Krzysztof Litwin
Birthday: Born in 1935-06-19 in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Deathday: 2000-11-08
TV Credits
Czterej pancerni i pies
Character: Zenek
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, ...
Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa
Character: Chryzostom Cherlawy
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Przygody psa Cywila
Character: sierżant Walczak
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Movie Credits
Sędziowie. Tragedya
Character: Aptekarz
An old man appears in Samuel's inn and seek revenge on the owner....
The Neighbours
Character: Soldier
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager....
Gold Dreams
Character: Wesołek
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible....
Ostrze na ostrze
Character: Teodor Schulenburg
The action of the film takes place in the 17th century. Piotr Wolski returns to the country and is appointed juridic governor. A man tries to rule fairly and restore order. He soon falls in love with Konstancja, but his background causes problems....
Stajnia na Salvatorze
Character: Jurek
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....
Barrier
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland....
Bezkresne łąki
Character: kierowca samochodu pogrzebowego
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Bliskie spotkania z wesołym diabłem
Character: Journalist
A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a disabled boy....
How to Be Loved
Character: Student in a Cafe
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator....
Rodzina Leśniewskich
Character: Professor Skubiszewski's Assistant
Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself....
How to Gain Money, Women and Fame?
Character: Olejniczak
Three ironic episodes showing how to get what every man dreams of - money, women and fame....
The Ashes
Character: Painter
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival....
Sobótki
Character: Franek, Karol's brother
Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father....
Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Character: Alfred
Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in Paris and calls for the famous Dr. Cherbonneau, suspected of being a charlatan. Citing the teachings of the East, Cherbonneau offers the patient an "avatar", a reincarnation of the soul, which takes a different body......
Ściana czarownic
Character: Cable Car Conductor
A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart....
Aria for an Athlete
Character: przyjaciel Messaliniego
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and...
Good Sins
Character: Guard (uncredited)
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way....
Heat
Character: Kornel
Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – they sing easily....
Drugi człowiek
Character: Himself (uncredited)
A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home....
Szkice warszawskie
Character: Lottery Owner (segment "...Ad Libitum")
Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period....
Mandrin
Character:
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation....
Cyrk odjeżdża
Character: komik
The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. A conflict arises between Kossakowski, a lion trainer, and Chamron, a horse trainer, which creates a tense atmosphere in the entire team....
Makbet
Character: Doorman
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?...
Zawsze w niedziele
Character: Maliniak ("First Sunday")
Three stories centered around sports....
Hell and Heaven
Character: Prince (uncredited)
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....
The Nutcracker
Character: Teodor Wajs
On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
Character: Zenek ("The Crew")
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
Character: Zenek
The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4....
One Room Tenants
Character: Student
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s....
Nos
Character: Journalist
An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted....
Wyspa złoczyńców
Character: Student
A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town....
Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Character: Kozioł (uncredited)
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs....
Cooked Doves
Character: Leopold Górski
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers....
Człowiek z M-3
Character: Doctor Henryk Milewski
A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins a frantic search for a wife....
The Twenties, the Thirties
Character: Pyzdra
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform....
The Killer Leaves a Trace
Character: Kalita
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files....
Heaven on Earth
Character: Pvt. Dudek
Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory....
Bumerang
Character: Man at Wanda's Birthday
A German man and a Polish woman fall in love in the days preceding World War II....
The Doll
Character: Klein
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection....
Rzeczpospolita babska
Character: "Walterówka" Soldier
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....
Full Ahead
Character: Boy / Sailor / Steward / Servant
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures....
Wolna sobota
Character: Sierżant MO
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Weekend z dziewczyną
Character: Kacper Pabiś
During World War 2 a doctor, patiently waiting for the liberation and unwilling to engage in the struggle against the Nazis is forced at a gunpoint by a Polish Resistance soldier to attend to the members of her squad....
The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Don Lopez Soarez
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
Walkover
Character: Miecio
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde....