Stanisław Milski
1897 - 1972Stanislaw Milski (I) (1897–1972)
Actor
Stanislaw Milski was born on February 8, 1897 in Czchów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary as Stanislaw Holyst. He was an actor, known for Gruby (1972), Lydia Ate the Apple (1958) and Black Cross (1960). He died on September 4, 1972 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Ashes and Diamonds
Birth Certificate
Stanisław Różewicz
Henryk Hryniewicz, Beata Barszczewska
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Birth Certificate
Pharaoh
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Zelnik, Barbara Brylska
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
Pharaoh
Pożegnania
Wojciech Has
Maria Wachowiak, Tadeusz Janczar
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 defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Farewells
Orzeł
Leonard Buczkowski
Wienczysław Gliński, Aleksander Sewruk
Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Orzel
Ewa chce spać
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Barbara Lass, Stanisław Mikulski
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 tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Ewa Wants to Sleep
Pokolenie
Andrzej Wajda
Tadeusz Łomnicki, Urszula Modrzyńska
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
A Generation
Little Dramas
Janusz Nasfeter
Wojciech Litynski, Andrzej Nasfeter
The film opposes the view that childhood is the happiest time of our lives. Childhood dramas are deeply etched in memory and leave a permanent imprint on our consciousness. The Carousel Part I. Little boys from a small town want to take a ride on the carousel but they have no money. They push the carousel for hours. They hope that the owner will eventually give them a free ride. In the evening, however, they are already too tired to take up his offer. They are allowed a ride, but they refuse. The Fall of a Millionaire Part II. A ten-year-old boy wants to impress his friends. He is feeble and shy, but he has a piggy bank, which becomes the object of desire for his peers. He tells the other boys that he will soon buy a bicycle from the accumulated savings. When the bank is broken into pieces, the myth of the millionaire is shattered. There are only banknotes painted by the little dreamer. Joanna Piątek, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
Little Dramas
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Aleksander Ford
Urszula Modrzyńska, Andrzej Szalawski
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Knights of the Teutonic Order
Echo
Stanisław Różewicz
Wienczysław Gliński, Barbara Horawianka
It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wienczyslaw Glinski) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer, he’s loved by his son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.
Echo
Szatan z 7-ej klasy
Maria Kaniewska
Józef Skwark, Stanisław Milski
Adventures of Adam Cisowski - very smart boy- who is looking a big treasure hidden by Napoleon's Soldier in XIX century. But he is not only person who is looking a treasure. His rivals are very dangerous.
The Devil from Seventh Grade
