Date of birth: 1945-02-27
Place of birth: Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Daniel Olbrychsky , Daniel Olbrykhski , Daniel Olbrykhskiy, Даниэль Ольбрыхский, Данієль Ольбрихський, 다니엘 올브리츠키 , Daniel Marcel Olbrychski

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Olbrychski (Polish pronunciation: [ɔlˈbrɨxskʲi]; born 27 February 1945) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.

1975-02-21
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest

1979-05-02
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of

1983-10-26
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that

1988-02-05
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an

2018-09-21
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whos

1999-10-18
Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen

2000-02-01
A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the

1999-02-08
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europ

2020-10-16
The movie is an attractive comedy of mistakes with large dose of humor and action. At the same time

2010-03-10

2010-07-21
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested w

1985-06-09
A man alone in an empty house somewhere in the Solagne region of France. Despite the pleasent light

2003-09-19
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to

2023-04-20
A Ukranian flight engineer must infiltrate a highly secretive cult in order to save his abducted son
2021-09-23
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki

2002-03-18
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identi

1970-11-10
A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make

2005-02-22
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novel

1981-05-27
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American)

1984-04-15
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and politica
1981-04-10
During the holidays, a famous actress gets into an affair with a student.

1981-01-26
More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 ch

2023-07-27
Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold a

2011-04-26
1953. A Russian soldier stationed in Poland falls in love with a local girl. Their forbidden romance

2013-04-17
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of
1984-03-16
Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a

1982-09-22
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a n

1986-04-10
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 2

1974-06-06
In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled.

1986-09-26
Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'vo

2009-10-23
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It wa

1996-11-28
The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the

1981-09-15
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne

1968-03-17
Based on a screenplay by Stanislaw Lem. The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved

2011-09-30
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ol

2000-05-26
An adaptation of the book by Jerzy Niemczuk. The protagonists are strange but friendly creatures inh

1989-11-08

2012-03-16
The cinema war-action movie takes place partly during WWII and partly in 1975 in Spain. The main cha

1996-01-01
Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One d

1996-03-11
On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who resc

2013-01-11
Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he sa

1989-05-16
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz

1990-02-14
Most of the characters in this romantic drama are waiting for something. Jeanne is waiting for her h

1969-10-14
Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives tak
1970-07-17
Fall 1944. A wounded Polish officer, Ryszard, is brought to the Allied field hospital. He notices an
1995-05-28
In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the he

1985-04-18
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl

1971-09-24
A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his grave

1967-09-29
Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he m

1980-10-06
A tale of medieval quest for a golden harp called "the Knight".

1971-04-22
Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the coun

1981-07-07
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are cont

1988-11-17
Martina lives in the Rome's zoo, because her father is the guardian. She becomes friend with a young

2009-04-02
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defe

1987-02-09

2009-04-01
In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great acto

1974-09-02
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the

1998-11-11
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe

2010-02-11
Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), t

2024-01-12
A gripping story about a man who was the terror of the Russian Empire: the legendary figure of a Pol
1976-06-14
Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil of

1992-08-20

2012-10-01
The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As

2012-10-11
In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, wil

2005-04-01
A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.

2009-01-14
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
1970-01-01
An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.

1965-09-25
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at th

1979-09-04
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a c

1982-10-01
In an inn in Trieste, Kyveli, wife of a political prisoner of the junta, falls in love with an old s

1970-01-01
Shots from Hamlet's rehearsals at the National Theatre in 1970, directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz, perf

1977-05-16
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a work

1969-06-30
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth

2004-11-18
Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance, whic

2004-01-06
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors.

2005-04-01
François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up o

1993-05-26
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes fr

1968-12-01
A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be

2015-03-13
After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and
1981-01-01
A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of

2011-06-10
The fate of a religious and a young woman intertwine when they both suffer the loss of a loved one.

1988-09-07
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

2001-03-02
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1
1985-06-26
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two friends, one a homosexual and the other a writer, fal

1966-01-17
Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans

1989-04-07
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-

2024-05-26
Boxing was an iconic sport discipline at the time of Poland’s first post-war world championship in b

2008-10-07
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious c

2022-11-18
The documentary shows unique, unknown footage from the archives of Polish Television. The film crew

1997-02-13
Budapest, 1948. Gyula Molnár, interpreter to the Supervisory Committee of the Allied Powers, is carr
2011-12-02
A young married couple decides to appear in a porn movie to shore up their joint budget.

1969-03-28
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to acti

1983-01-14
A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the

1969-01-28
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND

2001-12-07
A feature film starring mostly the participants of the first edition of Polish "Big Brother" reality

1969-08-19
Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan

1970-09-08
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are

1973-01-09
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to

2016-10-21
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, b

2002-10-04
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldie

2009-01-30
When Kostek gets in the wrong taxicab and sees Luna, it is love at first sight. But Luna already has
1971-05-27
An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of

2011-10-20
For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor wh

1964-04-14
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order t

2016-12-01
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes w

1992-10-01
Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is

1985-02-16
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to

2018-05-09
Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds

1968-09-06
The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a Germ

1970-12-30
A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being

1972-03-29
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of t

2018-01-05
Students in the final year of high school are preparing for prom. The anticipation of the prom distr

2018-06-05
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional s
1984-03-18
A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious f

1967-01-01
Joanna, the daughter of quite wealthy traders from the Różycki bazaar, is in love with Andrzej, a yo

1977-01-26
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famo

1990-01-14
The story revolves around Elisa, a young talented ballet dancer. After an unjust accusation at her s

1998-03-31
An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time

1993-10-22
There is a strike at the spinning mill in Łódź. Among the protesters, Dorota Waltz, the granddaughte

1996-01-19
Agatha is reaching her 40s, but despite her many romances she has not started a family. She lives as

2019-02-28
Our film portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service. Sent in
1994-01-01
Ambrus, the canon pretender and Gerzson, the stinking rich lawyer, taking advantage of a sect and a

2018-12-17
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself

1969-05-08
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhi

1993-05-15
A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo a

1971-11-04
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stali

1991-09-12
In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape

2019-09-06
Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.

2004-09-18
A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and

2019-09-27
Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and s
1995-01-02
A wino bumps into a 25-year-old man waiting at the train station. This accidental encounter turns in

2022-09-22
Andrew is a tough businessman and an arrogant workaholic. He runs a large, successful company in Pra

2020-11-27
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, w

1980-03-17
A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when

2022-08-19
Dominik, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to

1989-10-01
Orestes is a journalist who used to be part of a radical left-wing group. When two of the people who

1986-10-13
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents

2018-01-16
The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What hap

1985-11-15
A girl who overdosed on drugs dies in the intensive care unit. The doctor on duty notifies the manag

1969-06-10
Two teenagers who have ran away from home befriend an older man who tries to convince them to take p

2010-10-08
Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors ev

1970-03-06
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep

1967-03-03
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the O

2001-11-09
A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destin
2012-01-01
Friends, fellow artists and members of anti-communist underground remember "the Polish bard" Jacek K

2024-11-14
Despite the anti-Semitic campaign launched by the Polish People's Government in the late 1960s, dire

1992-12-12
Having been captured, an Afghan officer decided not to return to his homeland. He settled in Finland
A post-apocalyptic story of a society in quest of a future.

2025-08-29
Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor D

1993-07-16
A group of Georgian scientists traveling to Poland for a scientific symposium are housed in an old f

1968-01-01
Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda.

2006-11-17
Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. This is the sh

2019-01-28
The guests of a wedding face their fears when they are visited by strange apparitions

1986-01-04