Tadeusz Baird

Birth : 1928-07-26, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Mazowieckie, Poland

Death : 1981-09-02

Movies

Nad Odrą
Music
The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.
Nazajutrz po wojnie
Music
On the last day of the war, a Polish soldier whose family was murdered meets his German enemy.
Bigos
Music
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.
Wózek
Music
A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
Córeczka
Music
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
Drewniany różaniec
Music
Na melinę
Music
A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.
Agnes 1946
Original Music Composer
The Unknown
Music
Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
Naganiacz
Music
1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
Passenger
Original Music Composer
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Their Everyday Life
Sound
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
The Lost Bridge
Original Music Composer
Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.
April
Original Music Composer
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
The Artillery Sergeant Kalen
Original Music Composer
The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1945. Set in the closing days of World War II, the film recounts the adventures of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.
Samson
Original Music Composer
Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.
The People from the Train
Original Music Composer
A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
Rok pierwszy
Music
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Lotna
Original Music Composer
Set in the beginning of Wold War II, when the Polish cavalry still fought with lances against German troops. LOTNA is about a white thoroughbred horse that passed through various hands in a military outfit.
The Noose
Original Music Composer
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when his girlfriend is at work and Kuba home alone, resisting temptation becomes hard.
Under One Sky
Music
The documentary with commentary by Tadeusz Różewicz shows the everyday life of children a few years after the war and juxtaposes it with the children's experience of the "black seasons" - the loneliness, terror, hunger and misery of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Destination Nowa Huta!
Music
This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.