Marek Kondrat
Birthday: Born in 1950-10-18 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
Deathday: Alive
Marek Tadeusz Kondrat (born 18 October 1950) is a former Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director. He is a graduate of the Jan Śniadecki High School No. 30 in Warsaw. In 1972, he graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (PWST). He played his first role as a child in 1961 film Historia żółtej ciżemki. Between 1972-1973, he worked at the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice. He also worked at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw (1973–1984, 1987–1988), French Institute (1984), New Theatre (1985–1986), Comedy Theatre (1989), Za Dalekim (1990), Ateneum Theatre (1992–1999) and Zygmunta Hübner's Theatre (2002). His most notable roles, which made him one of the most popular actors in Poland, are featured in such films as Janusz Majewski's 1975 film Hotel Pacific, Andrzej Wajda's 1976 film Smuga cienia where he played the role of Joseph Conrad, Krzysztof Zanussi's 1981 biographic film From a Far Country, Janusz Majewski's 1985 comedy film C.K. Dezerterzy, Kazimierz Kutz's 1996 film Pułkownik Kwiatkowski, Marek Koterski's 2002 film Day of the Wacko and 2006 film We're All Christs. In 2002, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2007, he planned to revolutionize the Polish domestic wine market by introducing Winarium wine stores in every city with a population of over 100,000. On 19 September 2015 he married Antonina Turnau, daughter of Grzegorz Turnau. Source: Article "Marek Kondrat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
TV Credits
Tatort
Character: Halski
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Tulipan
Character: homoseksualista, klient szewca
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Kuchnia polska
Character: Stanisław Szymanko
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Ekstradycja
Character: Komisarz Olgierd Halski
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Ogniem i mieczem
Character: Jan II Kazimierz
The story, which was written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in the 19th century "for the strengthening of hearts," filmed in 1999 with extraordinary panache, has become one of the most spectacular Polish films. Its plot is set during the Khmelnytsky uprising in Ukraine. Against the background of historical and political turmoil, noble friendships and great love are born between the characters....
W labiryncie
Character: Adam Racewicz
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Sukces
Character: Tadeusz Sówka
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Królowa Bona
Character: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
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Marszałek Piłsudski
Character:
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Movie Credits
Pan Tadeusz
Character: Count Horeszko
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control....
Day of the Wacko
Character: Adam Miauczyński
It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic ...
Killer
Character: Mieczysław Klonisz
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....
With Fire and Sword
Character: król Jan II Kazimierz
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century....
Hamadria
Character: Narrator
Maintained in the convention of a daydream, or rather a psychedelic vision, an impression on the works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Individual sequences of the film depict fragments of Witkacy's works, and the whole seems to be a commentary on the sentence: "I remember that night, when boundless terror took over the innermost fibers of my brain, and all I could hear was that terrible babble in the gaping maw of the unknown, that something blind, turning its blade toward itself."...
H.M. Deserters
Character: Jan Kania
Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that ...
Deserter's Gold
Character: Jan Kania
"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....
Polish Cuisine
Character: Stanisław Szymanko
A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution....
Killer 2
Character: Mieczysław Klonisz
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......
Money Is Not Everything
Character: Tomasz Adamczyk
The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces....
Pigs
Character: Olo Żwirski
In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side....
Devilish Education
Character: Stranger
Gosia is a beautiful and innocent young maid on the catholic countryside tending the cattle. One summer day she is having a bath in the river naked as god created her. On the next day a stranger appears painting and painting all day long. As they talk the black dressed suddenly shows her a picture showing her naked in the river. At first she is very ashamed, but then she begins to forget her shyness....
Hacker
Character: Inspector Burza
Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of complete submission to his clever friend Turbo - and he, in turn, guarantees him the easy money and attention to a long-legged beauty....
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Character: szabrownik "Malutki"
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. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket......
From a Far Country
Character: Policeman
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. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Easte...
Man of Iron
Character: Grzenda
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....
A Room with a View on the Sea
Character: Activist
Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man....
Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń
Character: Tytus de Zoo (voice)
On the planet Transformation, the cruel Prince Saligia steals people’s dreams and turns them into advertisements. When the fame of Tytus reaches him, Saligia lures Tytus and his old friends A’Tomek and Romek to his world, where the friends are captured by the prince’s soldiers and only Tytus’s wits stand between them and despair....
Richie
Character: "Kreda"
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....
Operacja Samum
Character: Maj. Józef Mayer
The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?...
Woman in a Hat
Character: Lewicki
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic....
Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Wawrzek
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow....
An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Character: Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius....
The End of the Holiday
Character: Staszek Chmielewski, kuzyn Jurka
A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love....
Childhood Sins
Character: Narrator
An adaptation of B. Prus's novella. The story takes place at the end of the 19th century, in a manor house falling into ruin. The protagonists are children: the steward's son, the countess's daughter, and a peasant child. The 1970s. The story of a twelve-year-old boy, Kazio, who is unruly but has a good heart. He stands up for the weak and oppressed and experiences romantic love for Countess Loni. However, this love forces him to reject friendship. Kazio is deeply affected by this and falls seri...
Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Character: Czarek
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 venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself....
Shivers
Character: Tutor
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....
Taranthriller
Character: Marek
Looking for a place to conduct research, docent Marek and his family move into an old villa where strange events take place....
Pastorale heroica
Character: ksiądz
War film directed by Henryk Bielski....
Weiser
Character: Pawel Heller
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....
Reverted
Character: Porucznik Goliński
Young democracy activist is being chased by police in a very funny way....
Po upadku
Character: kpt. Korczak nadzorujący śledztwo w sprawie śmierci Ratajczaka
A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception....
Pułapka
Character: Maciek Adamski
An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s....
