Cast: Franciszek Pieczka

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


The Great Battle (Liberation)

1971 · Movie · 487 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Yuri Ozerov

Cast Jan Englert · Fritz Diez · Barbara Brylska · Daniel Olbrychski

Plot A five-part WWII epic centered on the victories of the Russian army.

7.6

330 votes

7.6

330 votes

The Promised Land

1975 · Movie · 168 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Wojciech Pszoniak · Andrzej Seweryn · Bozena Dykiel

Plot At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew...

7.2

656 votes

7.2

656 votes

Konopielka

1982 · Movie · 92 min. · Poland

Direction Witold Leszczynski

Cast Krzysztof Majchrzak · Anna Seniuk · Joanna Sienkiewicz · Jerzy Block

Plot Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterwards....

6.7

53 votes

6.7

53 votes

Walkower

1965 · Movie · 77 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jerzy Skolimowski · Aleksandra Zawieruszanka · Krzysztof Chamiec · Andrzej Herder

Plot Two old acquaintances meet by accident. Both are about to fight against tough opponents, his is a boxing fight, hers is a struggle to have her original project implemented at...

6.5

69 votes

6.5

69 votes

The Deluge

1974 · Movie · 315 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Malgorzata Braunek · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Kazimierz Wichniarz

Plot Set during the 17th-century Polish-Swedish war and based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Deluge follows the romance between a violent soldier and the young woman who tries to tame...

6.5

30 votes

6.5

30 votes

The Scar

1976 · Movie · 101 min. · Poland

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Mariusz Dmochowski · Jerzy Stuhr · Jan Skotnicki

Plot Poland, 1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is...

6.3

298 votes

6.3

298 votes

The Inn

1983 · Movie · 109 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Wojciech Pszoniak · Jan Szurmiej · Ewa Domanska

Plot Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in...

6.1

49 votes

6.1

49 votes

Matthew's Days

1968 · Movie · 80 min. · Poland

Direction Witold Leszczynski

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Anna Milewska · Wirgiliusz Gryn · Aleksander Fogiel

Plot A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling,...

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

Quo Vadis?

2001 · Movie · 170 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Pawel Delag · Magdalena Mielcarz · Boguslaw Linda · Michal Bajor

Plot Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her...

5.6

211 votes

5.6

211 votes

Hospital (TV) (S)

1962 · Movie · 23 min. · Poland

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Krystyna Feldman · Wanda Jakubinska · Kalina Jedrusik · Czeslaw Kalinowski

Plot 1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people...

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Pearl in the Crown

1972 · Movie · 111 min. · Poland

Direction Kazimierz Kutz

Cast Lucja Kowolik · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Jan Englert · Franciszek Pieczka

Plot Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners...

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Paciorki jednego rózanca

1980 · Movie · 106 min. · Poland

Direction Kazimierz Kutz

Cast Marta Straszna · Augustyn Halotta · Ewa Wisniewska · Franciszek Pieczka

Plot The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build...

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Szklana kula

1972 · Movie · 80 min. · Poland

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Thanks for Every New Morning

1994 · Movie · 100 min. · Czech Republic

Direction Milan Steindler

Cast Ivana Chýlková · Franciszek Pieczka · Alena Vránová · Tereza Brodská

Plot This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from...

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Budapest Tales

1977 · Movie · 90 min. · Hungary

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ági Mészáros · Maja Komorowska · Franciszek Pieczka · András Bálint

Plot A group of people finds a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train...

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The Lynx

1982 · Movie · 84 min. · Poland

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Franciszek Pieczka · Piotr Bajor · Ryszarda Hanin

Plot During the Nazi occupation a young priest tries hard to prevent the execution of a local farmer, accused of treason, by a resistance fighter.

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Pograbek (TV)

1992 · Movie · 75 min. · Poland

Direction Jan Jakub Kolski

Cast Mariusz Saniternik · Grazyna Blecka-Kolska · Franciszek Pieczka · Elzbieta Debska

Plot Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at the world. He makes his living by killing old horses, undertaking this thankless work because together with his...

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Jadup und Boel

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Direction Rainer Simon

Cast Kurt Böwe · Katrin Knappe · Gudrun Ritter · Timo Jakob

Plot In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young...

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Not rated