Andrzej Szalawski

Acting

Andrzej Szalawski

Born 1911-12-04 · Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)

Acting credits

Levin's Mill poster
9.0

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined and his calls for justice go unanswered, Levin leaves town.

Levin's Mill

1980

The Quack poster
7.5

A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.

The Quack

1982

Knights of the Teutonic Order poster
7.1

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Knights of the Teutonic Order

1960

No artwork available
1.0

A psychological drama taking place in the picturesque scenery of the sea coast, in a closed circle of four people: the lighthouse keeper, his wife and a young student couple in love with each other. Young people bring to the peaceful home not only the symptoms of exuberant joy in life, but also a different way of thinking and looking at the world.

Zmyślone

1971

No End poster
7.0

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

No End

1985

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

The Gorgon Case poster
5.5

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect.

The Gorgon Case

1977

The Promised Land poster
7.3

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

The Promised Land

1975

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

Wolves' Echoes poster
7.4

A 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

Wraki poster
5.1

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

Wraki

1957

Girls of Nowolipki poster
6.0

Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a better future but what the future brings is usually disappointment, sometimes even tragedy.

Girls of Nowolipki

1937

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment poster
5.3

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

1971

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem poster
8.0

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem

1962

No artwork available
NR

A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.

Sąd nad Braćmi Polskimi

1984

Awards and Decorations poster
9.0

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.

Awards and Decorations

1974

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

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

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

No artwork available
8.0

Two boys in the Gdańsk City Hall follow the trail of a 15th-century legend about children of city councilors enchanted in sculptures.

Tajemnica Wielkiego Krzysztofa

1975

The Rotter Case poster
NR

A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.

The Rotter Case

1987

Człowiek z M-3 poster
7.2

A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife.

Człowiek z M-3

1969

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

Daimler-Benz Limousine poster
6.3

Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action.

Daimler-Benz Limousine

1983

The Real End of the Great War poster
8.3

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion

The Real End of the Great War

1957

No artwork available
9.0

Fall 1944. A wounded Polish officer, Ryszard, is brought to the Allied field hospital. He notices another soldier on the table - also a Pole - a rosary made of pomegranate seeds. Józef, overjoyed at the arrival of his countryman, tells the story of the rosary.

Różaniec z granatów

1970