Jan Kociniak

Acting

Jan Kociniak

Born 1937-11-08 · Stryj, stanisłwowskie, Polska (obecnie Ukraina)

Acting credits

The Night of the Generals poster
6.8

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

The Night of the Generals

1967

Wiano poster
9.0

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Wiano

1964

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

Richie poster
4.4

Chased by mafia boss Kreda over a mistaken €2 million debt, club president Ryszard Ochódzki follows consigliere Maria Wafel’s advice to sell land to Father Pudło, only to hatch an even bigger bank fraud with banker Koziczek to raise the cash. Flush with stolen funds and briefly enjoying political office, he hides the money in the Molibdenów home, but just as he and coach Jarząbek plan to retrieve it, contract killer Dukan closes in.

Richie

2007

The Annuity poster
NR

A theatre play based on the comedy by Aleksander Fredro. directed by Wojciech Pszoniak.

The Annuity

2001

Around the World with Bolek and Lolek poster
6.6

Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts.

Around the World with Bolek and Lolek

1977

The Saragossa Manuscript poster
7.8

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

The Saragossa Manuscript

1966

Controlled Conversations poster
6.7

Ryszard 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

The Doll poster
6.4

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

The Doll

1968

Playing with the Devil poster
9.0

The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.

Playing with the Devil

1980

Mniejszy szuka Dużego poster
NR

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.

Mniejszy szuka Dużego

1976

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

Special Mission poster
5.8

In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.

Special Mission

1987

King Ubu poster
6.5

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.

King Ubu

2004

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

No artwork available
NR

Polish TV film.

Czas może powrócić

1967

Far Is the Road poster
6.5

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

Far Is the Road

1963

Man - Woman Wanted poster
7.6

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.

Man - Woman Wanted

1973

Woman in a Hat poster
6.6

A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.

Woman in a Hat

1985

Kłopotliwy gość poster
7.0

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

Kłopotliwy gość

1971

Kochajmy syrenki poster
6.0

Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.

Kochajmy syrenki

1967

Mój stary poster
8.0

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

Mój stary

1962

Sons and Comrades poster
5.8

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.

Sons and Comrades

1986

Miłość z listy przebojów poster
5.0

Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.

Miłość z listy przebojów

1985