Acting
Sławomir Orzechowski
Born July 6, 1958 · Warsaw, Poland (age 68)
No biography available.
Known For
The Bait · 2009The Bait
★ 2.32009
MovieThrillerDrama
A star New York City detective is investigating the beating of a young girl. Following the crime trail he finds new victims. As the bodies start to pile up, so does the list of possible suspects. This "Who Done It" starts to look like a "Who Didn't Do It" with a surprising twist when love, romance, envy and rage collide.
The Resistance Fighter · 2019The Resistance Fighter
★ 6.22019
MovieHistoryAction
Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the commanders of the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London. He must return quickly to Warsaw to transmit orders from the Polish PM to the Home Army's commander-in-chief before the start of the Warsaw uprising.
An Immoral Story · 1990An 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.
Lesser Evil · 2009Lesser Evil
★ 5.32009
MovieDramaHistory
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Surfers’ Time · 2005Surfers’ Time
★ 6.42005
MovieComedyCrime
Three young guys got work from unlucky gangster... they try to make a great job but everything goes wrong
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure · 2001Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure
★ 6.32001
MovieDramaTV Movie
Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.
Damaged · 2015Damaged
★ 5.12015
MovieDramaComedy
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...
Cud purymowy · 2000Cud purymowy
★ 7.22000
MovieDramaComedy
A family of anti-Semites lives in Lodz. The husband is unemployed and poor. He believes that only true Poles can improve the situation in the country. His quiet wife believes what her husband does and says, while their son - the future of the nation - hates people who are different from himself. One day, the husband learns that his parents were Jewish. What's more, a distant relative from the US left behind a fortune to inherit. In order to get the money, the hero and his family must return to their roots. Their world is turned on its head...
Movies
The Bait · 2009The Bait
★ 2.32009
MovieThrillerDrama
A star New York City detective is investigating the beating of a young girl. Following the crime trail he finds new victims. As the bodies start to pile up, so does the list of possible suspects. This "Who Done It" starts to look like a "Who Didn't Do It" with a surprising twist when love, romance, envy and rage collide.
The Resistance Fighter · 2019The Resistance Fighter
★ 6.22019
MovieHistoryAction
Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the commanders of the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London. He must return quickly to Warsaw to transmit orders from the Polish PM to the Home Army's commander-in-chief before the start of the Warsaw uprising.
An Immoral Story · 1990An 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.
Lesser Evil · 2009Lesser Evil
★ 5.32009
MovieDramaHistory
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Surfers’ Time · 2005Surfers’ Time
★ 6.42005
MovieComedyCrime
Three young guys got work from unlucky gangster... they try to make a great job but everything goes wrong
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure · 2001Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure
★ 6.32001
MovieDramaTV Movie
Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.
Damaged · 2015Damaged
★ 5.12015
MovieDramaComedy
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...
Cud purymowy · 2000Cud purymowy
★ 7.22000
MovieDramaComedy
A family of anti-Semites lives in Lodz. The husband is unemployed and poor. He believes that only true Poles can improve the situation in the country. His quiet wife believes what her husband does and says, while their son - the future of the nation - hates people who are different from himself. One day, the husband learns that his parents were Jewish. What's more, a distant relative from the US left behind a fortune to inherit. In order to get the money, the hero and his family must return to their roots. Their world is turned on its head...
Second Half · 2021Second Half
★ 3.12021
MovieComedyRomance
The Polish national football team manager's adult daughter is wooed by one of the team's players and a sports journalist who is critical of her father.
The Altar Boys · 2025The Altar Boys
★ 7.22025
MovieDramaComedy
A group of teenage altar boys, frustrated by the indifferent attitude of adults and the Church towards social injustices, decides to implement their own unconventional plan for moral renewal of their neighbourhood. Armed with youthful rebellion and their personal interpretation of the Bible, they set up a wiretap… in the confessional.
Łowcy skór · 2003Łowcy skór
★ 8.02003
MovieDramaThriller
During a horseback ride, Peter, a young journalist, has an accident and is taken by ambulance to the hospital. Marek, who accompanied him, sets off after the ambulance. Unexpectedly, on the way, Piotr dies. Marek, trying to find out why this happened, falls on the trail of a big scandal. Has Peter been murdered? Is Marek's life also in danger? Based on authentic events in the Lodz emergency room.
Podejrzani zakochani · 2013Podejrzani zakochani
★ 4.52013
MovieComedy
Albert and Barbara are looking for love online. When they run into each other, they both decide to pretend to be someone else. For their first meeting in real life, they send their surrogates.
Idol · 1985Idol
★ 6.01985
MovieDrama
In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
The Station · 2001The Station
★ 5.52001
MovieCrimeDrama
A seriously wounded gangster with a bag full of money stops at a deserted gas station.
God's Little Republic · 2024God's Little Republic
★ 5.72024
MovieComedy
A young archeology student comes to Królowy Most to study the cellars under the church. She finds there a collection of historic documents which may have an enormous impact on the future and prosperity of the village.
Serce gór · 2004Serce gór
2004
MovieDrama
The young merchant Duncan is back from a long expedition that bought back the sacred stone called "Heart of the Mountains" from the infidels. Duncan has missed his loving wife, Heather, for many weeks. During a party held in honor of the expedition's happy return, the village is raided by Skaar's men, who steal the stone and kidnap the beautiful Heather. Duncan wants to set out on his own to recapture Heather, but the village Druid advises him to ask for help from Veronar, Heather's brother, who has been sentenced to exile for unknown reasons. Duncan sets out on the expedition, but not everything goes his way...
