
Acting
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
Born 1951-02-15 · Gdańsk, pomorskie, Polska
Acting credits
NRAccording to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as a believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events were possible...
The Devil
2022
4.0A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.
Exit 7
1978
6.8A young girl, her new friend and his dog try to find a long-lost Picasso painting in an abandoned house before a gang of burglars seize it.
Double Trouble
2017
NRDaughter comes to her father's apartment to feed the cat and water the flowers in his absence. However, the animal makes trouble, and the teenager discovers a secret hidden from her.
Cat
2022
A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
Sobie król
1974
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Hülyeség nem akadály
1986
3.0Marta, a talented architect living with multiple sclerosis, struggles as her illness gradually erodes both her independence and her marriage. During repeated stays at a Catholic care home, she forms meaningful connections with fellow patients and a compassionate visitor, finding brief moments of hope amid the reality of her condition. As her world continues to unravel, Marta is forced to confront the limits of love, dignity, and the possibility of choosing her own fate.
Inna wyspa
1987
9.0December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
Inner State
1989
A man awakes in his apartment but is stopped from leaving by an invisible line.
Droga wewnętrzna
2006
5.9A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.
Pitbull. Last Dog
2018
After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Funeral Ceremony
1985
1982, martial law is in force. Krzysztof works as a teacher. Since his wife Gosia left for a scholarship in Baltimore, he has been living alone. He misses her and often writes letters to her. He hopes that she will leave Poland and join him, but at the moment this is impossible. One night, he has a strange dream. In it, he is running through a mist-covered meadow full of purple flowers. Nearby, on a railway embankment, he hears a woman's delirious cries. In the darkness, the lights of a passing train slowly begin to grow brighter. Before he can save her, the dream ends. When Krzysztof has the same dream a month later, he wonders about its meaning. After receiving a letter from his wife saying that she intends to remarry, Krzysztof feels lost. While browsing through an atlas of reproductions of paintings, he comes across the works of a young painter. As he looks through them, he discovers that the paintings correspond to his visions. Krzysztof decides to find the artist.
Powinowactwo
1984
7.0A young doctor from Yugoslavia takes care of a rich baroness, who in carefully devised ways, attempts to destroy her dignity. An intimate drama about the search for self-esteem by humiliating others.
Nachtdienst
1975
Based on the facts, the story of Dr. Barbara Makowska-Witkowska, arrested in 1983 by the civil militia. She was accused of beating up and stealing a drunk patient's wallet.
The Call
1997
6.3As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Sweet Rush
2009
7.0Three stories of young disillusioned Poles of different background and region of origin. What binds them together is that they all meet on the bus to London shortly after Poland's entry into EU.
Ode to Joy
2006
3.7Edek, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood finds his first crush in Basia. His father, guilt stricken after the war took his wife and two daughters believes that his son falling in love will take his son away from him and desperately tries to put an end to his budding relationship.
A Girl and the Pigeons
1974
4.7Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
Art of Loving
1989
6.5Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal.
Pitbull
2005
5.9The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
Kill Me, Cop
1988
2.3On August 1, the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, two young people, lost and alone, are looking for happiness and their way in life.
Wednesday, Thursday Morning
2008
5.5Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
Another Way
1982
NRA story of some love. Is love and life always dependent on chance? Or perhaps from destiny? The problem of the loneliness of the individual among people and the low sensitivity of society towards the underprivileged by fate.
Whisky with Milk
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Niech żyje Emma!
2016