
Acting
Joanna Żółkowska
Born 1950-03-06 · Siedlce, Polska
Acting credits
A lyrical story about extraordinary love in the times of contempt for everything that is human, during the Nazi occupation in Poland.
Obszar zamknięty
1974
5.6It is a positive and optimistic story of two thirty-something people who are made for each other, Matylda and Bartek, who are needing and looking for love and closeness, but who are constantly missing each other in the course of their lives.
Night Conversations
2008
6.8Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
1981
10.0Five teenagers on the cusp of their final year in high school ponder about their futures.
Glass Ball
1972
8.0Male-female warfare at its acting best. She and he. He is Janusz Gajos, she - Joanna Zolkowska. The two meet in the park, seemingly by accident, but not for the first time. They pretend. Each in his own way, because they both want to get as much as possible.
Ławeczka
1988
NRZuza and Tomek are left alone at home. They witness unusual events there.
Wielkie oczy
1987
A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and Artur's, the youngest one's efforts to reinstate rules in the house.
Tango
1992
6.7Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
Controlled Conversations
1991
6.2Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides to find her biological mother. When Alicja finds the real mother, the life of the main characters changes, and the positive relationships that linked them become blurred.
Matka swojej matki
1996
6.9Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
Golem
1980
6.4Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
The Shadow-Line
1976
7.0Film 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.
Illumination
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Żabusia
1988
6.5A period film, set in 19th century China in the Polish community who are there building the railway. A woman enters into an extramarital affair with a painter.
Na koniec świata
1999
A television film about the life and times of Slovak emigrant Štefan Banič, who was granted a patent in the United States for the invention of the parachute.
A million-dollar man
1988
6.5Bogdan and Marta take part in a TV show 'Blind Date' and eventually win a romantic stay at the luxurious hotel for the long May Day weekend. They seem to be so different, however, that they hardly stand each other.
Long Weekend
2004
A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.
Janka - Spełnione marzenie
1993
Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
Sceny nocne
1990
4.0One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.
Balanga
1993
5.8To save the family land from a mysterious millionaire, a farmer hatches a plan to marry off his two children so they can take over the business.
Let's Make a Grandson
2003
7.0A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before the war. There, he became involved in the leftist movement. He returned to his home village after the war in a dignitary's car. Soon, however, he left again, only to reappear a few years later—this time penniless, mired in apathy, betrayed by his ideals. The only person who guesses Michał's secret is Szymon, who is also unable to break down the wall separating him from his brother.
Kamień na kamieniu
1995
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Strach
1975
5.5The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
The Master and Margarita
1990
A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost impossible to return to reality.
SuperWizja
1993
Behind the camera
6.2Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides to find her biological mother. When Alicja finds the real mother, the life of the main characters changes, and the positive relationships that linked them become blurred.
Matka swojej matki
1996
6.5A period film, set in 19th century China in the Polish community who are there building the railway. A woman enters into an extramarital affair with a painter.
Na koniec świata
1999