Maria Pakulnis

Acting

Maria Pakulnis

Born

1956-07-02 (70)

Place of birth

Giżycko, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

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

Fierce poster
6.2

Talent and passion for music can take one to the very top. On the way, however, there are going to be showbiz traps.

Fierce

2020

Pan Olbrychski poster
7.0

Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor Daniel Olbrychski. The narrative of the main character is confronted with his colleagues and friends, in contemporary interviews, including: with Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Hoffman, Krzysztof Zanussi, Volker Schlondorff and Adam Michnik. The archival materials will include statements and excerpts from the realization of scenes from Andrzej Wajda's films. The film roles of the main character are intertwined with his private life.

Pan Olbrychski

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

Szczęścia chodzą parami poster
5.7

Malwina, a successful car designer, falls in love with Bruno, a successful couples therapist. While he can save any relationship, his own love stories create a series of spectacular disasters. Handsome and funny, he could be the man of dreams, if not for the fact that he acts like a black cat on women. He brings bad luck to his chosen ones, which ends the most fiery romance with a bang. Unaware of Malwin's risk, she succumbs to his charm at first sight. Despite the fact that a series of unfortunate events begins in her life, Bruno is not going to give up this time. In order to save the love of her life, she must find the cause of her heart failures. However, he will not succeed without a bit of luck.

Szczęścia chodzą parami

2022

If I Were You poster
5.1

A married couple wakes up in each other's bodies, discovering surprising thrusts about their partner as they struggle to return to normalcy.

If I Were You

2023

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Upiory

2025

Wheel of Love poster
5.4

Maks is a die-hard womaniser and a notorious liar. When Anna, an attractive young woman, mistakes him for a handicapped person, Maks does not correct her mistake, hoping she’ll be another easy catch. However, Anna has something else in mind – she introduces him to her older sister, Julia, who is confined to a wheelchair herself. Surprisingly, a genuine bond starts to form between the cynical Maks and the lively Julia, but can a lie create solid grounds for a good relationship? Can this love survive?

Wheel of Love

2023

Breached poster
5.4

A mysterious car accident changes Maciek's life completely. His wife Janina dies in the incident. Most likely, the woman committed suicide. However, Maciej has no idea why the accident happened near Mragowo, since Janina said she was going on a business trip to Krakow. She made a mistake? Or was she lying? A distraught man embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of her death. Soon he finds himself on the trail of a certain Wojnar - an actor whom he suspects of having an affair with his late wife. From that moment, questions begin to multiply, and the tragedy turns into a complicated mystery. Maciej comes to the conclusion that perhaps he did not know the woman he married at all.

Breached

2023

Drużyna AA poster
5.3

In order to save their rehab facility, four cross-addicted anonymous alcoholics undertake a very risky task to smuggle two tankers of spirit across Poland. For their own safety, they kidnap their therapist for the trip. However, the journey turns out to be more dangerous than they expected. After them – or rather the illegal alcohol they are transporting – is a Customs Officer, who is not entirely who she says she is. From then on, everything gets complicated.

Drużyna AA

2024

Adwokat poster
3.0

The story of Michal Belok, a lawyer who is just beginning to practice his profession. He is not doing well in his personal life. In addition, he suffers from a lack of financial resources. A colleague from his studies and lawyer's apprenticeship, Grzegorz Szram, whom he met by chance, offers him the opportunity to work with an international network law firm and arranges a meeting with the firm's managing partner, Andrzej Rohnert. The choice he makes will affect his life.

Adwokat

2020

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 8 titles

Spring 1941 poster
6.3

After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former grocer. With the Planck family hiding in her attic, Emilia finds her feelings for the physician growing stronger than she wants, or can control -- despite the dangers of the situation.

Spring 1941

2007

Tree Doctor poster
NR

Szymon discovers a naked woman and takes her to his secluded house where, over the next few days, she tells contradictory stories about her life. But it turns out she is not the only person in the house with something to hide.

Tree Doctor

2005

Dublerzy poster
4.8

A couple of friends, Max and Leo spend some time in Sicily, the island that is associated with mafia. Strange events on one wedding of a mafioso's daughter near the city of Trapani, bring them back to Warsaw. Yet, the criminal leaders, particularly Don Antonio Gambini, are also in Poland where they have a job to do. Unintentionally, Max and Leo are brought into a plot.

Dublerzy

2006

King Ubu poster
6.5

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.

King Ubu

2004

Złoty środek poster
4.6

Raised in Warsaw's Praga, Mirka graduated from the prestigious faculty of law. It would seem that her profession would even be detracted from the honor of a family with cunning roots. The girl's grandfather and father pride themselves on stays in numerous prisons. However, Mirka's legal knowledge can be very useful in the fight to save the old tenement house. As a result of a suspicious transaction, the tenement house where Mirka has been living since childhood is to be demolished. All the leads lead to the law firm "Łopian i Pokrzywa", which is just looking for a new lawyer - a man. In order to help the inhabitants of the family tenement house, Mirka must engage in a daring hoax. She is helped by her uncle Bogumił, a makeup artist and a representative of a sexual minority. Thanks to him, a beautiful girl will turn into a handsome young man and hire him in a suspicious office.

