Jerzy Cnota
Know for: Acting
Born: 1942-10-17
Place of birth: Jastrzębie Zdrój, śląskie, Polska
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Pełnia nad głowami (1983)
Set in the 1960s, in a small town in Poland. After the destruction of an old mill, an impersonated devil appears in its place. The local leader and...
A Round Week (1977)
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
Komedianci z wczorajszej ulicy (1987)
Katowice, the second half of the 1980s. All the inhabitants of the city watch the movie "The Sinful Life of Franciszek Buła" on television, and...
Journey for One Smile (1972)
The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.
Kwiat paproci (2009)
By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure...
What Will You Do When You Catch Me? (1978)
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig,...
Famous Like Sarajevo (1988)
The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...
With Fire and Sword (1999)
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the...
Tylko Beatrycze (1976)
Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.
Historia o proroku Eliaszu z Wierszalina (1997)
Vasyl follows his wife, who escaped to an Orthodox clergyman who is to heal her of infertility.
A Bachelor's Life Abroad (1993)
The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany,...
Przyspieszenie (1985)
A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
Penelopy (1989)
Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.
Identification Marks None (1979)
Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life
Two Moons (1993)
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and...
Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop (1988)
An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Brunet Will Call (1976)
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...
Dagny (1977)
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than...
Pearl in the Crown (1972)
When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike...
Teddy Bear (1981)
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the...
Fucha (1985)
International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
How Far, How Near (1972)
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much...
A Slip-Up (1972)
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They...
The Taste of the Black Earth (1970)
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
Five and Half of Pale Joe (1971)
A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.
Passion (1978)
The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising,...
Laura (2010)
“Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006....
Horizontal Landscape (1978)
Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his...