Marian Opania
Birthday: Born in 1943-02-01 in Puławy, Rzesza Niemiecka (obecnie Poland)
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marian Opania (born 1 February 1943) is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in over 50 films since 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Opania, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Stawka większa niż życie
Character: Kazik Okoń vel Kazimierz Truchanowicz
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....
Czterej pancerni i pies
Character: kapral Marian Łażewski „Zadra”
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, ...
Na dobre i na złe
Character: Professor Tadeusz Zybert
Na dobre i na złe is a Polish television medical drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since November 7, 1999. Currently in its 15th season and with over 520 episodes, it is the longest-running primetime drama on Polish TV. The show revolves around the lives of doctors and patients of a hospital in Leśna Góra near Warsaw. Na dobre i na złe has been very popular among the viewers, despite recent criticism on its lack of originality. It won the "Telekamery" award for the best TV series in 2001, 2002 an...
Dekalog
Character: dziekan
Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they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....
Droga
Character: mężczyzna ratujący Czerniaka
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Ucho prezesa
Character: Kornel, Mateusz's father
The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders....
Zmiennicy
Character: Ceglarek
"Zmiennicy" is a grotesque comedy of absurdity and reality that masterfully blends slapstick, satire, and surrealism to expose the absurdities of life under communist rule in the People's Republic of Poland (PRL). The story follows Jacek Żytkiewicz, a taxi driver in Warsaw, and his mysterious new shift partner, Katarzyna Piórecka, who disguises herself as a man to get the job. The series is a comedy of the grotesque, filled with exaggerated characters, nonsensical bureaucracy, and surreal plot ...
Bulionerzy
Character: Leon
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Prawo Agaty
Character: Andrzej Przybysz
True Law is a Polish legal drama television series directed by Maciej Migas and featuring Agnieszka Dygant as the title character, Agata Przybysz. It premiered on TVN on 4 March 2012. The plot is set in Warsaw....
Ekstradycja
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Mój agent
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Podziemny front
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Marszałek Piłsudski
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Popielec
Character: Wykukal
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....
13 posterunek
Character: Tata Kasi
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Man of Iron
Character: Winkel
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka....
The Last Room on the Left
Character: Leon
A young man knocks on the door of an old boarding house, hoping to rent a room. The owner answers the door in her bathrobe. She is hoping to get rid of the unexpected guest, but when she learns that he might be a prospective lodger, she agrees to show him around. The house is rather shabby and it keeps getting weirder with each room they see and each boarder they meet… The young man wants out, but leaving turns out to be pretty hard....
Case Unknown
Character: Professor Dębicki
Wroclaw, 1997. The city is threatened by flooding. Hospitals are being evacuated. Young ambitious psychiatrist Konstanty Grot takes a catatonic patient to the bus. He is a severe case, not responding to any attempts at contact. However, when the bus starts moving, he unexpectedly makes a gesture that awakens certain memories in the doctor. The psychiatrist decides to apply an unusual therapy....
The Collector
Character: Chełst
Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens....
The Republic of Children
Character: Utopiec Gralo
In the winter of 1903, a group of characters painted by the master escapes from Jacek Malczewski's paintings....
Soccer Poker
Character: Bolo
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...
Piksele
Character: Samobójca
A single mobile phone links disparate lives as mishaps take it from a tabloid journalist, to a rehab facility, a war veteran — and beyond....
Pełnia nad głowami
Character: Frączak
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 priest try to make him go away by different ways....
Kłopotliwy gość
Character: Przesieka
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it....
Salvation
Character: Staszek
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 ...
The End of the World, or Egg Nogg 4
Character: Leopold Kapusta
Agnieszka and Marcin's love is blooming, just like Kasia and professor Wolanski. Grandma Solska only dreams of the wedding of her only grandchild - However, his former lover, Bozenka, stands in the way of the happiness of young Zawada. Mrs. Wolanska decides to radically change her life and disappears in mysterious circumstances. Peace of Piotr and Marlenka is disturbed by the unexpected visit of his mother from overseas – And some very compromising photos trigger an avalanche of events. The real...
Promotion
Character: Magister Marian Grzyb
After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to persuade its inhabitants to modernize their surroundings...
Stajnia na Salvatorze
Character: "Dudek"
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....
