Franciszek Pieczka
Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954) he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar. He has starred in over a hundred films, both Polish and foreign. He has been awarded and honored many times for his individual roles, as well as his contribution to the development of theater and film art. He is an honorary citizen of the Godów commune. In 2015, he was awarded the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franciszek Pieczka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Saragossa Manuscript
as PachecoDuring the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the...
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The Deluge
as Old KiemliczDuring the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to...
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The Promised Land
as MüllerIn nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and...
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Quo Vadis
as Apostle PeterAncient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with...
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Mother Joan of the Angels
as OdrynA Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior, who is supposedly...
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A Generation
as German Soldier on Patrol (uncredited)Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an...
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In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and...
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
as BanasikThe story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a...
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The Scar
as Stefan BednarzWhen a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan...
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Liberation: Battle for Berlin
as Sergeant PełkaIn this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and...
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Hydro-Puzzle
as SailorWarsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only...
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
as Piotr BoratynskiDrama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her...
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Jasminum
as święty RochThe peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of...
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Skinny and Others
as Tomasz Waliczek "Kosa" / "Scythe"A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter,...
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
as PapaSwedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during...
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Good Sins
as Eustachy TopórA carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
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Memoirs of a Sinner
as LoganA recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with...
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Austeria
as TagDuring a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the...
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The Lynx
as Stelmach AlojzSet during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a...
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The Linnet
as Old Man / God in Kaziuk's DreamKaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the...
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The Woodpecker
as Edek Zdziebko (voice) (uncredited)A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an...
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The Wedding
as CzepiecSet at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has...
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The Sun Rises Once a Day
as HaratykAfter the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the...
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The Land beyond the Rainbow
as GroßvaterA surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.
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Johnnie Waterman
as Jancio WodnikOn the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries...
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Axiliad
as uncreditedA young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village,...
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Album polski
as FranekUniversity student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil...
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David
as uncreditedAlthough members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the...
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The White Mazurka
as Walery WróblewskiA film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his...
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All Souls' Day
as HeniutekA pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude...
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The Heart and Sweetheart
as DroselmajerA story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the...
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Budapest Tales
as Énekes"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along...
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Squadron
as BłażejA young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to...
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Big Bang
as Stasiek SkrzypekA UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as...
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History of Cinema in Popielawy
as Wujo JanekThe story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend...
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Sprawa się rypła
as Ludwik PlacekDuring the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the...
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The Eighth Day of the Week
as JeromosAfter her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the...
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Hospital
as uncredited1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient...
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Chrześniak
as Strzykalski, ojciec chrzestny PurowskiegoThe film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his...
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April
as Pvt. AnklewiczSet at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although...
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The Faithful River
as SzczepanSet during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor...
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Two Moons
as SzulimPanoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at...
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Jadup and Boel
as UngerIn a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a...
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Slate
as HimselfA short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word...
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Walkover
as Sports OrganiserWalkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes...
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Matthew's Days
as MateuszA man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small...
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Dark River
as wójt MateuszSmall Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of...
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The Nest
as MrokotaTold in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo...
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Pearl in the Crown
as Hubert SierszaWhen it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is...
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Przystań
as MuraszkoSettlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are...
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Pełnia nad głowami
as AndrzejSet in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an...
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Requiem
as BartłomiejBartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds...
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The Peasants
as PriestIn a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling...
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The Mother of the Kings
as CygaMade in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She...
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The Beads of One Rosary
as Jerzy HabrykaThe crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with...
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The Beads of One Rosary
as Jerzy HabrykThe crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with...
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as uncreditedWhile studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student...
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A Round Week
as Karol KostkaGustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
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Thanks for Every New Morning
as Olga's FatherThis film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of...
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Back to Life Again
as Grajewski's CellmateThree idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist -...
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Placówka
as Józef ŚlimakThe problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the...
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
as Gustlik JeleńThe third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including...
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Disgrace
as The GrandfatherWiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town....
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Lost Feelings
as Man with trumpet (uncredited)One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One...
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Powrót po śmierć
as SiewkaOne June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to...
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Kalosze szczęścia
as Nurse in a mental hospital (uncredited)Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to...
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Drugi brzeg
as StefanA Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and...
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Pograbek
as KaczubaPograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is...
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A Hole in the Ground
as PriestAn ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries...
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Where Is the Third King?
as MarczakTwo militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable...
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Kłopotliwy gość
as Smiling AgentStrange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available...
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Legenda
as PriestThree children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.
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Miraculous Place
as pustelnikA young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small...
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Skąpani w ogniu
as Józef PoczobuttCaptain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local...
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
as Gustlik JeleńThe last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring...
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Friend of the Jolly Devil
as WitalisA woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child...
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Famous Like Sarajevo
as God (voice) (uncredited)The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia....
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
as Gustlik JeleńThe second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring...
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Late Afternoon
as JanuszMiddle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.
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Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
as Gustlik JeleńThe first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring...
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The Girls of Nowolipki
as MossakowskiComing of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the...
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Their Everyday Life
as DanyszAfter a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is...
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Apricots in the Baskets
as DimosthenisGreek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
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Burial of a Potato
as uncreditedSet in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a...
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Memories of a River
as Ansel VogelIn the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the...
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Glass Ball
as "King of Life"Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
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Four Tank-Men and a Dog
as Gustlik JeleńCzterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz...
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Ranczo
as Stacho JapyczRanczo ["Ranch"] is a Polish television comedy series, directed by Wojciech Adamczyk, that has...
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Die Straßen von Berlin
as uncreditedDie Straßen von Berlin is a German television series.
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The Great Runaway
as Herr WargaA miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism,...
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