Jerzy Grałek

Acting

Jerzy Grałek

Born — Died

1946-06-23 — 2016-02-15

Place of birth

Sosnowiec, śląskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

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

Into Deep Water poster
5.7

A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.

Into Deep Water

2011

Blood for Blood poster
7.7

*Blood for Blood (2012)* follows Job, a methodical Dutch undercover cop whose life shatters when his wife is murdered. Consumed by grief and disillusioned with official justice, he goes rogue. Using his expert skills, he infiltrates Amsterdam's brutal drug underworld alone, not to enforce the law, but to hunt his wife's killers. As he descends, the line between cop and criminal vanishes in this tense thriller about the corrosive, transformative power of vengeance.

Blood for Blood

2012

Blisko, coraz bliżej poster
8.0

The 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

On the Silver Globe poster
7.6

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

On the Silver Globe

1989

Trzecia granica poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Trzecia granica

1976

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 7 titles

The Last Days poster
5.5

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the son of a murderer, and Zosia, a young woman, come together for a wedding against a backdrop of changing politics, ancient traditions, and the uncertain future of a country.

The Last Days

1999

Death as a Slice of Bread poster
7.5

Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. A group of Zomovniks, smashing union security, drags the chairman of the Company Commission of the NSZZ Solidarity in the Wujek mine out of his apartment. The news quickly spreads to the miners. Initially surprised, they soon react with spontaneous protest. On December 14, a strike breaks out at the plant. The miners demand the lifting of martial law and the release of the chairman. When negotiations fail, the army, ZOMO and militia storm the mine.

Death as a Slice of Bread

1994

Antigone in New York poster
NR

Ancient tragedy in modern times.

Antigone in New York

1995

Squadron poster
5.8

A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...

Squadron

1992

No artwork available
9.0

A young woman comes home to a half-empty apartment, and she feels alone. An older man walks through the corridors of a half-empty airport, and he feels alone and sad. He takes a photograph out of his wallet, tears it in two and drops it on the moving walkway. Both are torn in two. A girl in Paris is alone with a cat. A man arrives in Warsaw, and a woman is there to meet him. She drives him to his parents’ home. An accident, a murder—nothing alters the imperturbable course of life.

L'Aube à l'envers

1995

Płaszcz poster
NR

Akaky Akakyevich Bashmachkin, a titular counsellor at one of the St. Petersburg offices, has been harassed and ridiculed by everyone for 33 years. For this gentle-hearted failure in life, his only dream is to own a coat, because as the owner of "the most beautiful coat in the world," he can finally feel equal to other people.

Płaszcz

1999

No artwork available
6.5

Christmas is coming. In a letter to Santa Claus, Ania writes that she would like to get a brother, but she only gets a doll. Then she is offended and cannot believe that no one believes in Santa Claus. Ania goes to meet Krzyś, the boy from the neighborhood. It turns out that he has never been visited by Santa Claus, so Ania dresses up as Santa Claus and gives him 3 gifts. Meanwhile, Krzyś is already 4 years old, so he should get 4 gifts.

Gdzie jesteś, święty Mikołaju?

1996

1980s · 4 titles

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

Into Deep Water poster
5.7

A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.

Into Deep Water

2011

Blood for Blood poster
7.7

*Blood for Blood (2012)* follows Job, a methodical Dutch undercover cop whose life shatters when his wife is murdered. Consumed by grief and disillusioned with official justice, he goes rogue. Using his expert skills, he infiltrates Amsterdam's brutal drug underworld alone, not to enforce the law, but to hunt his wife's killers. As he descends, the line between cop and criminal vanishes in this tense thriller about the corrosive, transformative power of vengeance.

Blood for Blood

2012

Blisko, coraz bliżej poster
8.0

The 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

Trzecia granica poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Trzecia granica

1976

Crimen poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Crimen

1990