Daniel Olbrychski

Daniel Olbrychski

1945-02-27 Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland 153 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Olbrychski (Polish pronunciation: [ɔlˈbrɨxskʲi]; born 27 February 1945) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.

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Pan Olbrychski

Pan Olbrychski

2025

as Self

Acting

Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor Daniel Olbrychski. The narrative of the main charac...

The Deluge: Postscriptum

The Deluge: Postscriptum

2024

as Self

6.0
Acting

Despite the anti-Semitic campaign launched by the Polish People's Government in the late 1960s, director Jerzy Hoffman finishes working on the film Pa...

1953. Fight for Hope

1953. Fight for Hope

2024

as Self

7.0
Acting

Boxing was an iconic sport discipline at the time of Poland’s first post-war world championship in boxing. In ruined Warsaw, a legendary coach, Feliks...

Powstaniec 1863

Powstaniec 1863

2024

as lieutenant Antoni Lemańczyk

5.3
Acting

A gripping story about a man who was the terror of the Russian Empire: the legendary figure of a Polish priest, chaplain and general - Father Stanisla...

Two Words as the Key

Two Words as the Key

2023

as Mateusz

1.0
Acting

Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold across several continents. A Japanese businessman w...

The New Order

The New Order

2023

as Oryst Grabowsky

3.0
Acting

A Ukranian flight engineer must infiltrate a highly secretive cult in order to save his abducted son who some believe to be the chosen one that will a...

Maryla. Tak kochałam

Maryla. Tak kochałam

2022

as Self

6.3
Acting

The documentary shows unique, unknown footage from the archives of Polish Television. The film crew accompanied the artist for several months during c...

Indián

Indián

2022

as Bílý Jelen

4.3
Acting

Andrew is a tough businessman and an arrogant workaholic. He runs a large, successful company in Prague. The meaning of his life is money. Ondřej has ...

Titanium White

Titanium White

2022

as Dean

Acting

Dominik, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to Porto Ercole by order of a professor to collect ma...

Talking Heads 2021

2021

as Self

1.0
Acting

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...

Kill It and Leave This Town

Kill It and Leave This Town

2020

as Old Man on the Train – Behemot (voice)

6.7
Acting

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him a...

Raz, jeszcze raz

Raz, jeszcze raz

2020

as Sasza

3.0
Acting

The movie is an attractive comedy of mistakes with large dose of humor and action. At the same time it is a sentimental story about group of friends w...

Bird Talk

Bird Talk

2019

as Gustaw

4.3
Acting

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime w...

Politics

Politics

2019

3.5
Acting

Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.

Passenger from San Francisco

Passenger from San Francisco

2019

Acting

Our film portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service. Sent into 'forced' immigration on an assignment in the 19...

What a Country!

What a Country!

2018

as Predsjednik RH

5.9
Acting

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal ...

The Butler

The Butler

2018

as Leo von Trettow

6.5
Acting

The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies,...

Van Goghs

Van Goghs

2018

as Viktor

5.4
Acting

Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved...

Miracle

Miracle

2018

as Priest

5.6
Acting

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man...

DJ

DJ

2018

as Grandpa

7.2
Acting

The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What happens when music is more important than relationshi...

Studniówk@

Studniówk@

2018

as Napoleon

3.2
Acting

Students in the final year of high school are preparing for prom. The anticipation of the prom distracts high school graduates from mundane school dut...

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

2016

as Emile Amagat

5.1
Acting

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the No...

Hidden Reserves

Hidden Reserves

2016

as Wladimir Sokulow

6.1
Acting

The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is rep...

Fanciful

Fanciful

2015

as Bezdomny

5.0
Acting

After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and emotionally cold towards the teenager, now driven ...

Legend No. 17

Legend No. 17

2013

as Janusz Petelicki

6.8
Acting

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

The Vulture

The Vulture

2013

as Bożek

6.0
Acting

Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he saved? In the center of Europe suddenly, without a t...

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

2012

as Marcin Kazimierz Katski

4.3
Acting

In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is t...

Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic

Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic

2012

as Self

6.0
Acting

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films ...

Hans Kloss: More Than Death at Stake

Hans Kloss: More Than Death at Stake

2012

as Werner

3.9
Acting

The cinema war-action movie takes place partly during WWII and partly in 1975 in Spain. The main characters: agent Capt. Hans Kloss and Herman Bruner,...

Jacek

2012

Acting

Friends, fellow artists and members of anti-communist underground remember "the Polish bard" Jacek Kaczmarski.

Z miłości

2011

as Radwański

4.2
Acting

A young married couple decides to appear in a porn movie to shore up their joint budget.

Winter's Daughter

Winter's Daughter

2011

as Waldeks Opa

5.6
Acting

For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored in Gdansk and whose e...

