Jerzy Nowak
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1923-06-20
Place of Birth:Brzesko, Polska
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Three Colors: White (1994)
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due...

Medium (1985)
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.

The Promised Land (1975)
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional...

Sędziowie. Tragedya (1974)
An old man appears in Samuel's inn and seek revenge on the owner.

Lost Feelings (1957)
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home...

Camera Buff (1979)
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local...

Julie Walking Home (2002)
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not...

The Beard (1974)
Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.

Hasło (1977)
Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.

The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
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...

End of the Lonely Farm Berhof (1985)
Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.

Na własną prośbę (1980)
The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid...

Stajnia na Salvatorze (1967)
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is...

A Story in Red (1974)
Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village

From a Far Country (1981)
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young...

Tumor Witkacego (1985)
The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced especially...

Eagle (1959)
Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure...

Copernicus (1973)
A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the...

Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland (1990)
A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business...

Sobótki (1966)
Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.

Ściana czarownic (1967)
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.

Place on Earth (1960)
A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.

Manhunt (2012)
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....

Fog (1985)
Ewa decides to end her romance with Alek. From the mountain guesthouse they go by car to Warsaw. . . Kim, after being released early from prison,...

Bigda is Coming! (1999)
The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the...

Nie było słońca tej wiosny (1984)
A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl.

Gwiazda Wytrwałości (1981)
Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press...

The Existence (2007)
An aging Polish thesp looks death in the eye as he prepares for the inevitable in the absorbing, well-mounted docu "The Existence." While thesp Jerzy...

August Sky – 63 Days of Glory (2013)
A decades-old diary found at a construction site reveals the harrowing account of a professor in hiding during the early days of the Warsaw Uprising.

Meetings In The Dark (1960)
A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

The Unknown (1964)
Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.

Pięciu (1964)
Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners....

Lenin in Poland (1966)
The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland...

And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988)
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a...

Lovers from Marona (1966)
Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.

Lava (1989)
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Zofia (1976)
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family...

Love Stories (1997)
Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a...

The Egg (1984)
It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment...

Alchemik (1989)
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

Co jest w człowieku w środku (1969)
A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.

Wyspa R.O. (2001)
"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of...

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted...

Legenda Tatr (1995)
Andrzej, who lives in the lowlands, comes to Zakopane. He rents a carriage and orders himself to be taken to the Strążyska Valley.

Wherever You Are... (1988)
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

April (1961)
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to...

Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during...

Quo Vadis (2001)
Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian...

Squadron (1992)
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this...

Cabin Fever (2000)
The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however,...

Placówka (1979)
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

Dezerter (1958)
A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...

Umarli rzucają cień (1979)
Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes...

Full Ahead (1967)
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

The Revenge (2002)
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the...

Mystification (2010)
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in...

A Gentle Creature (1996)
A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their...

Our God's Brother (1997)
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.

Elegia (1979)
Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both...

Wściekły (1980)
Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with...

The Hexer (2001)
A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in...

Rok pierwszy (1960)
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new...

The End of Our World (1964)
Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it

დინოზავრის კვერცხი (1993)
A group of Georgian scientists traveling to Poland for a scientific symposium are housed in an old fortress . A middle-aged man , a descendant of...

Clouds of War (1973)
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot...

More Than Life At Stake (1968)
Stawka większa niż życie is a series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during...

Clouds of War (1973)
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot...