Jerzy Turek
Birthday: Born in 1934-01-17 in Tchórzowa, Poland
Deathday: 2010-02-14
TV Credits
Czterej pancerni i pies
Character: Józek Szawełło
Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, ...
Dekalog
Character: filatelista na giełdzie
Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time....
Dom
Character: wuj Heńka Lermaszewskiego
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980....
Droga
Character: milicjant Franio
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Czarne chmury
Character: Błażej, żołnierz straży marszałkowskiej (uncredited)
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 maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king....
Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: laborant Czerski
Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II....
Wszystkie pieniądze świata
Character: dozorca Florian
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Dziewczyna i chłopak
Character: Forester Kulik
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Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: Laborant Czerski
Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II....
Janosik
Character: Grzegorz, sługa hrabiego
Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes....
Podziemny front
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Popielec
Character: Bator
The series presents an original, non-didactic view of rural Poland during the Nazi occupation, rejecting stereotypes about ubiquitous wartime heroism, sacrifice, and martyrdom. It is a record of a "war-torn" state of consciousness, a drama of lost people who sink into ever greater degradation....
Movie Credits
Teddy Bear
Character: Wacław Jarzabek
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 city with the sports team he manages....
Hydro-Puzzle
Character: Watchman
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As....
Palace Hotel
Character: German Non-commissioned Officer
The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner....
Legenda
Character: Franek
Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2....
The Faithful River
Character: Sołtys
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....
Journey for One Smile
Character: Shakespeare-Loving Truck Driver
Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking and using every transport they can find....
Cross of Valor
Character: Socha
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he finds only the charred ruins. A stray dog turns out to be the former guard at Auschwitz. A young widow is hailed as the wife of the hero but dreams of something else....
Where is the General?
Character: Pvt. Wacław Orzeszko
Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army....
Unloved
Character: Servant Stasio
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II....
Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2
Character: Zenon Solski
Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia...
Barrier
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland....
Teenager
Character: Hooligan
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble....
Controlled Conversations
Character: Wacław Jarząbek
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland....
Liczę na wasze grzechy
Character: Saxophone Player (uncredited)
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club....
Promotion
Character: Wyskrobek
After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to persuade its inhabitants to modernize their surroundings...
Janosik
Character: Grzegorz, lokaj hrabiego
In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants....
Wild Horses
Character: Jan Stolarz
In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves....
Polonia Restituta
Character: członek Komitetu Narodowego Polskiego (uncredited)
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, W...
Markiza de Pompadour
Character: Badura
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers....
Gold Dreams
Character: Lodger
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible....
Troje i las
Character: Peasant
A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him....
And the Violins Stopped Playing
Character: polish peasant
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....
Zawsze w niedziele
Character: Antoni Krawczyk ("First Sunday")
Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory....
Hell and Heaven
Character: Devil with Pincers
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos....
Trzy kroki po ziemi
Character: Ambulance Driver (segment 3) (uncredited)
Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski....
Ktokolwiek wie...
Character: Priest
A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search....
Decalogue X
Character: Philatelist
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes....
Nuremberg Epilogue
Character: Defender
Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....
The People from the Train
Character: Man from Poznań
A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it....
April
Character: Jasiek
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 and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body....
Big Beat
Character: Kuba / Johnny Tamala
At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence....
Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek
Character: truck driver
Christmas Eve is approaching. A son serving in the army mistakenly sends his parents a love letter intended for his fiancée. The father is not happy that his son is going to marry a girl from the city—he is afraid that the boy will want to stay in the city and leave the family farm. He decides to talk the young couple out of getting married, without knowing either the girl or their plans for the future......
Rozmowy przy wycinaniu lasu
Character: Gajowy
TV staging of Polish contemporary drama. Stanislaw Tym returned to the text, which is preceded by a special dedication: "To all the carps in Poland I dedicate - the author." The story of lumberjacks leading a life in a forest glade gives the essence of both the reality in which the play was written and relates to today. Conversations about fish, this and that fill the time of the woodcutters, whose main occupation is waiting. Every day they wait for the Axe Man to come and distribute their work...
Wyspa złoczyńców
Character: Student
A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town....
I Hate Mondays
Character: Zygmunt Bączyk
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American....
Lazarus' Whims
Character: Storeowner's Helper
Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end....
Rzeczpospolita babska
Character: Jadźka's Fiance
After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby....
Richie
Character: Wacław Jarząbek
Chased by mafia boss Kreda over a mistaken €2 million debt, club president Ryszard Ochódzki follows consigliere Maria Wafel’s advice to sell land to Father Pudło, only to hatch an even bigger bank fraud with banker Koziczek to raise the cash. Flush with stolen funds and briefly enjoying political office, he hides the money in the Molibdenów home, but just as he and coach Jarząbek plan to retrieve it, contract killer Dukan closes in....
Milion za Laurę
Character: Walczak
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters....
Far Is the Road
Character: Mikoś
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland....
Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Character: Kotwicz
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines....
Agnes 1946
Character: Maks
A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other....
Egg Nogg
Character: Zenon Solski
Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that w...
Take It Easy
Character: Milicjant Franio
The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacl...
I Am Burning!
Character: Pogorzelski of Krzywda
The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the ghost of the former owner....
Przedstawienie Hamleta we wsi Głucha Dolna
Character: Mile Puljo
Based on the play "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja" by Croatian playwright Ivon Brešan. The story is set in the 1960s in a Yugoslavian village, where an activist of a production cooperative decides to stage Shakespeare's Hamlet in a version prepared by a village teacher....
Eroica
Character: Polish Soldier (segment "Scherzo alla Polacca")
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own....