Jan Tesarz
Popularity:0.5677
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1935-08-04
Place of Birth:Czechowice-Dziedzice, Polska
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Also Known As:J. Tesarz

A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

13 piętro (1966)
A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor.

Palace Hotel (1983)
The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.

Potyatusok (1990)
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to...

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi (1983)
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

Decalogue IV (1989)
A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an...

Famous Like Sarajevo (1988)
The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...

Special Mission (1987)
In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Last Ferry (1989)
One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is...

Dostojeństwo rodzinnego domu (1975)
A critique of consumerist life.

Balanga (1993)
One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.

Decalogue V (1989)
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally...

Kierunek Berlin (1969)
Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.

Wiktoryna, czyli czy pan pochodzi z Beauvais? (1972)
A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.

Kraj świata (1994)
TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern...

Polski Crash (1994)
Early 90's. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The...

Markheim (1972)
Markheim impulsively kills an elderly antique dealer during an attempted robbery. From there Markheim’s sense of reality steadily dissolves in...

Kidnapping in Tiutiurlistan (1986)
Three friends – a rooster, a cat and a vixen – meet the kidnapped princess on the eve of the war between Balbacja and Tiuturlistan. To...

More Than Life At Stake Part One (1969)
The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3.

Clinch (1979)
A young factory worker takes up on boxing as a way to find himself and advance his chances for the future. But the difficulties of sorting himself...

Gwiazda Wytrwałości (1981)
Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press...

Puszka Pandory (1996)
After killing her husband, the beautiful but cunning Lulu evades justice with the help of the people that are in love with her. A Polish teleplay of...

Strange Creatures (1990)
A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

No End (1985)
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...

Ostatnie dni (1969)
As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.

Fiasco of Operation Terror (1981)
The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in...

Boxer (1967)
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Pěsti ve tmě (1987)
The year is 1936, the nervous atmosphere of the Nazi threat penetrates into the sport. Upgrade boxe Vilda Jakub will compete with German Kurt...

Dekalog (1989)
Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose...

Dom (1980)
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Samochodzik and Knights Templar (1972)
Pan Tomasz with his friends are looking a big treasure hidden by knights.

Powrót doktora von Kniprode (1966)
After the end of the war, the Polish authorities try to detain the head of the Warsaw Gestapo.