Gustaw Holoubek

Born: 1923-04-21

Polish actor, director and politician, best known for his acting roles in The Noose, The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.


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The Hourglass Sanatorium

as Dr. Gotard
Released: 1973-12-12

Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey...

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With Fire and Sword

as senator Kisiel
Released: 1999-02-08

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

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Colonel Wolodyjowski

as Priest Kamiński (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1969-03-28

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to...

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Gangsters and Philantropists

as 'Profesor' the gangster ("Professor")
Released: 1963-02-15

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and...

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The Saragossa Manuscript

as Don Pedro Velasquez
Released: 1966-02-27

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the...

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Kill It and Leave This Town

as Mariuszek's Alter Ego (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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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

as Cammerschulze (voice)
Released: 1988-12-26

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way...

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The Taste of the Black Earth

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1970-03-06

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

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Story of the Golden Boot

as Wit Stwosz
Released: 1961-12-28

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek,...

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Farewells

as Mirek
Released: 1958-10-13

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative,...

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The Noose

as Kuba Kowalski
Released: 1958-01-20

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to...

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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

as Bermudez
Released: 1971-09-15

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He...

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The Woodpecker

as Thief (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1971-05-21

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an...

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Lava

as Hermit-Gustaw / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet
Released: 1989-11-06

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of...

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How Far, How Near

as Maks
Released: 1972-05-05

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why...

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Operacja Samum

as Shopsowitz
Released: 1999-05-07

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq,...

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Childish Questions

as Profesor
Released: 1981-11-13

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual...

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Maria and Napoleon

as Napoleon I Bonaparte / Napoleon Beranger
Released: 1966-10-04

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who...

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Hospital of the Transfiguration

as Zygmunt Sekułowski
Released: 1979-03-28

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric...

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In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles

as Dyapanazego
Released: 1985-04-15

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the...

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Write and Fight

as Investigator
Released: 1985-09-23

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous...

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Naprawdę wczoraj

as Captain Stołyp
Released: 1963-11-08

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis,...

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Salto

as Host
Released: 1965-06-10

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

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Marysia i Krasnoludki

as Sadełko (voice)
Released: 1961-02-25

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for...

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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń

as Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika (voice)
Released: 2002-03-21

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Kartoteka

as Protagonist
Released: 1979-10-15

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

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The Master and Margarita

as Woland
Released: 1990-06-15

The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based...

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Daimler-Benz Limousine

as Maks Feliński
Released: 1983-01-24

Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul....

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Goodbye to the Past

as Oskar Rennert
Released: 1961-03-23

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the...

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Avatar: The Exchange of Souls

as Doctor Baltazar Charbonneau
Released: 1964-01-01

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess...

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The Book of Great Wishes

as Adam Ostrowski
Released: 1998-12-01

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to...

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In Broad Daylight

as investigating judge
Released: 1981-03-16

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution...

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One Room Tenants

as Dziadzia
Released: 1960-02-08

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay...

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Men of the Blue Cross

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1955-10-12

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a...

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A Very Christmas Story

as God (voice)
Released: 2000-11-03

Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately...

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Sons and Comrades

as Roullot
Released: 1986-09-05

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits...

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An Uneventful Story

as Professor
Released: 1983-09-12

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes...

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Erotique

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-01

A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The...

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A Room with a View on the Sea

as Professor Jan Leszczyński
Released: 1978-03-13

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.

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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu

as Sądej
Released: 1956-09-01

Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.

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Killing Auntie

as Mistyk
Released: 1985-09-20

A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest...

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Listy miłosne

as Teresa's Father
Released: 2001-10-01

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Spóźnieni przechodnie

as Edward (segment 1) / Himself (segment 5) (uncredited)
Released: 1962-09-03

Five short stories.

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Weryfikacja

as Gucio Nawrot
Released: 1987-09-07

Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.

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Time Past

as Kurt von Steinhagen
Released: 1961-04-11

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von...

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Siegfried

as Stefan Drawicz
Released: 1987-03-09

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by...

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Pearls and Ducats

as Franciszek X
Released: 1966-04-10

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be...

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The Game

as Husband
Released: 1969-05-20

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an...

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The Law and the Fist

as Andrzej Kenig
Released: 1964-09-14

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But...

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Oczy niebieskie

as profesor Ani i Jacka; we śnie Święty Piotr
Released: 1994-01-14

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Polar Bear

as Henryk Fogiel
Released: 1959-12-03

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos...

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The Sun and the Shadow

as Znamenitiyat aktyor
Released: 1962-10-21

The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the...

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Opening Tomorrow

as Zenon Wiewiórski
Released: 1962-04-25

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious...

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The Stars Must Burn

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1954-07-01

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star....

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Through the Fifth Dimension

as Doktor Kopot
Released: 1973-05-05

Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new...

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Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

as Doctor Paweł
Released: 1962-12-19

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with...

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Coloured Stockings

as Caretaker (segment "Jadźka")
Released: 1960-11-18

Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter.

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Soldier of Victory

as Feliks Dzierżyński
Released: 1953-05-08

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the...

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Królewskie sny

as król Władysław II Jagiełło
First aired: 1988-11-06

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With Fire and Sword

as Senator Kisiel
First aired: 2001-01-01

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Mistrz i Małgorzata

as Woland
First aired: 1990-03-20

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