
Acting
Ewa Ziętek
Born
1953-03-08 (73)
Place of birth
Stalinogród (obecnie Katowice), śląskie, Polska
Known for
Acting
Credits
57 titles
Known for
7.3The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980
5.0An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.
Instynkt
2011
3.0Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.
How to Become Crazy Rich in Eastern Europe
2023
7.2Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
Janosik
1974
4.0The true story of Polish fortunes and the story of the heroes from the first part has its colorful continuation. Can business friends continue to trust each other when even more money is at stake? How were state-owned companies privatized, garnering millions into private pockets? Who was pulling the strings in free Poland? Even more mysteries. Human weaknesses.
Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman 2
2023
8.0The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.
Blisko, coraz bliżej
1983
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
4.0The true story of Polish fortunes and the story of the heroes from the first part has its colorful continuation. Can business friends continue to trust each other when even more money is at stake? How were state-owned companies privatized, garnering millions into private pockets? Who was pulling the strings in free Poland? Even more mysteries. Human weaknesses.
Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman 2
2023
4.4Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where almost everything was forbidden?
Where the Devil Can't Go, He Sends a Woman
2022
4.5A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of the most important figures of the 20th century in the collective memory of Polish people.
Gierek
2022
2010s · 5 titles
5.4The unemployed taxi driver Klaus, the gay dog sitter Uwe and the strict nurse Inge did not have an easy childhood. Her mother died too early, the father then gave her home. Now the old man has died and for the hated Kurbjuweits is the Notarbesuch on. Klaus, Uwe, Inge and their daughter Jule now hope to inherit money and real estate - but they are surprised by an unusual testament. They have to scatter the ashes of the dead in places in their East Prussian homeland, which were important to the father. Together with the young Polish notary Krzysztow, who is supposed to supervise the proper implementation, they are leaving for good or ill. It takes them almost to Polish prison and soon to a wedding, where they understand better not only the father, but also himself better.
Heimat ist kein Ort
2015
5.9A weird family named Makarewicz moves into a house recently abandoned by its owner, set in an idyllic but isolated Masurian village. Very soon a number of local residents and a few visitors mysteriously disappear. Nobody suspects that their new neighbors are a perfectly camouflaged vampire family...
The Lullaby
2010
7.7The true story of rapper Tomasz Chada, a block‐born poet whose raw, brutally honest lyrics mirror his talent for falling into serious trouble. His life, defined by music as both passion and refuge, ends in unexplained circumstances, shocking his fans and the girlfriend he loved.
Proceder
2019
2.5Peter and Anne decide to find the perfect sperm donor. The trouble is, where can he be found. First, natural candidates tend to be closest friends and acquaintances. Then...the net is cast wider...
Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz
2010
A young hospital worker meets a patient awaiting abortion procedure. Their childhood stripped away from them too early, the two form a bond which might help them survive.
Charon
2015
2000s · 4 titles
7.6It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Day of the Wacko
2002
4.8Brothers Peter and David spend an evening together, lavishly sipped on alcohol. They complain about everything, most of all about their partners. Peter would like his beloved to be more romantic, while David dreams of a fiancée who is determined and demanding. They decide to put their girlfriends up for auction online to see which one is worth more. When they realize in the morning what they have done, they try to undo everything. It's not so easy, as the auction is very successful.
Kup teraz
2008
6.5Wroclaw, 1997. The city is threatened by flooding. Hospitals are being evacuated. Young ambitious psychiatrist Konstanty Grot takes a catatonic patient to the bus. He is a severe case, not responding to any attempts at contact. However, when the bus starts moving, he unexpectedly makes a gesture that awakens certain memories in the doctor. The psychiatrist decides to apply an unusual therapy.
Case Unknown
2009
6.5Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
We're All Christs
2006
1990s · 3 titles
8.0Berlin, 1990. At the invitation of his actor friends, who have already lived abroad for many years, Max, a Polish theater director, comes to Berlin. They begin to work together. They try to realize their dream: to stage a play, the staging of which was prevented by the imposition of martial law ten years earlier. The way they raise funds (selling pieces of the "historic" wall) and struggle against the heartless machinery of bureaucracy forms the axis of the film. In their efforts, the four protagonists are assisted by Regina, a translator familiar with local customs and practices. The film deals with the problems of artists in the new, commercializing reality.
