Wojciech Pokora

Acting

Wojciech Pokora

Born 1934-10-02 · Warsaw, Poland

Wojciech Pokora was born on October 2, 1934 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for Rozrywka po staropolsku (1985), Lalka (1978) and Rejs (1970). He died on February 4, 2018 in Warsaw.

Acting credits

Teddy Bear poster
7.8

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.

Teddy Bear

1981

Husband of His Wife poster
6.4

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.

Husband of His Wife

1961

Deserter's Gold poster
6.1

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.

Deserter's Gold

1998

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5.0

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

Liczę na wasze grzechy

1964

Bad Luck poster
6.8

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

Bad Luck

1960

High-Quality Cow Feed poster
NR

A satirical take on the issue of "sugran" – a new high-quality feed made from a mixture of dried fodder and whey. A satirical film directed against the squandering of social initiatives. Its critical tone led to a ban on its distribution. Ultimately, the film did not premiere until 1981.

High-Quality Cow Feed

1976

Brunet Will Call poster
6.9

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.

Brunet Will Call

1976

Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy poster
NR

Hanka Ordonówna is a star of pre-war Polish cabarets. The film begins in 1942 in the Middle East, in a British military camp located near the front line. Hanka runs a shelter for homeless Polish children. In her moments of respite, the singer, who is suffering from tuberculosis, recalls the various stages of her career.

Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy

1982

Man - Woman Wanted poster
7.6

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.

Man - Woman Wanted

1973

What do the Tigers Like? poster
4.7

Piotr tries to committ suicide after his wife leaves him. His friend Marek takes him on a trip to seaside resort Sopot to find love again. After many misadventures, Piotr tries to kill himself again, but finds love at the last moment.

What do the Tigers Like?

1989

Playing with the Devil poster
9.0

The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.

Playing with the Devil

1980

A Jungle Book of Regulations poster
6.9

Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.

A Jungle Book of Regulations

1974

What Will You Do When You Catch Me? poster
7.3

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

1978

Hydro-Puzzle poster
6.0

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

Hydro-Puzzle

1971

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

The Marriage of Convenience poster
5.9

Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a young, talented, but poor painter. However, the girl's father, Kazimierz Burczyk, decides to find a suitable husband for her himself. A shrewd tradesman, unwilling to disclose his income, searches for a candidate whose professional position would justify his possession of a villa, a car and many other material possessions. In the end, his choice falls on Andrew, who is unsuccessfully trying to sell paintings under the walls of Warsaw's Barbican.

The Marriage of Convenience

1967

The Cruise poster
7.1

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.

The Cruise

1970

Alone in the City poster
8.0

Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.

Alone in the City

1965

Tato, nie bój się dentysty poster
7.5

One man, a brave paratrooper, has a problem with a sore tooth, but is afraid to go to the dentist. He is brought to him by his several-year-old son. In the office, apart from the dentist, a plush toy awaits him - "Checkered dog", which the man remembers from his childhood. The doctor, by playing films with the participation of a dog on a VCR, means that the man, absorbed in watching his favorite childhood hero, does not pay attention to the run-offs and thus can extract the aching tooth.

Tato, nie bój się dentysty

1986

Where Is the Third King? poster
6.3

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.

Where Is the Third King?

1967

Człowiek z M-3 poster
7.2

A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife.

Człowiek z M-3

1969

When Love Was a Crime poster
10.0

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.

When Love Was a Crime

1968

Nowy poster
7.0

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Nowy

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