Wojciech Pszoniak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, currently Ukraine), is a Polish film and theater actor. Pszoniak gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters. The actor left Poland during the period of political unrest in 1980-1981, which saw the appearance of the Solidarity trade union and ended with the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981. Pszoniak found roles in France, where he is currently living and working. Since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pszoniak has appeared in Polish movies and plays. Internationally, he simplified his first name into Wojtek, which is the standard diminutive of the relatively formal Wojciech in the Polish language. Pszoniak often plays Jewish characters, although he is not of Jewish descent. In France, this is partially attributable to his role in The Promised Land, as well as his foreign accent. Pszoniak did not speak French when he emigrated to France, so he learned his theatrical lines phonetically; in movies like Danton, where he played Robespierre, his voice was dubbed. An anecdote about his language skills relates that when he finally started speaking French, one director told him that he preferred his old accent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wojciech Pszoniak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Promised Land
as Moryc WeltThe Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the...
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Danton
as Maximilien RobespierreDanton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by...
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Viper in the Fist
as Père Volitza1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany,...
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The Devil
as Stranger / The DevilYoung Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger...
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Korczak
as Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz KorczakThe story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans...
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Angry Harvest
as CybulkowskiIn the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are...
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To Kill a Priest
as Bridge PlayerA young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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The Pact of Silence
as L'archevêqueEveryone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a...
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Golem
as PrisonerPernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any...
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Dangerous Moves
as Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de FrommWorld Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm...
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The Shadow-Line
as Conductor (uncredited)Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka...
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
as MarglewskiThe film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country....
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If You Saw His Heart
as Le polonaisCast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of...
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The Wedding
as Journalist / StanczykSet at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has...
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East Wind
as pułkownik Lew CzekoThe true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving...
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Chaos
as PaliA bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges...
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The Rite of Passage
as Major TrzaskaA couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a...
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I Hate Actors
as Hercule PotnikA Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show...
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Carte Blanche
as profesor okulistaThe true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss...
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Black Thursday
as Władysław GomułkaAntoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular...
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The Winner
as profesor KarloffOliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking...
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To Life
as L'imprimeurHelen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
as JudgeThis somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew...
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Hope
as Benedykt WeberFrancis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident...
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The Deep Blue Sea
as Mr. MillerHester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her...
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Strike
as uncreditedA nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
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Austeria
as Rudy JosełeDuring a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the...
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Second life
as le père de VincentVansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry...
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A Face of an Angel
as Tadeusz's fatherStory of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Pilate and Others
as Jeszua Ha-NocriThe trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence...
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The Mole
as Stefan Garbarek, były kapitan SBPawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing...
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Daimler-Benz Limousine
as BogdańskiTwo brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive...
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Venetian Red
as Antonio VivaldiVenice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets...
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Mystification
as PinnoLazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist...
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The Gorgon Case
as Profesor, biegły sądowy podczas procesu w KrakowieIn 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night....
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Lesser Evil
as pacjentThere is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz"....
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Aria for an Athlete
as Siedelmayer, dyrektor cyrkuSet at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko...
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Convicted
as Ryszard BielczykA man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
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Les années sandwiches
as MaxIn the post-war Paris, a young Jewish boy whose parents were deported, met in the subway a...
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Rekolekcje
as MarekTwo artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.
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The Nest
as Mieszko ITold in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo...
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Our God's Brother
as The StrangerIn this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski...
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La chica
as uncreditedIn a remote area of South America, three men, are living, far from the civilization... and from...
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Olympics 40
as Otto SchultzeThe film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing...
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Nie ten człowiek
as BaronA surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who,...
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Gawin
as Pierre / XerkesSix-years-old and terminally ill, Felix dreams of meeting an extra-terrestrial. Hearing this his...
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Spokojne lata
as ŚlizYoung Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets...
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I'm a Butterfly
as Redactor OswaldFunny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and...
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Rosemary's Baby
as Mr. WeesYoung Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy move in with a rich couple, who soon take an...
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