Wedle wyroków twoich...
Character: fotograf Mach
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up....
Inner State
Character: dziennikarz Maciek Szumiński
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?...
Bezkresne łąki
Character: kierowca
A lyrical comedy; an escape to nature for a civil servant tired of everyday life and the monotony of life becomes an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of existence; it helps to regain mental balance. Henry, an exemplary husband and civil servant, returns to the places of his childhood, wants to find the treasure buried decades ago by Tereska, who fell in love with him. Along the way, he picks up two boys and two girls, who begin to compete for him. One of the boys assaults him when Henry dig...
Weiser
Character: ksiądz proboszcz
The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser....
Chopin: Desire for Love
Character: Jan
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin....
Golem
Character: Doctor Creating Pernat
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven....
Horror Story
Character: "Handyman"
Tomek, a fresh banking graduate, moves to the big city to start his adult life with a bang. He dreams of spectacular success, thanks to which he will get his ex-girlfriend back. He rents a room in an old, crumbling house, inhabited by a group of eccentrics. But the very first night there makes him realize he will sooner end up in a psychiatric hospital than in his dream corporation....
Saved by a Miracle
Character: Mikołaj Biesaga
The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Years passed, and the "miraculously saved" person did not keep his promise. Now feeling that it is probably time to die, he decides to fulfill his obligations....
Shivers
Character: Zbyszek
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts....
Przyspieszenie
Character: Operator
A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis...
I Am Burning!
Character: Walek
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....
Baby Boom, or Egg Nogg 5
Character: Leopold Kapusta
Piotruś – together with his wife, mother-in-law and Leopold – moves to a new home: a historic manor house. And Marlenka decides to find a suitable ancestor for her family – one that will fit into the elegant residence… Agnieszka, in turn, is pursuing a career at the university, but right after defending her PHD, she suddenly discovers that she is pregnant. And when little Kuba is born… problems begin! Piotruś accompanies his sister during childbirth and begins to dream of a child himself – to Ma...
Tender Spots
Character: 13-04
The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man....
Hotel Pacific
Character: Fryc (voice)
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell....
Beata
Character: Olek Smoleński
Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home....
Westerplatte Resists
Character: Soldier stacking Sandbags (uncredited)
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplat...
Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
Character: Jan Boryssowski
The story of Fabian, who at the end of the 1950s returns from England to Poland. Together with a group of eccentric musicians, he forms a big band, which becomes a huge success after its first performance. The star of the band, and soon Fabian's sweetheart, becomes the seductive and mysterious Modesta. The king and queen of swing set off on a crazy tour of Poland. Their life, although reality does not favor it, begins to resemble, a Hollywood movie. This raises the interest of the relevant servi...
7 Things You Don't Know About Men
Character: Stefan's Father
Seven men navigate the confusing world of modern dating as they each chase love and happiness amid confusion over what women truly want. From distracted Filip, who’s just lost his job and learned his new love Zosia is pregnant, to commitment-phobe Tomasz, carefree producer Kordian, aging star Ricky, bus driver Stefan, and lonely Jarosław, each finds their quests for connection....
Controlled Conversations
Character: SB General Mozambik
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....
More Than Life At Stake Part One
Character: Kazik Truchanowicz ("Top Secret")
The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3. In 1941, Polish soldier Stanisław Kolicki escapes German captivity only to be mistaken for the dashing Abwehr lieutenant Hans Kloss and recruited by the Soviets as their secret agent J-23. Under deep cover behind enemy lines, he feeds crucial intelligence to the Red Army while outwitting suspicions and dueling wits with the formidable SS officer Hermann Brunner....
Ferry
Character: Soldier On Ferry
1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines....
Gods
Character: Profesor Jan Nielubowicz
Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa....
Off We Go
Character: Józef Gugulak
A humorous and emotional story of a family as unpredictable as a tornado. Their life gains momentum when the seniors - Józiek and Ela - decide to set off on a journey through Poland. They want to experience this trip on their own terms: to laugh, to take risk and love as if they were 20. And since their son has no intention to let them go, feisty seniors starts with stealing the iconic car Nysa......
