Marek Kalita

Acting

Marek Kalita

Born

1958-10-01 (68)

Place of birth

Bytom, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

The Chairman's Ear poster
7.5

The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders.

The Chairman's Ear

2017

The Convict poster
6.9

The successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her strictness towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit.

The Convict

2021

Angel of Death poster
6.7

A small-town policewoman is chasing a vicious serial killer; at stake is first a country girl's life, and then her own life.

Angel of Death

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Galeria

2012

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

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

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

King of Dope poster
6.2

Dawid is an ordinary boy who builds a legal drug empire and becomes an overnight millionaire. Sudden fame, beautiful women, fast cars, endless partying, confrontations with gangsters, and dealings at the highest levels of power—this is his new world, where the line between legal and illegal is as thin as the line in a mirror. When an ethical cop arrives, everything is at stake. Will Dawid be able to stop him before it's too late? Will love save him from ultimate collapse?

King of Dope

2026

Other People poster
5.7

Warsaw, Poland. Kamil, a street rapper who spends his time going from party to party, begins a love affair with Iwona, a wealthy married woman.

Other People

2022

Czarny sufit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Czarny sufit

2022

The Tenant. You Can't Burn Us All. poster
6.2

The peace of mind of a tenement house in Warsaw’s Mokotów district is shattered by the appearance of the alleged legal owner of the building. Using ruthless methods, the man starts forcing more families to move out. Janina Markowska is the most determined in her fight for the right to her apartment. When Janina disappears in mysterious circumstances, the police start investigating.

The Tenant. You Can't Burn Us All.

2021

The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash poster
4.6

In the near future an indifferent activist announces that at midnight on New Year’s Eve he is going to commit suicide in protest against the renewed slavery system in Poland. His plan is put on hold the moment he finds an abandoned slave woman in the trash and decides to help set her free.

The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash

2022

Supersisters poster
5.7

Teenage Ala does not fit into the provincial world around her. She constantly rebels and acts out against her father, a physics teacher at the local school. When Ala accidentally discovers that she has superpowers and meets her sister Lena, whom she didn’t know existed, her life turns upside down – literally. The trail of girls endowed with supernatural powers is followed by the Colonel and his dangerous companion Hector from the secret Department 92. The goal of the soldiers is to create a powerful new generation weapon. To get it they are willing to sacrifice a lot, even the lives of sisters. After years of separation, will Ala and Lena be able to join forces and cooperate? Will the supersisters move to rescue not only each other, but also the world?

Supersisters

2024

No artwork available
NR

On the day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents. They all quickly discover that their spouses are not their soulmates. As a result, the couples reshuffle and new relationships are formed.

Masters of the Planet

2026

The Crossroads poster
5.4

Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s wedding. The idyll is shattered by a tragic car accident that casts a shadow over his marriage and reveals cracks in his relationship with his son.

The Crossroads

2025

Niepewność. Zakochany Mickiewicz poster
4.8

The 22-year-old young man promises to be a great poet, but he also has a warm heart. He spends his summer time at a friend's mansion. The beautiful Maryla appears there. Young Adam's heart beats harder and harder, but his closest friend Thomas Zan is there, who also looks at Maryla. There is a confrontation between the two men, from which Adam emerges victorious. Tomasz leaves, leaving the field to his friend to find his life, happiness in Maryla....

Niepewność. Zakochany Mickiewicz

2024

Polish Dream poster
NR

Poland, 1990s. Sławek gets the gig of a lifetime. He needs a car, so he plans to borrow his father’s taxi. Unfortunately, his mother has a different plan. Sławek has no choice but to take his parents to “work.” They are joined by a gangster named Kris. When they arrive at the spot, the gig turns out to be a regular robbery.

Polish Dream

2023

2010s · 12 titles

Joy in the World poster
4.9

A journalist from Warsaw travels to Silesia and manages to find a tenement house full of exceptional inhabitants.

Joy in the World

2016

Life Feels Good poster
7.3

Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.

Life Feels Good

2013

Mug poster
6.0

After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.

Mug

2018

Totalna harmonia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Totalna harmonia

2017

The Red Spider poster
5.2

Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.

The Red Spider

2015

Blindness poster
6.2

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.

Blindness

2016

Traffic Department poster
6.6

Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.

Traffic Department

2013

Kebab & Horoscope poster
6.0

A group of misfits from a carpet shop have a chance to change their lives with the help of two marketing experts - an ex-kebab shop worker and an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine.

Kebab & Horoscope

2014

Outsider poster
5.3

Franek, a student of painting. By coincidence becomes involved in the cogs of a horrific totalitarian machine. His sensitivity and humanity will be heavily tested.

