Gustaw Holoubek

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Kill It and Leave This Town (2020)

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. ...

Zniewolony teatr (2006)

A film devoted to the difficult fate and dramatic choices of actors during the war – whether to continue practicing their profession, performing in theaters that were openly operating and opened with the consent of the occupying authorities, and thus agr ...

Lord Jim (2002)

The play depicts the circumstances of the crash of an old steamer carrying Mohammedan pilgrims and Jim's attempts to rehabilitate and atone for his guilt years ago. ...

Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń (2002)

On the planet Transformation, the cruel Prince Saligia steals people's dreams and turns them into advertisements. When the fame of Tytus reaches him, Saligia lures Tytus and his old friends A'Tomek and Romek to his world, where the friends are captured by ...

Listy miłosne (2001)

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also ...

A Very Christmas Story (2000)

Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacatio ...

Operacja Samum (1999)

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not ...

With Fire and Sword (1999)

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Po ...

The Book of Great Wishes (1998)

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life. ...

Oczy niebieskie (1994)

Jacek, a young violinist, falls in love with reciprocity with the cellist Ania. Ania's mother is against this relationship. So she sends Jacek to Cracow to get an antique violin. In the meantime, he and Ania go to New York. Jacek returns to Warsaw as soon ...

The Master and Margarita (1990)

The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. ...

A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve' (1989)

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear. ...

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself. ...

Weryfikacja (1987)

Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest. ...

Siegfried (1987)

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences. ...

Sons and Comrades (1986)

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 ...

Write and Fight (1985)

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband. ...

Killing Auntie (1985)

A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from ...

In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles (1985)

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The r ...

Passerby (1984)

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions. ...

An Uneventful Story (1983)

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not l ...

Daimler-Benz Limousine (1983)

Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, ...

Childish Questions (1981)

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him. ...

In Broad Daylight (1981)

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much ...

Spotkanie wśród gwiazd (1981)

Julius Ceasar and Cicero meet in the afterlife and discuss their worldly beliefs and legacy in the modern day. ...

The Card Index (1979)

A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war. ...

The Tin Drum (1979)

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out. ...

Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation. ...

A Room with a Sea View (1978)

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man. ...

Niemcy (1974)

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German ...

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares. ...

Through the Fifth Dimension (1973)

Through some strange experiment, Siwiec, a journalist, gets moved back in time. In this new dimension, he encounters unforeseeable adventures. ...

Wyspy szczęśliwe (1972)

A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer. ...

How Far, How Near (1972)

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way. ...

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971)

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. ...

The Woodpecker (1971)

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away. ...

Pejzaż z bohaterem (1971)

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story. ...

The Taste of the Black Earth (1970)

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands. ...

The Office (1969)

Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father. ...

The Game (1969)

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of death, she doubts her attachment to her husband. It turns out that in marriage, too, he only plays his part, w ...

Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies. ...

Fatalista (1968)

Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Li ...

Odwiedziny o zmierzchu (1966)

A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover. ...

Maria and Napoleon (1966)

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to ...

Pearls and Ducats (1966)

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her. ...

The Saragossa Manuscript (1966)

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather. ...

Hamlet x 5 (1966)

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue. ...

The Moment of Peace (1965)

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. ...

Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach (1965)

Two men are having a conversation about life and transience. One of them is terminally ill. ...

Salto (1965)

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd. ...

The Law and the Fist (1964)

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against ...

Avatar: The Exchange of Souls (1964)

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives in Paris with his beloved wife, but their quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of Octavius de Saville, a former admirer of the Countess from her days in Florence. Obsessed with possessing her, Octavius seeks out Dr. Cherbon ...

Naprawdę wczoraj (1963)

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he ...

Gangsters and Philanthropists (1963)

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom. ...

Spotkanie w 'Bajce' (1962)

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe. ...

Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962)

Five short stories. (1) "Czas przybliża, czas oddala" – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna. (2) "Krąg istnienia" – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by fa ...

Opening Tomorrow (1962)

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous. ...

Story of the Golden Boot (1961)

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Craco ...

Time Past (1961)

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighte ...

Goodbye to the Past (1961)

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories. ...

Marysia i Krasnoludki (1961)

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring. ...

Erotique (1961)

A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid. ...

Coloured Stockings (1960)

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 ...

One Room Tenants (1960)

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and ...

Polar Bear (1959)

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear. ...

Farewells (1958)

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, ...

The Noose (1958)

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. ...

Tajemnica dzikiego szybu (1956)

Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft. ...

Men of the Blue Cross (1955)

The final film produced by Warsaw's Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue Service to aid colleagues stranded behind enemy lines at the close of World War II (several real participant ...

The Stars Must Burn (1954)

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young. ...

Soldier of Victory (1953)

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs. ...

Mazepa (1976)

King Jan Kazimierz, Mazepa, a young Cossack from the king's entourage, and Zbigniew, the voivode's son from his first marriage, are all in love with Amelia, the voivode's wife. Dramatic coincidences and misunderstandings lead to a tragic ending. Zbigniew c ...

Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962)

Five short stories. (1) "Czas przybliża, czas oddala" – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna. (2) "Krąg istnienia" – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by fa ...