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Maria Kaniewska

Maria Kaniewska

Acting

Biography

Maria Kaniewska (27 May 1911 in Kiev - 11 December 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish actress, screenplay writer, film director. In 1960 she received a bronze lion award at the Venice Film Festival.

Known For

Doktor Ewa
9.0

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Doktor Ewa

1971
Komedianty
5.5

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

Komedianty

1962
The Last Stage
7.2

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.

The Last Stage

1948
Bad Luck
6.8

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

Bad Luck

1960
Trzy starty
7.0

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.

Trzy starty

1955
Winter Twilight
6.2

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.

Winter Twilight

1957
Kapelusz pana Anatola
7.0

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

Kapelusz pana Anatola

1957
Hacker
4.4

Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of complete submission to his clever friend Turbo - and he, in turn, guarantees him the easy money and attention to a long-legged beauty.

Hacker

2002
Nina's Journey
5.3

Nina's Journey is a feature film, but with an authentic narrator. We follow Nina and her family during six dramatic years, half of them spent in the Warsaw ghetto. The film tells the story of a young girl coming of age under extreme circumstances: Nina falls in love, goes to parties, and graduates high school - all in the Warsaw ghetto. One could say that, in these horrid times, she is almost living the life of a normal teenager. If it wasn't for the fact that all those around her are vanishing, one by one. Nina's Journey is shot in Warsaw, with Polish actors. But it is narrated by the elderly Nina Einhorn herself.

Nina's Journey

2005
Man - Woman Wanted
7.6

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.

Man - Woman Wanted

1973
A Lady from the Window
7.5

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

A Lady from the Window

1964
Not Far from Warsaw
8.0

Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.

Not Far from Warsaw

1954
Kocie ślady
5.8

A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.

Kocie ślady

1971
The Warsaw Debut
7.0

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

The Warsaw Debut

1951
Satan from the 7th Grade
5.3

A smart teenager Adam Cisowski is asked by his teacher to help him solve the mysterious case of robbed house doors in his mansion.

Satan from the 7th Grade

2007
Unvanquished City
6.0

Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.

Unvanquished City

1950
No image
6.8

Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.

Argument About Basia

1959
The Refuge
7.5

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.

The Refuge

1978
What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
7.3

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

1978
Two Hours
7.3

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.

Two Hours

1957