Movies: Ludwik Benoit
- 1973
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
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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 nightmares....
- 1992
Priest Daens (1992)
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In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few colu...
- 1955
A Generation (1955)
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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 fig...
- 1968
The Doll (1968)
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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 but his lack of family and social rank is condesce...
- 1963
Kryptonim Nektar (1963)
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A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market....
- 1958
Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)
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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 o...
- 1970
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape (1970)
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape7.61970HD
On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion...
- 1965
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
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During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
- 1961
Ostrożnie yeti (1961)
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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 professor tries to find it. He even gets into pris...
- 1979
Placówka (1979)
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The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant doe...
- 1986
Big Bang (1986)
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A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests....
- 1986
Zátah (1986)
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A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a long time, even managing to infiltrate Polish territory. They head for the coast, from where they in...
- 1960
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
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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...
- 1963
Good Sins (1963)
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A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way....
- 1989
Pan Samochodzik i praskie tajemnice (1989)
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A Polish criminalist specialises in various historical mysteries. He is aided by a miraculous car, with the help of which he also reaches Prague, where he unravels ancient cabalistic mysteries....
- 1967
Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
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Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impre...
- 1979
Aria for an Athlete (1979)
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Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his ...
- 1961
Rzeczywistość (1961)
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The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc....
- 1974
Janosik (1974)
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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....
- 1991
Milky Way (1991)
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An elderly man looks to a mysterious old woman to help him regain his youth, but the woman has her own agenda....