Jerzy Nowak

AKA: Ежи Новак, Ezhi Novak

7.0821

1923-06-20

Brzesko, Polska

Biography

Crew Roles

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Painter

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {82}

Old Peasant

1994-01-26 7.449

Three Colors: White

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losi ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Ernst Wagner

1985-10-03 5.7

Medium

Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Zucker

1975-02-21 7.3

The Promised Land

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the ...

Genre :Drama, History

Jukli

1974-11-29 5

Sędziowie. Tragedya

An old man appears in Samuel's inn and seek revenge on the owner. ...

Genre :Drama

Clerk (uncredited)

1957-10-21 5

Lost Feelings

One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble. ...

Genre :Drama

Stanisław Osuch

1979-11-16 7.5

Camera Buff

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regi ...

Genre :Drama

Mieczyslaw "Mietek" Makowsky

2002-09-04 5.6

Julie Walking Home

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes acr ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

"The Baldy", the school inspector

1974-10-24 0

The Beard

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal. ...

Genre :Drama

Old tar maker

1977-02-25 0

Hasło

Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

"Koślawy" (uncredited)

1972-04-04 5.5

The Sun Rises Once a Day

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts. ...

Genre :Drama

Florian

1985-03-01 5.8

End of the Lonely Farm Berhof

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII. ...

Genre :Drama

Tomkowski

1980-05-06 0

Na własną prośbę

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Budapest Courier (uncredited)

1967-10-06 0

Stajnia na Salvatorze

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Gamekeeper

1974-10-18 0

A Story in Red

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village ...

Genre :War, Drama

Professor

1981-09-15 3.9

From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbisho ...

Genre :Drama, History

Sokołowski's Father

1985-02-25 0

Tumor Witkacego

The film, which is a reconstruction of the life and work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known under the pseudonym Witkacy, was produced especially on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Witk ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mate Sznuk

1959-02-07 6.8

Eagle

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Comma ...

Genre :War, Drama, History

Franciszek Kozar

1999-10-22 5

Egzekutor

Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in love with his college friend, Maja, without reciprocity. However, the girl decided to get in ...

Genre :Drama

Man At Funeral (uncredited)

1973-02-14 5.5

Copernicus

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of ...

Genre :Drama, History

Serafin

1990-02-12 5.5

Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland

A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to ve ...

Genre :Comedy

Kranz

1966-06-23 0

Sobótki

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father. ...

Genre :Drama

Barkeeper

1967-02-14 0

The Wall of Witches

A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart. ...

Genre :Comedy

Doctor (uncredited)

1960-03-21 0

Place on Earth

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law. ...

Genre :Drama

'Stary Wiarus'

2012-10-16 5.6

Manhunt

Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling no ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

dziadek

1985-02-04 0

Fog

Ewa decides to end her romance with Alek. From the mountain guesthouse they go by car to Warsaw. . . Kim, after being released early from prison, returns to his wife, Jola, who lives in a lonely house ...

Genre :Drama

Ksawery

1999-11-29 0

Bigda is Coming!

The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to b ...

Genre :Drama

Josek

1984-10-01 9.5

Nie było słońca tej wiosny

A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Host

1981-03-02 0

Gwiazda Wytrwałości

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Hryćko, staruszek w Bieszczadach

1995-09-14 0

Gnoje

Genre :Drama

Self

2007-01-01 5.5

The Existence

An aging Polish thesp looks death in the eye as he prepares for the inevitable in the absorbing, well-mounted docu "The Existence." While thesp Jerzy Nowak ("Schlindler's List," "Promised Land") addre ...

Genre :Documentary

Leonard

2013-09-13 5.2

August Sky – 63 Days of Glory

A decades-old diary found at a construction site reveals the harrowing account of a professor in hiding during the early days of the Warsaw Uprising. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Worker (uncredited)

1960-05-16 0

Meetings In The Dark

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war. ...

Genre :Drama

Postman

1964-10-13 0

The Unknown

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen. ...

Genre :War

Alfred Buchta

1964-12-02 0

Pięciu

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a dis ...

Genre :Drama

Austrian Officer

1966-04-08 5.3

Lenin in Poland

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The l ...

Genre :Drama

professor Epstein

1988-01-01 7.5

And the Violins Stopped Playing

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Fisherman (uncredited)

1966-11-25 0

Lovers from Marona

Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark. ...

Genre :Drama

Choir Singer

1989-11-06 5.6

Lava

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Kelner w mordowni

1976-11-28 5.3

Zofia

Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home ...

Genre :Drama

The Accountant

1997-06-27 6.7

Love Stories

Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four fema ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Książę Kiejstut

1989-10-07 5.3

Alchemik

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Gospodarz Ewy

1984-11-29 6.25

The Egg

It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster star ...

