Michalina Olszańska

Acting

Michalina Olszańska

Born

1992-06-29 (34)

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Michalina Olszańska is a Polish actress and writer. She is a daughter of actors Agnieszka Fatyga and Wojciech Olszański. She has published two novels as a teenager. Wikipedia

Known for

The Witcher poster
7.9

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

The Witcher

2019

1983 poster
6.5

Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.

1983

2018

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

Clash of Futures (1918-1939) poster
7.5

From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.

Clash of Futures (1918-1939)

2018

Mr. Jones poster
6.7

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Mr. Jones

2019

Sobibor poster
6.6

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

Sobibor

2018

Film credits

2020s · 9 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

My Name Is Sara poster
6.5

The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

My Name Is Sara

2020

Generation Ikea poster
3.4

For the main character, casual sex, erotic fantasies and quick romances are the starting point for a story about the realities in which young people live today.

Generation Ikea

2023

Kulej. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold poster
6.3

A biopic about Jerzy Kulej, a two-time Olympic champion and one of Poland's greatest fighters. The film is set between the Olympics, when Kulej wins his first gold and goes for a second.

Kulej. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold

2024

Horror Story poster
6.0

Tomek, a fresh banking graduate, moves to the big city to start his adult life with a bang. He dreams of spectacular success, thanks to which he will get his ex-girlfriend back. He rents a room in an old, crumbling house, inhabited by a group of eccentrics. But the very first night there makes him realize he will sooner end up in a psychiatric hospital than in his dream corporation.

Horror Story

2023

Bejbis poster
3.8

Mikolaj and Ada, a middle-aged, middle-aged couple, happy slightly above the Polish average, with one daughter, Mela. Their stabilized life is complicated by the appearance of a second child, the fruit of a slip-up. How will the characters cope in the face of the new challenge?

Bejbis

2022

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater poster
NR

A short music film, a feature illustration of Vivaldi’s opera Stabat Mater performed by Jakub Józef Orliński and Capella Cracoviensis. The music here accompanies events in which the theme of the Sorrowful Mother is originally interpreted by the director and set in an undefined contemporary time. Atmospheric, strangely wandering, emotional narrative with a surprising finale, starring Jakub Józef Orliński himself, not only as a countertenor but also as a stirring actor.

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater

2021

Heritage poster
NR

Janek, a lighthearted graphic designer from a large city, is called to read the will of a stranger. To research his family history, he goes with his older sister to a small town. Unexpectedly he is given a house in the middle of the forest. It turns out, however, that not only he claims the right to it.

Heritage

2022

Homeland poster
6.0

What if, at the end of World War II, an economic crisis had spread to every nation, including those that had not directly taken part in hostilities?

Homeland

2023

2010s · 23 titles

Mr. Jones poster
6.7

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Mr. Jones

2019

Sobibor poster
6.6

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

Sobibor

2018

Warsaw 44 poster
6.7

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

Warsaw 44

2014

Mathilde poster
5.8

It portrays the memories of Matilda Kshesinskaya and her love affair with the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Matilda, a Polish-born ballerina from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, had a brief and intense romance with Nicholas between 1892 and 1894, before Nicholas married Alexandra Feodorovna and was crowned Tsar after his father's death. It also explores their relationship, facing societal pressures and interference from Nicholas's mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, as well as Matilda's involvement with other members of the imperial family, the Romanovs, such as Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.

Mathilde

2017

The Lure poster
6.1

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

The Lure

2015

Muzzikanti poster
4.0

A film full of songs and melodies ranging from folk roots to contemporary rock, set in the Czechoslovak-Polish border region, in the rugged but charming region of Těšín Silesia, where a man's word still carries weight, women's charm has been irresistible since time immemorial, and music has its irreplaceable place. In short, it is a magical region for seemingly ordinary stories that are nevertheless unique and interwoven with deep humanity and happy endings...

Muzzikanti

2017

Jack Strong poster
6.5

Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.

Jack Strong

2014

I, Olga Hepnarova poster
6.6

Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes.

I, Olga Hepnarova

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kranz

2013

Bangistan poster
5.7

Two blundering terrorists with lofty ideologies, but ordinary talent, on a mission to change the world.

Bangistan

2015

Carga poster
6.1

A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.

