Jan Kobuszewski

Acting

Jan Kobuszewski

Born 1934-04-19 · Warsaw, Poland

Acting credits

Richie poster
4.4

Chased by mafia boss Kreda over a mistaken €2 million debt, club president Ryszard Ochódzki follows consigliere Maria Wafel’s advice to sell land to Father Pudło, only to hatch an even bigger bank fraud with banker Koziczek to raise the cash. Flush with stolen funds and briefly enjoying political office, he hides the money in the Molibdenów home, but just as he and coach Jarząbek plan to retrieve it, contract killer Dukan closes in.

Richie

2007

Klub kawalerów poster
7.3

A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.

Klub kawalerów

1962

The Attempt poster
7.0

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

The Attempt

1959

Naprawdę wczoraj poster
5.5

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.

Naprawdę wczoraj

1963

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

Gold Dreams poster
5.8

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

Gold Dreams

1962

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

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

Ewa Wants to Sleep poster
6.8

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Ewa Wants to Sleep

1958

Kalosze szczęścia poster
4.8

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.

Kalosze szczęścia

1958

Hello, Fred the Beard poster
6.8

The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.

Hello, Fred the Beard

1978

Hell and Heaven poster
6.5

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

Hell and Heaven

1966

The Twenties, the Thirties poster
6.3

On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.

The Twenties, the Thirties

1984

The Hours of Hope poster
6.4

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

The Hours of Hope

1955

Rozmowy przy wycinaniu lasu poster
7.0

TV staging of Polish contemporary drama. Stanislaw Tym returned to the text, which is preceded by a special dedication: "To all the carps in Poland I dedicate - the author." The story of lumberjacks leading a life in a forest glade gives the essence of both the reality in which the play was written and relates to today. Conversations about fish, this and that fill the time of the woodcutters, whose main occupation is waiting. Every day they wait for the Axe Man to come and distribute their work tools, only to collect them again after the day's work is done.

Rozmowy przy wycinaniu lasu

1999

April poster
9.0

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

April

1961

Zawsze w niedziele poster
6.3

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.

Zawsze w niedziele

1966

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne poster
6.7

A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.

Niebieskie jak Morze Czarne

1973

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

Warszawska syrena poster
9.0

A fairy tale film based on an ancient legend about the founding of Warsaw and the good fairy Sirene of the Mazovian forests, who became the patron saint of the city.

Warszawska syrena

1956

Jacek and Placek poster
7.0

The two twins, Jacek and Placek, start out as cruel and lazy boys whose main interest is eating, eating anything, including chalk and a sponge in school. One day they have the idea of stealing the moon; after all, it is made of gold.

Jacek and Placek

1989

What is Dudek? poster
NR

The "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker during rehearsals. The stars of Polish acting could be seen on stage, accompanied by excellent songs by Wojciech Młynarski.

What is Dudek?

1967