
Acting
Modest Ruciński
Born
1979-03-24 (47)
Place of birth
Stalowa Wola, Poland
Known for
Acting
Credits
30 titles
Known for
5.7Kryminalni 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
6.8In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
Leave No Traces
2021
6.8A rock star with memory issues due to his alcoholism goes on a wild search to find his missing son.
Feedback
2023
5.0An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.
Instynkt
2011
5.5Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend in Warsaw. He is a deeply complex character, an irresponsible party animal, a serial lothario and everyone’s friend at the same time. Behind the veneer he is tormented and self-loathing, trapped by his parents and shackled by the culture and the times that shaped him.
Still Here
2023
6.6Two Slavic warriors do everything in their power to defend the village of Mirmiłowo from the evil order of Knaveknights.
Kayko and Kokosh
2021
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
6.8In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
Leave No Traces
2021
Juliusz Słowacki’s drama “Balladyna” is one of the author’s most recognizable works. The television production was directed by Wojciech Adamczyk. The play, written in 1834, arose from a fascination with Slavic culture, and its plot was inspired by Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Macbeth.” In his interpretation, Wojciech Adamczyk eschews the ludic elements, giving the story a darker character. The conflict centers on the relationship between two strong female characters: Balladyna and Goplana. Filled with lust, crime, and blood, it’s a story that rivals the emotional depth and richness of Game of Thrones or The Witcher. The world Słowacki describes is dark and dense with passion. The exotic landscape of European pagan mythologies is combined with early Christian aesthetics. Viewers accustomed to “school-style” interpretations of the play will be surprised by the poignantly contemporary vision of human fate in an original approach.
Balladyna
2021
NRThere is nothing greater than having a dinner with the family. Although it resembles a looped scenario that repeats itself endlessly. Recited with flying colors for many long years.
Your Own Bullshit
2020
5.8Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn’t help.
Dangerous Men
2023
NRMichal Szczesniak's staging combines the aesthetics of a psychological film and a comedy series. Moving the action of the drama to contemporary reality allows us to see a sad portrait of today's thirty- and forty-year-olds. She - an actress of the capital's theater and He - an acclaimed writer, decide to leave Poland. They emigrate to New York. Little did they think that, escaping the loans they took out in the belief of an eternal boom, they would end up locked in a small apartment in a neighborhood of dealers, prostitutes, thieves and artists. They slowly become slaves to the lies about their supposed success that they themselves spread online. Insomnia and anxiety make them paranoid.
Polowanie na karaluchy
2022
5.5Constant misfortune plagues two sisters until they discover a family curse and go on a comical mission to end it.
The Curse
2025
2010s · 6 titles
3.9A reporter, Alicja Tabor, after many years returns to her hometown of Wałbrzych to write a report about kidnapped children and also to face her own dark family history.
Dark, Almost Night
2019
5.7This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
The Girl from the Wardrobe
2013
6.3A 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
5.4Totally depressed thirty year-old woman decides to have an abortion. Waiting for the surgery, she spends a night with a father of her child.
Embarrassing Pictures from a Family Album
2018
6.6A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women’s Leage member – Ola, and Tadek, her fiancée, a member of Shooting Team.
Legions
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ta cholerna niedziela
2014
2000s · 7 titles
7.2Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever.
Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies
2007
8.0A portrait of cabinet intrigues, the false aspirations of the party elite and the grinding reality of the 1960s, or "our little stability." Robert Meller and Janusz Dymek's documentary drama concerns the famous 1964 meat scandal, in which three death sentences were demanded and one was adjudicated and executed. The victim was Stanislaw Wawrzecki. Ostensibly, it was about fraud and bribes in the meat industry. In fact, it was about covering up the government's economic ineptitude, shortages of supplies and directing the people's anger at a few defendants.
Afera Mięsna
2007
5.6It is a positive and optimistic story of two thirty-something people who are made for each other, Matylda and Bartek, who are needing and looking for love and closeness, but who are constantly missing each other in the course of their lives.
Night Conversations
2008
6.1Hania is a young journalist who suddenly discovers that she is more connected with dancing than she could ever imagine ...
Love and Dance
2009
6.2A young girl meets a gangster at a psychiatric hospital.
Louise's Garden
2008
4.8A story of nineteen years old girl who is trying to become a model.
Love on the Podium
2009
7.5The life of Jan Himilsbach (1931-1988) - stonemason, docker, sailor, actor, screenwriter and writer - is a collection of anecdotes on the one hand, and a string of overwhelming events on the other. As a juvenile shoemaker he was sent to a reformatory, as a railroad thief - to prison, and as a laborer - to a quarry in the God's Gift mine. The film uses interviews with Jan Himilsbach, excerpts from films featuring him, the song "Happiness, Where Are You," for which he wrote the lyrics, and autobiographical novellas set in Minsk Mazowiecki.
Himilsbach. Prawdy, bujdy, czarne dziury
2002
Series credits
5.7Kryminalni 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
6.8A rock star with memory issues due to his alcoholism goes on a wild search to find his missing son.
Feedback
2023
5.0An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.
Instynkt
2011
5.5Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend in Warsaw. He is a deeply complex character, an irresponsible party animal, a serial lothario and everyone’s friend at the same time. Behind the veneer he is tormented and self-loathing, trapped by his parents and shackled by the culture and the times that shaped him.
Still Here
2023
6.6Two Slavic warriors do everything in their power to defend the village of Mirmiłowo from the evil order of Knaveknights.
Kayko and Kokosh
2021
7.3Follow a woman's fight for justice for victims of sexual assault – and her own autonomy – in pre-WWII Poland.
Women's Hell
2026
7.1The heroes fight in the seemingly idyllic setting of the Karkonosze Mountains, against which the international drug trade takes place. Who will support the nameless avenger and who will stand behind the demonic boss of the local mafia? It's only a seemingly simple matter.
Simple Case
2024
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Polowanie na ćmy
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rafi
2023
No synopsis available yet.
Bestsellery Empiku
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Apetyt na życie
2010
