Elżbieta Okupska

Acting

Elżbieta Okupska

Born

1953-01-01 (73)

Place of birth

Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie, Polska

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 9 titles

Papusza poster
7.7

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.

Papusza

2013

Women's Day poster
6.4

Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for better wages and an improved standard of living is dishonesty, employee exploitation, and fraud.

Women's Day

2012

I'm a Killer poster
6.7

Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.

I'm a Killer

2016

It Looks Pretty from a Distance poster
4.8

A love story between a scrapper and a young woman. Seen through the monotony of everyday life the film depicts the hardships of a rural community in present-day Poland. The bucolic landscape becomes the seemingly idyllic backdrop from which a sudden disappearance disrupts their once quiet community.

It Looks Pretty from a Distance

2012

Dance Marathon poster
NR

An event, which main attraction is the dance marathon, has gathered crowds at the market square of the provincial Polish town. Impressive prizes compete with another attraction: the concert of the star singer Jessica. A local outsider Christian falls for the singer. Soon he discovers that her life is far from being a dream and decides to win her heart. In the crowd of marathon contestants we will meet many individuals who dream of winning the main prize for various motivations. Who will turn out to be the winner? Will there be a prize at all? Because two small-time crooks, Simon and Silvio, are lurking around. And why this persistent notion that our life is so often influenced by miracles...?

Dance Marathon

2011

Relax poster
5.5

Staff at the vacation home are preparing to welcome refugees.

Relax

2018

Field of Dogs poster
5.1

Adam survived a car accident that killed his partner, Basia, and his best friend, Kamil. From that moment, Adam, a poet and promising university literature professor, gave up teaching and found work and refuge in a shopping mall. Reading the Divine Comedy and sleeping provide him with respite from the tormenting pain. In his sleep, he can visit a parallel world where he encounters loved ones and ghosts of his imagination. Added to his personal suffering is that of Poland, devastated by natural and political disasters throughout 2010. Adam, like Dante with Beatrice, continues to have one goal before him: to find his beloved Basia.

Field of Dogs

2014

No artwork available
8.0

Jurek is 23 years old and he is a history student. He lives with his loving auntie, who raises him and supports him. Feeling that she is a cause and a symbol of his existential boredom, monotony and malaise, he reaches for the hammer…

Killing Auntie

2013

Fenomen poster
2.3

Olive is the daughter of a millionaire, spoiled by her loving dad, who fulfills her every whim. Deep down she dreams of true romantic love. Her best friend Jadźka tries to match her at every turn. Just like her friend she ends up with the wrong men. Their search for love is woven into the story of an unusual film production. Despite having no experience, the girls become producers. What will come out of this? Agnieszka is a star of soap operas, a top actress who has already achieved "everything" at a young age. She has fame, money, a boyfriend. She runs away from the set, swaps her limousine for a toddler, abandons her man. Is this just a star's fad? Meanwhile, a huge casting is organized in Plock, thousands of people come together. Everyone wants to present themselves as well as possible.

Fenomen

2010

2000s · 7 titles

Angelus poster
6.0

A commune built around the pursuit of spiritual perfection through the occult begins to see its prophecies come true.

Angelus

2001

I Am poster
6.6

A story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a second time by his alcoholic mother, who had earlier abandoned him, the resolute 11-year-old finds a "home" on a deserted old barge on the outskirts of his hometown. He is still an outcast, but he is an outcast on his own terms, rejecting both patronizing charitable gestures and coercion by local thugs. In the process he makes one true friend, a girl from an affluent family who is also an outcast, despite living in material comfort.

I Am

2005

Nie kłam kochanie poster
4.9

Ania, a sensitive, shy green-architecture student, tends the gardens of an elegant building and finds herself falling for its handsome tenant, Marcin. Ambitious and adept at lying to charm women, Marcin faces a sudden financial crisis he can only escape if his wealthy aunt Nela believes he’s already married, so he must persuade Ania to pose as his wife.

Nie kłam kochanie

2008

Benek poster
6.0

The miner leaves the mine and tries to start a new life.

Benek

2007

No artwork available
7.3

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview.

Solidarność, Solidarność...

2005

White Dress poster
6.1

Careerist Maciej gives a lift to a hitchhiker with opposite beliefs as they both head to their hometowns. In the meantime, the local community gets prepared for the annual Corpus Christi procession.

White Dress

2003

The World Is Waiting for Us poster
6.8

The film shows the gray reality of a Polish unemployed slacker still living (despite 30 on the neck) "on mommy's pot". Just what to do when one day she runs out? Where to get money for living?

The World Is Waiting for Us

2006

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