Zbigniew Cybulski

Zbigniew Cybulski

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zbigniew Cybulski Polish pronunciation: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf t͡sɨˈbulskʲi] (November 3, 1927 – January 8, 1967) was a Polish actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland. Zbigniew Cybulski was born November 3, 1927 in a small village of Kniaże near Śniatyń, Poland (now a part of Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine). After World War II he joined the Theatre Academy in Kraków. He graduated in 1953 and moved to Gdańsk, where he made his stage debut in Leon Schiller's Wybrzeże Theatre. Also, with his friend Bogumił Kobiela, Cybulski founded a famous student theatre, the Bim-Bom. In the early 1960s, Cybulski moved to Warsaw, where he shortly joined the Kabaret Wagabunda. He also appeared on stage at the Ateneum Theatre, one of the most modern and least conservative Warsaw-based theatres of the epoch. However, Cybulski is best remembered as a screen actor. He first appeared in a 1954 film Kariera as an extra. His first major role came in 1958, when he played in Kazimierz Kutz's Krzyż Walecznych. The same year he also appeared as one of the main characters in Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds and Aleksander Ford's The Eighth Day of the Week based on a short story by Marek Hłasko. From then on Cybulski was seen as one of the most notable actors of the Polish Film School and one of the "young and wrathful", as his generation of actors were called at the time. His most famous films, apart from Ashes and Diamonds, include Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript. He also acted in numerous television plays, including some based on works by Truman Capote, Anton Chekhov and Jerzy Andrzejewski. Cybulski died in an accident at a Wrocław Główny railway station on January 8, 1967, on his way from the film set. As he jumped on the speeding train (as he often did), he slipped on the steps, fell under the train, and was run over. Before the accident he said goodbye to Marlene Dietrich, a personal friend of his, who was a passenger on the train. He was buried in Katowice.

  • Title: Zbigniew Cybulski
  • Popularity: 2.752
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1927-11-03
  • Place of Birth: Kniaże, Polska
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  • Also Known As: Збигнев Цибульский
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Zbigniew Cybulski Movies

  • 1958
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    Ashes and Diamonds

    Ashes and Diamonds

    7.414 1958 HD

    A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

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  • 1965
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    The Saragossa Manuscript

    The Saragossa Manuscript

    7.9 1965 HD

    During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

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  • 1962
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    The Doll

    The Doll

    5 1962 HD

    An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.

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  • 1960
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    Innocent Sorcerers

    Innocent Sorcerers

    7.1 1960 HD

    A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.

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  • 1964
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    Giuseppe in Warsaw

    Giuseppe in Warsaw

    5.941 1964 HD

    The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

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  • 1957
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    Wraki

    Wraki

    4.1 1957 HD

    Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

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  • 1963
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    The Criminal and the Lady

    The Criminal and the Lady

    6.8 1963 HD

    Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.

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  • 1966
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    The Codes

    The Codes

    6.6 1966 HD

    An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.

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  • 1962
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    Spóźnieni przechodnie

    Spóźnieni przechodnie

    6 1962 HD

    Five short stories.

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  • 1956
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    Tajemnica dzikiego szybu

    Tajemnica dzikiego szybu

    5.5 1956 HD

    Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.

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  • 1962
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    Thé a la menthe

    Thé a la menthe

    1 1962 HD

    A man sits at a cafe in Paris and watches the world go by.

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  • 1963
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    How to Be Loved

    How to Be Loved

    7.522 1963 HD

    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.

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  • 1969
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    Zbyszek

    Zbyszek

    1 1969 HD

    Dedicated to tragically deceased actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the film creates a subjective biography of its subject by linking together scenes from his movies.

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  • 1967
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    Jowita

    Jowita

    6.8 1967 HD

    Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka.

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  • 1965
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    Penguin

    Penguin

    5.8 1965 HD

    A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.

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  • 1965
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    Salto

    Salto

    6.413 1965 HD

    A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

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  • 1961
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    Goodbye to the Past

    Goodbye to the Past

    6.6 1961 HD

    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.

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  • 1960
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    Good Bye, Till Tomorrow

    Good Bye, Till Tomorrow

    6.433 1960 HD

    Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...

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  • 1959
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    Night Train

    Night Train

    7.553 1959 HD

    Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

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  • 1955
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    A Generation

    A Generation

    6.827 1955 HD

    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 the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.

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  • 1959
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    Cross of Valor

    Cross of Valor

    6.4 1959 HD

    Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else.

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  • 1965
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    Alone in the City

    Alone in the City

    7 1965 HD

    Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.

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  • 1957
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    Koniec nocy

    Koniec nocy

    4 1957 HD

    A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.

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  • 1964
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    No More Divorces

    No More Divorces

    6.6 1964 HD

    Three short segments about love.

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  • 1967
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    The Killer Leaves a Trace

    The Killer Leaves a Trace

    6 1967 HD

    In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

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  • 1966
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    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    6.2 1966 HD

    A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.

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  • 1964
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    To Love

    To Love

    5 1964 HD

    A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal, and happiness ensues.

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  • 1967
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    Full Ahead

    Full Ahead

    6 1967 HD

    Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

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  • 1955
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    Trzy starty

    Trzy starty

    1 1955 HD

    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.

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  • 1963
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    Their Everyday Life

    Their Everyday Life

    4 1963 HD

    After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.

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  • 1962
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    Love at Twenty

    Love at Twenty

    6.7 1962 HD

    Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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  • 1966
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    Master

    Master

    7.4 1966 HD

    A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.

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  • 1958
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    The Eighth Day of the Week

    The Eighth Day of the Week

    5.3 1958 HD

    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.

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  • 1966
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    Iluzja

    Iluzja

    1 1966 HD

    A man is fascinated by a woman in a club. Obsessed with dreams about her, he begins to follow the path of his imagination.

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  • 1955
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    Career

    Career

    1 1955 HD

    Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.

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  • 1966
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    Tomorrow Mexico

    Tomorrow Mexico

    7 1966 HD

    A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.

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  • 1963
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    Silence

    Silence

    6.2 1963 HD

    Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.

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  • 1960
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    Good Bye, Till Tomorrow

    Good Bye, Till Tomorrow

    6.433 1960 HD

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