Wojciech Pokora

Acting

Wojciech Pokora

Born — Died

1934-10-02 — 2018-02-04

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

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.

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 Nanny (PL) poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

The Nanny (PL)

2005

The Doll poster
7.8

The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka. Causing a misalliance in the late nineteenth century Warsaw. Young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed uprising, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. Upon return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman. Marrying the late shop owner's widow, he becomes rich, He uses his money set up a partnership with a Russian merchant, met in the exile. The two makes a fortune supplying the Russian army. Wokulski falls in love with Izabela, daughter of the bankrupt aristocrat. In his quest to win her, he ventures theatres and aristocratic salons. To help her financially distressed father, he founds a company with the aristocrats as shareholders. Wokulski ability to make money is respected, but his lack of social rank is often brought. Izabela eventually accepts his affection, but without true devotion or love.

The Doll

1978

4 Alternative Street poster
8.4

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

4 Alternative Street

1986

Nights and Days poster
8.0

Set in the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the miniseries presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society as told through the life of the Niechcic family.

Nights and Days

1978

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy poster
7.5

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

1980

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

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

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

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

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

Koniec sezonu na lody poster
7.0

The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.

Koniec sezonu na lody

1988

Palace Hotel poster
9.0

The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.

Palace Hotel

1983

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

No artwork available
9.0

A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.

Na melinę

1981

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

1970s · 9 titles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1960s · 15 titles

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

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

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy poster
7.0

Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.

Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy

1967

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

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

No artwork available
5.0

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

Liczę na wasze grzechy

1964

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

This is Your New Son poster
7.0

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.

This is Your New Son

1967

Ostrożnie yeti poster
3.8

Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twisted and hence the whole misunderstanding.

Ostrożnie yeti

1961

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

No artwork available
NR

Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.

Martians

1967

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

The Unknown poster
8.0

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.

The Unknown

1964

No artwork available
8.0

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

Buty

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Księżyc z Alabamy

1961

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 Nanny (PL) poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

The Nanny (PL)

2005

The Doll poster
7.8

The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka. Causing a misalliance in the late nineteenth century Warsaw. Young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed uprising, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. Upon return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman. Marrying the late shop owner's widow, he becomes rich, He uses his money set up a partnership with a Russian merchant, met in the exile. The two makes a fortune supplying the Russian army. Wokulski falls in love with Izabela, daughter of the bankrupt aristocrat. In his quest to win her, he ventures theatres and aristocratic salons. To help her financially distressed father, he founds a company with the aristocrats as shareholders. Wokulski ability to make money is respected, but his lack of social rank is often brought. Izabela eventually accepts his affection, but without true devotion or love.

The Doll

1978

4 Alternative Street poster
8.4

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

4 Alternative Street

1986

Nights and Days poster
8.0

Set in the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the miniseries presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society as told through the life of the Niechcic family.

Nights and Days

1978

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy poster
7.5

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

1980

Subs poster
7.8

"Zmiennicy" is a grotesque comedy of absurdity and reality that masterfully blends slapstick, satire, and surrealism to expose the absurdities of life under communist rule in the People's Republic of Poland (PRL). The story follows Jacek Żytkiewicz, a taxi driver in Warsaw, and his mysterious new shift partner, Katarzyna Piórecka, who disguises herself as a man to get the job. The series is a comedy of the grotesque, filled with exaggerated characters, nonsensical bureaucracy, and surreal plot twists. It mocks the inefficiencies and contradictions of PRL institutions—from corrupt officials and inept police to bizarre workplace dynamics and social hypocrisy. Underneath the absurdity lies a thriller-like subplot: a drug trafficking operation smuggling heroin from Thailand to West Germany. This storyline, featuring shady sports officials, a Thai student, and a crooked firefighter, adds a layer of intrigue reminiscent of American crime dramas.

Subs

1987

Przygody psa Cywila poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Przygody psa Cywila

1968

Czterdziestolatek. Dwadzieścia lat później poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Czterdziestolatek. Dwadzieścia lat później

1993

Właśnie leci kabarecik poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Właśnie leci kabarecik

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