Krystyna Tkacz

Acting

Krystyna Tkacz

Born

1947-03-19 (79)

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 8 titles

Dark, Almost Night poster
3.9

A 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

Bad Luck Good Love poster
4.6

Successful businesswoman Natalia shuns romance until she witnesses her best friend and business partner Piotr bet his fiancée Weronika that Natalia won’t date or fall in love for three months. Determined to prove them wrong, and surprising even herself, Natalia embarks on a journey where closing her heart may be harder than she ever imagined.

Bad Luck Good Love

2018

George the Hedgehog poster
4.5

Jez Jerzy is a skateboarding hedgehog who likes to drink beer and fondle breasts. He finds it hard to pursue his passions, however, while being tormented by neo-nazi skinheads, mad scientists and a drooling, flatulent clone of himself.

George the Hedgehog

2011

Neighborhooders poster
5.5

Ogrodowa Street in Lódz - just opposite a crowded shopping center, a state-of-the-art museum and a posh hotel - is where some of the city's poorest live, completely forgotten by the world. A heart-warming and funny portrait of people excluded from the mainstream of social life; people who might be more capable of sacrifice and love than those who pushed them to the sidelines of society.

Neighborhooders

2014

Whisky with Milk poster
NR

A story of some love. Is love and life always dependent on chance? Or perhaps from destiny? The problem of the loneliness of the individual among people and the low sensitivity of society towards the underprivileged by fate.

Whisky with Milk

2010

Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku poster
4.8

The plot is a series of unfortunate events happening to unremarkable characters. The father of the main character, Sigismund, unexpectedly decides to marry an unknown, mysterious woman. Shortly after this event, he loses all his money, and his son, Andrew, decides to get it back by abducting a suspicious girl, with whom he immediately falls in love. In addition, Sigismund has to face his wife's relentless admirer, and the whole, already tense enough family situation is complicated by the affair of his adult daughter. In addition, the plot is enriched by Jan Frycz in the role of a doctor who is not indifferent to the charms of his sexy nurse, an attractive student with a head full of crazy ideas, the head of a gas station, whose refueling has become a habit, as well as many unusual characters.

Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku

2011

Wesele w Kurnej Chacie poster
NR

A film tragicomedy realized in the convention of a musical. The whole is based on new performances of songs by Jan Kaczmarek, which form a universal story about Poland and Poles, our history, our myths, fantasies, dreams and vices.

Wesele w Kurnej Chacie

2016

How Deep Is the Ocean? poster
10.0

Marek wakes up in the belly of a whale, where he meets his deceased loved ones.

How Deep Is the Ocean?

2013

2000s · 8 titles

Day of the Wacko poster
7.6

It 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

Where Eskimos Live poster
6.9

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.

Where Eskimos Live

2002

Reverse poster
7.1

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.

Reverse

2009

A Few People, a Little Time poster
6.3

The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life.

A Few People, a Little Time

2007

Satan from the 7th Grade poster
5.3

A smart teenager Adam Cisowski is asked by his teacher to help him solve the mysterious case of robbed house doors in his mansion.

Satan from the 7th Grade

2007

Moje miasto poster
7.0

This is a story about the inhabitants of a block of flats standing alone on the outskirts of an industrial city. Unemployment, lack of prospects, and powerlessness create a special aura in which events unfold. The main character, 25-year-old Goździk, has lived here since he was born. He does not work or study.

Moje miasto

2002

Złoty środek poster
4.6

Raised in Warsaw's Praga, Mirka graduated from the prestigious faculty of law. It would seem that her profession would even be detracted from the honor of a family with cunning roots. The girl's grandfather and father pride themselves on stays in numerous prisons. However, Mirka's legal knowledge can be very useful in the fight to save the old tenement house. As a result of a suspicious transaction, the tenement house where Mirka has been living since childhood is to be demolished. All the leads lead to the law firm "Łopian i Pokrzywa", which is just looking for a new lawyer - a man. In order to help the inhabitants of the family tenement house, Mirka must engage in a daring hoax. She is helped by her uncle Bogumił, a makeup artist and a representative of a sexual minority. Thanks to him, a beautiful girl will turn into a handsome young man and hire him in a suspicious office.

Złoty środek

2009

No artwork available
NR

To a couple, at the age of menopause, who are unexpectedly born a coveted son. Both the mother and father of the child, impressed by the miracle of this birth, want to give the child a name with special meaning. The name has significant religious connotations for the Polish mentality.

Polska nowela filmowa

2009

1990s · 14 titles

Yes, Yes poster
4.2

Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.

Yes, Yes

1993

Nothing Funny poster
6.9

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.

Nothing Funny

1996

Smacznego, telewizorku poster
6.7

The TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into their set, vanishing from the living room. Their three bewildered children must band together to pull Mom and Dad back out of the television before they’re lost forever.

Smacznego, telewizorku

1992

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

Escape from the Liberty Cinema poster
6.3

The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.

