Maria Orłowska

Birth : 1929-01-04, Warsaw, Poland

Death : 2013-09-20

Movies

Nothing But Fear
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TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?
The Spider Women
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Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
An Immoral Story
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Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
The Scream
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A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
Debutante
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Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.
Without Love
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Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
Quiet Is the Night
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A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
It's Spring, Sergeant
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I Hate Mondays
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An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Album polski
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University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Wycieczka w nieznane
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Days Months Years
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A documentary impression by Władysław Ślesicki showing the life of women - the joys and sorrows of motherhood, the hardships of everyday life. The individual sequences, made using the observation method, form a mosaic portrait of a mother.
The Navy Is a Thing For Men
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"Marynarka..." is a story of a painter who went on a cruise on a navy ship, framed by a musical film. It features Anna German, Piotr Szczepanik and the Szczecin band Filipinki.
Alone in the City
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Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
Wounded in the Forest
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While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
Mój stary
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A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
Among Men
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Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.
Jazz Camping
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Musicians and jazz lovers come to Zakopane to relax and make music together. Kalatówki is the location where the jazz campsite takes place. Andrzej Trzaskowski's band “Jazz Believers” is the star of the film.
Warsaw Main Station
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Warsaw Central Station, 1958. A place of greetings and farewells, an intersection of people from different parts of Poland and Europe. A girl waits in vain, she goes away. Soon the station would belong to the past too.
The Zero Article
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An interventionist documentary showing the phenomenon of widespread prostitution, maintained in the style characteristic of the "black series" of Polish documentaries of the mid-1950s. Staged shots at the Polonia café are juxtaposed with a documentary recording of arrests conducted by the police among Warsaw prostitutes and interrogations of the arrested.