Jan Prochyra
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Birthday: December 02, 1948
Deathday: May 20, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blood of the Innocent
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Playing with the Devil
Overview: The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-01-14
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Inner State
Overview: December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Citizen
Overview: An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be active, but something always got in his way, either through an absurd coincidence, as a result of his own lack of ability, or due to the unpredictable nature of certain events in our recent history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Nightmares
Overview: Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-04-16
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Woman in a Hat
Overview: A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-02
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Kartoteka
Overview: A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-15
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Fetysz
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Prostitutes
Overview: In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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Nad Niemnem
Overview: Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between Justyna Orzelska, niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz. Will their love be strong enough to break the mental barrier that separates the world of Bohatyrowicz from the world of Korczyński?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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Problemat profesora Czelawy
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Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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The Smaller Sky
Overview: A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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Lord Jim
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-05-06
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The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Overview: Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Fenomen
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Milion za Laurę
Overview: An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-06-08
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Bajland
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Overview: 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 an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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The Twenties, the Thirties
Overview: On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-19
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Dagny
Overview: Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-01-26
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I Like Bats
Overview: Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-07-14
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Provocateur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Colonel Kwiatkowski
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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The Big Picnic
Overview: Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Cynga
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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