Battle of Warsaw 1920

Battle of Warsaw 1920

2011

as Józef Piłsudski

4.5
Acting

Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while h...

If You Go Away

If You Go Away

2011

as Badecki "Jowisz"

2.0
Acting

The fate of a religious and a young woman intertwine when they both suffer the loss of a loved one.

Tolko ne seychas

Tolko ne seychas

2011

as Elka's Uncle

Acting

1953. A Russian soldier stationed in Poland falls in love with a local girl. Their forbidden romance turns them into traitors to their countries.

War of Love

War of Love

2010

as Szlachcic

4.6
Acting

Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors even more eager to conquer them. Adaptation of the c...

Salt

Salt

2010

as Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov

6.4
Acting

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russ...

Classmates

Classmates

2010

4.0
Acting
So Much for Justice!

So Much for Justice!

2010

as Kinizsi 2.

4.0
Acting

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film focuses on three eras of the king's life: ...

Lesser Evil

Lesser Evil

2009

as akowiec, kolega ojca

5.5
Acting

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose n...

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

2009

as Krasnevsky

5.3
Acting

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Revisited

Revisited

2009

as Wit

Acting

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan N...

The Perfect Guy for My Girlfriend

The Perfect Guy for My Girlfriend

2009

as Dr. Gebauer

4.2
Acting

When Kostek gets in the wrong taxicab and sees Luna, it is love at first sight. But Luna already has a girlfriend named Klara Rojek and is a lesbian s...

A Man and His Dog

A Man and His Dog

2009

as chauffeur taxi

6.0
Acting

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.

Nietzsche in Russia

Nietzsche in Russia

2008

as Friedrich Nietzsche

Acting

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him...

Notturno

Notturno

2006

as Franz von Schober

Acting

Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. This is the shortened theatrical version of the miniseries, rele...

Persona non grata

Persona non grata

2005

4.8
Acting

A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.

Anthony Zimmer

Anthony Zimmer

2005

as Nassaiev

6.3
Acting

François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the weekend w...

The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit

2005

as McLaughlin

6.3
Acting

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The ...

Nitschewo

Nitschewo

2004

as Frank

4.0
Acting

Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance, which they like to experience up to life-threatening s...

Break Point

Break Point

2004

Acting

A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and the Croatian Duchamp - who unexpectedly find them...

Milady

Milady

2004

as Lord de Winter

3.3
Acting

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God

2003

as Piastun

4.9
Acting

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to a...

The Revenge

The Revenge

2002

as Dyndalski

5.5
Acting

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 not...

Gebürtig

Gebürtig

2002

as Konrad Sachs

4.3
Acting

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. Wh...

Gulczas, what do you think...

Gulczas, what do you think...

2001

as (voice) (uncredited)

1.6
Acting

A feature film starring mostly the participants of the first edition of Polish "Big Brother" reality show in 2001.

The Hexer

The Hexer

2001

as Filavandrel, król elfów

5.1
Acting

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 ...

Przedwiośnie

Przedwiośnie

2001

as Szymon Gajowiec

5.2
Acting

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution,...

Odwrócona góra albo film pod strasznym tytułem

Odwrócona góra albo film pod strasznym tytułem

2000

as Wił (głos)

Acting

An adaptation of the book by Jerzy Niemczuk. The protagonists are strange but friendly creatures inhabiting the heart of the forest - Tatun, Mamuna, t...

It's Me, the Thief

It's Me, the Thief

2000

as Seweryn

6.5
Acting

A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the boss of a gang of car thieves, he decides to steal...

Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz

1999

as Gervazy

5.4
Acting

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this s...

With Fire and Sword

With Fire and Sword

1999

as Tuhaj-Bej

6.9
Acting

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the g...

The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia

1998

as Kopnovsky

7.1
Acting

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wild...

Weekend Stories: The Last Circle

Weekend Stories: The Last Circle

1998

as Witold

5.8
Acting

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immedi...

Escape

Escape

1997

as Senior Lieutenant

Acting

Budapest, 1948. Gyula Molnár, interpreter to the Supervisory Committee of the Allied Powers, is carried away from a party by plain-cloth police invest...

Poznań 56

Poznań 56

1996

as profesor w wagonie

6.2
Acting

The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the director, who was a nine-year-old boy at the time,...

The Story About Master Twardowski

The Story About Master Twardowski

1996

as Jan Michał Twardowski

5.0
Acting

On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions are no...

Pestka

Pestka

1996

as Borys

6.0
Acting

Agatha is reaching her 40s, but despite her many romances she has not started a family. She lives as if everything could still happen. She works at Po...

Children and Fish

Children and Fish

1996

as Franciszek

6.2
Acting

Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertis...

