Franciszek Pieczka
Popularity:0.217
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1928-01-18
Place of Birth:Godów, śląskie, Polska
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Also Known As:Франтишек Печка

The Promised Land (1975)
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional...

Bigos (1966)
The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.

Hydro-Puzzle (1971)
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

Kalosze szczęścia (1958)
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of...

Requiem (2001)
Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic...

Lost Feelings (1957)
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home...

Nad rzeką (1962)
A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol.

The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a...

Late Afternoon (1965)
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.

Through Nine Bridges (1972)
A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.

Liberation: Battle for Berlin (1971)
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.

The Cask of Amontillado (1972)
Professor Montresor, being the object of his friends' jokes, prepares his revenge.

The Office (1969)
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.

Przystań (1971)
Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper...

Pełnia nad głowami (1983)
Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and...

Legenda (1971)
Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.

Punkt wyjścia (1972)
A study of the psyche of a sick, aging man who loses faith in the meaning of life.

Kłopotliwy gość (1971)
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

A Round Week (1977)
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.

Wiśnie (1979)
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family...

Potyatusok (1990)
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to...

Ciosy (1981)
Wiktor Wiarecki is an unsuccessful writer. He is also not successful in his personal life: Wiktor's marriage is in crisis, and his adult son wants...

Do domu (1990)
A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi (1983)
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

La Dame Blanche de Wieliczka (1984)
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the...

Wcześnie urodzony (1986)
A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.

Apricots in the Baskets (1992)
Greek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.

The Scar (1976)
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist...

Somosierra. 1808 (1978)
The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the...

Friend of the Jolly Devil (1987)
A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is...

Famous Like Sarajevo (1988)
The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...

Big Bang (1986)
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien...

The Peasants (1973)
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman...

Jasminum (2006)
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter...

Thanks for Every New Morning (1994)
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year...

The Woodpecker (1971)
A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

Budapest Tales (1977)
"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...

The Girls of Nowolipki (1986)
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill (1983)
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.

Where Is the Third King? (1967)
Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.

The Man Who Reads Music From The Plates (1995)

History of Cinema in Popielawy (1998)
The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all...

Racławice. 1794 (1980)
The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of...

Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for...

Chrześniak (1986)
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who...

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993)
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his...

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

Album polski (1970)
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.

The Beads of One Rosary (1980)
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with...

The Faithful River (1987)
Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

The Mother of the Kings (1987)
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...

Burial of a Potato (1990)
Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who...

Johnnie Waterman (1994)
On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the...

Jadup and Boel (1988)
In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe)...

Austeria (1983)
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified...

All Souls' Day (1961)
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain...

The Woman Across the Way (1978)
A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The...

The Deluge (1974)
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and...

Disgrace (2023)
Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a...

The Lynx (1982)
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed...

Slate (1976)
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.

The Land beyond the Rainbow (1992)
A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.

Miraculous Place (1994)
A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he...

The Heart and Sweetheart (2014)
A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage...

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One (1968)
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2.

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two (1968)
The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4.

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three (1968)
The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6.

Glass Ball (1972)
Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four (1968)
The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.

Memoirs of a Sinner (1986)
A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

The Wedding (1973)
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...

April (1961)
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...

Two Moons (1993)
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and...

Pograbek (1993)
Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to...

Sprawa się rypła (1985)
During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact,...

Memories of a River (1990)
In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he...

The Linnet (1982)
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple...

David (1979)
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly...

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991)
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Wäre die Erde nicht rund... (1981)
While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a...

The Eighth Day of the Week (2006)
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and...

Quo Vadis (2001)
Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian...

Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen (1968)
The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best...

Skinny and Others (1967)
A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Back to Life Again (1965)
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar...

Placówka (1979)
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

Skąpani w ogniu (1963)
Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

Squadron (1992)
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this...

Pearl in the Crown (1972)
When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike...

The White Mazurka (1979)
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St....

Good Sins (1963)
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

Their Everyday Life (1963)
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.

Kareta (1973)
A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.

A Hole in the Ground (1970)
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he...

The Nest (1974)
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's...

Matthew's Days (1968)
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his...

A Generation (1955)
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to...

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Dark River (1974)
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying...

Axiliad (1986)
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides...

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Thief (1988)
A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.

Hospital (1962)
1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is...

Powrót po śmierć (1987)
One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when...

Walkover (1965)
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily...

Drugi brzeg (1962)
A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

The Beads of One Rosary (1980)
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with...

Four Tank-Men and a Dog (1966)
Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is...

Ranczo (2006)
Ranczo ["Ranch"] is a Polish television comedy series, directed by Wojciech Adamczyk, that has aired since March 2006 on TVP1. It follows the story...

The Great Runaway (1979)
A miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism, prostitution, and violence are just a few of the themes...

Die Straßen von Berlin (1995)
Die Straßen von Berlin is a German television series.