Jerzy Turek

Acting

Jerzy Turek

Born — Died

1934-01-17 — 2010-02-14

Place of birth

Tchórzowa, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Known for

Dekalog poster
8.3

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.

Dekalog

1989

Dom poster
7.3

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

Dom

1980

Four Tank-Men and a Dog poster
7.8

Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.

Four Tank-Men and a Dog

1966

Clouds of War poster
6.4

Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.

Clouds of War

1973

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

Kapitan Sowa na tropie poster
7.2

Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

1965

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 13 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

And the Violins Stopped Playing poster
7.5

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

And the Violins Stopped Playing

1988

Decalogue X poster
7.9

Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.

Decalogue X

1989

Egg Nogg poster
7.3

Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that was not accepted to college. Resigned returns home and agrees to the wedding. Meanwhile, on the eve of the wedding the postman brings the notice of acceptance to the university.

Egg Nogg

1988

No artwork available
8.0

An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.

Yokohama

1982

Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2 poster
7.0

Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.

Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2

1989

The Faithful River poster
6.1

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.

The Faithful River

1987

Polonia Restituta poster
10.0

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

Polonia Restituta

1981

Przedstawienie Hamleta we wsi Głucha Dolna poster
10.0

Based on the play "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja" by Croatian playwright Ivon Brešan. The story is set in the 1960s in a Yugoslavian village, where an activist of a production cooperative decides to stage Shakespeare's Hamlet in a version prepared by a village teacher.

Przedstawienie Hamleta we wsi Głucha Dolna

1987

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Goryl, Czyli Ostatnie Zadanie...

1989

Girl and Boy poster
5.0

As a result of a mistake, the siblings change roles and go on vacation somewhere else than planned. The boy goes to his aunt and cousins, the girl goes to her uncle and cousins. To save her brother, the sister pretends to be a boy and he, left with no choice, pretends to be a girl.

Girl and Boy

1982

Palace Hotel poster
9.0

The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.

Palace Hotel

1983

No artwork available
4.2

A young penniless woman comes to a small town with her newborn baby. She goes to work but because her child has no father, life is hard for her. Until she meets a carefree vagabond photographer willing to help her out.

Jedenaste przykazanie

1988

1970s · 18 titles

No artwork available
NR

A contemporary psychological drama set in an environment of experimental pilots - testers.

Zniszczyć pirata

1973

Legenda poster
4.3

Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2.

Legenda

1971

I Hate Mondays poster
7.4

An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.

I Hate Mondays

1971

Lazarus' Whims poster
10.0

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.

Lazarus' Whims

1973

No artwork available
NR

The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the city, he confronts the knowledge acquired at school with life.

Planeta - Ziemia

1970

Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek poster
6.8

Christmas Eve is approaching. A son serving in the army mistakenly sends his parents a love letter intended for his fiancée. The father is not happy that his son is going to marry a girl from the city—he is afraid that the boy will want to stay in the city and leave the family farm. He decides to talk the young couple out of getting married, without knowing either the girl or their plans for the future...

Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek

1975

Take It Easy poster
6.9

The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.

Take It Easy

1974

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

No artwork available
7.0

Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.

Hasło

1977

Hydro-Puzzle poster
6.0

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

Hydro-Puzzle

1971

No artwork available
10.0

The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.

Day of Purification

1970

No artwork available
NR

The theme of the film is the Battle of Somosierra, which took place during the Napoleonic Wars. During this battle, Polish cavalrymen under the command of Jan Leon Kozietulski crossed a two-and-a-half kilometre long gorge and a pass within 7 minutes, paving the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's troops to Madrid

Somosierra. 1808

1978

No artwork available
5.5

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.

Facing the Truth

1970

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

Nuremberg Epilogue poster
8.7

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

Nuremberg Epilogue

1971

No artwork available
4.3

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.

Koty to dranie

1978

Milion za Laurę poster
7.5

An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.

Milion za Laurę

1971

Promotion poster
7.0

After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize.

Promotion

1975

1960s · 23 titles

Wyspa złoczyńców poster
6.5

A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.

