Stanisław Gronkowski
Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles
Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes • as Obergefreiter Kugel
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 composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Weruczka
Shortly after World War 2 a militiaman with the help of two Union of Young Struggle members wages war on a local gang terrorising a small Masurian town.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Trybulak
Created to mark the 60th anniversary of Poland's regained independence, Andrzej Wajda's acclaimed seven-hour stage production As the Years Go By, As the Days go By... follows two Kraków families between 1874 and 1914.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Kuruta
Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama takes place on two levels - historical and metaphorical. The first one is almost a chronicle of several hours of the uprising - it shows the drama of the attitudes of Poles at the beginning of the armed struggle, in confrontation with the attitude of Grand Duke Constantine, the Tsar's deputy in Poland. The second one presents the world of gods playing out their arguments. Man becomes a plaything in their hands, but it is he who experiences his fear, heroism and hope.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Szczygieł (uncredited)
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Ship Officer
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Margoń
A bitter story about a bizarre folk sculptor.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Cinema projector
Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Partisan "Wilk"
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Jarosz
Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Pole working in a Warehouse
A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Leper
In 1456, Francis Villon and his companions attack a merchant in the forest. On the cart they find a girl dead of the plague. They give up the robbery. Villon spends the evening in an inn. He drinks, dances - the fun is interrupted by the arrival of a leper. Only Villon is not afraid to touch him, he treats him as a neighbor. In bed, his lover Gretel complains to the poet that no one wants to marry her....
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Kozubek
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Corporal Kwiatek
Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Ludwik Mituła
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Wójt
An old man appears in Samuel's inn and seek revenge on the owner.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Militiaman
PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Stasio / Kazek
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 Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)
A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Vacationist (uncredited)
Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking and using every transport they can find.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as German Officer
Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as [obsada aktorska]
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Wigezy
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 rebellion starts.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Peasant
Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The main character is Anna, an outstanding pediatrician. She survived the harsh years of war in a concentration camp and cannot accept the behavior of her daughter Natalia, who uses her connections and cares only about material goods. Anna is reminded of 1939, when Piotr, who had been missing for forty-five years, arrives in Poland. Together, they visit places that are important to them: Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbruck.