Dorota Stalinska Movies
Ewa (Dorota Stalinska) was once a big-name actress. Now she is a drunk, washed-up has-been, living in a very ordinary apartment. She doesn't know how to sincerely express any concern for anyone but herself, and her dreams of returning to prominence as a singer or making a theatrical comeback are undermined by her unpleasant personality. Despite that, she has moments of warmth and tenderness which enable one occasionally to see what her former appeal must have been based on. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorota Stalinska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, (more)
- 1988
- PG13
Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II. Though safely ensconced in Palestine at the outbreak of the war, Hannah volunteers to venture behind enemy lines in Europe on a life-or-death mission. Unfortunately, she is captured, undergoing unspeakable tortures before the Germans are finished with her. The script, based on Hannah's diaries (as edited by Yoel Palgi), surprisingly downplays heroics in favor of sensationalism; the prison scenes could just as well have been lifted from a Linda Blair "babes behind bars" picture. Even so, Detmers is excellent in the title role, while Ellen Burstyn is likewise superb as Hannah's mother. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, (more)
- 1988
Taxi driver Janusz (Daniel Olbrychski) abandons his wife and children on Christmas Eve to help an old girlfriend search for her husband, whom she claims is missing. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, (more)
- 1983
In an exaggerated, overacted portrayal of the lower classes being held down by a sometimes corruptible bureaucracy, an underprivileged woman on the verge of living on the streets gets a job in a home for seniors, where she begins her first tentative relationship with an orderly. When the orderly is denied an apartment after a five-year wait for housing, the woman approaches a wealthy invalid in the seniors home for a little help for her friend. Like many another wealthy senior, the man refuses to do what she wants -- with rather tragic results to himself, and ultimately to the woman as well. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorota Stalinska, Stanislaw Igar, (more)
- 1981
This is a surreal treatment of the repression of the Stalin years in Poland in the early 1950s (and its later manifestations and rebellions) set in one room inhabited by a young intellectual. The director Filip Bajon has his main character wake up from a disturbing dream about himself as a little boy, staying in a clinic to be treated for his asthma when "Father Frost" comes along to give him a gift- and then takes off his disguise to show that he is really Joseph Stalin. Shocked, the intellectual wakes up, looks around him for reassurance, and realizes finally that he is in his own room and it is the present. He spends all his time in the room with his own views of Communism while his sister tries to rouse him into the more activist stance of social protest going on around them, and his mother just abdicates any role except tending her garden in '50s garb. As characters come in and out of the room, each carries a symbolic weight that is clear to most Poles, and maybe not as crystalline to the uninitiated viewer. When someone asks after the mother, both the brother and sister chime in with "She's dead." But not quite, the mother at that point, walks into the room - the 1950s apparently cannot be killed off with words alone. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Janusz Gajos, Halina Gryglaszewska, (more)
- 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)
- 1980
The tough, iron-willed determination of a young female reporter to make top grade in her profession fuels the drama in this tale directed by Barbara Sass. Novice reporter Ewa Bracka (Dorota Stalinska) is on the rebound from a failed romance with an Italian, but she is not wallowing in self-pity. She takes judo lessons, spends time with her baby daughter, and has a few dalliances that might help further her career. Otherwise, she tracks down stories about corruption in the medical profession and a pursues a lead on a scandalous local brothel. As she juggles her private and professional life, she is not necessarily aware of the pitfalls that lie ahead. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorota Stalinska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, (more)