Outsider

2018

Convoy poster
5.9

Director of detention, director Nowacki finds Sergeant Zawada, who is hiding from the world. An experienced officer returns to the game and gets a new task - he becomes the commander of the convoy, who is to transport a very dangerous prisoner to a psychiatric hospital. Members of his team are people with a complicated past. Among them is also Feliks, full of ideals, privately the husband of Nowacki's daughter, who should never have found himself in a prisoner. The prison director, having lost control of the convoy, chases to repair, and may hide the uncomfortable truth for him. The real purpose of the convoy is slowly coming to light. Conflicts arise between men and tension increases, with unexpected twists every minute. From now on, justice can be done on its own.

Convoy

2017

Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto poster
7.0

Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about several basic themes of human existence in relation to the Shoah: how was it possible to enjoy love, tenderness, passion and lust while the whole world was crumbling and burning around.

Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto

2019

Niekoniecznie o Jędrzeju poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Niekoniecznie o Jędrzeju

2016

2000s · 8 titles

The Last Action poster
6.2

When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on.

The Last Action

2009

Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca poster
6.2

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński is secretly abducted from the Primate’s Palace and sent into solitary confinement at Stoczek Warmiński, accompanied by Father Stanisław, recently freed from Rawicz, and Sister Leonia, coerced from Grudziądz, forming an unlikely retinue in his enforced exile. As state spies and the camp commandant conspire to break the Primate’s resolve, Father Stanisław risks everything to smuggle word of Wyszyński’s whereabouts to the outside, hoping to foil the regime’s darkest “third variant.”

Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca

2000

All That I Love poster
6.6

Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside perceptions.

All That I Love

2009

Never Say Never poster
5.8

Thirty-year-old Ama is a brilliant, ice-cold headhunter for global corporations whose polished single life in Warsaw conceals her deep longing to become a mother. When she breaks her own professional code to go on a date with Marek, the handsome Silicon Valley recruit she’s placed, her controlled world is disrupted.

Never Say Never

2009

Wielkie rzeczy: Sieć poster
8.0

Cezary and Danuta's relationship almost breaks up when her husband discovers that his wife has a cell phone and probably cheats on him.

Wielkie rzeczy: Sieć

2001

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

No Mercy poster
5.9

When a nototious gangster murders a senior police officer, the cop's three closest friends embark upon a dangerous quest for answers - and revenge.

No Mercy

2002

The Death of Captain Pilecki poster
5.8

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and enable the Polish government-in-exile to inform the allies about the ongoing Holocaust in occupied Poland. The film also tells the story of Witold Pilecki’s fate at the hands of the Communist government after the end of WWII. The film is a reconstruction of the trial which took place in Warsaw during the communist regime in Poland. Captain Pilecki described his investigation as more cruel than his stay at Auschwitz.

The Death of Captain Pilecki

2006

1990s · 2 titles

Series credits

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Kryminalni

2004

The Chairman's Ear poster
7.5

The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders.

The Chairman's Ear

2017

The Convict poster
6.9

The successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her strictness towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit.

The Convict

2021

Angel of Death poster
6.7

A small-town policewoman is chasing a vicious serial killer; at stake is first a country girl's life, and then her own life.

Angel of Death

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Galeria

2012

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

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

Ultraviolet poster
6.9

An online community of amateur sleuths use technology to solve crimes -- and make quirky friends -- in their quest for justice.

Ultraviolet

2017

The Border poster
7.4

After a bombing attack at the Poland–Ukraine border which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow tries to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.

The Border

2014

Tenant poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tenant

2023

Sfora poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Sfora

2002

Sins of the Fathers poster
6.9

A retired policeman and a former criminal must face their past when their daughters' lives are suddenly put at risk in this gangster thriller shining a light on the dark and dangerous activities of the Warsaw Mafia.

Sins of the Fathers

2019

Family Secrets poster
5.9

On the day of the wedding of a medical student with a wealthy plastic surgeon, the families of the young couple realize that the only thing they have in common are secrets and lies. The secrets of both sides will be revealed during the wedding ceremony.

Family Secrets

2022

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

Agentki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Agentki

2008

Mountain Rescue Team poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mountain Rescue Team

2010

Twarze i maski poster
NR

Series set behind the scenes of a Warsaw theater during the last twenty-five years of the 20th century. The creators’ ambition was to explore the interplay between life and art, and how these realms intertwine in the lives of the characters. Each episode features its own protagonist and its own play, usually set within a broader social, political, and cultural context.

Twarze i maski

2001

Stacyjka poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Stacyjka

2004

Młody Piłsudski poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Młody Piłsudski

2019