Anna Próchniak

Acting

Anna Próchniak

Born December 22, 1988 · Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland (age 37)

Anna Próchniak (born 22 December 1988) is a Polish actress who initially trained as a dancer until deciding to switch to acting, graduating from the National Film School in Łódź. Próchniak's first major international film role was in The Innocents (Sundance Film Festival 2016) directed by Anne Fontaine. Her credits include Polish Warsaw 44 (2014), Northern Irish Bad Day for the Cut (Sundance Film …

Known For

The InnocentsThe Innocents · 2016
The Innocents
★ 7.12016
MovieDramaHistory
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
The Rays and ShadowsThe Rays and Shadows · 2026
The Rays and Shadows
★ 7.52026
MovieDramaHistory
Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends have a major role to play in this new France. Jean becomes a big press baron and an ardent advocate of collaboration with the occupying forces, while Otto becomes the Reich’s ambassador in Paris. Corinne, meanwhile, finds herself thrown into the lion’s pit.
ShamelessShameless · 2012
Shameless
★ 5.32012
MovieDramaRomance
In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to his half-sister Anka’s home in search of solace and affection. Bound together by a painful shared family history, brother and sister must find a way to break free in order to survive. This formidable debut fearlessly yet tenderly explores one of society’s last taboos.
Warsaw 44Warsaw 44 · 2014
Warsaw 44
★ 6.72014
MovieDramaHistory
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…
UnmooredUnmoored · 2024
Unmoored
★ 7.12024
MovieCrimeDrama
A Swedish TV presenter finally confronts her domineering husband about serious accusations made against him, causing her well-ordered life to unravel.
Bad Day for the CutBad Day for the Cut · 2017
Bad Day for the Cut
★ 6.42017
MovieThrillerDrama
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
Heart ParadeHeart Parade · 2022
Heart Parade
★ 6.02022
MovieComedyRomance
A careerist from Warsaw, who does not like dogs, has to go to Kraków for professional reasons, where she meets a charming widower, his son and their four-legged pet.
BodoBodo · 2017
Bodo
★ 8.52017
MovieHistoryMusic
The story of Eugeniusz Bodo, a famous Polish actor and singer, who was at the peak of his career in 1930s.

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NegatywNegatyw · 2022
Negatyw
★ 3.02022
MovieDrama
Karol Weber, born in the mid-1970s, settled with his parents in a small town as a boy of several years. His passion was photography. We meet him at the most important moments of his life - at the age of 7, when his mother left him, at 18, when he experiences his first love and contemporarily, at 47, when he celebrates his 25th anniversary as a photojournalist. After the exhibition, he learns of his father's death. Charles goes on a journey to bury him. The night train escapade is full of surprises on the borderline between reality and dreams. Charles meets characters from the past - his mother, his father, Alina, his first love, and Adam, the friend he betrayed. What he remembers will turn out to be different from what actually happened.

Karol's mother

BodoBodo · 2016
Bodo
★ 4.82016
SeriesDramaComedy
Glitter, scandals, roaring twenties music and amazing acting, all that and much more in a brand new series depicting life of Eugene Bodo - a man of many talents. The artist was a major star of Europe between wars. He was an actor, a director, a producer, a businessman, the central figure of numerous gossip and scandals. Women went crazy for him, men wanted to be like him. The biography of the cabaret and movie star would be enough for a bunch of people. The story presents Bodo’s way to success, which was not always ‘a bed of roses’. Viewers will have a chance follow the man’s difficult decisions and life choices, running away from home, early steps on stage in a provincial theatre but also his relationship with possessive mother and love affairs with a number of women including Nora Ney. The 13-episode series will bring back the times of early movie sets and the heyday of cabaret

Nora Ney