Jerzy Block

Acting

Jerzy Block

Born — Died

1904-03-20 — 1996-06-29

Place of birth

Grabica (obecnie łódzkie), Rosja, (obecnie Polska)

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 16 titles

The Quack poster
7.5

A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.

The Quack

1982

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents poster
5.8

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents

1986

I Love Cinema poster
8.0

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

I Love Cinema

1988

The Weather Forecast poster
6.7

When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.

The Weather Forecast

1983

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

Spokojne lata poster
9.0

Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.

Spokojne lata

1982

On the Banks of the Niemen poster
5.3

Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between Justyna Orzelska, niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz. Will their love be strong enough to break the mental barrier that separates the world of Bohatyrowicz from the world of Korczyński?

On the Banks of the Niemen

1987

Miłość z listy przebojów poster
5.0

Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.

Miłość z listy przebojów

1985

Follies of Miss Eva poster
7.0

From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.

Follies of Miss Eva

1985

The Linnet poster
6.7

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree — a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.

The Linnet

1982

No artwork available
8.0

A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site.

Ślepy bokser

1982

No artwork available
NR

In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.

Tętno

1986

No artwork available
10.0

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi

1983

Dog poster
10.0

A young couple's dog becomes a subject of crutiny by the other residents of their apartment complex, setting off a bureacratic nightmare in this satire of Polish society.

Dog

1981

Fort 13 poster
6.5

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.

Fort 13

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Biała Gorączka

1981

1970s · 13 titles

How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape poster
7.6

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.

How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

1970

Through and Through poster
6.2

Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime.

Through and Through

1973

No artwork available
6.2

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.

Zofia

1976

No artwork available
NR

Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil offers him youth and knowledge of the meaning of existence. Faust becomes a beautiful young man. He meets a young, virtuous girl Margaret - he asks Mephistopheles for help in seducing her.

Faust

1976

The Ring of Queen Ann poster
6.5

Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.

The Ring of Queen Ann

1971

God's Finger poster
6.2

A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor.

God's Finger

1973

Whiter Than Snow poster
7.0

A film crew arrives at an eighty-year-old writer's mansion to interview him. The behavior of the host's wife raises concerns in one of the reporters.

Whiter Than Snow

1976

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

Signs on the Road poster
10.0

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.

Signs on the Road

1970

The Epidemic poster
9.0

Based on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.

The Epidemic

1972

Grzech Antoniego Grudy poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Grzech Antoniego Grudy

1975

Fortune poster
NR

A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars.

Fortune

1973

Rush Hour poster
5.5

The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill.

Rush Hour

1974

1960s · 11 titles

Pharaoh poster
6.8

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.

Pharaoh

1966

Salto poster
6.4

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

Salto

1965

Skok poster
5.7

Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery.

Skok

1969

Mężczyźni na wyspie poster
7.0

Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.

Mężczyźni na wyspie

1962

No artwork available
10.0

A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.

Decyzja

1960

The Red and the Gold poster
5.2

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.

The Red and the Gold

1969

The Lost Bridge poster
8.0

Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.

The Lost Bridge

1963

Skąpani w ogniu poster
6.8

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

Skąpani w ogniu

1963

No artwork available
NR

A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.

Co jest w człowieku w środku

1969

The People from the Train poster
6.3

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

The People from the Train

1961

The Catastrophe poster
8.0

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

The Catastrophe

1966

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