Аватар персоны Ryszard Pietruski

Ryszard Pietruski

Actor
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07-10-1922

Birthday

Libra

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

86

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Wyszecino, powiat wejherowski, pomorskie, Polska

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

86 Works

producer

0 Works

director

5 Works

writer

5 Works

other

0 Works

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

Wirus

Wirus

An unknown terrorist infects computer networks with the most important institutions in the country with the virus. It paralyzes hospitals, trains, aircraft control system. Suspicions fall on Michal, a thirty-year-old IT genius and owner of a small computer company. Michal must prove he is innocent. He agrees to the proposal to cooperate with the prosecutor.
3.0

Year:

1996

Szczur

Szczur

7.0

Year:

1994

Janka - Spełnione marzenie

Janka - Spełnione marzenie

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.
0.0

Year:

1993

Seychelles

Seychelles

A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
6.0

Year:

1991

Europa Europa

Europa Europa

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
7.3

Year:

1990

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach

Podczas "zimy stulecia" na dworcu w Koluszkach zniecierpliwieni pasażerowie oczekują na przybycie pociągu. Łączność kolejowa zostaje zerwana. W tym samym czasie niedaleko Koluszek w zaspach śnieżnych utknął pociąg. W jego wagonach panuje wesoła atmosfera. Niektórzy pasażerowie, którym śpieszy się na połączenie z innymi stacjami, wysiadają i idą piechotą do dworca w Koluszkach. Jest wśród nich Andrzej Roszak - młody chłopak śpieszący do Warszawy, oraz prawdopodobnie jego rówieśnica Basia. Niedługo po nich do dworca w Koluszkach docierają pan Walerek - działacz polityczny, który jechał na bal do KC; pan Rozbicki z żoną, tuż po kontrakcie w Iraku; Matyjak - gwiazdor telewizyjny; dziennikarz Przoniak oraz inni. Na wyludnionym dworcu pasażerowie sprawnie organizują sylwestrową zabawę. Podczas wspólnej hulanki jej uczestnicy stopniowo obnażają ukryte kompleksy, frustracje i nadzieje.
6.0

Year:

1990

Long Night

Long Night

The residents of an apartment complex in World War 2 Poland face a moral dilemma when they discover one of their neighbours is hiding a Jew.
0.0

Year:

1989

Stacja

Stacja

The 8th Plenum of the PZPR is underway. Passengers waiting for a train learn that their traffic has stopped.
0.0

Year:

1987

Smażalnia Story

Smażalnia Story

Dwaj multi-instrumentaliści, Broda i Redaktorek, po kilku latach muzykowania w Finlandii wracają promem do kraju objętego stanem wojennym. Tomaszow Maz
5.3

Year:

1985

Marta

Marta

Marta comes to Lublin as a captain of the Polish Army. She is looking for information about her son - Stefan, whom she last saw years ago, when she went with her husband to fighting Spain.
0.0

Year:

1984

Daimler-Benz Limousine

Daimler-Benz Limousine

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.
5.7

Year:

1983

Yokohama

Yokohama

An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.
0.0

Year:

1982

Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831

Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831

Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.
0.0

Year:

1980

Golem

Golem

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
6.5

Year:

1980

Kartoteka

Kartoteka

A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
5.0

Year:

1979

Operation "Himmler"

Operation "Himmler"

A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.
6.0

Year:

1979

Aria for an Athlete

Aria for an Athlete

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
6.3

Year:

1979

All and Nobody

All and Nobody

City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
0.0

Year:

1978

Brunet Will Call

Brunet Will Call

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
7.1

Year:

1976

At the Height of Summer

At the Height of Summer

A married couple from the city goes to a lodge for the summer. Despite the idyllic surroundings, the woman is more and more anxious. The locals tell the story of a sunken tourist, the husband ignores his wife's growing fear. Meanwhile, a stranger comes to the house.
0.0

Year:

1976

Dark River

Dark River

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
5.0

Year:

1974

Journey for One Smile

Journey for One Smile

The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.
7.7

Year:

1972

Obcy w lesie

Obcy w lesie

A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
0.0

Year:

1972

Kłopotliwy gość

Kłopotliwy gość

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
7.0

Year:

1971

Crystal

Crystal

Before his son's matura exam a father tries to bribe the exam committee.
0.0

Year:

1971

The Woodpecker

The Woodpecker

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.
5.9

Year:

1971

Nuremberg Epilogue

Nuremberg Epilogue

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
9.0

Year:

1971

Złote koło

Złote koło

An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation, leading him deep into a web of crime.
7.5

Year:

1971

Five and Half of Pale Joe

Five and Half of Pale Joe

A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.
4.0

Year:

1971

Książę sezonu

Książę sezonu

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.
0.0

Year:

1970

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

The Cruise

The Cruise

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
7.0

Year:

1970

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

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.
6.2

Year:

1970

Album polski

Album polski

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.
0.0

Year:

1970

Shoot Paragon!

