Kazimierz Opaliński
Acting
Biography
Kazimierz Opaliński (22 February 1890 – 6 June 1979) was a Polish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1936 and 1975. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: February 22, 1890
Place of Birth: Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Przemyśl, Poland)
Known For
Kaule
Eleven-year-old Kaule lives with his aunt in Hinrichsfelde, a small village located in Mecklenburg. The smart and animated boy constantly comes up with plans that are supposed to help others. Since they usually go awry, however, most of the time his fellow men have a hard time appreciating these plans. Things get even worse when Kaule meets Karola, a girl who is new in the village.
Ziemia obiecana
The Saragossa Manuscript
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
The Promised Land
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
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.
The Deluge
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
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.
The Road West
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
Nowy
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Nights and Days
Set in the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the miniseries presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society as told through the life of the Niechcic family.
Filmography
as Baum, ojciec Maksa
as Joachim Ostrzeński, stryj Barbary
as Rejent Joachim Ostrzeński
as Maks' Father
as Imperial envoy
as Sękosz, mieszczanin z Lecka
as Father
as Archbishop Bogumił
as Welfare Department Manager
as Edward Richards / Judge
as Vater Pietsch
as Pieczara
as Ignacy Zasada
as Beroes
as Hermit / Sheik
as Professor (segment 3)
as Grajewski's Lawyer
as Staszek's Father
as Kostryń, manager of 'Erazm'
as Judge (segment nr 1)
as Professor Waszkowski (segment 4)
as Skotnicki
as Walczak
as Opaliński
as Captain Dobek
as Otryna's father
as Prison Warden
as Rapaczyński
as Polish Commandant (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")
as Władysław Orzechowski
as Kropa
as Nepomucen Lapiec
as Nalepa, Hanka's father
as Machinist
as Director, Train Passenger
as Nowicki (segment 3)
as Stanisław Wysmyk
as Theater Records-keeper
as Jerzy Borowicz, actor playing Franciszek Karhan
as Antique Dealer
as Skipper Dobrziałkowski