Henryk Borowski
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Henryk Borowski.
Born: February 14, 1910
Place of Birth: Płock, Russia [prenet Poland]
Known For
Nuremberg Epilogue
Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Master
A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.
Forbidden Songs
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Knights of the Teutonic Order
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.
The Wedding
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
Nights and Days
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Countess Cosel
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
Król Maciuś I
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
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, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
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 the Celestial Spheres.
Filmography
as Father Salezy
as Wildermayer
as Narrator (voice)
as Klemens Klicki
as Jacenty
as Tiedemann Giese
as Old Man
as Joachim von Ribbentrop
as Forest Ranger
as Hrabia Adolf Hoym, mąż hrabiny Cosel
as Count Hoym
as Attorney
as Jerzy Kubiak
as Siegfried de Löwe
as Professor
as Minister of Internal Affairs
as Maciej Raubach
as Bielecki
as Słaboński
as Head Editor
as Professor Brzozowski
as Maria Kędziorek's Executioner