The Rite of Passage
Character: Professor Schlapka
Ludwik starts one of the best high schools in Krakow. His life changes with a growing storm of conflicting emotions. First love infatuations, sexual contacts, a rebellion against unjust authorities and the desire to imitate his idol, Marek, an older boy who who fought in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944....
Wałesa: Man of Hope
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man’s metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people....
God's Finger
Character: Tadeusz Kasprzak
A young man from the countryside fights against all odds to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor....
Chronicle of Amorous Accidents
Character: Mr. Kiezun
Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague....
The Killer Leaves a Trace
Character: Zenek
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files....
Decalogue VIII
Character: University Dean
Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life....
The Atlas
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A remote, and a bit crazy to be honest, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient —one who he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and riveting one at that, like an itch you cannot quite scratch. Theories and informed-and-fact-based-gossip flourish all around the place. As luck would have it, so does the conflict as what to do with him. The situation is close to exploding, but th...
Sauna
Character: Jurij
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna....
The Spider Women
Character: hurtownik
Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream......
Don Gabriel
Character: Sznitko
The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict....
The Doll
Character: Węgiełek
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....
Ostatni po Bogu
Character: Wątorek
Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea....
Wierne blizny
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1956. Stefan Madejski, a former KBW lieutenant, is released from prison and rehabilitated. Ten years ago he fought against the gangs, but his brutal and ruthless methods aroused opposition. Because he let go of a band member, his former AK unit colleague, he was brought before a military court and sentenced to fifteen years. Now he is trying to find the people who put him in prison. These encounters give him nothing but bitterness....
Morning Stars
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A Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive....
Pearl in the Crown
Character: Albert
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....
Śpiewy po rosie
Character: kierowca ciężarówki
A portrait of a small, contemporary village, shaken by the return of one of its residents from prison. Zdzich returns from prison to a small village on the edge of the Augustów Primeval Forest. He was accused of shooting a militiaman and, despite the clear bias of the witnesses, he was convicted. Now the locals fear that his return will bring revenge for the false accusations. Zdzich hides in the forest. One day, he meets Romanek, the son of Jadźka, whose honor he once defended in a fight with o...
It's in the Bank
Character: Jędrek
Three old men get caught by the police during the bank heist. The problem is, that they didn't steal anything....
The Neighbours
Character: Scout Truchaczek
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager....
Hero of the Year
Character: Redaktor naczelny
The early 1980s. A former entertainment industry star is now selling leather goods. One day, he watches a TV interview with a department store employee who smelled gas leaking and prevented a tragedy in time. This gives him an idea. With the support of his journalist friend Lutek Danielak, he begins to organize a series of meetings with the "hero of the year" across the country. He hopes that this will help him make a comeback in the industry. The meetings gain momentum. Lutek accepts the offer ...
Love at Twenty
Character: Misiek (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....
A Slip-Up
Character: "Tiny"
A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman....
The Mother of the Kings
Character: Advocate
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens ...
Skok
Character: Paweł
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take part in a robbery....
Index
Character: Redaktor naczelny
The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it...
War of Love
Character: Szlachcic
Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors even more eager to conquer them. Adaptation of the classic comedy by Aleksander Fredro....
Panna z mokrą głową
Character: Dr Zenobiusz Lipień
A young lady from a good home, full of life, wins the hearts of the greatest gloomy people and turns people into people open to the world. He infects everyone with kindness and optimism, even when misfortunes fall on the family. Resolute and resourceful, she takes matters into her own hands, but will fate be favorable to her and happiness will smile at her?...
Dotknięci
Character: Actor
Jan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives, and the clandestine extra pills supplied by Jan, their son Piotr and Jan’s friend Maria, leads to Joanna’s fatal overdose. Accused of murder, Jan endures a trial, psychiatric evaluation and deep depression before the case is dropped; only after reconciling with his children does he finally leave the clinic to return home....
All and Nobody
Character: Glina
City Bieszczady Mountains, 1946. Seven soldiers stop in a small town where should take place a wedding......
Weryfikacja
Character: "Grey"
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest....
Pięć minut przed gwizdkiem
Character: Leon Misiak
Sports officials are trying to decide the result of a football match before it starts. The stake is to stay in the top league....
Wesele
Character: Hetman
The guests of a wedding face their fears when they are visited by strange apparitions...