Dariusz Chojnacki

Acting

Dariusz Chojnacki

Born

1981-09-14 (45)

Place of birth

Zabrze-Kończyce, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

Leave No Traces poster
6.8

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

Leave No Traces

2021

Mother's Day poster
5.8

Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.

Mother's Day

2023

The Evil Demiurge poster
NR

An unknown cult consisting of religious freaks gets ready to perform a ritual, for which they will need a certain mysterious object. The location of this object is hidden in a philosophical cipher, which the analysts aren't able to decode.

The Evil Demiurge

2022

Pixie. The New Beginning poster
7.0

New in town, eleven-year-old Hania is bullied for believing in pixies. She makes friends with the outsider Michał and a real pixie, Sindri, on a quest to prove their existence. Their journey helps Hania face new beginnings and understand the power of friendship.

Pixie. The New Beginning

2025

25 Years of Innocence poster
7.8

Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.

25 Years of Innocence

2020

The Lottery poster
NR

The notary is coming to the hotel to conduct a secret lottery. There is a nervous atmosphere among the participants. The notary faces tough choices in an obscure game where no one wants to be a winner.

The Lottery

2022

One Soul poster
5.5

Alojz is a Silesian miner with a strained relationship with his wife and kids. Those relations begin to flourish after he's left disabled, while rescuing a colleague from a dam burst.

One Soul

2023

Home Game poster
NR

Nina, in her teenage tremors, perceives the world as if she had no protective layer. What she would most like to feel is that she is accepted and belongs - so she goes to mass and faithfully supports the local football team. When the club's flag is desecrated, Nina comes up with an idea for a spectacular revenge that earns her the respect of the team and the heart of the boy she has a crush on.

Home Game

2024

Simona Kossak poster
7.3

Simona Kossak - daughter of the painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of Wojciech - deprived of the talent that has defined her family for generations, grows up without knowing the warmth of her despotic mother. When, after graduation, she leaves everything - home, tradition, social conventions - and takes up a job as a scientist in Białowieża, she starts life on her own terms.

Simona Kossak

2024

Minghun poster
5.4

After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual.

Minghun

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Godej do mie

2026

Shreds poster
7.8

The Pateroks are a loving, multi-generational family. Their lives are peaceful and humorous. A crack suddenly appears in this harmonious reality: Grandpa Gerard begins to act strangely, breaking social conventions and norms.

Shreds

2023

Fish and Chips poster
NR

Local show-off Baltazar desperately fights for his father’s attention, competing with his beloved brother, Teofil. One day, he decides to participate in a televised talent show — his father’s favourite programme. What he doesn’t know is that Teofil has also applied. Baltazar must face rejection and disappointment.

Fish and Chips

2025

2010s · 15 titles

One Way Ticket to the Moon poster
6.3

The story of youth, friendship and love in a time when man took his first steps on the moon, the streets became saturator, transistors pulsed rock'n'roll, and the fondest dream of every fan of the domestic automotive industry was the Fiat 125p. Film trip to the sixties, colorful era "flower children", hippies and bigbitu. Year 1969. Fascinating in aviation Adam is called to the army. However, much to his own chagrin, she gets an assignment to serve in the ... Navy. In Antek, older brother, embark on the sea. During several days of traveling through Poland to visit old friends and make new friends. Antek - incorrigible womanizer and the king of nightclubs - wants to prepare a shy brother to life. However, the meeting with a beautiful and mysterious woman calls a lot of complications in the life of Adam, initiating a series of surprising events.

One Way Ticket to the Moon

2013

Joy in the World poster
4.9

A journalist from Warsaw travels to Silesia and manages to find a tenement house full of exceptional inhabitants.

Joy in the World

2016

Fugue poster
6.0

Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother and daughter.

Fugue

2018

Life Feels Good poster
7.3

Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.

Life Feels Good

2013

Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz poster
6.3

Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.

Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz

2019

Mug poster
6.0

After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.

Mug

2018

Manhunt poster
5.8

Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with his own past...

Manhunt

2012

Close-Ups poster
6.3

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.

Close-Ups

2014

The Marshal poster
4.7

The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Piłsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew. Uncertain years are coming, marked by revolutionary events, violence and betrayal. Pilsudski must find a way to man oeuvre on the boggy ground - between the conservative passivity of the Polish Socialist Party and the aggression against the invaders, resulting in retaliation. The year 1914 is coming, and the chance for restoring an independent country, independent Poland, is now or never.

The Marshal

2019

The Christening poster
6.4

Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an interest in his wife... At the beginning the plan works out, but it becomes increasingly difficult for Michal to come to terms with it. Michal knows his deeply hidden past will inevitably come back to him, and Janek will have to make a decision, of which he will never forget the consequences.

The Christening

2010

All About My Parents poster
4.3

The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.

All About My Parents

2014

The Reconciliation poster
4.9

The beginning of 1945, Poland. In a newly liberated country, the Communist Security Service is annihilating its enemies under the guise of punishing "national traitors." They organize a labor camp for Germans, Silesians and Poles, on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp called Zgoda / Reconciliation. Franek, who is in love with the Polish prisoner Anna, goes to work as a warder in the camp to save her. He does not know that one of the prisoners - Erwin, his German friend, also loved this girl for a long time. Franek joins the communists in the illusory hope of outsmarting the system.

The Reconciliation

2017

On the Run poster
4.6

When her daughter is kidnapped by a suspect in a multiple murder case, a police officer must commit a crime to rescue her only child.

On the Run

2018

The New World poster
6.9

Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love.

The New World

2015

No artwork available
8.0

Jurek is 23 years old and he is a history student. He lives with his loving auntie, who raises him and supports him. Feeling that she is a cause and a symbol of his existential boredom, monotony and malaise, he reaches for the hammer…

Killing Auntie

2013

Series credits

The Chairman's Ear poster
7.5

The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders.

The Chairman's Ear

2017

The Mire poster
6.8

The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

The Mire

2018

The Eastern Gate poster
6.7

Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.

The Eastern Gate

2025

The Doll poster
5.9

When Stanisław falls in love with the aristocratic Izabela, he dedicates his entire life to winning her over.

The Doll

2026

The King of Warsaw poster
6.1

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.

The King of Warsaw

2020

Matilda poster
7.6

A historical story about a young woman, Matilda, who in the politically difficult times of the partitions after the January Uprising becomes a pawn of landed gentry intrigues. Her past, which is also a mystery to herself, is overshadowed by the political decisions of both Polish patriots and traitors plotting with the Russian invaders. In addition to its educational and historical value, the series contains rich thriller and love plots.

Matilda

2024

Heweliusz poster
7.3

After a catastrophic ferry disaster, the off-duty captain seeks answers and justice for those who lost their lives — and those they left behind.

Heweliusz

2025

The Return poster
5.5

An ordinary guy who died of a heart attack from stress is resurrected. Euphoric at first, he discovers that no one worried about his death and that his life so far was quickly thrown into the trash. Now He wonders why he rose from the dead and whether he should reveal himself.

The Return

2022