Daniel Olbrychski

Born: 1945-02-27

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Olbrychski (Polish pronunciation: [ɔlˈbrɨxskʲi]; born 27 February 1945) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.


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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

as Interior Ministry Official
Released: 1988-02-05

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named...

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as Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov
Released: 2010-07-21

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be...

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The Tin Drum

as Jan Bronski
Released: 1979-05-02

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by...

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The Barber of Siberia

as Kopnovsky
Released: 1998-11-11

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new,...

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Anthony Zimmer

as Nassaiev
Released: 2005-04-01

François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him...

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Bolero: Dance of Life

as Karl Kremer
Released: 1981-05-27

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and...

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The Promised Land

as Karol Borowiecki
Released: 1975-02-21

The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the...

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Marie Curie

as Emile Amagat
Released: 2016-12-01

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie...

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With Fire and Sword

as Tuhaj-Bej
Released: 1999-02-08

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in...

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Battle of Warsaw 1920

as Józef Piłsudski
Released: 2011-09-30

Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young...

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Day of the Siege

as Marcin Kazimierz Katski
Released: 2012-10-11

Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna....

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Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

as Krasnevsky
Released: 2009-04-02

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to...

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The Deluge

as Andrzej Kmicic
Released: 1974-09-02

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to...

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Rosa Luxemburg

as Leo Jogiches
Released: 1986-04-10

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in...

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as Janusz
Released: 1989-05-16

It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover...

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Dangerous Moves

as Tac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind
Released: 1984-04-15

World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm...

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The Structure of Crystal

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1969-10-14

Two talented physicists used to work together in the frontline of academy in scientific...

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The Turkish Gambit

as McLaughlin
Released: 2005-02-22

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of...

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The Pacifist

as uncredited
Released: 1970-12-30

Barbara is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an...

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Pan Tadeusz

as Gerwazy
Released: 1999-10-18

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with...

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The Hexer

as Filavandrel, król elfów
Released: 2001-11-09

Adapted from a series of fantasy novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher...

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Politics

as uncredited
Released: 2019-09-06

Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.

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A Love in Germany

as Wiktorczyk
Released: 1983-10-26

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden...

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Talking Heads 2021

as Self
Released: 2021-09-23

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski,...

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To Kill a Priest

as uncredited
Released: 1988-09-07

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

as Scope
Released: 1986-09-26

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to...

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Gebürtig

as Konrad Sachs
Released: 2002-03-18

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can...

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The Maids of Wilko

as Wiktor Ruben
Released: 1979-09-04

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of...

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The Jeweller's Shop

as Father Adam
Released: 1989-04-07

Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's...

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The Revenge

as Dyndalski, sługa Cześnika
Released: 2002-10-04

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old...

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Kill It and Leave This Town

as Old Man on the Train – Behemot (voice)
Released: 2021-03-02

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of...

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Liberation: Battle for Berlin

as Lieutenant Henryk Dąbrowski
Released: 1971-11-04

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and...

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Legend No. 17

as Janusz Petelicki
Released: 2013-04-17

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the...

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The Butler

as Leo von Trettow
Released: 2018-09-21

The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in...

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A Man and His Dog

as chauffeur taxi
Released: 2009-01-14

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.

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Everything for Sale

as Daniel
Released: 1969-01-28

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES...

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Hunting Flies

as Sculptor
Released: 1969-08-19

Włodek is a young man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan...

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Casablanca Casablanca

as Daniel, l'amante di Chiara
Released: 1985-02-16

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would...

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The Ashes

as Rafał Olbromski
Released: 1965-09-25

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country...

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The Wedding

as Bridegroom
Released: 1973-01-09

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has...

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Liberation: The Break Through

as Genrik
Released: 1970-05-08

A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of...

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Colonel Wolodyjowski

as Azja Tuhaj-Bejowicz (Mellechowicz)
Released: 1969-03-28

In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to...

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The Perfect Guy for My Girlfriend

as Dr. Gebauer
Released: 2009-01-01

When Kostek gets in the wrong taxicab and sees Luna, it is love at first sight. But Luna already...

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Family Life

as Wit Braun
Released: 1971-09-24

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned...

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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God

as Piastun
Released: 2003-09-19

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his...

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Screen Tests

as występuje w roli samego siebie
Released: 1977-04-01

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a...

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The Birch Wood

as Bolesław
Released: 1970-11-10

Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm....

