Piotr Garlicki
- 1981
Hanka Ordonowna (Dorota Sialinska) was a famous cabaret singer in Poland in the 1930s, and this film is a dramatized rendering of her adult life. Her husband was an officer in the Polish army, serving in the North African campaigns with the Allied troops. Hanka herself was handling a career that went from being a chorus girl to singing to appearing in movies. Her rise from poverty to stardom was not without its own amount of suffering, as she fought consumption at one point, and the occupying Nazis at another. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorota Stalinska, Stanislawa Celinska, (more)
"Project Enigma" was designed to crack the Nazi secret code machine during World War II. Historically, the success of this mission has been attributed to the British. Enigma Secret reveals Poland's role in this crucial turn of events. Three Polish math whizzes pool their skills to break the code, and, incidentally, to stay alive long enough to complete their task. Tadeusz Borowski, Piotr Fronczewski and Piotr Garlicki star in this intelligently constructed, fact-based war story. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1978
After founding a political journal, writer Edward Dembowski also joined the movement to reunite the then nonexistent nation of Poland, long submerged within the enlarged national boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Prussia and Russia. Always secretive, his fate during the last days of the Crakow Uprising in 1846 is unknown, but this film makes an attempt to reconstruct his probable whererabouts and activities. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, (more)
- 1977
- R
A group of students who are participating in a university's summer science camp are drawn into an incredible quagmire of conflicts, ranging from the relatively simple conflict between an engaging and forthright young teacher and his older manipulative colleague, to a contest pitting political correctness against free scientific inquiry. Despite the murkiness of some of the issues in the latter conflict, the students pitch in enthusiastically on what they believe to be the side of righteousness, and passions rise to fever pitch. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Piotr Garlicki
- 1971
Krzysztof Zanussi's Za Sciana (Behind the Wall), a short feature made for Polish television, concerns the unlikely romance between Jan, an established professor of biochemistry, and Anna, an emotionally unstable young woman who applies for a job under his aegis. Both are sensitive to the idea of being vulnerable in a relationship, and although they sense mutual attraction and interest, the partners ultimately withdraw from each other out of fear. Soon after, Anna makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt, but passing through the act unscathed imparts to her a level of self-assurance and confidence that she lacked prior to it. The roles in the relationship are suddenly reversed, with Jan evincing neurosis and need, and Anna self-sufficient. Za Sciana took the Grand Prix and won the Best Actress prize for Maja Komorowska at the 1971 San Remo Film Festival. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
