Jan Englert
Birthday: Born in 1943-05-11 in Warszawa, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, Rzesza Niemiecka ( now Poland)
Deathday: Alive
Jan Englert was born on May 11, 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He is an actor and director, known for Kiler (1997), Television Theater (1953) and Epilog norymberski (1971). He has been married to Beata Scibakówna since 1998. They have one child. He was previously married to Barbara Soltysik. Height 5' 9¼" (1.76 m)
TV Credits
Stawka większa niż życie
Character: gwardzista „Tadek”
Stawka większa niż życie is 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....
Czas honoru
Character: Czesław Konarski
Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since September 7, 2008....
Lalka
Character: Mraczewski
The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka....
Mały Zgon
Character: prokurator
Mały Zgon may seem like a quiet town - but just below the surface lies a twisted web of crooked cops, drug kingpins and high-stakes poker games....
Chyłka
Character: Stanisław Bauman
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....
Dom
Character: Rajmund Wrotek
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Życie na gorąco
Character: Charles Clermont, pracownik Komisji Narkotyków ONZ
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Matki, żony i kochanki
Character: Jerzy Lipert, były chłopak Wiktorii
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Oficerowie
Character: Zenon Kaliński, właściciel "TV Max", ojciec Alicji Szymczyszyn
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Układ Warszawski
Character: Antoni Rylski
Marek Oporny, who is a police analyst, is transferred to the police station in Czerniaków as a punishment. His new colleagues are not favorable to him. Marek will have to get along with new colleagues. "Criminal old stagers”: Kosa, Sikorek and his commissioner partner Zuza Szarek....
Diagnoza
Character: Olivier Krynicki
Sometimes, a single unexpected event can irreversibly alter one's life. What would happen, if one day you were to wake up and discover, that you don't know who you are, who you love or care about? Is fate cruel enough to take everything, including your identity and memories? How can you piece together your new life, when you're missing the building elements of who you are?...
Młody Piłsudski
Character: car Aleksander II
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Ekstradycja
Character: Kowalski
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Kolumbowie
Character: Zygmunt, dowódca Kolumbów
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Biała wizytówka
Character: Conrad, syn Hansa Heinricha
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Polskie drogi
Character: Jerzy, kochanek Miszczykowej
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Noce i dnie
Character: Marcin Śniadowski, mąż Agnieszki
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, and Bogumił Niechcic, against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one....
Podziemny front
Character:
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5 dni z życia emeryta
Character: Stanisław Bzowski, ojciec Adama
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Śleboda
Character: Jan Śleboda
Anka Serafin, a young anthropologist from Krakow, who escapes to the mountains in search of herself and accidentally discovers a corpse. Anka quickly becomes entangled in solving a murder mystery, and her fate is inextricably intertwined with Sebastian, a journalist looking for sensations, and Jędrek, a local policeman with whom she was close as a teenager....
Przesmyk
Character:
The series follows Ewa Oginiec (Góra), who wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy. Things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears. The Eastern Gate examines the mechanism of provocation on the world stage and the battle between intelligence services in a world gripped by the complexity of hybrid warfare - very topical, as it turns out....
Movie Credits
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Character: Janek Wolny
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear....
Girls to Buy
Character: Father of Bartek
Based on a true story, Emi — a young, ambitious girl, dreams about life outside her small town. When an opportunity arises to become an exclusive escort, she jumps in without hesitation. Soon she climbs the ranks and starts her own VIP escort service; recruiting Polish celebrities, actors, singers, and models. However, the luxurious and enticing world eventually shows its dark side....
Killer
Character: Ferdynand Lipski
An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs....
To musi być miłość
Character: Tadeusz
The action of the film takes place during the magical time between Christmas and New Years. The turmoil of love brings the three sisters to the romantic Sopot, where, as part of family deliberations, they have to decide what to do with their romantic life. Though they begin their stay on the couch, Bridget Jones style, they need to quickly establish a plan of action as their guys have just arrived in town begging for a second chance. However, to regain the sisters' trust, they will have to atone...
Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Character: Professor
Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police....
Deserter's Gold
Character: major "Jeremi"
"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground....
Kanal
Character: "Zefir"
During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed....
Liberation: Battle for Berlin
Character: Jan Wolny
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies....
Kłopotliwy gość
Character: Commitee Member
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it....
Killer 2
Character: Ferdynand Lipski
Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life......
Salvation
Character: Andrzej Jezierski
A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved ...
Ukryty w słońcu
Character: Janek
Artist Janek is waiting for his beloved Joanna. He is worried because he has a feeling that there has been a tragedy the night before. After an hour of waiting, the man departs. He keeps reminiscing about Joanna all the time....
Immensity of Justice
Character: Paweł Bos
A disengaged graduate expects his father's friend to recruit him into law, but instead learns about a murder case with a verdict he aims to challenge....
Sweet Rush
Character: Doctor, Marta's Husband
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama....
Father of the Queen
Character: Cavalier de Charentes
Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission....
Inner State
Character: Jerzy, konstruktor łodzi, były mąż Ewy
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?...
Baryton
Character: Froelich
A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice....
The Dark Side of Venus
Character: Max Rosner
Ewa is a beautiful, happily married woman. One day she meets a young woman claiming to be in affair with her husband. Ewa, shocked, doesn't know whom to believe any more....
