Andrzej Jurczak

Acting

Andrzej Jurczak

Born — Died

1941-01-29 — 2005-12-20

Place of birth

Warszawa, Generalna Gubernia (obecnie Polska)

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

More Than Life At Stake poster
8.0

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

More Than Life At Stake

1968

Clouds of War poster
6.4

Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.

Clouds of War

1973

Dyrektorzy poster
7.0

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

Dyrektorzy

1975

Życie na gorąco poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Życie na gorąco

1979

Burial of a Potato poster
8.2

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.

Burial of a Potato

1990

Walkover poster
6.3

An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

Walkover

1965

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

The Dancing Hawk poster
5.2

A peasant’s son rises through the ranks of post-war Polish society like none of his ancestors ever could. Moving to the city, he becomes part of a new socialist order. But in leaving his rural roots behind, does he also abandon his soul?

The Dancing Hawk

1978

No artwork available
7.0

Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas.

Profesor na drodze

1973

Hubal poster
7.4

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.

Hubal

1973

Dark River poster
6.0

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.

Dark River

1974

Red Thorns poster
NR

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.

Red Thorns

1977

Green, Bygone... poster
9.0

A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling

Green, Bygone...

1976

A Face of an Angel poster
8.0

Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

A Face of an Angel

1971

Heaven on Earth poster
6.0

Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory.

Heaven on Earth

1970

Operation "Brutus" poster
9.0

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.

Operation "Brutus"

1971

Heads and Tails poster
7.5

In spring of 1954, thanks to amnesty, Marcin Nowak - a political prisoner - get released from prison and tries turn his life back to normal

Heads and Tails

1975

No artwork available
NR

A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.

Obcy w lesie

1972

No artwork available
10.0

The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take over the drop of weapons and ammunition from England. About 20 soldiers break out of the encirclement, including the commander - Major "Dziadek" - and his deputy - Captain Stańczyk. Partisans are trying to get to the ruins of a nearby castle, where the last ammo crate is supposed to have landed.

Day of Purification

1970

The Investigation poster
6.0

A Scotland Yard officer investigates the mysterious disappearance of a series of corpses. Based on the novel by Stanisław Lem.

The Investigation

1974

No artwork available
6.5

An old man's death leads to a high-profile police investigation, who connect the crime with the search for lost corsair treasure.

Skarb trzech łotrów

1972

Zawodowcy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zawodowcy

1975

1960s · 14 titles

Walkover poster
6.3

An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

Walkover

1965

The Devil from Seventh Grade poster
6.6

Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous.

The Devil from Seventh Grade

1960

The Tender Age poster
8.0

Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolphe to the screen in amateur format. Armed with a sixteen-millimeter camera and a team of friends, Henri embarks on this adventure, playing the role of Adolphe himself. Despite all the warnings, he lived through the passion and ordeal of the novel's hero, right to the end. Different times and circumstances will not change this.

The Tender Age

1968

Lenin in Poland poster
5.5

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.

Lenin in Poland

1966

Zakochani są między nami poster
6.0

A man and a woman pose as a couple to enter a photography contest.

Zakochani są między nami

1965

Westerplatte Resists poster
7.3

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

Westerplatte Resists

1967

Bitwa o Kozi Dwór poster
7.0

A group of boys in pre-war Warsaw fight for the right to train at an abandoned square.

Bitwa o Kozi Dwór

1962

Place on Earth poster
8.0

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.

Place on Earth

1960

Komedianty poster
5.5

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

Komedianty

1962

New Year's Eve Adventure poster
9.0

A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.

New Year's Eve Adventure

1963

"Yokmok" poster
6.3

Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him suspicious in the eyes of the local government.

"Yokmok"

1963

Pięciu poster
8.0

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine.

Pięciu

1964

Echo poster
6.8

It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife. One day, he receives a letter from the prosecutor’s office. He’s accused of collaborating with the Gestapo. It’s an echo of his past under occupation.

Echo

1964

No artwork available
NR

The fourth of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 8 and 9.

More Than Life At Stake Part Four

1969

Series credits