Rat
Character: Stranger
Polish businessman Jarek Branicki organizes a beauty pageant. As the man in charge, he expects his girlfriend to win it and suggests this outcome to the judges. At the same time, however, he is on the verge of bankruptcy and tries to escape the country after being cornered by his creditors. Recognized by a passenger on the train, he flees and finds refuge in the underground passages of Warsaw’s central railway station....
The Shadow-Line
Character: Joseph Conrad
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as ...
Colonel Kwiatkowski
Character: "pułkownik" Andrzej Kwiatkowski
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face....
Nothing Funny
Character: Director
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life....
Skutki noszenia kapelusza w maju
Character: Piotr Michalski
A university professor leads a lonely and sad life as a retiree. He often goes for walks in the cemetery. One day, he meets Ania there, the daughter of his friend Andrzej, who died tragically in the mountains. The girl lives with her children in a student dormitory, living a very modest life. Her husband left a few years ago to work abroad. Ania stayed in the country to finish her studies. Meeting the girl radically changes the professor's barren existence. Despite his advanced age and lack of e...
Hotel Pacific
Character: Roman Boryczko
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....
Obywatel świata
Character: Harry Stentman
Old friends come to the reunion of alumni, for whom the meeting after many years is an opportunity for memories, but also comparisons of who have been most successful in their lives....
Childish Questions
Character: Wilczuk
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him....
Między brzegami
Character: Piotrek
A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself....
We're All Christs
Character: Me (55 Years Old)
Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek....
Lava
Character: Writer
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....
The Rite of Passage
Character: Professor Matoń
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....
Trzeci
Character: Stary
Contemporary Poland. A couple of 30-somethings, Ewa and Pawel, are spending their long-planned dream vacation on a yacht. Attractive Ewa is bored with her life, in which there is no room for anything but work, and longs for true love. Pragmatic Paul is completely consumed by the occupation through which he achieved financial success. The trip was supposed to improve relations between spouses, to revive extinguished feelings. Unfortunately, the man has to interrupt his vacation to finalize a lucr...
Bitter-Sweet
Character: Headmaster
Mateusz, Igor, Marlon, and Paulina attend the same high school. After returning from Budapest, Mateusz learns that one of his classmates, a boy named Bąbel, has hanged himself on the school playground. Distraught by the tragedy of his friend, he decides to conduct his own investigation into his death. Igor, who found Bąbel's body, knows what happened but is afraid to speak up. The same is true of other students, and even teachers, who are mainly preoccupied with their own personal problems. He s...
Nocne graffiti
Character:
Marek Kossot, a special forces soldier, discovers that his niece Monica is a drug addict. Wanting to cut the girl off from the source of the goods, he tries to intimidate her dealer and also her boyfriend, a certain Coke. The drug bosses are alarmed by Mark's action and send their men against him. The brutal intervention proves effective only up to a point. When Monica collapses after an overdose, she organizes a good squad from her former charges and starts a war against the drug mafia.......
The Day of the Cat
Character: König
The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. From a meeting with the Spanish royal couple, he hopes media attention and a popularity boost. He does not suspect that his closest confidant Pfiff, of all people, is intriguing against him in order to come to power himself. But he does not even shy away from misusing his family for his own purposes. Soon, the president has to fight not only for hi...
Self-Portrait with a Lover
Character: mąż Diany
It is July 1995. Kuba Mitura and his little daughter, Zuza, come to a great concert organised by Jurek Owsiak. Kuba tells the girl the story of his youth. It is 1988. The nineteen-year-old Kuba is a rebellious boy with two-coloured hair. He does not study or work. He lives with his father, a retired military man, bitter and apodictic and with his aunt. One day Kuba meets Diana, a beautiful and eccentric woman, a dozen or so years older than him, a person from the "hostile world". However, the tw...
Lesson of a Dead Language
Character: porucznik von Traut
An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances....
Father's Law
Character: Michał Kord
When the ex-racing driver's teenage daughter is brutally raped, her father seeks justice on his own....
Danton
Character: Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not a...
Sauna
Character: Stewart
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna....
Lepiej być piękną i bogatą
Character: Moniak, wicedyrektor fabryki
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The Gorgon Case
Character: Czaykowski, "pasierb" Csali
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 ...
The House of Fools
Character: Adaś
The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown....
Weekend Stories: Little Faith
Character: lekarz Andrzej
A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism....
No End
Character: Tomek
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned....
Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris
Character: Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries and paradoxes that need to be enlightened....
Kill It and Leave This Town
Character: Mariuszek's Father (voice)
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive....
Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza
Character: Radny Prażucha
Further fate of Dzidzius Górkiewicz, the protagonist of Andrzej Munk's film "Eroica". After retiring, Górkiewicz moved to a small town near Warsaw. After years filled with doing numerous, not always clean businesses, he leads a quiet, honest life of a provincial. A group of local businessmen see him as an ideal candidate for the new mayor. Gorkiewicz himself is undecided about what to do. Then he dreams of a meeting of the municipal council, where he wants to present his program....
Panna z mokrą głową
Character: Henryk Borowski, ojciec Irenki
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?...
Eminent Domain
Character: Taxi Driver
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events....
Weryfikacja
Character: Marek Labus
Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest....
Mark of Cain
Character: Narrator (voice)
In 1866 the Prussians withdraw from the German alliance and declare war on Austria. A sergeant of this army forces a Czech young man named Ludvík Machl to execute himself by hanging. However, the unfortunate man's road to death had already begun earlier. Ludvík was one of the patriotic conspirators who, among other things, had seized money from the Austrian printing press. However, he was tracked down in his lodgings by the police, who discovered some of the looted money and a pistol. Unlike the...
The Doll
Character: Ignacy Rzecki
A new adaptation of the novel by Boleslaw Prus....