Janusz Bukowski

Janusz Bukowski

Birth : 1941-12-07, Gorzyce, Poland

Death : 2005-09-22

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Janusz Bukowski

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Symmetry
Roman
Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi przejściowej Łukasz za wszelką cenę chce znaleźć się wśród grypsującej części więźniów. Świat gitów wymaga jednak przestrzegania panujących tu twardych zasad. Reżyser uzyskał zgodę Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych na realizację zdjęć w więzieniu na Białołęce.
Sfora: Bez litości
pan Józef, służący Starewicza
Deserter's Gold
pogranicznik
"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Sara
policjant
Forty-something Leon is an alcoholic, ex-special forces barely scraping by when he's hired by a mobster to protect his 16 year old daughter. Not only does Leon have to clean up his act, but also handle the romantic advances of his ward and the keen attention of his dangerous employers.
Po własnym pogrzebie
Wróbel, major AK
The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).
Eminent Domain
Shipyard Director
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Korczak
Polish doctor in prison
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Konsul
Jan Guz
After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.
Warszawskie gołębie
Citizen Piszczyk
Naczelnik więzienia
This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.
Private investigation
Militia major
Rafal Skonecki loses his family in a car accident, caused by a drunken driver. When he is informed that the investigation is discontinued, he decides to take justice into his own hand.
The Deserters
kapral Ulmbach
Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
Sam pośród swoich
Porwanie
A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend
Sons and Comrades
Max Pfitzner
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
I Died So I Could Live
major Wróbel
Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
I killed
Bogdan Morawski
During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface.
The Beard
The journalist
Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.
Chleba naszego powszedniego
Kierownik budowy
Janosik
Zbójnik Wróblik
The Wedding
Kasper
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Skarb trzech łotrów
major
The Epidemic
doktor Bielski
Obcy w lesie
Zabijcie czarną owcę
Bednarski, Police officer
Young man struggles with being rejected by society.
Operation
"Bear"
Jaruga, the head of the local Security Office, cannot liquidate the "Boruta" unit. Most likely, he has his man in the UB. In order to unmask him and liquidate the unit, Albert, an employee of the UB, acting in complete conspiracy, arrives.
Złote koło
porucznik Traszka
Day of Purification
"Trzmiel"
The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle; This is where the last ammunition container was supposed to fall. The commander sends two men to scout. Only one returns, and that is without ammo.
Julia, Anna, Genowefa...
Jerzy Wilimski, mąż Anny
25-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war.
The Night of the Generals
German Soldier (uncredited)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Barrier
tramwajarz niosący bohaterkę na drzwiach z literą "E"
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
The Navy Is a Thing For Men
"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.