Listy miłosne · 2001Listy miłosne
★ 7.02001
MovieDramaRomance
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also has trouble expressing his emotions. They are helped by Julka, a girl from the neighborhood who likes Teresa. She finds a pile of love letters from the beginning of the century in the trash. By forging Teresa and Janusz's handwriting, she starts a love correspondence between them, rewriting fragments of other people's confessions.
Tanie pieniądze · 1986Tanie pieniądze
★ 5.51986
MovieActionDrama
Inmate Adam leaves prison after two years of imprisonment. He returns to his homeland with the decision to take revenge on his uncle, who handed him over to the authorities. Before that happens, however, he will accidentally get a job on the highway construction site.
The Pigs · 1992The Pigs
★ 7.11992
MovieCrimeThriller
In post-communist Poland, former secret police agent Franz Maurer works as a regular cop pursuing a major drug ring. As he and his old comrades lose their privileges and face public scorn in the new reality, Franz realizes that some of his former colleagues are now on the opposite side of the law.
Two Crowns · 2017Two Crowns
★ 7.52017
MovieDocumentaryDrama
Recreation of facts and stories of both experts and people who met Maximilian Kolbe and were shocked by his words and actions.
Blindness · 2016Blindness
★ 6.32016
MovieDramaHistory
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.
All That Sex · 2023All That Sex
★ 4.12023
MovieComedyRomance
Meet six nice couples and their very dirty thoughts. Each of us has sexual fantasies. Some are quite common. Others quite crazy. And others - totally crazy.
Taekwondo · 1998Taekwondo
★ 7.01998
MovieDrama
South Korean Kim lives alone in Warsaw, Poland, where he teaches taekwondo. His wife and daughter live in Berlin, just six hours away by train, but he's been traveling around Europe for 10 years and hesitates to even send a birthday card to his daughter. One day, he finds the bag of a woman, Yola (Eva Gabriluk), who has been pickpocketed, and the two become close. Another chance encounter with a delinquent young man, Mihau (Pavogiu Bourcik), brings them together, and they become an important part of Kim's life. Through Yola, Kim reconnects with lost feelings of love, and the always-flirtatious and unruly Mihau reminds him of his own restless youth...
The Perfect Afternoon · 2007The Perfect Afternoon
★ 4.02007
MovieComedyDrama
Mikolaj, 22, together with his girlfriend Anna and partner Krzysiek, manage a literary publishing house in the center of Gliwice. Soon the young couple are to be married, unfortunately they have too little time to prepare for the wedding. The failure of their first book has meant that they must now focus primarily on the publishing house. At the same time, her ex-husband Andrzej arrives in Warsaw to visit his mother Maria. He has been invited to his son's wedding. For this celebration he is going to go just with Maria.
TV Shows
The Crown of the Kings · 2018The Crown of the Kings
★ 6.82018
SeriesDrama
Piasts' reign is coming to end on Casimir the Great, who have no sons. Polish throne comes to Anjous. Thanks to the marriage of Saint Jadwiga of Poland with Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila, an alliance is made and a new dynasty - Jagiellons, who rule Poland for next two hundred years
Ojciec Mateusz · 2008Ojciec Mateusz
★ 5.32008
SeriesDramaCrime
Kryminalni · 2004Kryminalni
★ 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.
The Chairman's Ear · 2017The Chairman's Ear
★ 7.52017
SeriesComedy
The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders.
Dom · 1980Dom
★ 7.31980
SeriesDrama
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
13 posterunek · 199713 posterunek
★ 7.01997
SeriesComedy
The Green Glove Gang · 2022The Green Glove Gang
★ 7.22022
SeriesCrimeComedy
When their latest heist goes wrong, three older female burglars evade officials by hiding out in a nursing home — where they uncover a sinister secret.
Servant of the People · 2023Servant of the People
★ 2.02023
SeriesComedy
After a video of him ranting about government corruption goes viral, Polish teacher Ignacy Konieczny becomes a countrywide hero. This new status leads to his being elected President, but that doesn't come without its own hijinks, as he refuses the presidential privileges, determined to lead a simplistic life. Based on the Ukrainian series of the same name.
The Defence · 2018The Defence
★ 7.02018
SeriesCrimeDrama
Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.
Ekstradycja · 1995Ekstradycja
★ 8.11995
SeriesDrama
One of the most important action series created during the transition period. It brilliantly and credibly portrays the realities of the 1990s and the work of police officers in a new reality, one in which entirely new criminal groups emerged – drug dealers and warring gangs.
The Londoners · 2008The Londoners
★ 5.72008
SeriesDrama
Londyńczycy is a Polish TV drama series about Polish immigrants in London, aired on TVP 1 since late 2008. It is currently aired on Community Channel.
The title music for the series is the Robbie Williams song "Supreme".
Ekipa · 2007Ekipa
★ 7.32007
SeriesDrama
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.
House Under the Two Eagles · 2023House Under the Two Eagles
★ 6.52023
SeriesDrama
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.
Sfora · 2002Sfora
★ 5.62002
SeriesCrime
Marszałek Piłsudski · 2001Marszałek Piłsudski
★ 7.02001
SeriesDramaDocumentary
Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory · 2007Fałszerze - Powrót Sfory
★ 7.32007
SeriesCrime
Defekt · 2003Defekt
★ 6.02003
SeriesDrama
Agentki · 2008Agentki
2008
SeriesComedy
Kuchnia polska · 1993Kuchnia polska