Bogdan Baer
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Roles you can spot in Whatthemovie snapshots
Nic smiesznego
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside.
La petite apocalypse
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
Czarodziej z Harlemu
The Stal sports club from Tczew has acquired a new player. He is a black basketball player. Unfortunately, the plane with Abraham lands in Gdańsk, not in Warsaw, where he is expected. The boy tries to get to Tczew on his own. Meanwhile, the welcoming delegation mistakes another black man for the basketball player and takes him to Tczew.
Aria dla atlety
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match.
Lalka
The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka.
Bariera
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Krzyżacy
Midle age tail from Poland and theier fight with crusaders (Teutonic Knights) and the Battle of Grunwald (1st Battle of Tannenberg)
Krzyz Walecznych
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.
Ewa chce spac
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Eroica
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.