Dama Kameliowa
Character: Aleksander Dumas
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A Little Girl from the Hotel 'Excelsior'
Character: Playboy
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Korn's Password
Character: Cameraman (uncredited)
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn....
Next-ex
Character: Eustachy
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Maria and Napoleon
Character: Marysia's Friend (uncredited)
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly....
Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Character: Adjutant #2 (voice) (uncredited)
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population....
Roman and Magda
Character: Grzegorz Klimecki
A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization....
Battle of Westerplatte
Character: Wincenty Sobocinski
This harrowing war film is an epic dramatization of the first battle of World War II. The Battle of Westerplatte that began on 1 September 1939 will forever be remembered as the one that announced the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Over one week, fewer than 200 Polish soldiers fought against heavy German bombardment and in the process came to symbolize the power of resistance. As the violence rages, a complex battle of a more personal nature plays out between two Polish commanders ...
The Clowns
Character: Jan Englert
Students from the Faculty of Acting find out that their graduation film will be made by the famous director Gajda. The news is electrifying – everyone wants to be in the cast. As rehearsals begin, the students’ personalities, dreams and ambitions are revealed...
Apple Tree of Paradise
Character: Jan Cichocki
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life....
To Kill This Love
Character: Andrzej's Boss
The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dy...
Embassy
Character: Oskar
Young couple living in the old house suddenly discover an elevator which takes them directly to year 1939....
Katyn
Character: General
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later....
Szczur
Character: Jarek Bronko vel Branicki
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The Crossroads
Character: Tadeusz Jaster
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s wedding. The idyll is shattered by a tragic car accident that casts a shadow over his marriage and reveals cracks in his relationship with his son....
Ania
Character: Self
An inspiring story about Ania Przybylska, a brave girl from Gdynia who loved life and dared to make her dreams come true. The documentary is built of interviews and never-before-seen footage from private archives portraying a woman who balanced her career and public appearance with family life....
Wirus
Character: komisarz Kujawa, ojciec Józka
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Gods
Character: Profesor Wacław Sitkowski
Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa....
Doomed Souls
Character: Otetz Eredija
The events of the film are related to the Civil War in Spain. This is a film about the beauty of love - exotic and tragic and the maze of human feelings....
Ladies
Character: Jan Korbowicz, ojciec "Korby"
Four friends are facing problems like infidelity, infertility and disease. But together, they can solve every single problem....
Makbet
Character: Malcolm
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?...
Rodzina Połanieckich
Character: Hipolit Apolinary Maszko
The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century....
The Night of the Generals
Character: Partisan jumping out the Window (uncredited)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler....
The Great Give-Away
Character: Jarek Bronko vel Branicki
Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and post-socialist yuppies who after 1989 teamed up with their former enemies to exploit Poland ruthlessly....
The Magnate
Character: Conrad von Teuss
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935....
Strange Heaven
Character: Adwokat
Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family?...
Loneliness in the Net
Character:
When an unhappily married woman meets a renowned scientist online, the two start to fall for each other as they exchange romantic emails....
Nuremberg Epilogue
Character: G. Gilbert
Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....
Comedy of Marriage
Character: Wiktor Kozłowski
Disappointed with being a housewife and annoyed by her cheating husband, Maria decides to abandon her family, move to Warsaw and get a well-paid job....
Death in Shallow Water
Character: Dobos
1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment....
The Smaller Sky
Character: Marek Weber, journalist
A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual....
Ivy
Character: Andrzej
Kinga, a divorced woman raising her daughter Emilka, decides to change her professional life and start writing a book. Personal matters and problems with finding common ground with her child, however, throw her off balance....
Love Is Everything
Character: August Szwarc
The Christmas fever of the December time starts with the arrival of an unusual Santa to the city. It will be a storm of exceptional events....
Pestka
Character: Sewer
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Akcja pod Arsenałem
Character: "Orsza"
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The Gorgon Case
Character: Aspirant Respond
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving ...
Kontrybucja
Character: Pawełek
A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground....
Pearl in the Crown
Character: Erwin Maliniok
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 and a violent demonstration ensues....
Break Point
Character:
A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and the Croatian Duchamp - who unexpectedly find themselves with a difficult choice: a sports career in the name of fame and international recognition or high, bright feelings ......
A Very Christmas Story
Character: Angel Śmierć
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacation. Since there is much to do on the earth, a substitute - the Angel of Death - is found for the job. Right from the start he runs into bad luck and what is more a beautiful blonde - the Guardian Angel - is bothering him. Little Angelica moves o...
Love at Twenty
Character: Basia's Friend (segment "Warszawa") (uncredited)
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson....
Soccer Poker
Character: Prezes "Czarnych"
Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results alig...
The Corrupt
Character: Witold Burzyński
When a group of bandits accidentally kill a boy in a club, his father and sister try to find the guilty and bring them justice....
A Slip-Up
Character: Marek
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 witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse...
Nights and Days
Character: Marcin Śniadowski
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one....
Nagrody i odznaczenia
Character: Garstka
1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too....
Soból i panna
Character: Stanisław Pucewicz
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The Taste of the Black Earth
Character: Erwin
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands....
Boxer
Character: Andrzej Kozłowski
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics....
In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
Character: Ryszard Korbowski
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him ...
Weryfikacja
Character: Janusz Malicki
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest....
Cyrograf dojrzałości
Character: Wiktor Lewicki
18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future....
Journey to Rome
Character:
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Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
Character:
The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń....