Karolina Gruszka

Acting

Karolina Gruszka

Born

1980-07-13 (46)

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Karolina Gruszka (born 13 July 1980) is a Polish actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1996. She was nominated for an award as Best Actress for her role in Kochankowie z Marony at the 2007 Polish Film Awards. In 2019, she appeared in the Icelandic movie Gullregn (English: Goldrain), directed by Ragnar Bragason. Although she previously did not know the language, she had to perform all her lines in Icelandic

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 19 titles

The American poster
6.8

American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

The American

2023

Operation Pope poster
6.3

At the Kremlin's behest, Bulgarian secret services, along with Polish comrades, prepare for an attempt on the Pope's life. The best candidate to cover up the tracks and eliminate the assassin is retired SB agent Konstanty Brusicki, nicknamed 'Bruno', who has only one month left to live.

Operation Pope

2025

Chopin, a Sonata in Paris poster
6.8

He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. Composing becomes his only obsession. The ticking clock rushes him to revolutionize music.

Chopin, a Sonata in Paris

2025

The Doll poster
7.4

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.

The Doll

2026

Too Old for Fairy Tales poster
6.3

In Waldek's life, filled mainly with computer games, there is a real earthquake. During her absence, mum stays under the care of a crazy and unpredictable aunt, who introduces discipline that has been alien to him so far and imposes new duties. But although an extraordinary relative gives Waldek a real survival camp, the boy also receives the most valuable life lesson from her.

Too Old for Fairy Tales

2022

Too Old for Fairy Tales 2 poster
6.5

Your favourite gamer trio is back! This time, Waldek, Staszek and Delfina will spend an adventure-packed summer in the Tatra Mountains. During the trip, Waldek accidentally finds out that his father – the man he has heard so much about from his mum, the person who abandoned his family a long time ago – lives nearby. The boy is determined to find him and ask him about the reasons for his decision. Together with Staszek, under the cover of night, they set out on their mission. The hazards of the mountain trail, however, are nothing compared to what Delfina will have to do. The creative teenager has to hide the truth about the boys’ disappearance from her aunt, the mother of Waldek and… her new partner. How will this secret mission affect the lives of all the characters? Will Waldek find an answer to the questions that haunt him and understand the actions of his father?

Too Old for Fairy Tales 2

2024

Death of Zygielbojm poster
5.8

A story about the tragic fate of a Jewish political activist who committed suicide on 12th May 1943 in London. What he did was supposed to be a sign of protest against the world’s passive attitude towards the tragedy of Holocaust. The story is told from the point of view of a young British journalist who, as most of the people living in the West back then, was unaware of the extent of the crime taking place in the east of Europe at that time.

Death of Zygielbojm

2021

Too Old for Fairy Tales 3 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Too Old for Fairy Tales 3

2026

The Garden poster
6.3

Indiana lives in a council estate and makes her living preying on the welfare system. In her small private garden she tends to her award winning tree. When her only son turns up with a foreign girlfriend - Indiana's world is upended.

The Garden

2020

Feast of Fire poster
6.2

The sisters struggle with their own bodies. One, driven by ambitions, seeks the limits of its possibilities, for the other, the body is a prison. One believes that ballet will save her from memories. The second observes the world from the balcony with such attention that she sees and hears more.

Feast of Fire

2023

Kaytek the Wizard poster
5.1

Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day, the troublemaker discovers that he’s got supernatural powers, which completely take over his life.

Kaytek the Wizard

2023

Pasikowski & Linda - W Czerwonym Kręgu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pasikowski & Linda - W Czerwonym Kręgu

2025

Miasto poster
4.7

The Lone Detective arrives in town to unravel a murder mystery.

Miasto

2021

Oskar, Patsy, and Baltic Gold poster
7.0

Oskar and Detective Bruno are about to embark on another fascinating journey full of puzzles and surprising twists. This time the adventure of our detective team will be even more captivating, as they will be on the trail of the real treasure of the Baltic Sea!

Oskar, Patsy, and Baltic Gold

2025

Detective Bruno poster
5.4

For his birthday, eight-year-old Oskar receives a clue about a mysterious treasure hunt left to him by his deceased parents. He immediately hires the best detective he knows: The star of the popular TV series "Detective Bruno". Together, the two embark on a turbulent paper chase and discover far more than just the next clue. A heart-warming family adventure to guess along with!

Detective Bruno

2022

No artwork available
5.0

1945, Zofia Szablewska, a repatriate from the East, arrives in the former Breslau, now Wroclaw. He lives in a former German villa - the House under the Two Eagles. Zofia's roommate is Jan Liski, an officer of the Security Office who raises his stepson, Kazio, alone. Zofia uses the Red Cross to search for her husband Antoni and son Zbyszek, with whom she lost contact during the war. The commemorative clock left by the Germans brings back memories of her native Kresy, the Nowosiolo estate and the beginning of her love with the Polish settler - Antoni.

Dom pod Dwoma Orłami. Kłamstwa Zofii

2023

Breached poster
5.4

A mysterious car accident changes Maciek's life completely. His wife Janina dies in the incident. Most likely, the woman committed suicide. However, Maciej has no idea why the accident happened near Mragowo, since Janina said she was going on a business trip to Krakow. She made a mistake? Or was she lying? A distraught man embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of her death. Soon he finds himself on the trail of a certain Wojnar - an actor whom he suspects of having an affair with his late wife. From that moment, questions begin to multiply, and the tragedy turns into a complicated mystery. Maciej comes to the conclusion that perhaps he did not know the woman he married at all.

Breached

2023

Speedway poster
3.9

Lowa is motorcycle racing champion: the object of women's desires and the envy of rivals on the track. Cheerful, kind to people, "ordinary", he has fun in life and what he does. But his sly smile conceals daily struggles with fear and the specter of injuries and accidents. It all becomes even more complicated when the beautiful Roma (Jagoda Porębska) stands on his way. Will she compete with his love of speed and of motorcycles? When the sport is not only a crazy, youthful passion, but also an escape from the gray reality, can he find a place for true love in his heart?

Speedway

2021

Intertainment poster
NR

The two main characters, a man and his female friend, came to watch the play. Things happening on stage and real life are gradually mixing up, and now they will have to figure out what is «reality» in the world of endless entertainment.

Intertainment

2020

2010s · 16 titles

Joy in the World poster
4.9

A journalist from Warsaw travels to Silesia and manages to find a tenement house full of exceptional inhabitants.

Joy in the World

2016

Marie Curie poster
5.1

The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Maria Skłodowska-Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.

Marie Curie

2016

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka poster
6.5

Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

2017

The Lullaby Killer poster
5.3

After a spate of mysterious disappearances in 1950s Kraków, young investigator Karski believes he's on the trail of a vicious serial killer. When his investigation points to wealthy and respected playboy Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz,Karski finds himself up against his own supervisors, a mysterious woman and the hypnotic charms of Beautiful Wladek himself.

The Lullaby Killer

2017

Who Will Write Our History? poster
7.3

Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Who Will Write Our History?

2018

Trick poster
5.4

Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.

Trick

2010

Viva Belarus! poster
5.5

Belarus has been under dictatorship of Lukashenko for 15 years. Miron (23) is not interested in politics. However, the next concert of his 'apolitical' rock band triggers off an anti-regime manifestation. Miron, is enlisted for the army for 15 months by way of punishment for 'fomenting political unrest among young people'. And this is just a beginning.. A film inspired by the story of Frank Viachorka, activist of the Belorussian opposition. Starring top Belorussian cinema and rock stars.

Viva Belarus!

2013

Salvation poster
5.3

Catholic nun travels to another country and make spirit revolution.

Salvation

2015

Mystification poster
6.4

Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.

Mystification

2010

All About My Parents poster
4.3

The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.

All About My Parents

2014

Ivan, Son Of Amir poster
NR

A Russian mother flees to Uzbekistan in WWII where she and her children are taken in by a local family.

Ivan, Son Of Amir

2013

Rodchenko's Stairs poster
NR

This is the story that could be behind the famous photo of Alexander Rodchenko "Stairs". Moscow, 1929. The end of the era of constructivism in the USSR. A young woman comes to visit a middle-aged woman to resolve their complicated relationship.

Rodchenko's Stairs

2015

No artwork available
NR

Nicodemus wanders through the harsh tundra landscapes of Spitsbergen. Abandoned mines, fallen telegraph poles, old iron, bent from frost unused railroad tracks. An abandoned, gull-occupied city at the end of the world. Wind, wild animals and the film's lone hero, a man lost in the void.

