
Henryk Modrzewski
Known For & Full Filmography27 Titles

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Dembicz's Manager
Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Old Teacher (segment "Matylda")
The film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable stockings, which she cannot afford. She becomes the laughing stock of the school when she appears in stockings sewn by her grandmother. The humiliation leads Matilda to take a dramatic step. The second part tells the story of Jadźka, who is an object of derision at her school. Fearing embarrassment, she increasingly misses school and plunges into a world of autistic dreams.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Pool player (uncredited)
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Airplane Passenger
A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Cashier (uncredited)
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Police Inspector (uncredited)
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Florian and Bogdan's Neighbour
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Old man taking care of the shelter (uncredited)
An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Cashier (uncredited)
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Man "buying" a Brick (uncredited)
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Clerk
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Worker at CDT Department Store (uncredited)
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Pluske
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Cieślak's Friend
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Client at Restaurant (uncredited)
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Sennewald
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Photographer (uncredited)
Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Engineer
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Tailor in Zapiecek
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Judge
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Man at the Station (uncredited)
A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Wedding Witness
Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Teacher
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Tomasz
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Native tongue teacher (uncredited)
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
