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Tag Archives: Daniel Olbrychski
Young Girls Of Wilko AKA Panny z Wilka (1979) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Set in the late ’20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. Read More »
Rosa Luxemburg (1986) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Read More »
Family Life AKA Zycie rodzinne (1971) Krzysztof Zanussi, Daniel Olbrychski, Jan Kreczmar, Halina Mikolajska
A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. Read More »
The Deluge AKA Potop (1974) Jerzy Hoffman, Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Read More »
The Fall of Italy AKA Pad Italije (1981) Lordan Zafranovic, Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Gorica Popovic
A partisan commander had to shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle Read More »
Jovita AKA Jowita (1967) Janusz Morgenstern, Daniel Olbrychski, Barbara Lass, Kalina Jedrusik
Marek is a young athlete involved with too many women until the day he met Jowita, an enigmatic and beautiful woman. Read More »
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania AKA Pan Tadeusz (1999) Andrzej Wajda, Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia’s client state of Lithuania, think independence will come Read More »
The Promised Land AKA Ziemia obiecana (1975) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles Read More »
Popioly (1965) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Boguslaw Kierc, Piotr Wysocki, Drama, War
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon’s side with the hopes of Poland’s revival.
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Landscape after Battle / Krajobraz po bitwie (1970) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Drama, Romance
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
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Oda az igazság / So Much for Justice! (2010) Miklós Jancsó, Daniel Olbrychski, Kornél Mundruczó, György Cserhalmi, History
Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus, the film focuses on three eras of the king’s life: the young Mátyás fights for the throne, the older Mátyás as king, and the fate of the royal crown and the royal heir after his death.
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