Krzysztof Majchrzak

Acting

Krzysztof Majchrzak

Born 1948-03-02 · Gdańsk, pomorskie, Polska

Acting credits

Inland Empire poster
7.0

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Inland Empire

2006

More Things That Happened poster
6.2

A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror INLAND EMPIRE.

More Things That Happened

2007

Lynch 2 poster
6.0

Follow up of the Lynch documentary on the making of INLAND EMPIRE. Released as an extra on the INLAND EMPIRE DVD.

Lynch 2

2007

Quo Vadis poster
5.6

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for his concubine. For Lygia, a Christian, being a pagan's concubine is a severe sin and disgrace. However, when Vinicius is wounded, Lygia cares for him, and starts to reciprocate his feelings. Vinicius, in return, becomes interested in Christian learning and asks Apostle Peter to teach him. In the meantime, Emperor Nero accuses Christians of having started a great fire in Rome. He encourages the imprisonment, torture and murder of his Christian subjects.

Quo Vadis

2001

Pornography poster
6.0

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.

Pornography

2003

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

The Promised Land poster
7.3

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

The Promised Land

1975

Polish Cuisine poster
4.8

A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.

Polish Cuisine

1991

Yesterday poster
5.5

Set in the 60's in a provincial town: four high school teenagers approach graduation, but all they think about are The Beatles.

Yesterday

1985

Wściekły poster
8.3

Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.

Wściekły

1980

The Secret of Marabou's Code poster
NR

Kajetan Chrumps, a dog and famous detective, along with his feline assistant, Kot Makawity, endeavour to solve the mystery of a local film director's disappearance and find themselves in pursuit of a shapeshifting reptilian criminal at large on an impersonation spree.

The Secret of Marabou's Code

1980

Leisure Time poster
7.0

Poland in the mid-1970s. In a small town, the student theater is preparing its premiere.

Leisure Time

1979

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

Dziady. Część III poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dziady. Część III

1981

Axiliad poster
6.8

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.

Axiliad

1986

Chopin: Desire for Love poster
5.2

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

Chopin: Desire for Love

2002

Golem poster
6.9

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.

Golem

1980

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

No artwork available
NR

The year 1863 the end of the January Uprising - against the Russians, its phase of collapse. One of the last insurgents, Andrzej Winrych, disguises himself as a peasant and smuggles weapons. However, he is noticed by a Russian patrol. The witness of the unfolding tragedy is a Polish peasant.

Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces

2000

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization poster
6.9

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

1985

Aria for an Athlete poster
6.8

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.

Aria for an Athlete

1979

The Leaves Have Fallen poster
5.7

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.

The Leaves Have Fallen

1975

No artwork available
7.0

Roman is a young, talented composer, but he is constantly plagued by bad luck. He earns extra money by anonymously writing music for his less talented colleagues. One day, he meets a friend from school who promises him a generous reward for doing him a small favor. By helping him, Roman becomes involved in a smuggling scandal involving people in prominent positions. The operation is led by Jerzy, who has unlimited power. Roman falls in love with his wife, Anna. Love becomes the driving force behind exposing the gang.

V.I.P.

1991

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

Behind the camera