Joanna Szczepkowska

Acting

Joanna Szczepkowska

Born

1953-05-01 (73)

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

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).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 6 titles

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 10 titles

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

Alchemik poster
6.5

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

Alchemik

1989

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

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

No artwork available
10.0

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

Laureat

1980

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

The Issa Valley poster
6.5

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.

The Issa Valley

1982

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

Sons and Comrades poster
5.8

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.

Sons and Comrades

1986

Cudzoziemka poster
8.0

Róża is a young girl who dreams of playing the violin. She leaves for Warsaw, where she intends to study music. There she meets Michał, with whom she falls madly in love. She follows him to St. Petersburg. However, Michał no longer wants to see Róża. The girl returns to Warsaw. However, she cannot find her place there. Her enormous talent has been wasted, and she has married a man she does not love. The woman broke down after the death of her beloved son. She rejected her daughter, who turned out to be musically talented. Róża decides to help her make a career. However, she is very unhappy in her life.

Cudzoziemka

1986

1970s · 8 titles

Trzy Siostry poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trzy Siostry

1974

Skiz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Skiz

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

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rewizor

1977

Ostatnie takie trio poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ostatnie takie trio

1977

The Fog poster
9.0

In the first months after the war, a period of confusion and fratricidal fighting, a Warsaw whack-job drafted into the ranks of the KBW gains the first life experiences that make him an informed citizen. Marian, a boy from Targówek, is serving in the KBW. His unit is sent to a village plagued by a band of NSZ. Marian becomes involved with a young teacher, Anka, whose brother is a member of the NSZ. During the final trial, Stefan is killed and Marian is seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. An investigation is carried out in the village. Marian does not admit that he knew about Stefan and his contacts with his sister. When he leaves the hospital, he does not find the girl, but their son, who is being cared for by Anka's parents. He takes the boy and returns to Targowek.

The Fog

1976

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

Series credits

Dekalog poster
8.3

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.

Dekalog

1989

Dom poster
7.3

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Dom

1980

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

Panny i wdowy poster
6.0

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

1992

Glory and Glory poster
3.3

Adaptation of the once very loud, today somewhat forgotten book of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz . "Fame and Glory" is the most extensive novel by the author of "Brzezina". Written with epic panache, it outlines the history of the Polish intelligentsia from "the first days of July 1914" to the fall of 1947. It is also an epitaph for the spiritual face of Polish culture, and a little bit European, shaped in the nineteenth century.

Glory and Glory

1998