Wacław Kowalski

AKA: Вацлав Ковальский

0.3301

1916-05-02

Gżatsk [present Gagarin] Russia

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {90}

Host

1966-01-14 0

Bigos

The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, War

John Wharton Bilson

1967-01-01 0

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble. ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie, Western

Citizen

1967-01-01 0

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 coun ...

Genre :Western, Comedy, TV Movie

Kazimierz Pawlak / Kacper Pawlak

1967-09-15 7.8

Our Folks

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms. ...

Genre :Comedy

Policeman

1971-04-20 3

Legenda

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2. ...

Genre :War, Drama, Adventure

Militia Sergeant

1966-07-20 7.4

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 dispatc ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Matuszak

1971-01-29 0

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 peac ...

Genre :Drama

Bank doorkeeper (uncredited)

1960-10-16 6.667

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. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Piotrowski's Boss

1971-10-05 7

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Taxi driver

1959-10-09 5

Signals

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Zyndram

2009-05-29 0

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, co ...

Genre :Drama

Singer with Guitar (uncredited)

1947-01-08 7.4

Forbidden Songs

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house. ...

Genre :Music, War, Drama

Madeja

1966-12-25 6.6

The Codes

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself. ...

Genre :Drama

Smith in Zapiecek

1962-11-12 4.938

The Two Who Stole the Moon

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the ...

Genre :Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Railwayman

1955-10-25 0

Trzy starty

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqual ...

Genre :Drama

Hryncewicz

1978-09-25 7

The Refuge

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Marzec

1964-02-03 3

Liczę na wasze grzechy

Genre :Comedy

Wysocki (uncredited)

1968-11-07 6.289

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 ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, History

Spanish Soldier (uncredited)

1953-05-08 0

Soldier of Victory

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affai ...

Genre :Drama, War

Kubala

1954-04-10 0

Difficult Love

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters wor ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Corporal Podarzyn

1970-01-17 6

Red Rowan

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

Genre :War

Góral Bruzda

1974-04-14 7.5

Janosik

In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants ...

Genre :TV Movie, Adventure

Dołuski

1973-02-14 5.5

Copernicus

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of ...

Genre :Drama, History

Park Caretaker

1972-06-25 0

Na przełaj

After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Private Ostrejko

1969-01-17 6.5

Kierunek Berlin

Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2. ...

Genre :Drama, War, History

Forest Keeper

1971-05-04 6.5

Kardiogram

A young doctor arrives in a sleepy village and becomes involved with secret tragedies plaguing the inhabitants. ...

Genre :Drama

Gunsmith

1958-03-17 6.8

Ewa Wants to Sleep

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she ...

Genre :Comedy

Truck Driver

1974-05-10 0

Sobie król

A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Stanisław Wygodnicki

1962-12-22 6.667

Klub kawalerów

A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Man from Barania Głowa (uncredited)

1957-11-25 0

Szkice węglem

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at th ...

Genre :Drama, History

Train Conductor (voice) (uncredited)

1970-09-25 6.2

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. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Horror, History

Mazur

1970-05-08 0

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. ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance, War

Guard (uncredited)

1960-02-22 4

Tysiąc talarów

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years. ...

Genre :Comedy

Railwayman (uncredited)

1961-01-20 3.2

Ostrożnie yeti

Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate ...

Genre :Comedy

Stable Manager

1964-02-14 0

Wiano

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Kostek (uncredited)

1958-01-20 7

The Noose

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

Genre :Drama

Bronek Wiśniewski

1958-09-01 6.8

Free City

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Kolanowski

1961-10-12 6.5

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-c ...

Genre :War, Drama

Janitor (uncredited)

1954-02-25 0

The Bus Leaves at 6.20

A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women. ...

Genre :Drama

Zygmunt Filarski

1961-10-19 5

Drugi człowiek

A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home. ...

Genre :Drama

Paramedic (uncredited)

1961-11-08 0

April

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men an ...

Genre :Drama, War

1974-12-24 0

Święty Mikołaj pilnie poszukiwany

Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come soon. ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

German (uncredited)

1964-06-17 0

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 ...

Genre :Drama, War

Railwayman (uncredited)

1965-03-12 5

Back to Life Again

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated. ...

Genre :Drama

Janitor (segment 1)

1965-09-03 0

Trzy kroki po ziemi

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski. ...

