Gustaw Holoubek

AKA: Густав Холоубек, Густав Голубек, Густав Холубек

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1923-04-21

Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

Biography

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

Crew Roles

Mazepa

Writer

Mazepa

Director

Spóźnieni przechodnie

Director

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {78}

senator Kisiel

1999-02-08 6.9

With Fire and Sword

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... A ...

Genre :War, Romance, Drama

Don Pedro Velasquez

1965-06-10 7.9

The Saragossa Manuscript

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

Genre :Drama, History, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery

Franciszek X

1966-04-10 5

Pearls and Ducats

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

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

Miron

1969-12-14 0

The Office

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

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Professor

1983-09-12 6

An Uneventful Story

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time ...

Genre :Drama

Mistyk

1985-09-20 6.5

Killing Auntie

A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is goi ...

Genre :Drama

Edward (segment 1) / Himself (segment 5) (uncredited)

1962-09-03 6

Spóźnieni przechodnie

Five short stories. (1) “Czas przybliża, czas oddala” – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna. (2) “Krąg istnienia” – A gi ...

Genre :Drama

Caretaker (segment "Jadźka")

1960-11-18 7.5

Coloured Stockings

The film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable stockings, which she cannot afford. She becomes the laughing stock of the school when she appears in ...

Genre :Family, Drama

Captain Stołyp

1963-11-08 4

Naprawdę wczoraj

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets he ...

Genre :Drama

Maks Feliński

1983-01-24 5.7

Daimler-Benz Limousine

Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing wi ...

Genre :Drama

Sądej

1956-09-01 5.5

Tajemnica dzikiego szybu

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

Genre :Adventure, Family

'Profesor' the gangster ("Professor")

1963-02-15 6.5

Gangsters and Philanthropists

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika (voice)

2002-03-21 4.9

Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń

On the planet Transformation, the cruel Prince Saligia steals people’s dreams and turns them into advertisements. When the fame of Tytus reaches him, Saligia lures Tytus and his old friends A’Tomek an ...

Genre :Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

Sadełko (voice)

1961-02-25 0

Marysia i Krasnoludki

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

Genre :Animation, Family

Sick Man

1965-10-27 9

Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach

Two men are having a conversation about life and transience. One of them is terminally ill. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Engineer, Maths Professor ("Matura")

1965-11-25 0

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) ...

Genre :War, Drama, History

Neighbour

1966-10-05 0

Odwiedziny o zmierzchu

A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Shopsowitz

1999-05-07 6

Operacja Samum

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret serv ...

Genre :Action

Thief (voice) (uncredited)

1971-05-21 5.9

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Protagonist

1979-10-15 5

Kartoteka

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

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Wit Stwosz

1961-12-28 6.4

Story of the Golden Boot

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's great ...

Genre :History, Adventure

Profesor

1981-11-13 8.2

Childish Questions

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass hous ...

Genre :Drama

Lieutenant Wulicz

1968-03-13 0

Fatalista

Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Roullot

1986-09-05 5.5

Sons and Comrades

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, inc ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Woland

1990-06-15 3

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, Fantasy

Oskar Rennert

1961-03-23 6.6

Goodbye to the Past

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories. ...

Genre :Drama

Maks

1972-05-05 6.4

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. ...

Genre :Drama

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Hamlet x 5

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue. ...

Genre :Documentary

1961-01-01 5.3

Erotique

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

Genre :Thriller

Bermudez

1971-09-15 5.4

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents ...

Genre :Drama, History

Narrator (voice)

1954-07-01 6

The Stars Must Burn

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work o ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

investigating judge

1981-03-16 6.3

In Broad Daylight

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Ru ...

Genre :History, Drama

Professor Jan Leszczyński

1978-03-13 6

A Room with a View on the Sea

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man. ...

Genre :Drama

Stein

2002-05-06 0

Lord Jim

The play depicts the circumstances of the crash of an old steamer carrying Mohammedan pilgrims and Jim's attempts to rehabilitate and atone for his guilt years ago. ...

Genre :TV Movie

Rafał Wilczewski

1971-03-09 0

Pejzaż z bohaterem

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story. ...

Genre :Drama

Andrzej Kenig

1964-09-14 7.2

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 deserte ...