Transatlantis

1995

Acting

In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the help of a young female student, sets out across the ...

Smród

1995

7.0
Acting

A wino bumps into a 25-year-old man waiting at the train station. This accidental encounter turns into an escalating conflict and eventually the young...

Bastard

1994

as Korlát Gerzson

6.0
Acting

Ambrus, the canon pretender and Gerzson, the stinking rich lawyer, taking advantage of a sect and a fake hospice, are engaged in doing unsuspecting ol...

Lepiej być piękną i bogatą

Lepiej być piękną i bogatą

1993

as mecenas

5.0
Acting
დინოზავრის კვერცხი

დინოზავრის კვერცხი

1993

Acting

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 Poli...

Ivan & Abraham

Ivan & Abraham

1993

as Stepan

6.2
Acting

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However...

Sequence of Feelings

Sequence of Feelings

1993

as "Mistrz" Rafał Nawrot

5.3
Acting

A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet" in a backwater town. Upon arriving he r...

Short Breath of Love

Short Breath of Love

1992

Acting

Having been captured, an Afghan officer decided not to return to his homeland. He settled in Finland, met Rita, a tourist from St. Petersburg, and los...

Laços de Sangue

Laços de Sangue

1992

as Alberto

Acting

Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they e...

Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel

Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel

1992

as Angelo

Acting
Butterflies

Butterflies

1991

as Vnik mafiozi

6.5
Acting

In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape from the criminals who hunt for compromising photo...

The Silence Of Elsewhere

The Silence Of Elsewhere

1990

Acting

Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne is waiting for her husband Francois to return; he abandoned her and th...

Love Steps

Love Steps

1990

Acting

The story revolves around Elisa, a young talented ballet dancer. After an unjust accusation at her school, she has to stop her studies. The events tak...

L'Orchestre rouge

L'Orchestre rouge

1989

as Karl Giering

6.5
Acting
The Last Wager

The Last Wager

1989

3.7
Acting

Orestes is a journalist who used to be part of a radical left-wing group. When two of the people who sent members of this organization to prison are m...

Decalogue III

Decalogue III

1989

as Janusz

7.1
Acting

It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband ...

The Jeweller's Shop

The Jeweller's Shop

1989

as Father Adam

3.4
Acting

Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-selling play "The Jeweller's Shop," an inspiring d...

Zoo

Zoo

1988

as Martina's Father

4.3
Acting

Martina lives in the Rome's zoo, because her father is the guardian. She becomes friend with a young Slavic escaped from a gypsy camp. When the police...

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest

1988

as (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

as Interior Ministry Official

6.9
Acting

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to...

Farewell Moscow

Farewell Moscow

1987

as Yuli

6.9
Acting
Axiliad

Axiliad

1986

7.1
Acting

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to...

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

1986

as Scope

6.4
Acting

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. ...

Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

1986

as Leo Jogiches

6.6
Acting

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg ca...

...jestem przeciw

...jestem przeciw

1985

as Grzegorz

7.0
Acting

Le Monde Désert

1985

Acting

At the beginning of the twentieth century, two friends, one a homosexual and the other a writer, fall in love with a young divorced woman.

Flash Back

Flash Back

1985

as Vincent Delaune / Thomas

Acting

A man alone in an empty house somewhere in the Solagne region of France. Despite the pleasent light of spring, the man is prey to anguished thoughts :...

The Cop & the Girl

The Cop & the Girl

1985

as Fritz

4.5
Acting

A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the c...

Casablanca, Casablanca

Casablanca, Casablanca

1985

as Daniel, l'amante di Chiara

6.2
Acting

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found i...

Dangerous Moves

Dangerous Moves

1984

as Tac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind

5.9
Acting

During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.

Dear Karl

1984

as Lehrer

Acting

A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious family.

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen

1984

as Semjon Podsekalnikov

Acting

Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life

A Love in Germany

A Love in Germany

1983

as Wiktorczyk

4.9
Acting

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what...

If I Were 1000 Years Old

If I Were 1000 Years Old

1983

as Guillaume

Acting

A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed. Myste...

Roza

Roza

1982

Acting

In an inn in Trieste, Kyveli, wife of a political prisoner of the junta, falls in love with an old student of her husband, who has been distinguished ...

The Trout

The Trout

1982

as Saint-Genis

6.0
Acting

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two we...

From a Far Country

From a Far Country

1981

as Captain

3.9
Acting

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 boy,...

The Fall of Italy

The Fall of Italy

1981

as Davorin

6.0
Acting

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resisten...

Bolero

Bolero

1981

as Karl Kremer

7.0
Acting

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930...

Terrarium

1981

as Daniel

Acting

During the holidays, a famous actress gets into an affair with a student.

