Acting

Jan Monczka

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

Vyprávěj poster
7.6

Set in Czechoslovakia, the drama follows the lives of its characters against the backdrop of real historical events that shape their personal stories. To evoke period atmosphere, the series intersperses authentic clips from vintage Czechoslovak film newsreels, using their original commentaries or newly recorded historical voice-overs by Vladimír Fišer. A narrator, initially voiced by Vojtěch Kotek and later by Matěj Hádek, provides continuity and reflection, guiding viewers through changing times. Under the guidance of screenwriter Rudolf Merkner, each episode’s script weaves family and individual dramas into key moments of Czech and Slovak history: political shifts, cultural trends, and social transformations from the 1960s onward.

Vyprávěj

2009

The Convict poster
6.9

The successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her strictness towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit.

The Convict

2021

1. MISE poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

1. MISE

2021

Pitbull poster
7.5

The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis. They're not just tracking down murderers. They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.

Pitbull

2005

The Painted Bird poster
7.1

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

The Painted Bird

2019

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

The Painted Bird poster
7.1

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

The Painted Bird

2019

Serena poster
5.6

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

Serena

2014

Volta poster
5.3

A woman stumbles upon a valuable artifact, the crown that belonged to Casimir the Great.

Volta

2017

Everything Will Be Fine poster
6.3

A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery behind the photos, which leads him to discover a truth more disturbing than he imagined.

Everything Will Be Fine

2010

The Lullaby poster
5.9

A weird family named Makarewicz moves into a house recently abandoned by its owner, set in an idyllic but isolated Masurian village. Very soon a number of local residents and a few visitors mysteriously disappear. Nobody suspects that their new neighbors are a perfectly camouflaged vampire family...

The Lullaby

2010

Śliwowica poster
NR

Residents of the village of Wadlewo celebrate a double wedding, where a fight between Wojtek and Bartek takes place.

Śliwowica

2013

Taxi A poster
NR

"No one said life was beautiful." - hears business shark Andrew one day, learning that his shrewd partner and unfaithful wife have jointly let him off with his socks. Persecuted by a malicious bailiff, the heartbroken man is already considering saying goodbye to this world, when suddenly a crazy idea comes to him that will change his life forever. He shifts from his director's stool to a boat worn down by the teeth of time. Carrying a colorful bunch of passengers, such as an ambitious call girl, an ingenious smuggler and a teenage fence of "legally seized cell phones", he learns about life from the most interesting side. He listens to the problems of his clients with an open heart. Soon, thanks to Andrew's accurate advice, many of his passengers will face adversity, and the fame of the philosophizing carrier will reach the national media...

Taxi A

2011

2000s · 6 titles

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope poster
7.0

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope

2005

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope poster
7.0

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope

2005

How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? poster
6.4

At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transported back to 1987, when she was still married to her womanizing first husband, Darek and lived in the People's Republic of Poland.

How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?

2008

Afera Mięsna poster
8.0

A portrait of cabinet intrigues, the false aspirations of the party elite and the grinding reality of the 1960s, or "our little stability." Robert Meller and Janusz Dymek's documentary drama concerns the famous 1964 meat scandal, in which three death sentences were demanded and one was adjudicated and executed. The victim was Stanislaw Wawrzecki. Ostensibly, it was about fraud and bribes in the meat industry. In fact, it was about covering up the government's economic ineptitude, shortages of supplies and directing the people's anger at a few defendants.

Afera Mięsna

2007

Night Conversations poster
5.6

It is a positive and optimistic story of two thirty-something people who are made for each other, Matylda and Bartek, who are needing and looking for love and closeness, but who are constantly missing each other in the course of their lives.

Night Conversations

2008

The Death of Captain Pilecki poster
5.8

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.

The Death of Captain Pilecki

2006

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

Vyprávěj poster
7.6

Set in Czechoslovakia, the drama follows the lives of its characters against the backdrop of real historical events that shape their personal stories. To evoke period atmosphere, the series intersperses authentic clips from vintage Czechoslovak film newsreels, using their original commentaries or newly recorded historical voice-overs by Vladimír Fišer. A narrator, initially voiced by Vojtěch Kotek and later by Matěj Hádek, provides continuity and reflection, guiding viewers through changing times. Under the guidance of screenwriter Rudolf Merkner, each episode’s script weaves family and individual dramas into key moments of Czech and Slovak history: political shifts, cultural trends, and social transformations from the 1960s onward.

Vyprávěj

2009

The Convict poster
6.9

The successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her strictness towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit.

The Convict

2021

The Convict poster
6.9

The successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her strictness towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit.

The Convict

2021

1. MISE poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

1. MISE

2021

1. MISE poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

1. MISE

2021

Pitbull poster
7.5

The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis. They're not just tracking down murderers. They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.

Pitbull

2005

Dobré zprávy poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dobré zprávy

2022

Scene of the Crime Ostrava poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Scene of the Crime Ostrava

2020

Komisarz Mama poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Komisarz Mama

2021

Little Death poster
7.0

Mały Zgon may seem like a quiet town - but just below the surface lies a twisted web of crooked cops, drug kingpins and high-stakes poker games.

Little Death

2020

The Winner poster
5.0

Viktor Hudák, Prime Minister of a small European country, is ending his career in politics and returning to everyday life. However, when his successor radically overturns all the policies that he spent a lifetime building he quickly realises there is very little power in being an ex-Prime Minister.

The Winner

2023

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Daleko od noszy 2

2010

Sedm schodů k moci poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sedm schodů k moci

2023

Tulipan poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Tulipan

1987