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Hans Kloss. Stawka większa niż śmierć

as Werner
Released: 2012-03-16

The cinema war-action movie takes place partly during WWII and partly in 1975 in Spain. The main...

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From a Far Country

as Captain
Released: 1981-09-15

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the...

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It's Me, the Thief

as kompozytor Seweryn
Released: 2000-02-01

A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress...

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Wrobiony

as uncredited
Released: 2022-08-19

Dominik (Piotr Adamczyk), a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the...

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Jovita

as Marek Arens
Released: 1967-10-27

Marek is a promising athlete sharing affairs with more than one women. One day at masquerade...

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Hidden Reserves

as Wladimir Sokulow
Released: 2016-10-21

The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless...

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Titanium White

as Dean
Released: 2016-11-25

Dominik, a PhD student of the History of Art, goes to Porto Ercole, to survey the last works of...

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Kung-fu

as Zygmunt
Released: 1980-03-17

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity...

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The Fall of Italy

as Davorin
Released: 1981-07-07

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are...

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DJ

as Grandpa
Released: 2018-01-16

The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What...

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Two Words as the Key

as uncredited
Released: 2023-07-27

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Persona non grata

as uncredited
Released: 2005-04-01

A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death...

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Wounded in the Forest

as Corporal "Koral"
Released: 1964-04-14

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his...

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The Cop & the Girl

as Fritz
Released: 1985-04-18

A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The...

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The Marriage of Convenience

as Andrzej
Released: 1967-01-01

Małżeństwo z rozsądku ("Marriage of Convenience") is a Polish musical comedy from 1966 directed...

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Rome Wants Another Caesar

as Claudio
Released: 1974-06-06

In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled.

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Dagny

as Stanislaw Przybyszewski
Released: 1977-01-26

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became...

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L'Orchestre rouge

as Karl Giering
Released: 1989-11-08

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The New Order

as Oryst Grabowsky
Released: 2023-04-20

A Ukranian flight engineer must infiltrate a highly secretive cult in order to save his abducted...

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Landscape After Battle

as Tadeusz
Released: 1970-09-08

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men...

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Roly Poly

as Insurance Company Salesman (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1968-03-17

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox,...

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Van Goghs

as Viktor
Released: 2018-06-05

Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and...

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Lesser Evil

as akowiec, kolega ojca
Released: 2009-10-23

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz"....

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Laços de Sangue

as Alberto
Released: 1992-10-01

Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father....

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The Vulture

as Bożek
Released: 2013-01-11

Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom...

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Ivan & Abraham

as Stepan
Released: 1993-05-26

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He...

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Fanciful

as Bezdomny
Released: 2015-03-13

After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant...

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The Trout

as Saint-Genis
Released: 1982-09-22

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when...

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So Much for Justice!

as Kinizsi 2.
Released: 2010-02-11

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus...

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Passenger from San Francisco

as uncredited
Released: 2019-02-28

Our film portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service....

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Agnus Dei

as A hegedülõ
Released: 1971-04-22

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the...

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Przedwiośnie

as Szymon Gajowiec
Released: 2001-03-02

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years...

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Pilate and Others

as Mateusz Lewita
Released: 1972-03-29

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence...

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Bird Talk

as Gustaw
Released: 2019-09-16

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father...

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Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel

as Angelo
Released: 1992-08-20

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Examination

as student
Released: 1968-04-01

A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg...

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Poznań 56

as profesor w wagonie
Released: 1996-11-28

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Then There Will Be Silence

as podporucznik Stefan Olewicz
Released: 1966-01-18

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Countess Cosel

as Charles XII
Released: 1968-09-06

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a...

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War of Love

as Szlachcic
Released: 2010-10-08

Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes...

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Wizja lokalna 1901

as Father Paczkowski
Released: 1981-01-26

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a...

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Winter's Daughter

as Waldeks Opa
Released: 2011-10-20

For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian...

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Nitschewo

as Frank
Released: 2004-11-18

Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance,...

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The Taste of the Black Earth

as Stefan
Released: 1970-03-06

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to...

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Weekend Stories: The Last Circle

as Witold
Released: 1998-03-31

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first...

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Revisited

as Wit
Released: 2009-04-01

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great...

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Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic

as Himself
Released: 2012-10-01

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983....

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Faust

as Walenty
Released: 1976-06-14

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The Knight

as Herophant
Released: 1980-10-06

A tale of medieval quest for a golden harp called "the Knight".

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What a Country!

as Predsjednik RH
Released: 2018-12-17

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks...

