Jacek Poniedziałek

Acting

Jacek Poniedziałek

Born

1965-08-06 (61)

Place of birth

Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

Soulcatcher poster
6.3

A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.

Soulcatcher

2023

Boxer poster
7.0

With only his wife by his side, a promising young boxer flees communist Poland to chase his dream of becoming the greatest fighter in history.

Boxer

2024

Operation Hyacinth poster
6.8

Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.

Operation Hyacinth

2021

Balladyna poster
NR

Desires, obsessions and unfulfilled love - the psychedelic formula of the play pushes the previous boundaries of communication with the audience.

Balladyna

2020

The Hole in the Fence poster
6.0

As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself.

The Hole in the Fence

2021

Unburial poster
NR

Berka is 31 years old and a failure girl. She cannot cope with the breakup and she is constantly under the illusion that her beloved Olga will come back to her. When her dad persuades her to come to her family home for a funeral, Berka has to confront him and a former beloved.

Unburial

2022

Ghosts poster
NR

During an all-night train trip, Jaśmina shares a compartment with Andrzej - a mysterious, older man. At first a conservative and reserved acquaintance evolves into a tender, empathetic and understanding relationship between two alien souls.

Ghosts

2026

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

Kingdom poster
NR

Set in the near present, captures a nation on the brink of war. Due to the unstable political situation, Dawid loses his job without a warning. As his family prepares to flee the country, Dawid’s younger brother becomes involved with the only organization willing to stand against the encroaching enemy.

Kingdom

2026

Salt Lake poster
2.7

After a forty-year marriage, Helena announces her intention to pursue sexual experiences with other men, much to the shock of her husband Paweł. Despite raising three wonderful children, a romantic life that was fulfilling and financial comfort, Helena feels restless and longs for more.

Salt Lake

2022

There Is No Peace of Mind poster
NR

Jacek - a middle-aged man, uses the services of a company that transforms people into trees. The process of his transformation is supervised by Doctor Buk and therapist Melisa, who make sure that he is fully aware of the consequences and that his decision is not accidental.

There Is No Peace of Mind

2022

2010s · 11 titles

A Heart of Love poster
4.4

A fictionalised portrait of Polish artists W. Bąkowski and Z. Bartoszek.

A Heart of Love

2017

Battle of Warsaw 1920 poster
4.5

Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals

Battle of Warsaw 1920

2011

Portrait poster
10.0

The story is set in a hotel environment where the main Character meets various people in different hotel rooms and gets involved with their private drama instigates it. The drama turns out to be somehow conducted by the female director, also one of the persons that the main Character meets in a hotel. The plot revolves around subjects of love, youth, death and ones persona and shows the main Character hopelessly trying to figure out the definition of self by means of desperately looking for real emotions in people and himself and channeling them through theatrical form. Will the main Character finally discover who he really is?

Portrait

2014

Ether poster
5.0

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation…

Ether

2018

Neighborhooders poster
5.5

Ogrodowa Street in Lódz - just opposite a crowded shopping center, a state-of-the-art museum and a posh hotel - is where some of the city's poorest live, completely forgotten by the world. A heart-warming and funny portrait of people excluded from the mainstream of social life; people who might be more capable of sacrifice and love than those who pushed them to the sidelines of society.

Neighborhooders

2014

No artwork available
NR

This documentary portrayal of Krzysztof Warlikowski, one of the most important Polish stage directors, includes the remarks of the director himself, the accounts of his long-standing colleagues (among others, Jacek Poniedziałek, Stanisława Celińska and Maciej Stuhr), as well as the photos from rehearsals and performances. In one of the scenes Adam Ferency mentions ‘Warlikowski’s church’. Marcin Lattało is trying to look at this mysterious ‘institution’ from the inside.

Nowy sen – Krzysztof Warlikowski

2013

A Grain of Truth poster
6.3

A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in south­east Poland ­ Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of anti­Semitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish­Jewish relations and real findings of his work ­ that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…

A Grain of Truth

2015

Satan Said Dance poster
3.0

Satan Said Dance is an Instagram film in times of the selfie. A kaleidoscope of moments from life of Karolina — a scandalous writer obsessed with parties, drugs, sexuality and complex relationships, on her way to self-destruction.

Satan Said Dance

2017

I Am Lying Now poster
3.4

Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.

I Am Lying Now

2019

Television Without Frontiers poster
NR

Television Without Frontiers centers around a 1982 project titled "Eurikon", originally an attempt to establish a transnational public service network. The film brings together media personalities that engage in multilingual conversations in an atmosphere that shifts between the past and the present.

Television Without Frontiers

2019

Italiani poster
NR

Takes us deep into the intimate world of a man and his relationships with his family and friends. It is a journey deep into images and experiences so personal as to be, perhaps, completely universal.

Italiani

2011

2000s · 5 titles

Changes poster
3.7

Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake. Tensions rise when he is faced not only with Wanda's sisters but also with their mother's expectations.

Changes

2003

The Offsiders poster
7.3

Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.

The Offsiders

2008

Reverse poster
7.1

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.

Reverse

2009

Warsaw Dark poster
3.5

Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute is spending the evening with a prominent Polish official when he's suddenly assassinated in Warsaw. In the aftermath of the hit, the triggerman takes the prostitute to an apartment and subjects her to a complex personality replacement program designed to wipe out any memories she may have retained about the evening's events.

Warsaw Dark

2008

Trzeci poster
5.7

Contemporary Poland. A couple of 30-somethings, Ewa and Pawel, are spending their long-planned dream vacation on a yacht. Attractive Ewa is bored with her life, in which there is no room for anything but work, and longs for true love. Pragmatic Paul is completely consumed by the occupation through which he achieved financial success. The trip was supposed to improve relations between spouses, to revive extinguished feelings. Unfortunately, the man has to interrupt his vacation to finalize a lucrative contract. A newly met elderly man will be the one to help the spouses get closer.

Trzeci

2005

Series credits

The Defence poster
7.0

Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

The Defence

2018

The Pact poster
6.6

Piotr Grodecki is an investigative journalist uncovering corruption and scandals at the highest levels of government.

The Pact

2015

Hold Tight poster
6.6

When a young man goes missing soon after his friend dies, life in a tight-knit, affluent Warsaw suburb slowly unravels, exposing secrets and lies.

Hold Tight

2022

Ekipa poster
7.3

Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.

Ekipa

2007

On the Edge poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

On the Edge

2013

Women's Hell poster
7.3

Follow a woman's fight for justice for victims of sexual assault – and her own autonomy – in pre-WWII Poland.

Women's Hell

2026

Aniela poster
6.1

After her wealthy husband leaves her with nothing, a high-society Warsaw snob is forced to use the only survival skills she has left — her sharp wit.

Aniela

2025

Under the Surface poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Under the Surface

2018

The Stroke poster
7.0

Jacek is a foodie, gay and Warsaw bon vivant who has his own TV show, several similarly eccentric close ones around him and self-destructive tendencies. A dramedy that makes fun of the Polish artistic elite, for whom Warsaw is “the only real Polish city”, cannot be compared to other shows. It is the authorial work of playwright and screenwriter Pawel Demirski. He wrote it from the beginning with the intention of presenting a hero contrasting with the burnout syndrome often felt today - a vital madman who believes the best is yet to come.

The Stroke

2024

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Klub Szalonych Dziewic

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bunt

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