Tak jest dobrze

2019

No artwork available
NR

Everything that happens could have happened differently. And that's the beauty of life. This is what the film is about. This is a story in which a series of absurd, random events leads the heroine to a romantic meeting. Or not?

What Do We Do?

2013

Delhi Dance poster
6.8

Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi

Delhi Dance

2012

Promotional poster
5.5

Ironic and philosophical film. Here everything is not as it really is. And this opens up a new essence of all things.

Promotional

2013

2000s · 20 titles

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

The Hexer poster
5.2

A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect the human race from any misfortune. The witcher Geralt of Rivia must find the young princess Ciri, kidnapped by enemies. Only her return to the small kingdom of Cintra, which was attacked by aggressors, can restore peace and order there. The brave witcher sets off on a journey, long, distant and deadly.

The Hexer

2001

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

Crush poster
5.6

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

Crush

2009

Przedwiośnie poster
6.0

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution, rebirth of Poland, war with the Soviets and communist plots.

Przedwiośnie

2001

In August of 1944 poster
6.2

The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.

In August of 1944

2001

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God poster
4.9

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God

2003

Keep Away from the Window poster
6.3

In a small village a couple fails to conceive. One day the man brings home to hide a Jewish woman whose family was murdered.

Keep Away from the Window

2000

Futro poster
3.8

A wealthy grandfather throws a party to celebrate his grandson's First Communion. Soon the family gathering takes unexpected turns.

Futro

2007

Russian Riot poster
3.9

The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachments of Cossacks, fugitive serfs, and many spirited people. In these troubled times in the God-forsaken Belogorsk young officer Pyotr Grinyov meets his first love - Masha, the daughter of Captain Mironov. Recklessly passionate love with each other did not want to notice the signs of impending trouble. They did not know that soon they will be an ordeal. They could not imagine how bizarre way their fates intertwined with the fate of the self-proclaimed king, and what an incredible effort will be worth it to save their lives and feelings in the bloody chaos of Russian riot.

Russian Riot

2000

3 Seasons in Hell poster
5.3

A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.

3 Seasons in Hell

2009

Resolution 819 poster
6.2

Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventually bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the International Criminal Court. Benoît Magimel stars as Jacques Calvez, a man of integrity who refuses to let politicians, mobsters or bureaucrats stand in his way. He receives valuable help in his quest from Lherbier (Hippolyte Girardot), a French secret service agent, and above all from beautiful forensic anthropologist Clara Gorska (Karolina Gruszka)

Resolution 819

2008

Break Point poster
7.0

A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and the Croatian Duchamp - who unexpectedly find themselves with a difficult choice: a sports career in the name of fame and international recognition or high, bright feelings ...

Break Point

2004

The Lovers of Marona poster
4.8

The movie is based on Iwaszkiewicz's autobiographic story and focuses on main character's (Janek's) close relationship with a woman named Ola and a man named Arek. It takes place in a small village called Marona which is situated by the beautiful lake.

The Lovers of Marona

2006

We're All Christs poster
6.5

Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.

We're All Christs

2006

Francuski numer poster
5.0

Businessman Kurowski dispatches employees Leon and Chwastek to track down his stolen, beat-up Mercedes, which has ended up at Magda’s used-car lot. Strapped for cash, Magda advertises four seats on a Paris trip, answered by Stefan and his son Janek, African student Machu, and Armenian émigré Sergei, while Leon and Chwastek tail the quintet, determined to recover the missing car at any cost.

Francuski numer

2006

No Mercy poster
5.9

When a nototious gangster murders a senior police officer, the cop's three closest friends embark upon a dangerous quest for answers - and revenge.

No Mercy

2002

Love in an Underground Passage poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love in an Underground Passage

2007

Oxygen poster
5.5

Two people play out a story of love and desperation that's enacted through music in this drama from writer and director Ivan Vyrypaev. Sasha (Alexei Filimonov) is a man in his twenties who lives in the small town of Serpukhov and has fallen in love with a woman who is also named Sasha (Karolina Gruszka).