Carga

2018

Techno poster
NR

Ryszard - a sixty years old farmer living in a small, Polish village in complete seclusion takes care over his wife, who struggles with Alzheimer's. A young girl from a big city who he stumbles upon by accident introduces him to a world of techno music which, for at least a brief moment, helps him forget about the grave responsibility he has to carry on his shoulders.

Techno

2018

Tiger poster
4.6

A young woman lives as a man’s pet cat in his apartment.

Tiger

2015

Warsaw by Night poster
5.7

Four woman, each with their own theory about love. Iga is married and lives in a happy relationship but deeply fantasies about extreme experiences. In her search she uncovers various shades of loves, like the modern femme fatale (Joanna) and a woman (Agata) who is being cheated on. An attractive 30 year old (Roma) is searching for a man who will turn her life upside and desperate for this life changing moment. Set in modern Warsaw, where one night can change anybodies life.

Warsaw by Night

2015

Anatomy of Evil poster
5.6

Lulek, a hit man, is released from prison and given an offer he can't refuse by the man who put him away. If he kills the chief of the Central Bureau of Investigations, he will earn a huge sum of money and have his record cleared so he can leave.

Anatomy of Evil

2015

Solange poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solange

2013

Miłość w mieście ogrodów poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Miłość w mieście ogrodów

2017

Life Must Go On poster
5.9

When cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter.

Life Must Go On

2015

Father poster
2.3

A man falls into an existential crisis when he must simultaneously cope with the death of his father as he celebrates the birth of his first child.

Father

2015

Sophie Seeks 7 poster
4.8

After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, a 30-year-old woman reconnects with six of her exes while trying to find the love of her life.

Sophie Seeks 7

2014

Fanciful poster
5.0

After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and emotionally cold towards the teenager, now driven by fear for his daughter’s life, her father tries to rebuild their relationship.

Fanciful

2015

Off the Hook: The Making of 'The Lure' poster
NR

A documentary on the making of "The Lure" (2015).

Off the Hook: The Making of 'The Lure'

2017

Son of the Snow Queen poster
4.7

A drama inspired by true events in which good fights evil. Twenty-something mother Anna raises her seven-year-old son alone, barely making ends meet.

Son of the Snow Queen

2017

Series credits

The Witcher poster
7.9

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

The Witcher

2019

1983 poster
6.5

Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.

1983

2018

Clash of Futures (1918-1939) poster
7.5

From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.

Clash of Futures (1918-1939)

2018

No artwork available
1.0

Russian Russian emperor and the ballerina who established the glory of Russian ballet. A passion that could change Russian history. A love that has become a legend. There are several days in every person's life that can change it forever. When the most important thing happens. You turn around at the voice of love. And you make a choice. But if the ruler of the empire falls in love with a dancer who is maddening with her beauty… The Assumption Cathedral, the Kremlin, the Khodynka Field, the royal palaces, the stages of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theaters — where the heart of eternal Russia beats.

Coronation

2019

Dewajtis poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dewajtis

2023

The Spider's Web poster
6.9

Tells the story of Cornelia Titko, a brave scientist with remarkable memory, whose childhood was destroyed by the premature death of her parents and older sister. Cornelia's mother, Teresa Titko, was an outstanding nuclear physicist; in the Gierek nuclear program, she played the role of the right hand of its creator, general-professor Grzegorz Giedrowicz. Years later, a mysterious man appears in Cornelia's life, claiming that he was once accused of murdering her sister. The heroine begins a private investigation. Who is the mysterious man and what really connects him with the death of Cornelia's two closest women? What price will she be charged for trespassing into forbidden territories? What role in this history were played by the officers of the PRL counterintelligence - Captain Ewa Wolańska and Second Lieutenant Tadeusz Mróz? Who wanted Poland not to join the small group of countries that counted in the nuclear race?

The Spider's Web

2021

Komisja morderstw poster
5.8

A story of a group of police officers from Murder Unit in Poland, who deal with unsolved cases. The group tries to solve inexplicable mysteries from the past, which pertain to the Cursed Soldiers, the history of the Recovered Territories and other mysterious cases from the WWII period that have an impact on the present time.

Komisja morderstw

2016

No artwork available
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Drogi wolności

2018