Jowita Budnik
Also Known As: Jowita Miondlikowska
Biography: Jowita Budnik (née Miondlikowska; born 28 November 1973) is a Polish actress. Budnik was born in Warsaw and studied at the University of Warsaw. She made her film debut in 1985 at the age of 11 in Radosław Piwowarski's Kochankowie mojej mamy ("My Mom's Lovers"). She has appeared in such films as Papusza, Plac Zbawiciela and Jeziorak as well as the television series M jak miłość and W labiryncie. In 2017, she received Best Actress Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for her role in the film Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jowita Budnik, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Birthday: November 28, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Songs About Love
Overview: Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-20
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All Our Fears
Overview: Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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Playing Hard
Overview: Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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For Love
Overview: Marlena struggles with a serious marital crisis due to the alcohol addiction of her husband, Zbigniew. Via the Internet she meets Bruno, a Senegalese, who brings back Marlena’s self-confidence and sense of womanhood. However, it turns out that the man plans something rather different for her than building a relationship with her…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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The Passage
Overview: A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-21
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In for a Murder
Overview: A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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Mother's Day
Overview: Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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Brothers
Overview: A village in Mazowsze, 1943. Two teenage boys, Janek and Staszek, find two young Jews hiding on a farm. They soon realize that the boys, Abram and Chaim, are their age and are the sons of a respected pharmacist who lived in a nearby town before the war. They were the only survivors of the anti-Jewish pogrom led by the Germans in the nearby forest. In spite of the deadly threat, Janek and Staszek decide to hide the boys and keep it a secret.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-05-05
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Be Somebody
Overview: Together with his family, Wiktor moves into a recently bought flat, which turns out to have belonged to Lech Wałęsa, a symbol of freedom and a legend as a simple electrician who became Poland’s president many years ago.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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The Word
Overview: Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Songs About Love
Overview: Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-20
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Doll
Overview: The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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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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Po upadku
Overview: A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Young Eagles
Overview: Grodno, the eastern border of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bomb the city. One of the bombs hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek. Literally and symbolically, the world of a carefree childhood, fun and first crushes ends.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Wet Monday
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Klara is raped by a masked boy during Wet Monday. A year later, just before the first anniversary of the incident, she becomes paralyzed by a fear of water. Looking for support and understanding, Klara turns to her new, somewhat esoteric friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Sucker's Death
Overview: A small town somewhere in Poland. "Małolat", a member of a nationalist militia, is blackmailed into planting a bomb at an LGBT rally in Warsaw. However, he does not know that his gay brother will be at the demonstration. The mother of both characters will get involved in the whole situation. The young man faces a dramatic choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Masters of the Planet
Overview: On the day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents. They all quickly discover that their spouses are not their soulmates. As a result, the couples reshuffle and new relationships are formed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
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Jeziorak
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Never Say Never
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Sophie Seeks 7
Overview: After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, a 30-year-old woman reconnects with six of her exes while trying to find the love of her life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Retrieval
Overview: 19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal matches to get money and is spotted by a man running a security business. Accepting this man's offer means becoming a gangster, but this could allow him to a residence permit for his girlfriend Katya.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Death Before the Wedding
Overview: When Maja brings her fiancé home, her traditional parents must overcome their cultural biases amidst a crisis at their dairy farm. Can love find a way?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-02-11
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Przez ścianę
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
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All for My Mother
Overview: Olka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She only wants her mother back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-09-16
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Birds Are Singing in Kigali
Overview: We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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7 Minutes
Overview: Seven minutes - sweet moment that can change lives forever. History of several autumn, although extremely hot days in the life of Piotr Winkler, who in an unexpected way loses control over his stable and secure life. 37-year-old designer, happy husband of Marta and Agnieszka's father, goes to conference as a substitute for a colleague. There he meets an attractive brunette, which will soon topple the peaceful, happy world upside down.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-10-18
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My Nikifor
Overview: From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-07-29
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Saviour Square
Overview: A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Silent Night
Overview: Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Call Me Marianna
Overview: Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter rejects her. Her mother still calls her “son.” As Marianna transitions from male to female, she is abandoned by her loved ones, alone in a world unwilling to accept her true self. This multi-award-winning documentary is an intensely sympathetic and powerful account of one individual’s struggle to gain acceptance—even in the midst of profound physical hardship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-06-02
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Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Overview: Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Debt
Overview: Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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Strike
Overview: A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-02-23
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Who Will Write Our History?
Overview: Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Getto.
Genres: Documentary History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-21
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Portret podwójny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Glasgow
Overview: Damian, a young boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for Glasgow Celtic F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Justice
Overview: A young detective seeks the help of a discharged police officer, giving him the chance to reclaim his old life in exchange for solving a bank raid case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-10-15
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100 dni do matury
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Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-02-28
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