Maja Ostaszewska
Also Known As: マヤ・オスタシェフスカ , 瑪雅·奧斯塔夏絲嘉, 玛雅·奥丝塔泽斯卡, Maja Ostaszewska
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maja Ostaszewska (born September 3, 1972) is a Polish actress. She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski. She started her acting training in her native Kraków and later graduated from PWST, in 1996. She has since acted mostly on Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw, working with well-known Polish directors such as Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Grzegorz Jarzyna. In 1993, during her acting training, she played a small role in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Although her actual real film debut was in 1997, with the TV movie Przystań. For this role, she received the Best Actress Award at the Polish Film Festival held in Gdynia in 1998. Ostaszewska recently played one of the main characters in Academy Award nominated Andrzej Wajda's Katyń. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maja Ostaszewska (b. 10 April 1966 in Radzymin) is a Polish movie and stage actor., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
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Birthday: September 03, 1972
Age: 52 years old
Gender: Female
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Overview: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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Katyn
Overview: On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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Colors of Evil: Red
Overview: When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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A Grain of Truth
Overview: A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-01-09
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Entanglement
Overview: A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Green Border
Overview: In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Egoiści
Overview: A look at the 1990s generation of cynical and selfish young Varsovians who managed to achieve financial success. But at what cost?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-20
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In the Name of...
Overview: The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Broad Peak
Overview: After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Rybka Canero
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Genres: Drama Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-07
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Dom na końcu drogi
Overview: A lonely woman is walking a path in the woods. Soon she arrives at a house where she is warmly welcomed. The woman observes that her arrival caused a storm in family's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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Body
Overview: A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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The In-Laws 2
Overview: Weronika and Łukasz – a would-be bride and groom from the first film – decide to give themselves a second chance and invite their family to the wedding and the reception, which will take place in a seaside town. Among the invited guests, the viewers will recognise well-known characters, including: Wanda and Tadeusz with their dog, Mirelka, and also a divorcee, Małgorzata, accompanied by… her much younger partner, Jan , and her mother. The sea, drinks and nude sunbathers make the family members of the bride and groom more open and ready to shed their masks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Shielding the Flame
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Genres: Animation History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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Jack Strong
Overview: Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Damaged
Overview: Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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Loneliness in the Net
Overview: When an unhappily married woman meets a renowned scientist online, the two start to fall for each other as they exchange romantic emails.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Pitbull: Public Orders
Overview: Policemen from two precincts are joining forces to fight the Mokotowska Group.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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Chopin, A Sonata in Paris
Overview: He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-10-10
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Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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Pitbull: Tough Women
Overview: Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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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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Changes
Overview: Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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7 Emotions
Overview: Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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I'm Looking at You, Mary
Overview: Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-05-30
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I Am Lying Now
Overview: Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Przystań
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-11-30
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(Nie)znajomi
Overview: A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Overview: 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 are alive.
Genres: Animation Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-03-02
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Nightwalk
Overview: It is night in Warsaw. Two very different homes. In one, a father watches sports lying on the sofa, expecting the son to do the same. In another apartment, a wealthy-looking mother sits at the table to dine with her daughter, completely different from her. At the same time, the boy and the girl embark on a nocturnal adventure of transformation, during which they strip off the various stratifications of gender that they have inherited. The streets of the city are transformed into a liberating walkway. When by chance they meet – face to face, body to body – they mirror each other in silence, offering comfort, safety.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-11
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Never Gonna Snow Again
Overview: Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Magnesium
Overview: A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR: Twin brothers plan to rob a rival Mafia style family, an instance of female empowerment in that it is run by sisters.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
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Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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The In-Laws
Overview: Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Teściowie 3
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-09-12
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Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
Overview: The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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