Genre :TV Movie, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Mayor

1969-12-02 0

Co jest w człowieku w środku

A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected. ...

Genre :Crime, TV Movie

Guard

2001-01-01 5

Wyspa R.O.

"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret c ...

Genre :Drama

Old Rabbi

2009-04-19 7.246

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initi ...

Genre :Drama, War

innkeeper

1995-01-30 5

Legenda Tatr

Andrzej, who lives in the lowlands, comes to Zakopane. He rents a carriage and orders himself to be taken to the Strążyska Valley. ...

Genre :Fantasy, History

Officer-Interpreter

1988-09-11 5.4

Wherever You Are...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Postman

1961-11-08 0

April

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men an ...

Genre :Drama, War

Investor

1993-12-15 8.566

Schindler's List

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Krispus

2001-09-14 5.625

Quo Vadis

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian commander who was killed in battle, and wants her for hi ...

Genre :Drama, History

Lejba

1992-10-28 5.5

Squadron

A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He e ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Olek

2000-11-24 5.7

Cabin Fever

The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their ...

Genre :Drama

Josel Szatzman

1979-10-01 5

Placówka

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. Sl ...

Genre :Drama

Klein

1958-10-12 6

Dezerter

A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ... ...

Genre :War, Drama, Thriller

1979-09-06 0

Umarli rzucają cień

Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetr ...

Genre :Drama, War

Bosman

1967-04-14 6

Full Ahead

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures. ...

Genre :Comedy

Soldier stealing Cattle

1956-01-25 0

Podhale w ogniu

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Michał Kafar (bricklayer #1)

2002-10-04 5.5

The Revenge

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love bet ...

Genre :Comedy

Grzegorz Zaruba

1982-06-18 3.5

Crab and Joanna

Just before the end of an 18-month-long journey from Africa, a fishing ship is sent on another 2-month cruise. The crew members miss their loved ones a lot. ...

Genre :Drama

Askenazy

2010-03-26 5.8

Mystification

Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller, History

sklepikarz

1996-11-09 8

A Gentle Creature

A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past. ...

Genre :Drama

Anthony

1997-06-08 5.3

Our God's Brother

In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless. ...

Genre :Drama

1979-11-29 0

Elegia

Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers. ...

Genre :War

Leon

2008-09-19 5

Scratch

Joanna and Jan's marriage seems happy. After the birthday party is over, Joanna unwraps the gifts she received. One of them is a videotape with a recording of a regional TV program, during which a his ...

Genre :Drama

lekarz przy ekshumacji zwłok

1984-09-09 6.6

A Year of the Quiet Sun

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1980-01-07 7.5

Wściekły

Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for t ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Vesemir

2001-11-09 5.143

The Hexer

A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses ...

Genre :Adventure, Fantasy

Miller (uncredited)

1960-09-22 0

Rok pierwszy

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities. ...

Genre :War

Blokfuhrer

1964-03-31 0

The End of Our World

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it ...

Genre :War, Drama

1993-07-16 0

Bittersweet Longing...

A group of Georgian scientists traveling to Poland for a scientific symposium are housed in an old fortress . A middle-aged man , a descendant of Polish nobles , falls in love with one of the members ...

Genre :Drama

Buyer

1974-07-16 0

Fernando i humaniści

A bitter story about a bizarre folk sculptor. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

2002-05-10 0

Eucalyptus

A story about the search for an ideal in a world devoid of values. It is a surreal parable about human nature, played out in the convention of a Western, in which the myth of the Wild West is put to t ...

Genre :Western

oberżysta Schulz

1973-12-23 7

Clouds of War

Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maint ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

krawiec Marian Skowronek

1968-10-10 8.1

More Than Life At Stake

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland. ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics

Jakub Gutman

1981-03-07 6

Misja

Genre :

Zucker, mąż Lucy Zuckerowej

1978-05-21 8

Ziemia obiecana

Genre :

fotograf Tadeusz Białas, ojciec Basi

1977-10-16 7

Polskie drogi

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

oberżysta Schulz (nie występuje w napisach)

1973-12-23 7

Clouds of War

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

2003-12-25 7

Quo Vadis

Genre :Drama

Tadeusz Białas, fotograf

1977-10-16 7

Polskie drogi

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Don Pedro de Pommidore (voice) (uncredited)

1969-05-01 8.3

The Abduction of Balthazar Sponge

The Abduction of Balthazar Sponge (Polish: Porwanie Baltazara Gąbki) is a Polish-language fantasy animated series produced by Studio Filmów Rysunkowych from 1969 to 1970, that was based on 1965 childr ...

Genre :Animation, Family, Kids

1968-08-19 6.6

The Shield and the Sword

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile inten ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, War & Politics, Drama