Oxygen

2009

Feel poster
NR

Novella from the almanac "Crush" (2009)

Feel

2009

Series credits

Gra z Cieniem poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Gra z Cieniem

2024

Boża podszewka. Część druga poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Boża podszewka. Część druga

2005

The Breslau Murders poster
6.3

Commissioner Franz Podolsky investigates a brutal murder and, because of the upcoming Olympic Games, the pressure is on to catch the murderer.

The Breslau Murders

2025

Officer poster
7.4

Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.

Officer

2005

Oficerowie poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

Oficerowie

2006

Moscow Noir poster
5.6

In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.

Moscow Noir

2018

The Witcher poster
5.7

"Later it was said that the man came from the north from the Powroznicza gate. He walked on foot, and led his horse, which was laden, by the bridle. It was late afternoon and the stalls of the ropemakers and saddlers were already closed, and the street was empty. It was warm, and the man was wearing a black cloak thrown over his shoulders. He was drawing attention." - So begins the short story "The Witcher" by Andrzej Sapkowski, which gave rise to a seven-volume series.

The Witcher

2002

The Optimists poster
5.2

The early 1960s. The Soviet Union is experiencing a bright Khrushchev-era, full of hope. A group of young diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs come face to face with world-changing global events. Before long, these wide-eyed idealists find themselves deep in the breathtaking world of spy games, mortal dangers, and brilliant political maneuvering.

The Optimists

2017

House Under the Two Eagles poster
6.5

The story begins in the summer of 1997, just before the arrival of the famous 12-meter flood wave flooding Wroclaw. - The residents of the "Home under Two Eagles" are grandma Zofia Szablewska, a woman full of energy, warmth and humor, her daughter Helena, a cool perfectionist, and Marianna, Zofia's beloved granddaughter, returning with her fiancé from a scholarship in the USA. The family drama begins when a flood wave floods the house, and at the same time grandma Zofia ends up in the hospital due to a stroke. An unfortunate coincidence leads Marianna to discover post-German traces in a house destroyed by the element, thanks to which she finds the diary of the first owner of "Home under Two Eagles", Lisa Weber. Marianna's learning of the history written on the cards takes the action of the series to 1918. In subsequent episodes, viewers will learn about the life of the then inhabitants of the tenement house and their neighbors.

House Under the Two Eagles

2023

Sfora poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Sfora

2002

Boża podszewka poster
4.5

God's Lining presents the dramatic fate of Marianna Jurewiczówna, her family, and the inhabitants of the Vilnius region from 1900 to 1945. The series begins in 1900, when Marianna, the youngest child of Maria and Andrzej Jurewicz, is born. Through Maryśka's eyes, we meet a succession of characters passing through the manor: the order-takers (Bartłomiej), the slackers (e.g., Mickiewicz), the peasant farmhands (e.g., Antośka), the servants (e.g., Walunia), and various misfits, rejected and ridiculed (e.g., the foolish Maryla), just like the main character. Marianna Jurewiczówna is called "niedonosek" by her family because of her premature birth; she feels unloved and rejected, misunderstood, and different. The series concludes in 1945, during the so-called first repatriation.

Boża podszewka

1997

Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów

2007

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory

2007

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory

2007

MosGaz. Delo N3: Pauk poster
7.7

The third film of the project about Cherkasov's task force is "Goznak". Based on another famous story - the robbery of the State Bank of the Armenian SSR in 1977, when the Kalachyan brothers swept the treasury for one and a half million rubles (two million dollars at the then exchange rate). It was the largest kidnapping in the Soviet Union. 1967 year. Moscow. A fashion model from the House of Fashion was killed. A group of Major Cherkasov arrives at the crime scene. He urgently introduces his man, Sonya Timofeeva, into the Fashion House, whose main task is to obtain information about the relationship between the employees of the Fashion House. Soon, another fashion model dies. And simultaneously with this murder, a very daring crime is taking place - the robbery of Goznak ...

MosGaz. Delo N3: Pauk

2015

No artwork available
NR

After a bold but unsuccessful surgery, a talented doctor swaps a prestigious clinic for a local hospital as he tries to get his life back on track.

Anaesthesia

2026

Genetic Code poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Genetic Code

2020

Królestwo kobiet poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Królestwo kobiet

2020

Przedwiośnie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Przedwiośnie

2002

Sposób na Alcybiadesa poster
NR

An adaptation of Edmund Niziurski’s novel of the same title.

Sposób na Alcybiadesa

2001