
Jan Tesarz
Actor · 1935 – 2020 · Czechowice-Dziedzice, Polska
Jan Tesarz (4 August 1935 – 3 January 2020) was a Polish actor of film, theatre, and television. Born in Czechowice, he graduated from the Dramatic Studio and made his stage debut in 1957. He went on to perform in numerous theatre productions, Television Theatre, and feature films throughout his career.
Movies22
Movie7.6CrimeDramaJacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieJacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
Movie7.8DramaTV MovieA father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Movie7.0Drama1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Movie6.0ActionDramaA promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Movie7.2ComedyFamilyThe TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into their set, vanishing from the living room. Their three bewildered children must band together to pull Mom and Dad back out of the television before they’re lost forever.
Smacznego, telewizorku
1992 · 6 votes
Movie7.0HistoryAdventureIn 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Movie7.0TV MovieComedyThe year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands, using it as a tool in his election campaign. In the queue outside the passport office, people chat, make plans, and ponder what's worth selling abroad. Writers observe the world around them. One of them is applying for a passport. In Dzierżyński Square, the monument to Feliks Edmundowicz is being dismantled. Two drunk men sleep on a bench, and behind them is a sign reading: "All is well." The two writers observe the ongoing transformation of the political system.
Movie5.3CrimeActionA town near Warsaw. A group of teenagers rules one of the courtyards: Ali, Pawik, and Małgośka, the object of both boys' fascination. A few years later, these same young people form a typical youth gang. Ali and Pawik gather around them a group of peers who have been unable to find their place in society and want to live an easy life. Robberies and thefts are their idea of a comfortable existence. A few more years pass and the gang transforms into a mafia. After the 1989 elections, it enters into deals with politicians. It also gets into a conflict with Russian gangsters.
Movie9.0WarDramaIn the first months after the war, a period of confusion and fratricidal fighting, a Warsaw whack-job drafted into the ranks of the KBW gains the first life experiences that make him an informed citizen. Marian, a boy from Targówek, is serving in the KBW. His unit is sent to a village plagued by a band of NSZ. Marian becomes involved with a young teacher, Anka, whose brother is a member of the NSZ. During the final trial, Stefan is killed and Marian is seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. An investigation is carried out in the village. Marian does not admit that he knew about Stefan and his contacts with his sister. When he leaves the hospital, he does not find the girl, but their son, who is being cared for by Anka's parents. He takes the boy and returns to Targowek.
Movie3.8CrimeThrillerEarly 90's. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The mafia is becoming more and more bold, operating without obstacles across borders. One of the more lucrative "businesses" is the trade in luxury cars, stolen in Germany and transferred to Russia by Russia.
Polski Crash
1994 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0CrimeDrama
A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.
Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais?
1972 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaHistoryThe year is 1936, the nervous atmosphere of the Nazi threat penetrates into the sport. Upgrade boxe Vilda Jakub will compete with German Kurt Schaller. The Nazis decisions are used in order to win his master even the dirtiest means. Vilda inspect their game and focus on the preparation of environmental events. The story culminates in the victory of one of the two lovers, between which Vilda tense moments in the decision.
Pěsti ve tmě
1987 · 5 votes
Movie4.0DramaOne night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.
Balanga
1993 · 5 votes
Movie7.0WarRomanceAs the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.
Ostatnie dni
1969 · 2 votes
Movie4.3ComedyDramaThe authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents.
Movie5.8ComedyWarIn 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
- Movie10.0DramaHistory
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
1983 · 1 votes
Movie7.4DramaWarPolish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.
Kierunek Berlin
1969 · 4 votes
Movie5.0AnimationAdventureThree friends – a rooster, a cat and a vixen – meet the kidnapped princess on the eve of the war between Balbacja and Tiuturlistan. To prevent a war, they try to bring her to her father's house. They tell each other stories from their lives during a journey full of adventures.
Movie8.0DramaA parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.
Movie6.3DramaA young factory worker takes up on boxing as a way to find himself and advance his chances for the future. But the difficulties of sorting himself out in the crooked boxing environment hold him back in the beginning, until he arrives for tournament in Chicago, where he can prove himself. In the end, he wins over his Yank opponent, an amateur below his ranking, and is back in the factory.
Series5
TV8.4DramaThe Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
Dekalog
1989 · 113 votes
TV7.3DramaThe story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980 · 12 votes
TVDramaSci-Fi & FantasyThe Master and Margarita is a Polish television production of Polish Film Producers Teams, based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
- TVDramaWar & Politics
After the end of the war, the Polish authorities try to detain the head of the Warsaw Gestapo.
TV7.8Action & AdventureComedyPan Tomasz with his friends are looking a big treasure hidden by knights.