9 Films & TV Shows Set In Poland During The 18th Century
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The Devil
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyYoung Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.
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Countess Cosel
🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyThe Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704.
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Mazurka der Liebe
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyEarly 18th-century Krakow: The poor student Simon works as a travelling musician in order to finance his studies, and the Polish freedom fighter Jan is on the run from Saxon troops. They meet in the carriage of Count Kovalska, where they fall in love with the Count’s daughters Laura and Bronislava.
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The Chess Player
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyA toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
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The Beggar Student
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyTo take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.
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The Beggar Student
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th CenturyBritish operetta film directed by Victor Hanbury and John Harvel
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Der Bettelstudent
🇵🇱 Poland The 18th Century
