Jan Jankowski

Acting

Jan Jankowski

Born 1961-06-02 · Zduńska Wola, Polska

Acting credits

Komediantka poster
6.3

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

Komediantka

1987

The Birthday Trip poster
6.0

When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.

The Birthday Trip

1990

Bermuda Triangle poster
6.7

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.

Bermuda Triangle

1988

Opowieść Harleya poster
8.0

Poor Janek is in love with a beautiful girl called Irena. Her aspiring parents have already chosen a proper husband for their daughter - the rich and handsome Witek. Can a rented Harley-Davidson help Janek to fight for Irena?

Opowieść Harleya

1988

Queens poster
NR

Magda is raising her one-year-old daughter, Hania, with the help of her roommate, Daniel. When a disagreement arises between the friends, Magda returns to her hometown, where her parents try to set her up with her high school sweetheart, Andrzej. Despite their differences, there's still a connection between the young people, but they now represent completely different lifestyles. Magda faces a choice: to give Andrzej a chance and provide stability for Hania, or to take the more challenging path and teach her daughter the importance of honesty with oneself.

Queens

2024

No artwork available
NR

The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.

Remis

1984

It's Only Rock poster
4.5

After watching a concert by a fledgling rock band, renowned songwriter Marczak decides to promote only its vocalist, Sylwia. The girl decides to leave her bandmates, including her boyfriend, Janek. She is to perform at a festival in Gradów. Marczak's ex-wife, singer Majka Lenczewska, whom he drove to a nervous breakdown, wants to return to the stage. Marczak asks Majka's current husband to compose a song for Sylwia. He agrees on the condition that the songwriter will not help Majka make her comeback.

It's Only Rock

1984

Decalogue IX poster
7.6

Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.

Decalogue IX

1989

East Wind poster
5.2

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.

East Wind

1993

Femina poster
4.9

The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a voyage in time, during which she relives the memories of her idyllic childhood.

Femina

1991

Mr. Blot in Space poster
5.5

It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 years...

Mr. Blot in Space

1988

Travels of Mr. Blot poster
6.6

The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school.

Travels of Mr. Blot

1986

Child's Scenes of Provincial Life poster
4.3

Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After another argument with his father, he leaves the house. Comrade R., the mayor of the city, engages Julian as his son's tutor. Krzysztof R. doesn't want to study, to annoy his parents, but Julian wins his friendship and encourages independent thinking. Meanwhile, the Mayor is so preoccupied with his career that he doesn't notice the growing intimacy between his wife and Julian.

Child's Scenes of Provincial Life

1987

No artwork available
4.0

The protagonists are three women - Eve, Elizabeth and Anna. Years ago, they performed in one musical group, then their paths diverged. Eve made a career in the US, Anna also stayed with music, but did not succeed, and Elisabeth devoted herself to her family. Their reunion years later stirs up old conflicts, reminds of unfulfilled hopes and hurt feelings.

Rozmowy o miłości

1990

Call me Rockefeller poster
7.0

In the absence of their parents, the Malinowski kids are robbed. Instead of going to the police though they decide to regain the stolen money themselves.

Call me Rockefeller

1990

Nothing Funny poster
6.9

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.

Nothing Funny

1996

Prostitutes poster
4.7

In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...

Prostitutes

1998

Obywatel świata poster
10.0

Old friends come to the reunion of alumni, for whom the meeting after many years is an opportunity for memories, but also comparisons of who have been most successful in their lives.

Obywatel świata

1991

Pardon poster
5.9

The story of a soldier’s parents told from the perspective of their 17-year-old grandson, Janek

Pardon

2019

Private investigation poster
6.8

Rafal Skonecki loses his family in a car accident, caused by a drunken driver. When he is informed that the investigation is discontinued, he decides to take justice into his own hand.

Private investigation

1987

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach poster
7.5

During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station in Koluszki. Railway communications are disrupted. At the same time, a train is stuck in snowdrifts near Koluszki. The atmosphere in its carriages is cheerful. Some passengers, who are in a hurry to connect to other stations, get off and walk to the station in Koluszki. Among them is Andrzej Roszak, a young man rushing to Warsaw, and probably his peer Basia. Shortly after them, Mr. Walerek, a political activist who was on his way to a ball at the Central Committee, Mr. Rozbicki and his wife, who had just returned from a contract in Iraq, Matyjak, a television star, journalist Przoniak, and others arrive at the station in Koluszki. At the deserted station, the passengers efficiently organize a New Year's Eve party. During the revelry, the participants gradually reveal their hidden complexes, frustrations, and hopes.

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach

1990

Burial of a Potato poster
8.3

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.

Burial of a Potato

1990

No artwork available
9.0

The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.

Republika nadziei

1988

Sam pośród swoich poster
6.0

The year 1946 - a young officer between service, love, school...

Sam pośród swoich

1986