Hanna Stankówna

Acting

Hanna Stankówna

Born — Died

1938-05-04 — 2020-12-14

Place of birth

Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Hanna Stankówna was born on May 4, 1938 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland as Hanna Stanek. She was an actress, known for Sexmission (1984), Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977) and Panna z mokra glowa (1995).

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

2000s · 3 titles

A Few People, a Little Time poster
6.3

The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.

A Few People, a Little Time

2007

Złoty środek poster
4.6

Raised in Warsaw's Praga, Mirka graduated from the prestigious faculty of law. It would seem that her profession would even be detracted from the honor of a family with cunning roots. The girl's grandfather and father pride themselves on stays in numerous prisons. However, Mirka's legal knowledge can be very useful in the fight to save the old tenement house. As a result of a suspicious transaction, the tenement house where Mirka has been living since childhood is to be demolished. All the leads lead to the law firm "Łopian i Pokrzywa", which is just looking for a new lawyer - a man. In order to help the inhabitants of the family tenement house, Mirka must engage in a daring hoax. She is helped by her uncle Bogumił, a makeup artist and a representative of a sexual minority. Thanks to him, a beautiful girl will turn into a handsome young man and hire him in a suspicious office.

Złoty środek

2009

Operacja Koza poster
4.6

Adam Horn, a young Polish scientist, is conducting research to discover a substance that makes personality swapping possible. Appearing before a committee granting funds for further research, he presents a somewhat "stilted" achievement, demonstrating on his experimental pet the personality swap of a dog with a goat Matilda. The fame of his research reaches the former KGB, which sends him an agent committed to intercepting the research results.

Operacja Koza

2000

1990s · 7 titles

Deborah poster
7.5

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

Deborah

1995

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

A Bachelor's Life Abroad poster
4.6

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.

A Bachelor's Life Abroad

1993

Panna z mokrą głową poster
7.2

A young lady from a good home, full of life, wins the hearts of the greatest gloomy people and turns people into people open to the world. He infects everyone with kindness and optimism, even when misfortunes fall on the family. Resolute and resourceful, she takes matters into her own hands, but will fate be favorable to her and happiness will smile at her?

Panna z mokrą głową

1994

Człowiek z... poster
5.3

Journalist Anna is trying to make a documentary about an opposition activist she met years ago.

Człowiek z...

1993

Matka swojej matki poster
6.2

Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides to find her biological mother. When Alicja finds the real mother, the life of the main characters changes, and the positive relationships that linked them become blurred.

Matka swojej matki

1996

The Book of Great Wishes poster
8.0

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.

The Book of Great Wishes

1998

1980s · 15 titles

Sexmission poster
7.2

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

Sexmission

1984

Memoirs of a Sinner poster
6.9

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

Memoirs of a Sinner

1986

An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill poster
5.2

A historical drama about Barbara Radziwiłł, whose controversial love affair and marriage with King Sigismund II Augustus defied political opposition in 16th-century Poland. The film follows their romance, Barbara’s untimely death, and her posthumous return to Vilnius, framed through the king’s memories of his beloved queen.

An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill

1983

Labirynt poster
10.0

Tadeusz returns from abroad after a few years; he left his fiancée Wanda in the country, now he cannot get to the common apartment. The paralyzed mother is in a nursing home; he has no contact with her. The swimmer, Judyta, pushes her friend, afraid of heights, into the water, but she cannot understand her deed. Wanda makes a program about the Palace of Culture for television, Tadeusz wants to meet her there.

Labirynt

1989

Tender Spots poster
7.1

The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man.

Tender Spots

1981

Murmurando poster
NR

Patients of the holiday and treatment center take part in trying to overcome the tobacco addiction by singing.

Murmurando

1984

Wherever You Are... poster
5.5

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

Wherever You Are...

1988

Rififi po sześćdziesiątce poster
5.0

A group of retirees, wanting to help a friend, plan to break into a bank.

Rififi po sześćdziesiątce

1989

Dziady. Część III poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dziady. Część III

1981

Return of the Pied Piper poster
2.5

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

Return of the Pied Piper

1989

She-Wolf poster
5.6

In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.

She-Wolf

1983

Komediantka poster
6.3

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

Komediantka

1987

Woman from the Provinces poster
5.4

Sixty-year-old Andzia has lived in a small town since birth. She is married to the owner of an apartment building. She marries him at the age of 50. Before that, she raised two children alone. Andzia is a simple woman and does not see the banality of her daily existence. In her fifties she is a dishwasher in a restaurant. She desires to marry her daughter and strives for her growing son to get a profession. Small savings give her the greatest satisfaction. During the occupation, she works for the Germans in a soldier's kitchen.

Woman from the Provinces

1985

System poster
7.0

An adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, transposed to a contemporary setting. A couple visits a remote asylum where the woman knows the staff, only to discover that the institution is overrun and the lines between doctors and patients have collapsed.

System

1981

Przyśpieszenie poster
8.0

A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis

Przyśpieszenie

1985

1970s · 11 titles

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 Third Part of the Night poster
7.0

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.

The Third Part of the Night

1972

The Moonlit Road poster
6.0

Julian, a young man who came back home after years of studying abroad finds his life in turmoil after falling for his stepmother, while his dead mother's spirit haunts the family house, intent on revenge.

The Moonlit Road

1973

Insomnia Station poster
NR

A man meets a childhood friend who does not recognize him.

Insomnia Station

1974

The Leper poster
6.5

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.

The Leper

1976

Glass Ball poster
10.0

Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.

Glass Ball

1972

Composition for Four Hands poster
NR

Nora Hansen witnessed a crime. However, she cannot reveal the truth, as an accident left her completely paralyzed.

Composition for Four Hands

1975

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach poster
6.4

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

1970

No artwork available
NR

A TV special - host Irena Dziedzic interviews notable figures of Polish history at the Wawel Castle.

Wawelski convuntus dowódców

1970

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

Wyjazd służbowy poster
NR

The protagonist is preparing for a year-long business trip to Hungary. The trip appears to be a promotion, but in reality it is tantamount to losing his position. At the same time, his wife has already started an affair with his deputy, who is also his successor.

Wyjazd służbowy

1976

1960s · 6 titles

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