Jerzy Michotek

Acting

Jerzy Michotek

Born 1921-08-31 · Częstochowa, śląskie, Poland

Acting credits

Rancho Texas poster
8.0

Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.

Rancho Texas

1959

How to Be Loved poster
7.4

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

How to Be Loved

1963

Polonia Restituta poster
10.0

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

Polonia Restituta

1981

Far Is the Road poster
6.5

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

Far Is the Road

1963

H.M. Deserters poster
7.0

Set in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Italians, and others—confined in a provincial barracks under German officers. Subjected to the cruelty of a sadistic lieutenant, they rebel, humiliate him, and later attempt escape. Disguised as guards for veterinary surgeons in Budapest, the deserters are eventually recaptured and returned for court-martial, forced once more to face their tormentor.

H.M. Deserters

1986

Sprawa pilota Maresza poster
8.0

A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.

Sprawa pilota Maresza

1956

The Emergency Exit poster
6.8

A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce.

The Emergency Exit

1982

No artwork available
NR

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.

Janka - Spełnione marzenie

1993

Chrześniak poster
8.0

The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.

Chrześniak

1986

Znikąd donikąd poster
8.0

The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region.

Znikąd donikąd

1975

The Road West poster
8.5

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.

The Road West

1961

No artwork available
8.0

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The first of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.

Janka - Orły i Wilki

1993

No artwork available
NR

Sokor, an attorney, becomes involved in a scandal. To unravel it, he asks for the help of a friend.

Jeździec na ogniu

1986