Genre :Drama

John Wharton Bilson / Town Citizen

1968-07-26 0

Komedie pomyłek

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Kazimierz Pawlak

1977-06-13 6.911

Big Deal

Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has pa ...

Genre :Comedy

Anielak (uncredited)

1970-03-20 7

Shoot Paragon!

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

Genre :Comedy, Family, Adventure

Corporal

1970-12-11 7

Ferry

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still f ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Sgt. Bronisław Misztal

1971-09-01 0

Jeszcze słychać śpiew. I rżenie koni...

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his company. He asks his son to help him out, so he sets o ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Greengrocer Henryk Nowak

1962-03-21 6.7

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 pla ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime

Banach

1957-02-25 5

Land

Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and ar ...

Genre :Drama

Kazimierz Pawlak

1974-05-28 7

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 prob ...

Genre :Comedy

Stefan Wachowiak

1954-01-25 5.5

Adventure in Marienstadt

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Mute

1964-07-10 6

Rendes-Vous with a Spy

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies. ...

Genre :Crime

Kołodziejczyk

1966-05-12 6.5

Cooked Doves

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers. ...

Genre :Comedy

Cpl. Machura

1970-05-22 5

Heaven on Earth

Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory. ...

Genre :War

Crane Operator

1971-08-27 7.4

I Hate Mondays

An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American. ...

Genre :Comedy

Sowa

1971-05-11 0

Operation "Brutus"

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. An ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Hawrot

1966-09-01 0

Don Gabriel

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active par ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Vet

1969-07-08 5.5

Rzeczpospolita babska

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male so ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Caretaker

1971-04-22 7.5

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. ...

Genre :Crime, TV Movie

Kaziuk

1964-01-03 6.95

Where is the General?

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Tour Participant

1973-08-10 5

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Kazek

1958-10-20 4

Kalosze szczęścia

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Highlander

1971-06-08 6

Milion za Laurę

An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Kiedros

1970-04-06 7.6

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 ...

Genre :Comedy, Adventure, War

Kondera

1964-11-24 3

Agnes 1946

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other. ...

Genre :Drama

Private Ostrejko

1969-05-09 7

Ostatnie dni

As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters. ...

Genre :War, Romance

szeregowy Ostrejko

1975-05-06 7

Victory

This film was created by combining and shortening the films Kierunek Berlin (Destination Berlin) and Ostatnie dni (The Last Days). It presents the final phase of the great offensive of 1945, which end ...

Genre :War

Old Peasant

1967-04-13 7.3

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 call ...

Genre :Drama, War, Thriller

Party Member

1954-10-30 5.5

Under the Phrygian Star

Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose". ...

Genre :Drama

Fruńka

1966-02-11 7

Tomorrow Mexico

A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent. ...

Genre :Drama

Porter (Segment 1) (uncredited)

1964-02-25 6.8

No More Divorces

Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Van Worden's Father's Servant

1966-02-27 7.8

The Saragossa Manuscript

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

Genre :Fantasy, Mystery, History

Youth Culture Palace Herald

1961-03-03 6

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Tomasik

1964-01-10 0

Manhunter

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. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Baker (uncredited)

1960-09-22 0

Rok pierwszy

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities. ...

Genre :War

Wiktor's Teacher

1970-08-20 0

Cyrograf dojrzałości

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

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Manager

1973-04-01 7

Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Jan Kępczyk

1972-03-18 0

Opowieść

A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Porter

1973-07-16 0

Zniszczyć pirata

A contemporary psychological drama set in an environment of experimental pilots - testers. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Smarkul

1973-06-12 6.9

Chlopcy

The protagonists of the film are residents of a nursing home run by nuns. One of the nuns, Maria, wants to introduce discipline, but it is not easy. The elderly residents decide to fight for their ind ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Popielak

1975-05-16 7.5

Czterdziestolatek

Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek was a Polish television comedy series broadcast between 1974 and 1977. The first series enjoyed so much popularity that it has successfully continued and led to the relea ...

Genre :Comedy

Dołmontowicz

1976-11-25 7.4

Calling 07

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Ryszard Popiołek

1980-11-09 7

Dom

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980. ...

Genre :Drama

kościelny Wawrzyniec Kulpiński

1977-10-16 7

Polskie drogi

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Kazimierz Pawlak

1975-01-03 7.5

Droga

Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He ...

Genre :Drama

Kulpiński

1977-10-16 7

Polskie drogi

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Marcin Bruzda, góral

1974-07-26 7.214

Janosik

Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series ...