Witold Skaruch

Acting

Witold Skaruch

Born 1930-01-11 · Ciechanów, Polska

Acting credits

The Possessed poster
5.6

Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.

The Possessed

1988

Yes, Yes poster
4.2

Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.

Yes, Yes

1993

The Verdict poster
9.0

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

The Verdict

1962

Night Train poster
7.5

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

I Hate Mondays poster
7.4

An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.

I Hate Mondays

1971

The Attempt poster
7.0

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

The Attempt

1959

The Deluge poster
7.2

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

The Deluge

1974

Colonel Wolodyjowski poster
7.0

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.

Colonel Wolodyjowski

1969

The Phantom poster
5.3

Set in the early years of the century. A story of a country gentleman haunted by the memory of his first wife. His current wife, had enough of his obsession and has taken a lover, who is mysteriously paralyzed. Meanwhile, main character's son gets his first taste of sensual experience with a mute peasant girl.

The Phantom

1984

Lazarus' Whims poster
10.0

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.

Lazarus' Whims

1973

Cooked Doves poster
6.9

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

Cooked Doves

1966

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

Tabliczka marzenia poster
7.5

A fifteen-year old Ludka navigates first love and frustrations related to failures of the adult world during summer holidays.

Tabliczka marzenia

1968

Farewells poster
5.6

The 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

Dziady. Część III poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dziady. Część III

1981

The Last Action poster
6.2

When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on.

The Last Action

2009

No artwork available
5.0

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

Liczę na wasze grzechy

1964

Bad Luck poster
6.8

To 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

How to Be Loved poster
7.4

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

How to Be Loved

1963

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

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

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters poster
6.8

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

1971

Passion poster
6.8

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.

Passion

1978

I Love You poster
5.8

A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.

I Love You

1999