Escape from the Liberty Cinema

1990

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach poster
7.5

During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station in Koluszki. Railway communications are disrupted. At the same time, a train is stuck in snowdrifts near Koluszki. The atmosphere in its carriages is cheerful. Some passengers, who are in a hurry to connect to other stations, get off and walk to the station in Koluszki. Among them is Andrzej Roszak, a young man rushing to Warsaw, and probably his peer Basia. Shortly after them, Mr. Walerek, a political activist who was on his way to a ball at the Central Committee, Mr. Rozbicki and his wife, who had just returned from a contract in Iraq, Matyjak, a television star, journalist Przoniak, and others arrive at the station in Koluszki. At the deserted station, the passengers efficiently organize a New Year's Eve party. During the revelry, the participants gradually reveal their hidden complexes, frustrations, and hopes.

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach

1990

At the End of the World poster
7.0

The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands, using it as a tool in his election campaign. In the queue outside the passport office, people chat, make plans, and ponder what's worth selling abroad. Writers observe the world around them. One of them is applying for a passport. In Dzierżyński Square, the monument to Feliks Edmundowicz is being dismantled. Two drunk men sleep on a bench, and behind them is a sign reading: "All is well." The two writers observe the ongoing transformation of the political system.

At the End of the World

1994

Człowiek z... poster
5.3

Journalist Anna is trying to make a documentary about an opposition activist she met years ago.

Człowiek z...

1993

Cynga poster
6.5

A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a camp in Siberia. He will spend the war in a psychiatric hospital.

Cynga

1991

Matka swojej matki poster
6.2

Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides to find her biological mother. When Alicja finds the real mother, the life of the main characters changes, and the positive relationships that linked them become blurred.

Matka swojej matki

1996

Call me Rockefeller poster
7.0

In the absence of their parents, the Malinowski kids are robbed. Instead of going to the police though they decide to regain the stolen money themselves.

Call me Rockefeller

1990

Sequence of Feelings poster
5.4

A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet" in a backwater town. Upon arriving he realizes his mistake and is packing to leave when Julia, a beautiful blonde teenager appears at his hotel room door, the starstruck emissary from a local fan club. The encounter triggers a host of erotic fantasies and dreams for Nawrot, who decides to stay in town after all. Although his dreams more or less come true when Julia becomes sexually involved with him, his growing obsession with the young woman is paralleled by her emotional growth in a simultaneous relationship with a lover her own age.

Sequence of Feelings

1993

No artwork available
7.0

Four friends work out the interests of a dishonest businessman.

Goodbye Rockefeller

1993

November poster
5.0

Medical student Sara has visions; she notices telekinesis abilities in herself. She is afraid to admit to anyone that after each loss of consciousness she finds traces of the murders and mutilations she has committed....

November

1992

1980s · 8 titles

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes poster
6.4

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

1986

No artwork available
NR

Jakub, who is dominated by his mother, invites a healer to his home.

Pokój dziecinny

1987

The Ring and the Rose poster
5.8

A messenger of King Padella arrives at the castle of King Valoroz XXIV of Paflagonia. He announces the arrival of Prince Bulba, who wants to ask for the hand of Princess Angelica. Lulejko, Valoroz's nephew and rightful ruler, lies in a fever. He is cared for by his maid Rózia, who secretly has a crush on the prince. But he is already engaged to Angelika, so he does not understand Bulba's efforts to win her hand. When Angelika throws away the ring she received from Luleika, it turns out that she owed the gem her beauty. Meanwhile, the ugly Gburia-Furia finds the ring.

The Ring and the Rose

1987

Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2 poster
7.0

Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.

Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2

1989

Caged poster
7.0

Władysław is declared a hero after controlling panic in a bank archive fire.

Caged

1988

The Last Schoolbell poster
6.8

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.

The Last Schoolbell

1989

Citizen Piszczyk poster
5.9

This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.

Citizen Piszczyk

1989

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Zabawa w Chowanego

1984

Series credits

Dom poster
7.3

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Dom

1980

Adam i Ewa poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Adam i Ewa

2000

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Leśniczówka

2018

Calling 07 poster
7.5

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Calling 07

1976

Boża podszewka. Część druga poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Boża podszewka. Część druga

2005

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

Tulipan poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Tulipan

1987

Wszystkie pieniądze świata poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wszystkie pieniądze świata

1999

Doktor Murek poster
8.0

The story of the ups and downs of the magistrate Franciszek Murek. After losing his state job, the protagonist assumes the identity of a foreigner Franz Klamma and makes a career in the aristocratic salons of Warsaw as a master of occultism.

Doktor Murek

1979

Życie Kamila Kuranta poster
9.0

Adaptation of several autobiographical novels by Zbigniew Uniłowski, a well-known writer of the interwar period: "Common Room", "Recruit Day", "Twenty Years of Life". The first three episodes are a story about the maturation of a teenage boy in a poor urban environment. The next ones show an adult hero who tries to become a writer.

Życie Kamila Kuranta

1983

Żegnaj Rockefeller poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Żegnaj Rockefeller

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Będziesz moja

2006