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Zdzisław Maklakiewicz

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09-07-1927

Birthday

Cancer

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

91

Total Films

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Warsaw, Poland

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

91 Works

producer

0 Works

director

2 Works

writer

1 Works

other

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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

Heads Full of Stars

Heads Full of Stars

Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.
4.0

Year:

1983

Dog

Dog

0.0

Year:

1981

Gwiazda Wytrwałości

Gwiazda Wytrwałości

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.
0.0

Year:

1981

A Party for Ten, Plus Three

A Party for Ten, Plus Three

A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.
7.3

Year:

1980

What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

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.
7.4

Year:

1978

Rekolekcje

Rekolekcje

Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.
0.0

Year:

1978

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.
0.0

Year:

1977

Milioner

Milioner

6.7

Year:

1977

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

Zofia

Zofia

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
5.3

Year:

1976

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

Pictures from Life

Pictures from Life

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.
0.0

Year:

1976

Hotel Pacific

Hotel Pacific

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
7.4

Year:

1975

Hazardziści

Hazardziści

7.3

Year:

1975

The Beard

The Beard

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.
0.0

Year:

1974

Take It Easy

Take It Easy

The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
7.0

Year:

1974

Her Portrait

Her Portrait

5.5

Year:

1974

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
5.0

Year:

1973

The Ascended

The Ascended

Two simple men win the lottery and decide to spend the money on their first plane flight and some other pleasures. But all that does not bring enough happiness to their lives.
7.6

Year:

1973

Possession

Possession

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.
2.0

Year:

1973

Personal Search

Personal Search

Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
5.6

Year:

1973

Na krawędzi

Na krawędzi

A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich.
0.0

Year:

1973

How It's Done

How It's Done

Two guys came to Zakopane to write screenplay and make movie. They are complete amateurs and don't have any ideas. Maybe only one idea is to find actress, but it's not so simple.
7.6

Year:

1973

Brzydkie kaczątko

Brzydkie kaczątko

0.0

Year:

1973

How Far, How Near

How Far, How Near

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
6.4

Year:

1972

Seksolatki

Seksolatki

Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them.
2.0

Year:

1972

The Sun Rises Once a Day

The Sun Rises Once a Day

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
5.5

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

Leprosy

Leprosy

When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.
5.0

Year:

1971

Nos

Nos

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.
3.5

Year:

1971

Aktorka

Aktorka

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
5.0

Year:

1971

Motodrama

Motodrama

An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.
6.8

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

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

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

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

Przystań

Przystań

Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
0.0

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

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

Cyrograf dojrzałości

Cyrograf dojrzałości

18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.
0.0

Year:

1970

A Hole in the Ground

A Hole in the Ground

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.
0.0

Year:

1970

How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms

How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms

After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.
7.6

Year:

1970

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

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

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.
7.6

Year:

1970

Red Rowan

Red Rowan

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
7.0

Year:

1970

The Office

The Office

Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
0.0

Year:

1969

Co jest w człowieku w środku

Co jest w człowieku w środku

A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.
0.0

Year:

1969

Kwestia sumienia

Kwestia sumienia

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

Year:

1969

The Red and the Gold

The Red and the Gold

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.
5.0

Year:

1969

Adventure with a Song

Adventure with a Song

Przygoda z piosenką (Pol. Adventure with song) is a Polish film musical comedy from 1969 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
5.3

Year:

1969

The Doll

The Doll

Set 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.
6.2

Year:

1968

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

Komedie pomyłek

Komedie pomyłek

Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically
0.0

Year:

1968

The Barrel Organ

The Barrel Organ

This 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.
6.0

Year:

1968

Matthew's Days

Matthew's Days

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
6.1

Year:

1968

Wycieczka w nieznane

Wycieczka w nieznane

A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer.
6.0

Year:

1968

Zabijaka

Zabijaka

A moral story about two people who have completely different attitudes to life and people. The duel of the heroes ends tragically.
0.0

Year:

1967

Father

Father

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

Year:

1967

Full Ahead

Full Ahead

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
6.0

Year:

1967

Frozen Flashes

Frozen Flashes

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
9.0

Year:

1967

Boxer

Boxer

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
5.0

Year:

1967

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju

Śmierć w środkowym pokoju

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.
0.0

Year:

1967

Martians

Martians

Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.
0.0

Year:

1967

Komedia z pomyłek

Komedia z pomyłek

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
0.0

Year:

1967

Barrier

Barrier

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

Year:

1966

Bumerang

Bumerang

A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II.
5.0

Year:

1966

Ktokolwiek wie...

Ktokolwiek wie...

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.
0.0

Year:

1966

Maria and Napoleon

Maria and Napoleon

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
6.2

Year:

1966

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

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
6.2

Year:

1966

The Catastrophe

The Catastrophe

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.
6.0

Year:

1966

The Moment of Peace

The Moment of Peace

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
0.0

Year:

1965

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

Trzy kroki po ziemi

Trzy kroki po ziemi

Three stories about life problems.
0.0

Year:

1965

Salto

Salto

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
6.4

Year:

1965

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
7.9

Year:

1965

The First Day of Freedom

The First Day of Freedom

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
6.4

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

Giuseppe in Warsaw

Giuseppe in Warsaw

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
5.9

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

No More Divorces

No More Divorces

Three short segments about love.
6.6

Year:

1964

Adam's Two Ribs

Adam's Two Ribs

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
7.0

Year:

1964

Mrs. Hanka's Diary

Mrs. Hanka's Diary

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.
8.0

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

How to Be Loved

How to Be Loved

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
7.5

Year:

1963

Gold Dreams

Gold Dreams

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
5.6

Year:

1962

Samson

Samson

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
4.6

Year:

1961

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