Shoot Paragon!

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
7.0

Year:

1970

Nowy

Nowy

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
7.0

Year:

1970

Kwestia sumienia

Kwestia sumienia

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
0.0

Year:

1969

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime

A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
6.7

Year:

1969

Hunting Flies

Hunting Flies

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
5.4

Year:

1969

Makbet

Makbet

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
0.0

Year:

1969

The Game

The Game

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, with greater or lesser conviction.
5.0

Year:

1969

Firesite

Firesite

A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.
7.0

Year:

1969

Człowiek z M-3

Człowiek z M-3

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.
7.1

Year:

1969

Ostatni po Bogu

Ostatni po Bogu

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.
0.0

Year:

1968

Cześć kapitanie

Cześć kapitanie

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
0.0

Year:

1968

Wolves' Echoes

Wolves' Echoes

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.
7.0

Year:

1968

When Love Was a Crime

When Love Was a Crime

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.
0.0

Year:

1968

The Siding

The Siding

A journalist is preparing to take a train trip, when he is confronted by the spirit of professor Ryszpans who tells what happened to him. When he boarded a train standing on a siding, he encountered trackman Wiór with a newspaper informing about the crash of the train and the death of several passengers, including professor Ryszpans. The professor is joined by engineer Zniesławski, who has also heard of the impending disaster and is interested in it from the technical side. On hearing the news of an approaching catastrophe, other passengers leave the train in panic at the next station. However, trackman Wiór manages to hypnotize several travelers who continue with the journey. Ryszpans hears a roar and sees objects crumbling around him, and then turns into a shadow. After hearing the story, the journalist resigns from his train trip.
5.0

Year:

1968

Father

Father

A young boy must go to school with his father.
1.0

Year:

1967

Skinny and Others

Skinny and Others

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
6.8

Year:

1967

Where Is the Third King?

Where Is the Third King?

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.
5.7

Year:

1967

Barrier

Barrier

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
6.8

Year:

1966

A Cure for Love

A Cure for Love

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
7.3

Year:

1966

Sobótki

Sobótki

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.
0.0

Year:

1966

Nazajutrz po wojnie

Nazajutrz po wojnie

On the last day of the war, a Polish soldier whose family was murdered meets his German enemy.
0.0

Year:

1966

The Holy War

The Holy War

To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
5.0

Year:

1965

The Ashes

The Ashes

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
6.4

Year:

1965

Wyspa złoczyńców

Wyspa złoczyńców

A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.
6.2

Year:

1965

A Lady from the Window

A Lady from the Window

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.
5.0

Year:

1964

Pięciu

Pięciu

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.
0.0

Year:

1964

Rachunek sumienia

Rachunek sumienia

The wrongly convicted Roman leaves prison and tries to return to his earlier life.
0.0

Year:

1964

The Law and the Fist

The Law and the Fist

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
7.2

Year:

1964

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

Naganiacz

Naganiacz

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.
0.0

Year:

1964

Kryptonim Nektar

Kryptonim Nektar

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.
5.5

Year:

1963

The Last Ride

The Last Ride

Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
5.5

Year:

1963

Far Is the Road

Far Is the Road

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
5.0

Year:

1963

Here Is My Home

Here Is My Home

A young man, Kuba, is returning from the army. At home, an image of misery and despair remains: the father is seriously ill, and the mother has become emotionally attached to the man who exploits her and intends to take over the farm. After the death of his father, the young man guards the farm, but his girlfriend leaves him. Unable to bear the atmosphere of envy and resentment, Kuba leaves for the city.
0.0

Year:

1963

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

Gangsters and Philantropists

Gangsters and Philantropists

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
6.5

Year:

1963

Jadą goście jadą...

Jadą goście jadą...

Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
7.0

Year:

1962

Two Gentlemen 'N'

Two Gentlemen 'N'

Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
6.7

Year:

1962

The Road West

The Road West

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
7.0

Year:

1961

Szczęściarz Antoni

Szczęściarz Antoni

A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
5.0

Year:

1961

It Started Yesterday

It Started Yesterday

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
0.0

Year:

1961

Nobody's Calling

Nobody's Calling

Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past.
6.9

Year:

1960

The Knave of Spades

The Knave of Spades

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
6.5

Year:

1960

The Return

The Return

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.
5.2

Year:

1960

Place on Earth

Place on Earth

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.
0.0

Year:

1960

One Room Tenants

One Room Tenants

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
5.9

Year:

1960

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
6.0

Year:

1960

Pills for Aurelia

Pills for Aurelia

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.
5.0

Year:

1958

Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
7.4

Year:

1958

Trzy kobiety

Trzy kobiety

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
0.0

Year:

1957