Genre :War, Drama

we własnej osobie

2006-01-01 0

Zniewolony teatr

Genre :Documentary, History, TV Movie

Kuba Kowalski

1958-01-20 7.153

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

Stefan Drawicz

1987-03-09 5.3

Siegfried

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences. ...

Genre :Drama

Self (archive footage)

2023-11-24 6

Myśmy już byli

Genre :Documentary

Husband

1969-05-20 5

The Game

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It tu ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1970-03-06 6.7

The Taste of the Black Earth

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

Genre :Drama, War

Dziadzia

1960-02-08 5.9

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 roo ...

Genre :Drama

Investigator

1985-09-23 6.6

Write and Fight

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband. ...

Genre :Drama

Host

1965-06-10 6.4

Salto

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

Genre :Drama

God (voice)

2000-11-03 2

A Very Christmas Story

Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and does ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Cammerschulze (voice)

1988-12-26 6.813

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself. ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, History

Cicero

1981-01-08 0

Spotkanie wśród gwiazd

Julius Ceasar and Cicero meet in the afterlife and discuss their worldly beliefs and legacy in the modern day. ...

Genre :History, TV Movie, Drama

Zenon Wiewiórski

1962-04-25 8

Opening Tomorrow

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disas ...

Genre :Comedy

Teresa's Father

2001-10-01 0

Listy miłosne

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Adam Ostrowski

1998-01-02 6

The Book of Great Wishes

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life. ...

Genre :Drama

Henryk Fogiel

1959-12-03 7.5

Polar Bear

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear. ...

Genre :War, Thriller

Mirek

1958-10-13 5.5

Farewells

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Napoleon I Bonaparte / Napoleon Beranger

1966-10-04 6.2

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 ...

Genre :History, Comedy

Dr. Gotard

1973-12-12 7.538

The Hourglass Sanatorium

Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and ni ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Narrator (voice)

1955-10-12 6

Men of the Blue Cross

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy line ...

Genre :War, Drama

Kurt von Steinhagen

1961-04-11 0

Time Past

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he ta ...

Genre :Drama, War

profesor Ani i Jacka; we śnie Święty Piotr

1994-01-14 0

Oczy niebieskie

Jacek, a young violinist, falls in love with reciprocity with the cellist Ania. Ania's mother is against this relationship. So she sends Jacek to Cracow to get an antique violin. In the meantime, he a ...

Genre :Drama

Mariuszek's Alter Ego (voice)

2020-11-27 6.7

Kill It and Leave This Town

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. ...

Genre :Animation, Horror

Zygmunt Sekułowski

1979-03-28 6.2

Hospital of the Transfiguration

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occup ...

Genre :Drama, War

Hermit-Gustaw / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet

1989-11-06 5.6

Lava

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Feliks Dzierżyński

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

Doctor Paweł

1962-12-19 0

Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe. ...

Genre :Drama

Professor

1974-02-04 0

Niemcy

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his frien ...

Genre :

Doctor Baltazar Charbonneau

1964-01-01 4.7

Avatar: The Exchange of Souls

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Family

Doktor Kopot

1973-05-05 5

Through the Fifth Dimension

Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures. ...

Genre :Science Fiction

Dyapanazego

1985-04-15 7

In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Horror

Priest Kamiński (voice) (uncredited)

1969-03-28 7

Colonel Wolodyjowski

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ott ...

Genre :History, Adventure, War

Gucio Nawrot

1987-09-07 0

Weryfikacja

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

Genre :Drama

1984-01-01 6

Passerby

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentar ...

Genre :Documentary

Grzegorz

1994-11-21 0

Kordian

The staging of "Kordian" by Juliusz Słowacki, refers to the November Uprising and attempts to understand the reasons for its defeat. It tells the story of a young boy who attempts to liberate the Poli ...

Genre :Drama

Priest

1979-05-02 6.9

The Tin Drum

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, an ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Doctor

1972-11-24 0

Wyspy szczęśliwe

A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

król Władysław II Jagiełło

1988-11-06 8

Królewskie sny

Genre :War & Politics

1971-10-01 3

Theatre Macabre

Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

Profesor Tutka

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Professor Tutka Club

Professor Tutka is a storyteller in little café. ...

Genre :Family

Senator Kisiel

2001-01-01 6

With Fire and Sword

The story, which was written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in the 19th century "for the strengthening of hearts," filmed in 1999 with extraordinary panache, has become one of the most spectacular Polish films ...