Acting

Jan Paweł Kruk

Born December 2, 1943 · Domaniewice, mazowieckie, Polska (age 82)

No biography available.

Known For

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Komedie pomyłek · 1968

Komedie pomyłek

1968

MovieComedyDrama

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

Biohazard · 1978

Biohazard

★ 5.01978

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

The former head of the Institute of Science - Professor Molnar, returns to the Institute to seek treatment for his heart condition. The new director of the Institute, and his former assistant, Dr. Egberg had a falling out with Molnar after the latter considered his research unethical. However, after waking up from surgery, Molnar makes a horrifying discovery; Egberg has swapped their brains!

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

The Faithful River · 1987

The Faithful River

★ 6.11987

MovieRomanceDrama

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.

The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

★ 7.31975

MovieDramaHistory

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Filmography

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A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Tram Conductor in the Lódz Ghetto

Komedie pomyłek · 1968

Komedie pomyłek

1968

MovieComedyDrama

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.

Town Citizen (segment "Comedy From Errors") (uncredited)

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

Ziutek (uncredited)

Biohazard · 1978

Biohazard

★ 5.01978

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

Joss

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Man by the Mine (uncredited)

The Faithful River · 1987

The Faithful River

★ 6.11987

MovieRomanceDrama

Kozak

The Promised Land · 1975

The Promised Land

★ 7.31975

MovieDramaHistory

Mateusz, Borowiecki's Servant

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Militiaman (uncredited)

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.

Więzień Muchomor

Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her, runs away from home.

Militiaman in Rybczyńska's Apartment (uncredited)

Return of the Pied Piper · 1989

Return of the Pied Piper

★ 2.51989

MovieDrama

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

Stutterer

Stary człowiek i pies · 2008

Stary człowiek i pies

★ 5.72008

MovieDrama

The film presents the story of Robert - an aging, once-recognized artist who is today struggling with his own complexes and vices, and helplessness towards a new reality that ruthlessly throws him to the margins of existence. One day Robert finds himself in a roadside ditch hit by a dog's car. In a reflex of spontaneous compassion, he takes the dog home and begins to look after him.

Józef

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.

Village Man (uncredited)

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.

(w napisach: Paweł Kruk)

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

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.

A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.

specjalista "od mokrej roboty" w barze "U Lulka"

The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.

Wiktor, mąż Jadźki

Niedziela sprawiedliwości · 1966

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

★ 7.51966

MovieCrimeDrama

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

Zenek

The Devil from Seventh Grade · 1960

The Devil from Seventh Grade

★ 6.61960

MovieAdventureFamily

Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous.

Boy Scout (uncredited)

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.

Dunaj

Komedia z pomyłek · 1967

Komedia z pomyłek

★ 10.01967

MovieWesternComedy

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.

Citizen (uncredited)

Cierpkie głogi · 1966

Cierpkie głogi

★ 10.01966

MovieDrama

A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.

Student

How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape · 1970

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

★ 7.61970

MovieComedyWar

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.

Sailor (uncredited)

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

tragarz

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy · 1980

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

★ 7.51980

SeriesComedy

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

knajak

Życie na gorąco · 1979

Życie na gorąco

★ 8.01979

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Franz Jakob, włamywacz w biurze Baxta

Ziemia obiecana · 1978

Ziemia obiecana

★ 8.01978

Series

Mateusz, służący Borowieckiego