Аватар персоны Jadwiga Zajiček

Jadwiga Zajiček

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25-11-1925

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Sagittarius

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Wilno, ZSRR (obecnie Litwa)

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Kwiat paproci

Kwiat paproci

By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
0.0

Year:

2009

Superproduction

Superproduction

An independent film critic is commissioned to write a blockbuster screenplay in which the girlfriend of an influential gangster is to play. Criticising is easier than creating. The critic tries to save his skin with the help of a girl, a proofreader from the editorial office.
4.4

Year:

2002

Money Is Not Everything

Money Is Not Everything

The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.
6.6

Year:

2001

It's Me, the Thief

It's Me, the Thief

A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the boss of a gang of car thieves, he decides to steal a jaguar. What’s more, he can realize his grandmother's dream – he can drive her to mass in the basilica.
6.5

Year:

2000

Killer 2

Killer 2

Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...
7.1

Year:

1999

In Heaven As It Is on Earth

In Heaven As It Is on Earth

Russian woman is robbed after crossing Polish border and has to wait until the local policemen catch the thieves. The priest, who is the main authority in the town, orders that she stays at organist's house.
6.3

Year:

1998

Killer

Killer

An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.
7.6

Year:

1997

Girl Guide

Girl Guide

5.8

Year:

1996

1968. Happy New Year

1968. Happy New Year

The events concerning the March 1968 student demonstrations in Poland are seen through the eyes of young people rebelling against the government and the communist politicians trying to halt the protests.
4.5

Year:

1993

Polish Cuisine

Polish Cuisine

A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.
4.0

Year:

1991

Miners '88

Miners '88

In the summer of 1988, a wave of strikes broke out in the mines. Miners protested against unsafe working conditions and low wages. The government threatened with reprisals.
0.0

Year:

1989

Funeral Ceremony

Funeral Ceremony

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...
2.0

Year:

1985

Smell of the Dog's Fur

Smell of the Dog's Fur

Sculptor Paul travels to the Black Sea resort. There he meets a German student of Slavic studies, Heidi, with whom he starts a romantic affair. They live in the campsite. He does not take this relationship seriously, but for the girl Paul is the first great love. Soon he accidentally discovers an illicit drug trafficking. Without a second thought, he takes the opportunity to get more cash - he takes over the goods and demands a ransom gang of twenty thousand dollars. Heidi then disappears...
0.0

Year:

1982

Farmers '81

Farmers '81

At the turn of 1980/81, the peasants joined the workers' movement and they voiced their demands. As a result, they’ve registered the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers ‘Solidarity’.
0.0

Year:

1981

Girl and Boy

Girl and Boy

As a result of a mistake, the siblings change roles and go on vacation somewhere else than planned. The boy goes to his aunt and cousins, the girl goes to her uncle and cousins. To save her brother, the sister pretends to be a boy and he, left with no choice, pretends to be a girl.
5.0

Year:

1980

Dzień Wisły

Dzień Wisły

September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
0.0

Year:

1980

Sekret Enigmy

Sekret Enigmy

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939; they ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France.
5.0

Year:

1979

Fortune Favours Łęczna

Fortune Favours Łęczna

Łęczna is a town in eastern Poland in the lubelskie voivodship. Unfortunately, it is infamous for a legend of a former settlement that collapsed and was covered by the ground. The reason for that was the fact that the place had been inhabited by quarrelsome, envious, and malicious people. The modern legend predicts another catastrophe in 2000. In the 1970s, miners came to the town and tried to adapt to it. The unpleasant division between the old and the new inhabitants, between agricultural and industrial Łęczna, was felt by the newcomers.
0.0

Year:

1978

Karino

Karino

The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.
0.0

Year:

1977

Kareta

Kareta

A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.
0.0

Year:

1973

Zabijcie czarną owcę

Zabijcie czarną owcę

Young man struggles with being rejected by society.
0.0

Year:

1972

Hydro-Puzzle

Hydro-Puzzle

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.
6.2

Year:

1971

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
6.8

Year:

1971

Facing the Truth

Facing the Truth

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.
3.0

Year:

1970

Ostatnie dni

Ostatnie dni

As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
7.0

Year:

1969

Kierunek Berlin

Kierunek Berlin

Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
6.8

Year:

1969

Big Beat

Big Beat

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.
5.0

Year:

1967

I Would Like to Have a Shave

I Would Like to Have a Shave

A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.
7.7

Year:

1966

Ping-pong

Ping-pong

A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them.
7.0

Year:

1966

Pearls and Ducats

Pearls and Ducats

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.
5.0

Year:

1966

Markiza de Pompadour

Markiza de Pompadour

A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
5.3

Year:

1966

Barwy walki

Barwy walki

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
0.0

Year:

1964

Liczę na wasze grzechy

Liczę na wasze grzechy

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
3.0

Year:

1964

Skąpani w ogniu

Skąpani w ogniu

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.
5.5

Year:

1963

Między brzegami

Między brzegami

A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.
0.0

Year:

1963

The Verdict

The Verdict

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.
0.0

Year:

1962

April

April

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.
0.0

Year:

1961

Rok pierwszy

Rok pierwszy

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.
0.0

Year:

1960

Bad Luck

Bad Luck

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.
6.7

Year:

1960

Eroica

Eroica

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
6.9

Year:

1958

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

Little heroine, a music school student, wanders through the backstreets of Warsaw's Old Town and discovers a world to which others have no access. It is a world of extraordinariness and beauty of sounds. And these are sounds that are the most important thing for the girl – the hubbub of children, the sounds of the street, the puffing of a tractor, the tuning of an organ, the sweeping of a broom and the sound of jets flying overhead.
6.2

Year:

1958

Man on the Tracks

Man on the Tracks

One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
6.8

Year:

1957

Place of Residence

Place of Residence

A documentary about a housing situation of Nowa Huta workers. They weren’t lucky enough to get a flat in clean and modern estates. It’s a ‘black series’ documentary from the fifties.
0.0

Year:

1957

Men of the Blue Cross

Men of the Blue Cross

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participants feature in the film). Based on a short story about the rescue by Adam Liberak, Munk’s final “documentary” is also arguably his first major exercise in the craft of narrative filmmaking.
6.0

Year:

1955

The Stars Must Burn

The Stars Must Burn

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.
6.0

Year:

1954

A Railwayman's Word

A Railwayman's Word

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works. They’re doing their best to arrive on time.
6.0

Year:

1953

A Fairy Tale

A Fairy Tale

A recording of the performance of the symphonic poem entitled Fairy Tale by Stanislaw Moniuszko at the ‘Ursus’ Factory in Warsaw. It took place in 1952 and was performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Witold Rowecki.
0.0

Year:

1952

Peace Will Win

Peace Will Win

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England, was the initial location of the event, however, it was transferred to the capital of Poland at the very last moment.
3.0

Year:

1951

Science Closer to Life

Science Closer to Life

Modern work tools are created thanks to the development of science, as a result of the transfer of knowledge between generations. A review of the tradition of Polish science from the times of Nicolaus Copernicus to the establishment of the Polish Academy of Sciences. [35mm online]
0.0

Year:

1951