Wizja lokalna 1901

Wizja lokalna 1901

1981

as Father Paczkowski

5.5
Acting

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border...

We Summon You

1981

as Self

Acting

A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of gate 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Witnesses to the D...

The Knight

The Knight

1980

as Herophant

6.9
Acting

A tale of medieval quest for a golden harp called "the Knight".

Kung-fu

Kung-fu

1980

as Zygmunt

6.3
Acting

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled ...

The Maids of Wilko

The Maids of Wilko

1979

as Wiktor Ruben

6.5
Acting

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and...

The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

1979

as Jan Bronski

6.9
Acting

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world ...

Screen Tests

Screen Tests

1977

as Daniel Olbrychski

5.6
Acting

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first l...

Dagny

Dagny

1977

as Stanislaw Przybyszewski

2.0
Acting

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than ...

Faust

1976

as Walenty

Acting

Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil offers him youth and knowledge of the meaning of exi...

The Promised Land

The Promised Land

1975

as Karol Borowiecki

7.3
Acting

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait ...

The Deluge

The Deluge

1974

as Andrzej Kmicic

7.2
Acting

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love...

Rome Wants Another Caesar

Rome Wants Another Caesar

1974

as Claudio

6.0
Acting

In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled.

The Wedding

The Wedding

1973

as Bridegroom

7.3
Acting

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by ...

Pilate and Others

Pilate and Others

1972

as Mateusz Lewita

6.0
Acting

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death....

Liberation: Battle for Berlin

Liberation: Battle for Berlin

1971

as Lieutenant Henryk Dąbrowski

7.0
Acting

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.

Family Life

Family Life

1971

as Wit Braun

5.8
Acting

A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his gravely ill father. Upon entering the dark confines of ...

Rola

1971

as Piotr

Acting

An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.

Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei

1971

as A hegedülõ

4.8
Acting

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares t...

The Pacifist

The Pacifist

1970

4.8
Acting

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to com...

The Birch Wood

The Birch Wood

1970

as Bolesław

6.6
Acting

A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a ...

Landscape After Battle

Landscape After Battle

1970

as Tadeusz

6.0
Acting

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their to...

Różaniec z granatów

1970

as Corporal Józef Łaptak

Acting

Fall 1944. A wounded Polish officer, Ryszard, is brought to the Allied field hospital. He notices another soldier on the table - also a Pole - a rosar...

The Taste of the Black Earth

The Taste of the Black Earth

1970

as Stefan

6.7
Acting

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.

Mountains at Dusk

1970

as Andrzej (voice) (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.

Scenes From The Director's Life

Scenes From The Director's Life

1970

as Himself

Acting

Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz, performed by Daniel Olbrychski. The film presents vari...

The Structure of Crystal

The Structure of Crystal

1969

as Daniel Olbrychski (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.

Hunting Flies

Hunting Flies

1969

as Sculptor

5.4
Acting

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. W...

Hunting Flies

Hunting Flies

1969

Assistant Director

5.4
Directing

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. W...

Makbet

Makbet

1969

as Banko

Acting

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki an...

Skok

Skok

1969

as Franek

6.0
Acting

Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.

Liberation: The Break Through

Liberation: The Break Through

1969

as Henryk Dąbrowski

7.1
Acting

A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bul...

Colonel Wolodyjowski

Colonel Wolodyjowski

1969

as Azja Tuhaj-Bejowicz (Mellechowicz)

7.0
Acting

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern front...

Everything for Sale

Everything for Sale

1969

as Daniel

5.9
Acting

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tr...

Examination

Examination

1968

as Student

6.0
Acting

A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it.

Countess Cosel

Countess Cosel

1968

as Charles XII

6.7
Acting

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus th...

Roly Poly

Roly Poly

1968

as Insurance Company Salesman (voice) (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car cras...

Na planie

Na planie

1968

as Self

Acting

Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. At one stage of the filming, Wajda planned to incl...

Jowita

Jowita

1967

as Marek Arens

6.8
Acting

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 wi...

Boxer

Boxer

1967

as Tolek Szczepaniak

5.0
Acting

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

The Marriage of Convenience

The Marriage of Convenience

1967

as Andrzej

5.9
Acting

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...

Then There Will Be Silence

Then There Will Be Silence

1966

as Junior Lieutenant Stefan Olewicz

3.0
Acting

Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.

The Ashes

The Ashes

1965

as Rafał Olbromski

6.5
Acting

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves ...

Wounded in the Forest

Wounded in the Forest

1964

as Corporal "Koral"

6.0
Acting

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for t...

Leaving Eden

N/A

as Xeni

Acting

A post-apocalyptic story of a society in quest of a future.