Cast: Gustaw Holoubek

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gustaw Holoubek. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Saragossa Manuscript

1965 · Movie · 182 min. · Poland

Direction Wojciech Has

Cast Zbigniew Cybulski · Iga Cembrzynska · Elzbieta Czyzewska · Gustaw Holoubek

Synopsis In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Noose

1958 · Movie · 96 min. · Poland

Direction Wojciech Has

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Aleksandra Slaska · Teresa Szmigielówna · Tadeusz Fijewski

Synopsis A study of alcoholism with an excellent performance by Gustaw Holoubek as Kuba, a man who helplessly tries to battle his addiction before ultimately giving up and committing suicide. The action is limited to a single day, with camera stubbornly...

7.0

78 votes

7.0

78 votes

The Hour-Glass Sanatorium

1973 · Movie · 124 min. · Poland

Direction Wojciech Has

Cast Jan Nowicki · Tadeusz Kondrat · Irena Orska · Halina Kowalska

Synopsis The film presents a poetic, visually refined "journey through the convolutions of time" as experienced by the protagonist, Joseph (Jan Nowicki). The young Joseph finds himself travelling through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father...

6.8

543 votes

6.8

543 votes

With Fire and Sword

1999 · Movie · 182 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Izabella Scorupco · Aleksandr Domogarov · Michał Żebrowski · Krzystof Kowalewski

Synopsis In the mid17th century, at the start of the film's action, Poland was the largest, the most democratic, and the most tolerant country in Europe. However, the tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic......

6.2

219 votes

6.2

219 votes

JUMP

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · Poland

Direction Tadeusz Konwicki

Cast Zbigniew Cybulski · Gustaw Holoubek · Marta Lipinska · Irena Laskowska

Synopsis A man hops off a train by the small town where he claims he was before. His presence allows to bring out the inner feelings and beliefs of the inhabitants. A man who has hidden through all of the war...

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Erotique (S)

1960 · Movie · 3 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Elzbieta Czyzewska · Gustaw Holoubek

Synopsis Let the vampires are not reflected in the mirror, but it may come from someone not less intimidating. And wants to do something. And then you have to run away from him.

5.2

68 votes

5.2

68 votes

The Law and the Fist

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman · Edward Skórzewski

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Zofia Mrozowska · Hanna Skarzanka · Wieslaw Golas

Synopsis 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...

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Direction Andrzej Kotkowski

Cast Beata Tyszkiewicz · Grazyna Szapolowska · Gustaw Holoubek · Jerzy Bonczak

Synopsis 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...

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Gangsters and Philantropists

1963 · Movie · 82 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman · Edward Skórzewski

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Wieslaw Michnikowski · Hanka Bielicka · Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska

Synopsis A criminal mastermind responsible for a failed robbery and an accidental petty conman meet inside a prison carriage. Soon they are both going to hear the court verdict.

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Hospital of the Transfiguration

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · Poland

Direction Edward Zebrowski

Cast Piotr Dejmek · Jerzy Binczycki · Henryk Bista · Ewa Dalkowska

Synopsis The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is...

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How Far, How Near

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · Poland

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Direction Tadeusz Konwicki

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Jolanta Pietek-Górecka · Artur Zmijewski · Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska

Synopsis In 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.

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The Sun and the Shadow

1962 · Movie · 75 min. · Bulgaria

Direction Rangel Vulchanov

Cast Georgi Naumov · Anna Prucnal · Gustaw Holoubek · Rangel Vulchanov

Synopsis The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness.

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Killing Auntie

1985 · Movie · 105 min. · Poland

Direction Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Cast Wladyslaw Dewoyno · Krystyna Feldman · Wieslaw Golas · Robert Herubin

Synopsis A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confessess 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...

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Direction Konrad Wolf

Cast Donatas Banionis · Olivera Katarina · Fred Düren · Tatyana Lolova

Synopsis As court painter of King Carlos IV, Goya reached wealth and fame. Believe in the King and the Church, but also a Spanish who loves his people. This contradiction is a dilemma that will mark his personal and artistic evolution.

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Write and Fight

1985 · Movie · 120 min. · Poland

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In Broad Daylight

1981 · Movie · 89 min. · Poland

Direction Edward Zebrowski

Cast Michal Bajor · Krystyna Janda · Gustaw Holoubek · Krzysztof Kolberger

Synopsis 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...

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Colored Stockings

1960 · Movie · 65 min. · Poland

Direction Janusz Nasfeter

Cast Wlodzimierz Nowak · Maria Gella · Magdalena Duszynska · Zofia Bodakowska

Synopsis Anthology film about growing pains of girls in postwar Poland. In the first segment, unpopular Matylda longs for acceptance and better life, symbolized by the pair of colorful stockings. The second segment tells the story of poor Jadzka and her...

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