Wojciech Pszoniak
Date of birth: 1942-05-02
Place of birth:
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak, Wojtek Pszoniak, Wojtek Psoniak
Biography
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
Movie Credits
The Promised Land
1975-02-21
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest
Danton
1983-01-12
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793
Viper in the Fist
2004-10-06
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, unti
Ich czworo
1977-01-31
One of Gabriela Zapolska's most famous comedies, it was written in 1907. A realistic story of a mari
Angry Harvest
1985-02-20
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separat
Dangerous Moves
1984-04-15
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and politica
Korczak
1990-05-06
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during
Monsieur
1990-01-15
The adventures of Monsieur, a polite young man who is brilliant at ping-pong, who lives with his fia
Les années sandwiches
1988-04-13
In the post-war Paris, a young Jewish boy whose parents were deported, met in the subway a well-off
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988-02-26
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who wa
The Mole
2011-08-05
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand c
The Winner
2011-03-18
Oliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off hi
A Face of an Angel
1971-01-20
Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Black Thursday
2011-02-25
Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction o
Guilty of Innocence
1992-02-10
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic
Daimler-Benz Limousine
1983-01-24
Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The s
Second life
2000-10-25
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his
Golem
1980-03-18
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any detail
To Life
2014-11-26
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has en
Carte Blanche
2015-01-23
The true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss from ev
East Wind
1993-01-20
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shel
Aria for an Athlete
1979-01-01
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz.
Venetian Red
1989-09-20
Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are
La chica
1996-08-21
In a remote area of South America, three men, are living, far from the civilization... and from the
The Shadow-Line
1976-09-06
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph C
Nie ten człowiek
2011-11-23
A surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with
Rewizor
1977-12-05
Rekolekcje
1978-04-03
Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.
Chaos
2001-10-03
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into t
The Devil
1988-03-01
Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants
Hope
2007-09-19
Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident record
The Deep Blue Sea
1994-11-12
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her you
Austeria
1983-03-28
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks.
Olympics 40
1980-06-23
The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many
To Kill a Priest
1988-09-07
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Chicken Talk
1996-10-01
Joshua visits his grandfather, a survivor of Auschwitz, five days before his tenth birthday. The eld
Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
2016-01-15
In late 1950s Poland, jazzman Fabian returns from England and forms a swing big band that quickly ri
The Rite of Passage
2010-04-09
Ludwik starts one of the best high schools in Krakow. His life changes with a growing storm of confl
The Wedding
1973-01-09
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to
The Window
1983-08-22
Krzysztof, a 30-something writer has been on a downward spiral ever since the success of his first n
Robert Mitchum Est Mort
2011-04-13
Washed-up actor Franky Pastor and his kleptomaniac, ex-rocker manager Arsene steal a car and embark
Holy Week
1995-01-01
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto,
Lesser Evil
2009-10-23
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It wa
Bajland
2000-11-24
A black political comedy, which, as a backdrop, uses the election race and the accompanying chaos in
I'm a Butterfly
1976-09-10
Funny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and fall
If You Saw His Heart
2017-11-30
Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crim
Gawin
1991-04-17
Six-years-old and terminally ill, Felix dreams of meeting an extra-terrestrial. Hearing this his Dad
Pilate and Others
1972-03-29
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of t
Clergyman
In 2011, a psychiatric patient is visited by a postulate. The patient is a retired head of the "D" G
I Hate Actors
1986-09-10
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up
The Gorgon Case
1977-11-25
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The
Mystification
2010-03-26
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Wit
Strike
2007-02-23
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
Convicted
1976-02-02
A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
The Nest
1974-07-17
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo rec
Our God's Brother
1997-06-08
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to
Hospital of the Transfiguration
1979-03-28
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hosp
The Pact of Silence
2003-03-05
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalis
Pour l'amour d'Élena
1997-12-21
Spokojne lata
1982-09-22
Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his fr
Cassos
2012-06-12
The Rabbi's Cat
2011-05-31
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing
The Tin Drum
1979-05-02
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of
Notturno
2006-11-17
Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. This is the sh
Przeprowadzka
1982-11-25
A young, well-off engineer decides to leave his current life and seek what he deems a "manly" advent
Ostatni liść
1973-11-01
A suggestive, lyrical story about friendship, loneliness and illusory hope.
Z dala od orkiestry
2017-09-29