11 Movies Starring Krystyna Janda

Man of Marble

Man of Marble

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-02-25

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

160 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (2501 Reviews)

Director:

Andrzej Wajda

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Golem

Golem

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-03-18

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (281 Reviews)

Director:

Piotr Szulkin

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Piotr Szulkin (screenplay)

Tadeusz Sobolewski (screenplay)

Gustav Meyrink (novel)

Fullplot:

The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.

Man of Iron

Man of Iron

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-07-27

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

153 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1838 Reviews)

Director:

Andrzej Wajda

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksander Scibor-Rylski (scenario)

Fullplot:

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.

Mephisto

Mephisto

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-03-22

Languages:

Hungarian, German, English

Countries:

West Germany, Hungary, Austria

Runtime:

144 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (6733 Reviews)

Director:

Istvèn Szabè

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pèter Dobai (screenplay)

Istvèn Szabè (screenplay)

Klaus Mann (novel)

Fullplot:

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.

The War of the Worlds: Next Century

The War of the Worlds: Next Century

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-02-01

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (263 Reviews)

Director:

Piotr Szulkin

Fullplot:

Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders. Then the chaos breaks out: the Martians and police mistreat the populace; things become violent. Idem's own wife is kidnapped and it seems somebody is trying to reduce his effectiveness as a reporter. Idem decides to fight back: he illegally broadcasts a message during the rock concert, but nobody believes him anymore.

Interrogation

Interrogation

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-13

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (1826 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ryszard Bugajski

Janusz Dymek

Fullplot:

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization

O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-01-28

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

88 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (482 Reviews)

Director:

Piotr Szulkin

Fullplot:

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.

Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-08

Languages:

French, Polish, English

Countries:

Poland, France

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (570 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Weiser

Weiser

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-01-18

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (213 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Wojciech Marczewski (scenario)

Pawel Huelle (based on the novel by: "Weiser Dawidek")

Maciej Strzembosz (scenario collaborator)

Tony Grisoni (scenario collaborator)

Fullplot:

Tatarak

Tatarak

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-04-24

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

85 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (860 Reviews)

Director:

Andrzej Wajda

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (short story "Tatarak")

Krystyna Janda (monologue "Zapiski ostatnie")

Sèndor Mèrai (short story "Nagle wezwanie")

Andrzej Wajda (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. While having a swim in the river, the man drowns, which causes Marta to reexamine her life.

The Reverse

The Reverse

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-13

Languages:

Polish, English

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1288 Reviews)

Director:

Borys Lankosz

Fullplot:

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed. Successive admirers arrive at the pre-war tenement where the women live, but Sabina is interested in none of them. One day, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-looking Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a series of unexpected events revealing the darker side of the women's nature.

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