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Jeśli się odnajdziemy (1982)
Character: Stolarek
A holiday camp in Masuria is running a program called "If We Find Each Other." Its aim is to conduct a pedagogical experiment in which children from orphanages choose their own adoptive parents. Some of the children are passive, while others try to "study" the adults in their own way. Maciek, a young psychologist, notices Kasia, a girl on a gluten-free diet, whose illness has long prevented her from finding parents. Basia, Maciek's wife, accepts his choice. When Kasia learns from her friends that she will return to the orphanage after the holidays, she runs away from the center. Basia notices her and convinces the girl to return. After Basia and Maciek visit Professor Kowalewska, Kasia realizes that she finally has parents.
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Jak bóg Maior utracił tron (1999)
Character: God Maior (voice)
The brothers Ubi and Obi live in Lailonia in the city of Ruru. The authority over the city is held by the god Maior. The basic law of the god Maior is that everything for humans is at the bottom, what for the god is at the top. The brothers live according to the laws established by the god Maior, until Obi rebels against them. Soon the brothers separate and Obi dies. For breaking his laws, the god Maior sentences Obi to stay in hell. Ubi also dies, and since he always obeyed the god's laws, he goes to heaven. The brothers are separated even after death. Ubi is not happy in heaven and wants to go to hell. The god Maior, however, does not agree. A revolt breaks out in heaven. God Maior abdicates. From now on, the living and deceased residents of the city of Ruru have to fend for themselves.
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Vent d'est (1993)
Character: Klaus, członek parlamentu Liechtensteinu
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
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Dluga noc poslubna (1976)
Character: Andrzej, przyjaciel Adama
The story of a young married couple. Marta, a schoolteacher, and Adam, a factory worker, marry despite family objections and anxiously await their own apartment in a housing-shortage city, struggling through renting makeshift lodgings and mounting money woes. When Marta discovers she’s pregnant, Adam urgently borrows a small garden cottage in hopes that a private corner of their own will finally allow them to build the stable family life they both dream of.
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Sam pośród miasta (1965)
Character: Young Man in a Bar (uncredited)
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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Masza (2020)
Character: N/A
Vera, a Ukrainian woman working illegally in a Polish factory tries to help Masha - a friend who suffered in an accident at work.
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Broda (1974)
Character: Krzysztof Kulak
Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.
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Pejzaż z bohaterem (1971)
Character: Bienia
Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.
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Szkice warszawskie (1970)
Character: "Kędzierzawy" (segment "Allegro")
Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.
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Cyrkowa pułapka (1996)
Character: N/A
In the middle of the Augustów Forest, tarpans are bred - small wild forest horses, found in the wild only in Poland. An old abandoned fort near the port of Gdynia is used by smugglers and international wildlife traders as a hideout to store livestock.
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Kiedy rozum śpi (1992)
Character: N/A
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
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Laureat (1980)
Character: Tomek
Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.
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Gościnny występ (1974)
Character: Actor
A student theater company returns home after an unsuccessful performance.
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Wcześnie urodzony (1986)
Character: Michał Chrobak
A dying man, influenced by a neighbor in the hospital room, decides to enjoy his life.
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Blood of the Innocent (1994)
Character: Bakery Owner
A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
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Starzy znajomi (1987)
Character: Zdzisław Sajkiewicz
Zdzicho leaves prison and tries to get his share from his former partners.
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Cześć kapitanie (1968)
Character: Militiaman (uncredited)
A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
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W te dni przedwiosenne (1975)
Character: N/A
The final months of World War II. The fate of a young girl, Second Lieutenant Horak, and an experienced frontline officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kaszyba.
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Nagrody i odznaczenia (1974)
Character: Łaszewski
1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.
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Ocalić miasto (1976)
Character: Skorpion
1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans.
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Duch z Canterville (1968)
Character: Jim
An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him.
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Taxi A (2011)
Character: N/A
"No one said life was beautiful." - hears business shark Andrew one day, learning that his shrewd partner and unfaithful wife have jointly let him off with his socks. Persecuted by a malicious bailiff, the heartbroken man is already considering saying goodbye to this world, when suddenly a crazy idea comes to him that will change his life forever. He shifts from his director's stool to a boat worn down by the teeth of time. Carrying a colorful bunch of passengers, such as an ambitious call girl, an ingenious smuggler and a teenage fence of "legally seized cell phones", he learns about life from the most interesting side. He listens to the problems of his clients with an open heart. Soon, thanks to Andrew's accurate advice, many of his passengers will face adversity, and the fame of the philosophizing carrier will reach the national media...
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Kwestia sumienia (1969)
Character: Guard (uncredited)
During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
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Buty (1966)
Character: Guard
During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.
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Świat grozy (1968)
Character: Jim (Segment "The Canterville Ghost")
Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.
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Dawid i elfy (2021)
Character: Grandpa Ignacy
Christmas is drawing near, but it’s not a happy time for David. After moving to a big city, his parents have been bogged down with work and forgotten the meaning of Christmas. David decides to change that. Together with Albert the Elf, who escaped from the land of Santa to figure out what Christmas is all about, David sets off to Tatra Mountains, where his grandparents live, on a journey full of adventures.
