Joanna Szczepkowska

Acting

Joanna Szczepkowska

Born 1953-05-01 · Warsaw, Poland

Joanna Szczepkowska is a Polish actress and writer. In 1997, she published a collection of poems, Miasta do wynajęcia. In 2010, she was elected President of the Union of Polish Stage Artists (Związek Artystów Scen Polskich).

Acting credits

Horror in Happy Swamp poster
7.0

A grotesque story about a polluted area where gas leaking from a swamp causes noses to drop off.

Horror in Happy Swamp

1995

Double Trouble poster
6.8

A 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

Ding-Dong poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ding-Dong

2018

Klakier poster
8.0

The impresario decides to make the theater group's performances more attractive by spreading a rumor that the oldest actress could die on stage at any moment.

Klakier

1983

Decalogue III poster
7.1

It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.

Decalogue III

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rewizor

1977

Con Amore poster
6.2

Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the sick Eve.

Con Amore

1976

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents poster
5.8

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents

1986

Skiz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Skiz

1977

No artwork available
7.0

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.

Doctor Judym

1975

Scarborn poster
6.5

Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilising Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a national revolt.

Scarborn

2024

Jan Englert. Spróbuję jeszcze raz pofrunąć poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jan Englert. Spróbuję jeszcze raz pofrunąć

2025

No artwork available
1.0

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

Talking Heads 2021

2021

No artwork available
10.0

Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.

Laureat

1980

The Mother of the Kings poster
6.3

In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.

The Mother of the Kings

1987

Adventures of the Blue Knight poster
9.0

Based on a romantic knightly ballad. The story takes place in the world of insects. The Blue Knight sets off on a long journey with his squire to free the sister of the Butterfly Queen. After many adventures, he reaches the castle where the princess is imprisoned. The Blue Knight defeats the cruel suitor-kidnapper and sets off on the return journey with the princess. The brave hero is in love with the beautiful princess, but she chooses Count Zawisak, whom she met on the way. To make matters worse, the vengeful knight Jelonek wounds the Blue Knight in a duel. Fortunately, at the court of the Queen of Butterflies, the kind Ant rescues the wounded hero, who, as he recovers, notices the beauty and kindness of the Ant, who is in love with him.

Adventures of the Blue Knight

1983

Volta poster
5.4

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

Volta

2017

Ostatnie takie trio poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ostatnie takie trio

1977

Bezkresne łąki poster
10.0

A lyrical comedy; an escape to nature for a civil servant tired of everyday life and the monotony of life becomes an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of existence; it helps to regain mental balance. Henry, an exemplary husband and civil servant, returns to the places of his childhood, wants to find the treasure buried decades ago by Tereska, who fell in love with him. Along the way, he picks up two boys and two girls, who begin to compete for him. One of the boys assaults him when Henry digs up a bottle containing, it turns out, Tereska's love letter. The youngsters notify Henryk's wife of his whereabouts.

Bezkresne łąki

1976

Miracle Seller poster
5.8

A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives.

Miracle Seller

2010

Triple Trouble poster
5.0

When a pearl in the collectionof the National Museum of Poznań, Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville", disappears and Aunt Julki is falsely accused of the theft, two children must find the picture and identify the real thief.

Triple Trouble

2020

Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us poster
6.8

Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.

Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us

2009

Two Moons poster
6.0

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.

Two Moons

1993

Panny i wdowy poster
5.8

Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events.

Panny i wdowy

1991