
Acting
Czesław Piaskowski
Born 1903-05-13 · Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)
Acting credits
7.5Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
The Hourglass Sanatorium
1973
NRA collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
Komedie pomyłek
1968
7.3Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.
Two Hours
1957
7.5Two 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
6.0A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Boxer
1967
A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.
Two Brigades
1950
6.1Told 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
7.0This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
The Barrel Organ
1968
7.2During 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
6.9A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
Cooked Doves
1966
9.0After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
Obok prawdy
1965
6.9A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
All Souls' Day
1961
7.5A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.
Niedziela sprawiedliwości
1966
5.1Diver 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
6.4Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
The Doll
1968
5.8The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Gold Dreams
1962
6.8To 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
Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas.
Profesor na drodze
1973
9.0The film is a psychological study addressing the problem of lack of inner resilience in the face of misfortune. The death of a son, trampled by frightened horses, disrupts the peace and happiness of the family of Pastor Hubina. Mentally broken wife Edyta (Barbara Horawianka) leaves to join her sister in Prague and there meets music teacher von Kschitzky, with whom she returns after some time, entrusting him with teaching music to her daughter Olesia. The teacher is a follower of Nazi ideology and practice. Edith begins to show more and more interest in him, and he ostentatiously seeks her favor.
Loneliness of the Couple
1969
The year 1920, Polish lands beyond the Vistula, the Polish-Bolshevik war continues. Felix Dzerzhinsky travels by train with the army. In July, his appeal to the people was published, in which he warned that from now on, the punishment for theft or inciting robbery would be death by shooting. When a group of hungry, destitute boys break into the wagon during a stop, one of them is captured and brought before the revolutionary.
Chleb
1953
6.8Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Ewa Wants to Sleep
1958
6.0A 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
6.3A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
The People from the Train
1961
5.8Set 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