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Milady

as Lord de Winter
Released: 2004-01-06

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her...

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Classmates

as uncredited
Released: 2010-03-10

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Roza

as uncredited
Released: 1982-10-01

Greek drama

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Powstaniec 1863

as lieutenant Antoni Lemańczyk
Released: 2024-01-12

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Zoo

as Martina's Father
Released: 1988-11-17

Martina lives in the Rome's zoo, because her father is the guardian. She becomes friend with a...

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Scenes From The Director's Life

as Himself
Released: 1970-01-01

Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz,...

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Flash Back

as Vincent Delaune / Thomas
Released: 1985-06-09

A man alone in an empty house somewhere in the Solagne region of France. Despite the pleasent...

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Lepiej być piękną i bogatą

as mecenas
Released: 1993-10-22

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Raz, jeszcze raz

as Sasza
Released: 2020-10-16

The movie is an attractive comedy of mistakes with large dose of humor and action. At the same...

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Break Point

as uncredited
Released: 2004-09-18

A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya...

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Sequence of Feelings

as "Mistrz" Rafał Nawrot
Released: 1993-05-15

A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of...

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Pestka

as Borys
Released: 1996-01-19

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The Story About Master Twardowski

as Jan Michał Twardowski
Released: 1996-03-11

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Miracle

as Priest
Released: 2018-05-09

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town,...

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If I Were 1000 Years Old

as Guillaume
Released: 1983-01-14

A long time ago, On a french island, a bunch of villagers saved a girl from being sacrifice by...

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Nietzsche in Russia

as Friedrich Nietzsche
Released: 2008-10-07

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this...

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Escape

as Nagy főhadnagy
Released: 1997-02-13

Budapest, 1948. Gyula Molnár, interpreter to the Supervisory Committee of the Allied Powers, is...

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Studniówk@

as Napoleon
Released: 2018-01-05

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...jestem przeciw

as Grzegorz
Released: 1985-11-15

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Skok

as Franek
Released: 1969-06-10

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Boxer

as Tolek Szczepaniak
Released: 1967-03-03

Young boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics. He fights the...

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Butterflies

as Vnik mafiozi
Released: 1991-09-12

In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to...

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Axiliad

as uncredited
Released: 1986-10-13

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village,...

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Tolko ne seychas

as Elka's Uncle
Released: 2011-04-26

1953. A Russian soldier stationed in Poland falls in love with a local girl. Their forbidden...

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The Silence Of Elsewhere

as uncredited
Released: 1990-02-14

Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne is waiting for...

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Makbet

as Banko
Released: 1969-06-30

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of...

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Dzieci i ryby

as Franciszek, były mąż Anny, ojciec Marysi
Released: 1996-01-01

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Indián

as Bílý Jelen
Released: 2022-09-22

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Kryminalni

as Krzysztof Brodecki, ojciec Marka
First aired: 2004-09-18

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September...

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Na dobre i na złe

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-11-07

Na dobre i na złe is a Polish television medical drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since November...

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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Dom

as występuje w roli samego siebie
First aired: 1980-11-09

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Dekalog

as Janusz
First aired: 1989-12-10

Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing...

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Days of Honor

as "Doktor"
First aired: 2008-09-07

Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since...

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Komisarz Alex

as Gustaw Majer
First aired: 2012-03-03

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Chillers

as Roger
First aired: 1990-04-14

Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...

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The Secret of the Sahara

as Hared
First aired: 1988-01-03

In 1925, Desmond Jordan, an American archaeologist, tries to find the mysterious Speaking...

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The Turkish Gambit

as McLaughlin - english correspondent
First aired: 2006-12-25

Titular Advisor Erast Fandorin took part in military operations during the Russian-Turkish War...

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Ziemia obiecana

as Karol Borowiecki
First aired: 1978-05-21

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With Fire and Sword

as Tuhaj-Bej
First aired: 2001-01-01

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Сувенир из Одессы

as Матвій Грач (Матьє Озон у зрілому віці)
First aired: 2018-03-19

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Motion of No Confidence

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-10-14

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My Agent

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-12-25

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Przygody pana Michała

as Azja Tuhaj-Bejowicz
First aired: 1969-11-14

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Mit meinen heißen Tränen

as Franz von Schober
First aired: 1986-10-31

Austrian miniseries.

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Przedwiośnie

as Szymon Gajowiec
First aired: 2002-03-23

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Stara baśń. Kiedy słońce było bogiem

as Piastun
First aired: 2003-12-20

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