Jan Jurewicz
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Szczecin, Polska
Adult: No
Birthday: October 20, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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The Career of Nikos Dyzma
Overview: Nikos is a master of funeral ceremonies (that's undertaker to you and me) who doesn't expect much from life. After drunkenly insulting a diplomat at a party, weird things begin to happen for Nikos. The news that a mysterious stranger offended the hated Deputy Prime Minister galvanizes the political elite assembled at the banquet, and a rumor that Nikos can take care of anything spreads like wildfire, making him an idol of the masses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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The Faithful River
Overview: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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Przeklęta ziemia
Overview: Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-10-24
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Day of the Wacko
Overview: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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The Scream
Overview: A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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The Foreigner
Overview: This story is about a freelance agent who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-01
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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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Soccer Poker
Overview: Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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The Contract
Overview: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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With Fire and Sword
Overview: 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 gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-02-08
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Stacja
Overview: The 8th Plenum of the PZPR is underway. Passengers waiting for a train learn that their traffic has stopped.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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The Great Give-Away
Overview: Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and post-socialist yuppies who after 1989 teamed up with their former enemies to exploit Poland ruthlessly.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-06
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East Wind
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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Polski Crash
Overview: Early 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-25
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Wirus
Overview: An unknown terrorist infects computer networks with the most important institutions in the country with the virus. It paralyzes hospitals, trains, aircraft control system. Suspicions fall on Michal, a thirty-year-old IT genius and owner of a small computer company. Michal must prove he is innocent. He agrees to the proposal to cooperate with the prosecutor.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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I Love You
Overview: A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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Panny i wdowy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Cyrk odjeżdża
Overview: The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. A conflict arises between Kossakowski, a lion trainer, and Chamron, a horse trainer, which creates a tense atmosphere in the entire team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-04-25
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Interrogation
Overview: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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Edward and Stefan
Overview: Summer 1944. Polish armed forces are being organized in the Lublin region. Edward, one of the generals of the First Army, receives an order to form an artillery division. He counts on the help of Stefan, his old friend who lives in Lublin. However, it turns out that Stefan - a colonel and commander of the Home Army during the occupation - was arrested...
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-07-08
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Nothing Funny
Overview: One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-12-24
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Yes, Yes
Overview: Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Schindler's List
Overview: 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 World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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The Constant Factor
Overview: A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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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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Invitation
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Money Is Not Everything
Overview: The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-05
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Hijacking Agatha
Overview: A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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Człowiek z...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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The Linnet
Overview: Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-09-13
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Rykowisko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Zmowa
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Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-09-25
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Deserter's Gold
Overview: "Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Our God's Brother
Overview: In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-08
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Axiliad
Overview: 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 make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-13
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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 Deserters
Overview: Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
Genres: Comedy History War Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Just Beyond This Forest
Overview: The laundress working at the doctor's house agrees to take her daughter out of the ghetto for a fee and get her settled with her family in the countryside. The old woman's attitude to the Jews is ambivalent but the action is unambiguous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-10-04
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Kop głębiej
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-05-25
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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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Urszula
Overview: Polish TV movie.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Taming the Floods
Overview: Taming the Floods fulfills the dream of the landscape architect Jan Dijkstra: he can design an area in Poland that is regularly flooded by the river. Dijkstra wants to create a large nature reserve where people no longer have any influence: an area where the river can run its course and wolves can be set free. The fanatical landscape architect however does not bear in mind the needs of the local people. His younger colleague David is eventually sent to Poland to get things organised. Taming the Floods is a mixture of documentary and feature in which all the scenes are borrowed from situations which really happen or have happened. Alongside actors, roles are played by the local people, including farmers and a priest.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1999-07-01
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