Jacek Borkowski

Acting

Jacek Borkowski

Born April 16, 1959 · Warsaw, Poland (age 67)

Jacek Borkowski is a Polish actor and singer. He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw in 1980. He gained early recognition for his role as Marek in the film Blind Chance (1987). He is best known for his role as Piotr Rafalski in the TV series Klan (1997). His acting career includes performances at Teatr Ateneum in Warsaw, where he was a member from 1977 to 1999. Additionally, Borko…

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Blind ChanceBlind Chance · 1987
Blind Chance
7.51987
MovieDrama
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Faustina: Love and MercyFaustina: Love and Mercy · 2019
Faustina: Love and Mercy
8.52019
MovieDramaDocumentary
Docudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy".
InterrogationInterrogation · 1989
Interrogation
7.11989
MovieDramaThriller
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
An Immoral StoryAn Immoral Story · 1990
An Immoral Story
6.71990
MovieDrama
Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
UczennicaUczennica · 1982
Uczennica
1982
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.
ProphetProphet · 2022
Prophet
5.92022
MovieHistoryDrama
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
Special MissionSpecial Mission · 1987
Special Mission
5.81987
MovieComedyWar
In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
The Black BeachThe Black Beach · 2001
The Black Beach
6.02001
MovieDrama
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days.

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KryminalniKryminalni · 2004
Kryminalni
5.72004
SeriesDrama
Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

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