Henryk Bąk

Acting

Henryk Bąk

Born

1923-01-02 (103)

Place of birth

Krasnystaw, lubelskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

A 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

Polskie drogi poster
7.2

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.

Polskie drogi

1977

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

Dyrektorzy

1975

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

The Nest poster
6.1

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.

The Nest

1974

Cooked Doves poster
6.9

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

Cooked Doves

1966

Film credits

1980s · 2 titles

1970s · 24 titles

The Nest poster
6.1

Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.

The Nest

1974

Jarosław Dąbrowski poster
10.0

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

Jarosław Dąbrowski

1976

The End of the Holiday poster
7.4

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.

The End of the Holiday

1975

Hazardziści poster
7.8

The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came across their trail and the criminals were soon captured. And then the real bomb went off. It turned out that the thieves were not people listed in the police annals or even in contact with the criminal world. All the robbers had a reputation as "respectable citizens", by no means suffering from a lack of cash.

Hazardziści

1975

Strach poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Strach

1975

Mniejszy szuka Dużego poster
NR

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.

Mniejszy szuka Dużego

1976

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

Return Ticket poster
7.2

A young peasant girl, Antonina, emigrates for bread to Canada. She stays with her uncle, who offers her marriage, but Antonina does not accept the offer. She marries a farmer from a nearby village, surreptitiously puts away pennies to pennies and sends to Poland, her son to build a house. When her husband finds out, he catcalls her in a rage and throws her out. She returns to the country, and what does she find?

Return Ticket

1979

Martwa fala poster
NR

After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.

Martwa fala

1971

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

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

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

Charade poster
10.0

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

Charade

1977

No artwork available
7.0

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.

Doctor Judym

1975

Kłopotliwy gość poster
7.0

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

Kłopotliwy gość

1971

Jeszcze słychać śpiew.  I rżenie koni... poster
7.0

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets out on a journey to find surviving soldiers and judge if they are worthy of the honor.

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...

1971

W te dni przedwiosenne poster
7.0

The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba.

W te dni przedwiosenne

1975

Shoot Paragon! poster
7.7

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.

Shoot Paragon!

1970

Bolesław Śmiały poster
6.6

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

Bolesław Śmiały

1972

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

No artwork available
10.0

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.

Pejzaż z bohaterem

1971

Nuremberg Epilogue poster
8.7

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

Nuremberg Epilogue

1971

Ferry poster
7.5

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.

Ferry

1970

Leprosy poster
6.0

When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.

Leprosy

1971

1960s · 20 titles

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

Cooked Doves poster
6.9

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

Cooked Doves

1966

Barrier poster
6.8

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

Barrier

1966

Obok prawdy poster
9.0

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Obok prawdy

1965

Wystrzał poster
5.3

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.

Wystrzał

1966

April poster
9.0

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

April

1961

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

The Neighbours poster
6.2

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

The Neighbours

1969

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

Good Sins poster
8.2

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

Good Sins

1963

Drugi człowiek poster
7.5

A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.

Drugi człowiek

1961

Miejsce dla jednego poster
10.0

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.

Miejsce dla jednego

1966

Life Again poster
5.7

Three 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

Silent Traces poster
9.0

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.

Silent Traces

1961

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

The Contribution poster
10.0

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.

The Contribution

1967

Time Past poster
NR

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.

Time Past

1961

Glass Mountain poster
7.0

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Glass Mountain

1960

Far Is the Road poster
6.5

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

Far Is the Road

1963

Przeciwko bogom poster
8.0

Accused by colleagues of cowardice, the aviator gets a chance for rehabilitation.

Przeciwko bogom

1961

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

A 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

Polskie drogi poster
7.2

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.

Polskie drogi

1977

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

Dyrektorzy

1975

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

Dyrektorzy

1975