Acting

Jerzy Cnota

Born — Died

1942-10-17 — 2016-11-10

Place of birth

Jastrzębie Zdrój, śląskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Dom poster
7.3

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Dom

1980

Janosik poster
7.2

Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.

Janosik

1974

Blisko, coraz bliżej poster
8.0

The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.

Blisko, coraz bliżej

1983

With Fire and Sword poster
6.9

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 Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

With Fire and Sword

1999

Trzecia granica poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Trzecia granica

1976

Teddy Bear poster
7.8

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.

Teddy Bear

1981

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Powołanie poster
6.0

From January to October 2011, the shooting of Eugeniusz Klucznioek's new Silesian film entitled "The Calling" took place. "Vocation." Actors known from previous films of the series starred: Jerzy Cnota, Jerzy Haberstroh, Eugeniusz Kluczniok and others. Behind the camera, as usual, Miroslaw Ropiak.This time the theme of the film is hunting and gamekeeping.

Powołanie

2011

Cnota poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cnota

2013

Tu jest fajnie poster
4.0

The adventures of eight-year-old Victoria, who after many years visits her uncle in Silesia. Victoria lives in England with her parents and knows Silesia only from the (often exaggerated and untrue) stories of her parents and friends. Uncle Marian wants to show the girl the most beautiful corners of Silesia and introduce her to the history and culture of this beautiful Polish land.

Tu jest fajnie

2012

Byzuch 2 poster
7.0

Silesians are going to Germany for a return visit! Jorg and Andreas will be forced to put Gienek, Jurek, Marzena, Irek and Maryjan's colorful father… In Poland remain the neighbors, Grejta and Jerzy, who guard the household and dogs. A former churchman becomes the new mayor and has trouble making various decisions, and his mentor Fr. Maryjan is in Germany for a week. Maybe the new churchman will help the mayor.

Byzuch 2

2010

No artwork available
6.0

“Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006. A miner was trapped underground, and by the fourth day when everyone was beginning to lose hope of his safe return, the rescue team heard a faint knocking on the pipeline. After a nearly a week long search, the miner was rescued. Those who followed the story closely called it a miracle. But the miner claimed that what saved him was stronger than a miracle – his love for his daughter Laura, and his wife Marlena.

Laura

2010

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 4 titles

With Fire and Sword poster
6.9

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 Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

With Fire and Sword

1999

A Bachelor's Life Abroad poster
4.6

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.

A Bachelor's Life Abroad

1993

No artwork available
NR

Vasyl follows his wife, who escaped to an Orthodox clergyman who is to heal her of infertility.

Historia o proroku Eliaszu z Wierszalina

1997

Two Moons poster
6.0

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.

Two Moons

1993

1980s · 10 titles

Teddy Bear poster
7.8

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.

Teddy Bear

1981

Famous Like Sarajevo poster
4.3

The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of residents.

Famous Like Sarajevo

1988

Penelopy poster
4.7

Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.

Penelopy

1989

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop poster
NR

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop

1988

Komedianci z wczorajszej ulicy poster
8.0

Katowice, the second half of the 1980s. All the inhabitants of the city watch the movie "The Sinful Life of Franciszek Buła" on television, and two policemen, Karlik and Lucek, patrol empty streets. They reach a TV lounge where they catch two burglars red-handed. Unfortunately, they inadvertently look at the screen and succumb to the magic of the film. Meanwhile, the thieves, taking advantage of their inattention, run away. Police officers pay for staring by losing their job. Just like the heroes of the film, they decide to form a traveling troupe of singers and comedians, calling it "Our Kara".

Komedianci z wczorajszej ulicy

1987

The Sinful Life of Franciszek Buła poster
5.1

The end of the 1930s. Wilek Lizoń, a true-blue Silesian, together with his troupe of actors and circus performers, stages a play in the courtyards of miners' tenement houses. The main character is Franciszek Buła, a figure from folk tales. Buła's story begins during the Silesian Uprisings. The courtyard artists present vivid images of Frank's school years, his work in the mine, his communist activities, his imprisonment, and his constant poverty. Fantasy mixes with reality.

The Sinful Life of Franciszek Buła

1980

The Birthday poster
8.5

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

The Birthday

1980

Pełnia nad głowami poster
8.0

Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and priest try to make him go away by different ways.

Pełnia nad głowami

1983

Fucha poster
7.0

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.

Fucha

1985

Przyśpieszenie poster
8.0

A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis

Przyśpieszenie

1985

1970s · 16 titles

Brunet Will Call poster
6.9

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.

Brunet Will Call

1976

How Far, How Near poster
6.2

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.

How Far, How Near

1972

What Will You Do When You Catch Me? poster
7.3

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

1978

Dagny poster
4.2

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.

Dagny

1977

A Slip-Up poster
6.8

A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.

A Slip-Up

1972

Passion poster
6.8

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.

Passion

1978

Identification Marks None poster
8.0

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland.

Identification Marks None

1979

Journey for One Smile poster
7.8

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking and using every transport they can find.

Journey for One Smile

1972

Charade poster
10.0

A young lab technician, threatened by a blackmailer, descends into madness.

Charade

1977

Janosik poster
7.6

In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants.

Janosik

1974

The Taste of the Black Earth poster
7.0

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.

The Taste of the Black Earth

1970

Pearl in the Crown poster
6.5

When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues.

Pearl in the Crown

1972

Awards and Decorations poster
9.0

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty.

Awards and Decorations

1974

A Round Week poster
9.0

Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.

A Round Week

1977

Tylko Beatrycze poster
7.0

Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.

Tylko Beatrycze

1976

Horizontal Landscape poster
7.0

Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his professional duties, the trio bands together to keep the production on course.

Horizontal Landscape

1978

Series credits