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Westerplatte (1967)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
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Lejdis (2008)
Character: Ksiądz dyrektor
Four friends are facing problems like infidelity, infertility and disease. But together, they can solve every single problem.
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Życie raz jeszcze (1965)
Character: Man by a List (uncredited)
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
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Czarny Czwartek. Janek Wiśniewski padł (2011)
Character: Mieczysław Moczar
Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.
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Komediantka (1987)
Character: Actor
A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
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Małżeństwo z rozsądku (1967)
Character: Majk (uncredited)
Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a young, talented, but poor painter. However, the girl's father, Kazimierz Burczyk, decides to find a suitable husband for her himself. A shrewd tradesman, unwilling to disclose his income, searches for a candidate whose professional position would justify his possession of a villa, a car and many other material possessions. In the end, his choice falls on Andrew, who is unsuccessfully trying to sell paintings under the walls of Warsaw's Barbican.
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Kobieta i kobieta (1980)
Character: Michał Kuczera
A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up the injustice. Her best friend backs her up instead of the cultprit, the man she is living with. Later, the former production manager becomes a mayor in a resort town, where she in turn practices malfasance and is caught in the act by her friend.
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Dziewczyna z moich snów (2022)
Character: N/A
The story of the 50-year-old surly, award-winning, alcohol-abusing writer Zbigniew, who distances himself from the world and other people. Zbigniew, hit by writer’s block, carries a trauma from the past. One warm summer night, he notices an unusual girl through the window. Her appearance changes the writer's life...
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Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)
Character: Onkel Dimitri
Sabine Waldmann is a special person. Her world is different to that of most people because she has Asperger's syndrome. Numbers and fixed structures give her a sense of security and no one can fool her when it comes to memory. Personal interaction with other people, on the other hand, causes her problems because she cannot interpret the facial expressions and gestures of her counterparts and does not recognize irony. To get closer to Sabine, you have to enter her world - and there are few people who can do that.
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W szachu. Ostatnia rozgrywka (2024)
Character: Słodownik
The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.
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Futro (2007)
Character: Antoni Witkowski
A wealthy grandfather throws a party to celebrate his grandson's First Communion. Soon the family gathering takes unexpected turns.
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Trzeba zabić tę miłość (1972)
Character: Cleric Władek
A dramatization of problems faced by a young couple in 1970's Poland - job uncertainty, conflicts with parents, living together, unfaithfulness.
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Eminent Domain (1991)
Character: Uncle Feliks
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
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Tam i z powrotem (2002)
Character: kościelny
In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to consider taking part in a bank robbery.
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Skrzydlate świnie (2010)
Character: Jan Nowacki
A wealthy guy hires Oscar to cheer for his team which happens to be arch rival of the team he previously supported along with his brother. Oscar accepts the offer and fight kicks off between him and his brother along with other supporters. The fight costs a arm fracture for Oscar, wile his wife is leaving him because of his hooligan nature...
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Cynga (1991)
Character: N/A
A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a camp in Siberia. He will spend the war in a psychiatric hospital.
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Idol (1985)
Character: Maniek, przyjaciel Kortona
In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
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Pieczone gołąbki (1966)
Character: Worker (uncredited)
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Obława (2012)
Character: Hanna's Father
Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with his own past...
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Mój rower (2012)
Character: Franek Wera
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
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Agent Nr.1 (1972)
Character: Radio Operator
Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.
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Dzień czekolady (2018)
Character: N/A
Through the window, Dawid watches a new neighbour move into a house next door. The girl is more or less his age. She's wearing a strange skirt. Later on, Dawid finds out it's a Hawaiian hula skirt and the girl's name is Monika. Most probably, he also learns why Monika's grandma has gone away to Hawaii.
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O dwóch takich, co nic nie ukradli (1999)
Character: Wyjątek
The provincial seaside town of Cierpie Dolne. Magda, a journalism student, arrives as part of her internship to conduct broadcasts on the local radio station. Her first interview is with police lieutenant Tucznik, also an intern. Businessman Outlaw and the mayor have problems with their sons, Mops and Kitty, who repeatedly abandon undressed girls in the woods. The barmaid falsely accused Mops and Kicius of rape, and received money from the Exception for her silence. Meanwhile, the case to cover up the alleged rape gets complicated.
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Pan Kleks w kosmosie (1988)
Character: Dr. Paj-Chi-Wo
It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 years...
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Wielka wsypa (1993)
Character: Kazio
A well-known wheeler dealer joins the underground opposition to avoid responsibility after stealing valuable coins. When he is released from prison, he sets up a private bank with high interest rates together with a Security Service colonel. However, the colonel has bigger ambitions.
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Kochajmy syrenki (1967)
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
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Johnny (2022)
Character: Józef 'Ziuk' Kaczkowski
After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life.
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Poślizg (1972)
Character: Accident Witness
A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.
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Ostatnia misja (1999)
Character: "Sokrates"
Andre, an assassin working on behalf of French government goes to Poland to kill Polish businessman Muran.
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