Dawid Ogrodnik

Acting

Dawid Ogrodnik

Born 1986-06-15 · Wągrowiec, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Dawid Ogrodnik (born 15 June 1986, Wągrowiec) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2010. He was honoured by the Polish Film Academy with three Polish Academy Awards for Best Actor.

Acting credits

Ida poster
7.2

In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

Ida

2013

The Day of Chocolate poster
5.1

Through the window, Dawid watches a new neighbour move into a house next door. The girl is more or less his age. She's wearing a strange skirt. Later on, Dawid finds out it's a Hawaiian hula skirt and the girl's name is Monika. Most probably, he also learns why Monika's grandma has gone away to Hawaii.

The Day of Chocolate

2018

Screw Mickiewicz 3 poster
5.9

Dante struggles to reconcile his dreams with reality, while his relationship with Nel is tested. Then the mysterious Adam appears. In the background: the return of Korek, new feelings for Cegła, and the question of whether loyalty, friendship, and love can survive in the adult world.

Screw Mickiewicz 3

2026

Silent Night poster
6.9

Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.

Silent Night

2017

Johnny poster
7.2

After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life.

Johnny

2022

How I Fell in Love with a Gangster poster
6.6

A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.

How I Fell in Love with a Gangster

2022

The Great Mystical Circus poster
4.4

The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.

The Great Mystical Circus

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

The Getaway King poster
6.3

Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing cars and escaping prison many times, but never hurting anybody.

The Getaway King

2021

The Doll poster
NR

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.

The Doll

2026

Dark, Almost Night poster
3.9

A reporter, Alicja Tabor, after many years returns to her hometown of Wałbrzych to write a report about kidnapped children and also to face her own dark family history.

Dark, Almost Night

2019

Broad Peak poster
5.8

After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.

Broad Peak

2022

Screw Mickiewicz 2 poster
6.7

The rebellious IIIB crew and their unconventional teacher Jan Sienkiewicz are back! Love, troubles and school dramas make up everyday life of Dante, Nel and the whole gang. It is joined now by a young mathematical genius - Korek. The guys intend to teach him how to pick up girls, but it turns out that their know-how is rather theoretical…

Screw Mickiewicz 2

2025

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zdrada

11 Minutes poster
5.5

The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

11 Minutes

2015

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

Potatoes poster
NR

One day you will learn to draw, one day you will have an expensive car, one day you will achieve success - the list of expectations of a father towards his son makes the young boy unable to enjoy everyday life.

Potatoes

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Upiory

2025

The Last Family poster
7.1

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...

The Last Family

2016

Screw Mickiewicz poster
5.5

Jan Sienkiewicz, a writer and lecturer who was expelled from university, takes a job at a Warsaw high school. Under his care comes the school's famous class of rebellious and knowledge-resistant outcasts. IIB are students from hell, and their future seems doomed. But Sienkiewicz, armed with literature, enthusiasm and a lot of unconventional ideas, will challenge the group doomed to exclusion. Will he be able to tame her and save her? A story about friendship, love, school madness and that everyone deserves another chance.

Screw Mickiewicz

2024

All Our Fears poster
5.8

Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.

All Our Fears

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Głowa Kasandry

Oleg poster
6.8

Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.

Oleg

2019