Obcy musi fruwać
1993
7.1Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertising agency, faces a life choice: her ex-husband, who returns from the US after ten years, her current lover, an architect, or her former love from school...
Children and Fish
1996
A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
1999
1980s · 17 titles
Set in the 70's. A young man decides that after dropping out of school, going to the army is not for him. He decides to become a voluntary miner. He lives with his buddies in barracks, where the only entertainment is ping-pong, and dreams of the opposite sex.
Trzy stopy nad ziemią
1986
The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.
Remis
1984
NRAn adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Myshkin
1986
NRA Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive.
Morning Stars
1980
7.1The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man.
Tender Spots
1981
6.5Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
The Girls of Nowolipki
1986
4.5A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
Custody
1985
7.0The 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
4.9The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time in prison, where she is one of few political prisoners.
The Fiancee
1980
5.1The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.
Inner Life
1987
8.0In the 50's a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emegency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a second lease on life the tailor thinks that while in a coma he has communicated with the distant stars. He gives up tailoring and turns to the stars. He engages his friends in a village to build an observatory. He becomes recognized and for a time being even the authorities back him up. But then comes bitter awakening: his wife can't take his obsessions anymore and leaves him. The town council calls upon him to close his work as the first Sputnik goes into space. Then he is invited to an astronomical convention, He becomes the sensation of the conference, not however, as a amateur astronomer, but by guessing the clothing measurements of the delegates. Back home he realizes that his dream may be over, but he cannot help gazing at the sky. Written by Polish Cinema Database
The Planet 'Tailor'
1984
8.0With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.
Upside Down
1983
8.0A doctor working on finding a substance that would inhibit the growth of certain types of cancer learns that he has cancer. He decides to try an unproven drug on himself.
Break Away
1980
4.7Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
Art of Loving
1989
8.0A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
Przyśpieszenie
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Fetysz
1984
6.9The marriage struggling with financial problems decides to impress visiting relatives.
Party przy świecach
1980
1970s · 16 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Trzy Siostry
1974
7.3Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
The Wedding
1973
10.0Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.
Lazarus' Whims
1973
7.1A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Man of Marble
1977
5.8A dramatization of problems faced by a young couple in 1970's Poland - job uncertainty, conflicts with parents, living together, unfaithfulness.
To Kill This Love
1972
7.3Tadeusz 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
There has been a secret relationship between the nephew of the ordinate - Jan, and his older cousin Xymena. However, Jan falls in love with the foster daughter of the ordinate, the young Krystyna. The ordinate does not consent to marriage, because Krystyna is his illegitimate daughter, and thus Jan's cousin. But it turns out that Jan is not the son of the general's brother ...
Honor dziecka
1976
6.7In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
The Spiral
1978
Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.
Hasło
1977
9.0City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding...
All and Nobody
1978
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Wiśnie
1979
7.0The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.
Milioner
1977
7.5An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
Milion za Laurę
1971
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
Koty to dranie
1978
7.5This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.
Random Love Story
1974
7.0A story about the difficult experiences of a nine-year-old boy who tries to understand and assimilate the laws governing the world of adults. Left to himself, Tomek deeply experiences his anxieties and finally decides to rebel .
Nauka latania
1978
Series credits
7.3The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980
5.0An enigmatic commissioner joins the Warsaw Police, where her unconventional investigation methods unsettle the officers in the homicide department.
Instynkt
2011
3.0Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.
How to Become Crazy Rich in Eastern Europe
2023
7.2Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
Janosik
1974
8.0The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.
Blisko, coraz bliżej
1983
8.44 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
7.5Nikodem 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
7.9No synopsis available yet.
Tulipan
1987
NRA cheerful series about the adventures of a group of children living in the countryside, produced in a Polish-West German co-production (the pictures were taken in picturesque locations in Dąbrowa nad Czarna, as well as in sand caves near Sulejów). The biggest attraction of the area is the historic water mill, which becomes a great place for fun for an amused crowd. As is usually the case in the countryside, its equal inhabitants are - next to people - animals. No wonder the little heroes become friends with them. And so days go by together. Almost each of them brings a new, amazing and unexpected adventure. The child’s imagination makes even ordinary events take on the flavor of fairy tales and mystery.
Urwisy z Doliny Mlynów
1985
