbieta Biecka, but still does not break up with Justyna.

The Border

1978

Charade poster
10.0

A young lab technician, threatened by a blackmailer, descends into madness.

Charade

1977

Jarosław Dąbrowski poster
10.0

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist.

Jarosław Dąbrowski

1976

Journey for One Smile poster
7.8

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking and using every transport they can find.

Journey for One Smile

1972

Krótkie życie poster
7.0

A thrilling story about the liquidation of a Polish terrorist group in Slovakia in the post-war years.

Krótkie życie

1976

No artwork available
5.5

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.

Facing the Truth

1970

Uciec jak najbliżej poster
9.0

A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip.

Uciec jak najbliżej

1972

1960s · 14 titles

Innocent Sorcerers poster
7.0

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love.

Innocent Sorcerers

1960

Maria and Napoleon poster
6.8

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.

Maria and Napoleon

1966

Barrier poster
6.8

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Barrier

1966

Hell and Heaven poster
6.5

A 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

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

Christmas Eve poster
6.4

A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve

1966

Ostatni po Bogu poster
8.0

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.

Ostatni po Bogu

1968

The Road West poster
8.5

In 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

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

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

Tomorrow Mexico poster
7.3

A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.

Tomorrow Mexico

1966

Szczęściarz Antoni poster
6.7

A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.

Szczęściarz Antoni

1961

Mrs. Hanka's Diary poster
7.5

The 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

No artwork available
9.0

The piece is an analysis of a person's attitude in the face of imminent danger, and its action takes place just after World War II. In the train station waiting room, two young men lead a beer discussion, one of whom tells the other an unpleasant incident of his own life.

Beer

1965

1950s · 8 titles

Night Train poster
7.6

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

Night Train

1959

The Noose poster
7.1

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

The Noose

1958

Cellulose poster
6.5

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Cellulose

1954

No artwork available
7.0

Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.

Career

1955

Signals poster
6.5

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Signals

1959

Podhale w ogniu poster
NR

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.

Podhale w ogniu

1956

Three Stories poster
5.0

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

Three Stories

1953

The Warsaw Debut poster
7.0

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

The Warsaw Debut

1951

Series credits

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

Dom poster
7.3

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

Dom

1980

4 Alternative Street poster
8.4

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

4 Alternative Street

1986

Trzecia granica poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Trzecia granica

1976

Droga poster
7.4

Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He is always ready to solve the problems of others, although he is usually not very good at it. His favorite saying is “absolutely”.

Droga

1975

Strachy poster
NR

The miniseries shows in a colorful way the acting environment of Poland in the interwar period of the 20th century from behind the scenes. The main character works as a show dancer in theaters and cabarets, experiencing both professional successes and humiliating failures and poverty.

Strachy

1979

Popielec poster
7.5

The series presents an original, non-didactic view of rural Poland during the Nazi occupation, rejecting stereotypes about ubiquitous wartime heroism, sacrifice, and martyrdom. It is a record of a "war-torn" state of consciousness, a drama of lost people who sink into ever greater degradation.

Popielec

1984

Trip for One Smile poster
7.5

Two cousins are traveling to the sea for summer vacations.

Trip for One Smile

1972