Henryk Modrzewski
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 12, 1897
Place of Birth: Kańczuga, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Polska)
Known For
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 stockings sewn by her grandmother. The humiliation leads Matilda to take a dramatic step. The second part tells the story of Jadźka, who is an object of derision at her school. Fearing embarrassment, she increasingly misses school and plunges into a world of autistic dreams.
Forbidden Songs
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Birth Certificate
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.
Adam's Two Ribs
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
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.
Profesor Wilczur
Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.
Ewa Wants to Sleep
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.
Free City
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Treasure
Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
Filmography
as Teacher
as Florian and Bogdan's Neighbour
as Tailor in Zapiecek
as Tomasz
as Old man taking care of the shelter (uncredited)
as Judge
as Pool player (uncredited)
as Old Teacher (segment "Matylda")
as Cashier (uncredited)
as Photographer (uncredited)
as Pluske
as Worker at CDT Department Store (uncredited)
as Native tongue teacher (uncredited)
as Man "buying" a Brick (uncredited)
as Man with a Dog
as Cashier (uncredited)
as Clerk
as Airplane Passenger
as Engineer
as Client at Restaurant (uncredited)
as Police Inspector (uncredited)
as Sennewald
as Wedding Witness
as Cieślak's Friend
as Dembicz's Manager