Michał Tarkowski
Also Known As: M. Tarkowski, Michal Tarkowski
Biography: Polish actor, screenwriter and director, co-creator (together with Janusz Weiss and Jacek Kleyff ) of the cabaret group Salon Niezależnych. He received a diploma at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1974, and in 1979 he graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National Film School in Łódź . In the 1970s, he co-founded the Independent Salon cabaret. Then he mainly took up film activities. He is known mainly for roles in such films as Man of Marble and Wodzirej .
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Birthday: July 11, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Man of Marble
Overview: A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-02-25
Popularity:
Poza układem
Overview: The young speedway rider wants to represent the country in the world championship. However, the coaches choose another player.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-08-18
Popularity:
On, ona, oni
Overview: Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-12
Popularity:
Laureat
Overview: Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-30
Popularity:
Zero
Overview: A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-15
Popularity:
Kanalia
Overview: A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-03-15
Popularity:
W dół kolorowym wzgórzem
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-09-16
Popularity:
Fear of Falling
Overview: Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man when he receives a troubling message from the psychiatric hospital in his hometown: his father, whom he has not seen in years, has just been admitted. Against the advice of friends and family, not to mention his own better judgment, Tomek returns home to face the man he hardly knows. After a failed, guilt-ridden attempt to sell his father’s apartment, Tomek decides to make up for lost time. Kidnapping his aging father from the hospital, the two embark on a vacation to the mountains in an effort to restore some semblance of a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-06-06
Popularity:
Top Dog
Overview: An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-07-24
Popularity:
Personnel
Overview: Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-13
Popularity:
Louder Than Bombs
Overview: Set in a small Polish town, "Louder Than Bombs" tells the coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while hosting his buffoonish out-of-town relatives who disparage his small town life as a mechanic in his father's garage. In addition, Marcin must face the news that his lifelong girlfriend has decided to leave Poland to live in the U.S. If he doesn't act quickly, he may never see her again.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-09-14
Popularity:
The Scar
Overview: When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-12-06
Popularity:
Slate
Overview: A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Popularity:
Illumination
Overview: Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-09-29
Popularity:
Fever
Overview: The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-09-04
Popularity:
Hero of the Year
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
Popularity:
Kung-fu
Overview: 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 by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-03-17
Popularity:
Afera Mięsna
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-10-29
Popularity: