Tadeusz Somogi

Acting

Tadeusz Somogi

Born — Died

1922-01-01 — 2009-09-12

Place of birth

Czerwonogród, Polska [obecnie Ukraina]

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 14 titles

Teddy Bear poster
7.8

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.

Teddy Bear

1981

The Faithful River poster
6.1

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.

The Faithful River

1987

Lava poster
5.6

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Lava

1989

Father of the Queen poster
6.5

A French nobleman is sent to Poland to bring the father of Queen Marie Casimire back to France, as requested by Louis XIV's minister. While carrying out his mission at the court of King Jan III Sobieski, he becomes entangled in political intrigue and falls for the beautiful woman caring for the old marquis.

Father of the Queen

1980

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bołdyn

1981

Chrześniak poster
8.0

The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.

Chrześniak

1986

No artwork available
NR

The film shows Poland regaining independence in 1918 and the formation of the first government of the Republic of Poland.

RP's First Days

1989

The Birthday poster
8.5

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

The Birthday

1980

Filip z konopi poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Filip z konopi

1981

Kamienne tablice poster
7.0

The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were in the country. But one day, while in the cinema, he watches a newsreel of the shocking riots in Poznan. Deeply moved by the events that are taking place in the country John is faced with a fundamental problem of the determination of his own nationality.

Kamienne tablice

1984

End of the Lonely Farm Berhof poster
5.4

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.

End of the Lonely Farm Berhof

1985

Na własną prośbę poster
8.0

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.

Na własną prośbę

1980

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

No artwork available
10.0

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi

1983

1970s · 17 titles

A Woman's Decision poster
5.2

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.

A Woman's Decision

1975

What Will You Do When You Catch Me? poster
7.3

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

1978

How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends poster
7.6

Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.

How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends

1970

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 Ring of Queen Ann poster
6.5

Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.

The Ring of Queen Ann

1971

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

A Jungle Book of Regulations poster
7.0

Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.

A Jungle Book of Regulations

1974

Red Thorns poster
NR

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.

Red Thorns

1977

Agent #1 poster
5.5

Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.

Agent #1

1972

Copernicus poster
6.0

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

Copernicus

1973

Red Rowan poster
7.0

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

Red Rowan

1970

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

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

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

Janosik poster
7.6

In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants.

Janosik

1974

Album polski poster
9.0

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

Album polski

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

No artwork available
NR

After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality.

Na przełaj

1972

No artwork available
8.0

Stefan Pulman, a lonely Varsovian, spends his vacation every year in a quiet guesthouse. He makes very real marriage plans. The object of his sighs is beautiful Susanna.

Książę sezonu

1970

1960s · 15 titles

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

Cooked Doves poster
6.9

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

Cooked Doves

1966

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń poster
6.9

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń

1961

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy poster
7.0

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy

1967

Don Gabriel poster
10.0

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

Don Gabriel

1966

When Love Was a Crime poster
10.0

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.

When Love Was a Crime

1968

No artwork available
10.0

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.

The Tortures of Hope

1969

The Marriage of Convenience poster
5.9

Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a young, talented, but poor painter. However, the girl's father, Kazimierz Burczyk, decides to find a suitable husband for her himself. A shrewd tradesman, unwilling to disclose his income, searches for a candidate whose professional position would justify his possession of a villa, a car and many other material possessions. In the end, his choice falls on Andrew, who is unsuccessfully trying to sell paintings under the walls of Warsaw's Barbican.

The Marriage of Convenience

1967

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

Big Beat poster
4.7

At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.

Big Beat

1967

Zejście do piekła poster
7.0

Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.

Zejście do piekła

1966

Manhunter poster
NR

1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.

Manhunter

1964

Cześć kapitanie poster
10.0

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

Cześć kapitanie

1968

No artwork available
7.0

A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.

Wózek

1965

No artwork available
8.0

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.

Kwestia sumienia

1969

1950s · 7 titles

Kapelusz pana Anatola poster
7.0

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

Kapelusz pana Anatola

1957

Unvanquished City poster
6.0

Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.

Unvanquished City

1950

Lotna poster
5.8

Set in the beginning of World War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops, the movie is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.

Lotna

1959

Warszawska syrena poster
9.0

A fairy tale film based on an ancient legend about the founding of Warsaw and the good fairy Sirene of the Mazovian forests, who became the patron saint of the city.

Warszawska syrena

1956

Nikodem Dyzma poster
4.7

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.

Nikodem Dyzma

1956

The Hours of Hope poster
6.4

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

The Hours of Hope

1955

Wedding Night poster
7.5

Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809.

Wedding Night

1959

Series credits

Dom poster
7.3

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

Dom

1980

Calling 07 poster
7.5

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Calling 07

1976

Janosik poster
7.2

Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.

Janosik

1974

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy poster
7.5

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

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

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

Życie na gorąco poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Życie na gorąco

1979

Tulipan poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Tulipan

1987

Crimen poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crimen

1990