Złoty środek

2009

Rozdroże Café poster
5.3

A group of young friends from the country decides to toss out their morals and go for the gold in this Polish-made drama. Believing that money is the only thing they need to be happy, the ambitious pals engage in serious crime, eventually causing some of them to wonder if the prize was really worth the price.

Rozdroże Café

2005

No artwork available
NR

Max wants to make a movie so badly that he does not hesitate to get involved in all possible major sins, and as we know there are seven of them...

Siedem grzechów popcooltury

2005

The Party poster
NR

Polish adaptation of Abigail's Party for polish television series Teatr Telewizji

The Party

2009

1990s · 7 titles

Deborah poster
7.5

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

Deborah

1995

Last Mission poster
6.0

Andre, an assassin working on behalf of French government goes to Poland to kill Polish businessman Muran.

Last Mission

1999

Farewell to Autumn poster
5.2

Atanazy Bazakbal navigates a destructive love triangle between his innocent fiancée Zofia and the decadent Hela Bertz while seeking meaning through hedonism. As their personal lives unravel, a communist revolution sweeps through Poland, crushing the aristocracy's old world.

Farewell to Autumn

1990

No artwork available
10.0

A morning in a Warsaw apartment. After eight years of living together, a man and a woman discover that nothing unites them anymore. They make an attempt to get to the cause of their relationship crisis. Mutual resentments and accusations make the situation even worse.

Good Morning and Goodbye

1990

Tenderness poster
6.1

A wonderful dark tale of coming of age in a country in transformation - then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1990s. Against the backdrop of a regime change and general crisis of basic values, a young man is finding his way into adult life. Playing a part in a love (hate?) triangle he does not fully understand until the conclusion, he desperately tries to make sense of the unpredictable behavior of the other two main characters which is linked to the secrets lurking in their past. All this while he is not sure about his own role in a world where yesterday's truths mean nothing today. Brilliant actors in a brilliant film that even gives you a glimpse of hope at the end.

Tenderness

1992

The Spider Women poster
6.7

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...

The Spider Women

1993

No artwork available
8.0

The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

Doctor Semmelweis

1995

1980s · 14 titles

On the Silver Globe poster
7.6

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

On the Silver Globe

1989

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 End poster
7.0

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

No End

1985

Sérénité poster
NR

Poland, 1930s. Agata, a twenty-year-old young woman, a niece of the lady of a small manor, is about to get married. This fact causes dramatic changes for three people: Miss Stawro, a music teacher who cares for Agata, and two sixteen-year-old boys, Witek and Stas, who have their own feelings for the girl. However, the closer the wedding date gets, the more the bride-to-be is haunted by morbidly surreal visions related to her troubled past.

Sérénité

1989

Siegfried poster
5.4

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him — with tragic consequences.

Siegfried

1987

Upstairs, Downstairs poster
8.0

Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.

Upstairs, Downstairs

1989

Weryfikacja poster
8.0

Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.

Weryfikacja

1987

Kill Me, Cop poster
5.9

The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.

Kill Me, Cop

1988

Konsul poster
7.1

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.

Konsul

1989

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

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

Daze poster
4.0

An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.

Daze

1989

Nieproszony gość poster
6.5

The film is set in a house where a thug terrorizes a certain unhappy family. He is a psychologist and TV personality, she is a musicologist. The extreme situation in which they unexpectedly find themselves makes them wake up ghostly. Resentments and frustrations hidden on a daily basis erupt with redoubled force. As a result, husband and wife play a ruthless psychological game between themselves instead of uniting in the face of danger.

Nieproszony gość

1987

Citizen Piszczyk poster
5.9

This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.

Citizen Piszczyk

1989

Series credits

The Torment poster
6.0

Kama returns to her hometown and gets entangled in an old missing case. Family secrets, passions and crime reveal that the past never falls silent.

The Torment

2026

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

Gra z Cieniem poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Gra z Cieniem

2024

Układ poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Układ

2021

Ekstradycja poster
8.1

One of the most important action series created during the transition period. It brilliantly and credibly portrays the realities of the 1990s and the work of police officers in a new reality, one in which entirely new criminal groups emerged – drug dealers and warring gangs.

Ekstradycja

1995

Pierwsza miłość poster
3.8

Pierwsza miłość is a Polish soap opera set in Wrocław, Poland. It has been broadcast continually on television Polsat from November 4, 2004. It currently shows at 6:00 PM CET from Monday to Friday.

Pierwsza miłość

2004

Dewajtis poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dewajtis

2023

Tulipan poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Tulipan

1987

Powiedz tak poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Powiedz tak

2016

The Elements of Sasza poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

The Elements of Sasza

2020

Osiecka poster
5.2

A fascinating biography of the poet Agnieszka Osiecka. The series presents her life from her early youth in the 1950s until her death in the 1990s. The background of this biographical story is the artistic, moral and political realities of those times, starting with education in a communist school, through studies at the Film School in Łódź, and the colorful world of student theaters - Warsaw's STS and Gdańsk Bim-Bom. It is a story about Osiecka's spectacular successes and failures, both in the fight against censorship and as a result of difficult life choices. The photos were taken in Warsaw, but also in Masuria, Kraków, Tricity, Łódź, Kazimierz Dolny, Opole and Zakopane.

Osiecka

2020

The Mother poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Mother

2022

Siostry poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Siostry

2009

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

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