Wyspa złoczyńców

1965

I Am Burning! poster
7.9

Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).

I Am Burning!

1968

Rzeczpospolita babska poster
5.9

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.

Rzeczpospolita babska

1969

Zawsze w niedziele poster
6.3

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.

Zawsze w niedziele

1966

Barrier poster
6.8

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Barrier

1966

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy poster
7.0

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy

1967

Hell and Heaven poster
6.5

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

Hell and Heaven

1966

No artwork available
5.0

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

Liczę na wasze grzechy

1964

April poster
9.0

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

April

1961

Unloved poster
5.2

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.

Unloved

1966

Where is the General? poster
7.0

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army.

Where is the General?

1964

Troje i las poster
9.0

A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.

Troje i las

1963

The People from the Train poster
6.3

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

The People from the Train

1961

Gold Dreams poster
5.8

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

Gold Dreams

1962

Trzy kroki po ziemi poster
9.0

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

Trzy kroki po ziemi

1965

Markiza de Pompadour poster
6.2

A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.

Markiza de Pompadour

1966

Agnes 1946 poster
4.3

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.

Agnes 1946

1964

Far Is the Road poster
6.5

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

Far Is the Road

1963

Big Beat poster
4.7

At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.

Big Beat

1967

Teenager poster
6.7

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

Teenager

1963

Ktokolwiek wie... poster
8.0

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

Ktokolwiek wie...

1966

Wild Horses poster
6.0

In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.

Wild Horses

1962

No artwork available
9.0

The piece is an analysis of a person's attitude in the face of imminent danger, and its action takes place just after World War II. In the train station waiting room, two young men lead a beer discussion, one of whom tells the other an unpleasant incident of his own life.

Beer

1965

Series credits

Dekalog poster
8.3

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.

Dekalog

1989

Dom poster
7.3

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

Dom

1980

Four Tank-Men and a Dog poster
7.8

Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.

Four Tank-Men and a Dog

1966

Clouds of War poster
6.4

Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.

Clouds of War

1973

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

Kapitan Sowa na tropie poster
7.2

Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

1965

Kapitan Sowa na tropie poster
7.2

Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

1965

Droga poster
7.4

Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He is always ready to solve the problems of others, although he is usually not very good at it. His favorite saying is “absolutely”.

Droga

1975

Wszystkie pieniądze świata poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wszystkie pieniądze świata

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Podziemny front

1965

No artwork available
9.0

Series based on the stories of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz “Młyn nad Utrata” (1936), “Młyn nad Lutyniu” (1946) and “Młyn nad Kamienna” (1950). The action of the miniseries takes place from 1928 to the 1950s.

Trzy młyny

1986

No artwork available
NR

After the end of the war, the Polish authorities try to detain the head of the Warsaw Gestapo.

Powrót doktora von Kniprode

1966

W Słońcu i W deszczu poster
NR

The image of the village at the turn of the 1980s on the example of the Małolepsza family from the village of Gudzewo. They manage a few hectares, the older children left for the city, they settled in, one of the sons even became a lawyer. Twenty-year-old Bolek stayed with his parents, a boy willing to "fight and drink", wandering with his peers as crude as he was, lonely, because most of the girls fled to the city.

W Słońcu i W deszczu

1980

No artwork available
9.0

A young boy from the city comes to the forester Januszko, a friend of his grandfather from the war and partisans. On the spot, he meets people who amaze him. They bear the names of the heroes of the novel "Summer of Forest People" by Maria Rodziewczówna, which they readily read and love nature very much. Under their guidance, the boy gets to know the local nature and makes friends with them. He also meets a girl named Justyna.

Lato leśnych ludzi

1985

Popielec poster
7.5

The series presents an original, non-didactic view of rural Poland during the Nazi occupation, rejecting stereotypes about ubiquitous wartime heroism, sacrifice, and martyrdom. It is a record of a "war-torn" state of consciousness, a drama of lost people who sink into ever greater degradation.

Popielec

1984

Dziewczyna i chłopak poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Dziewczyna i chłopak

1978