Marek KondratFilmography

The Third

Actors: Magdalena Cielecka, Jacek Poniedzialek, Marek Kondrat

Synopsis: A film that inevitably recalls Roman Polanski's 1962 Noz w Wodzie, Polish director Jan Hryniak's tense psychodrama The Third (Trzeci) enters the dark and claustrophobic territory of a marriage fractured and falling slowly to pieces. Jaciek Poniedzialek stars as Pawel, a Polish husband so obsessed Read More

Day of the Wacko

Actors: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Michal Koterski, Joanna Sienkiewicz, Andrzej Grabowski

Synopsis: Adam Miauczynski (Marek Kondrat) is a middle-aged literature professor, divorced, with a teenage son. Writer/director Marek Koterski's dark comedy Day of the Wacko follows Adam over the course of a long, typically unpleasant day as he deals with his noisy neighbors, his overbearing mother (Janina Traczykówna Read More

Weiser

Actors: Marek Kondrat, Krystyna Janda, Juliane Köhler, Teresa Marczewska, Zbigniew Zamachowski

Synopsis: A man struggles to come to terms with a mystery that has haunted him throughout his adult life in this drama from Poland. In 1967, a 13-year-old boy named Dawid discovered a cache of explosives and began experimenting with them; one day, several of his friends saw Dawid wave to them shortly before Read More

With Fire and Sword

Actors: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Alexandr Domogarov, Andrzej Seweryn, Bogdan Stupka

Synopsis: A lavish historical epic that (on a budget of $8.5 million) was the most expensive Polish film ever at the time of its release, Ogniem I Mieczem/With Fire and Sword is based on a classic Polish novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz concerning political and social turmoil from 1647 to 1649. Cossacks are Read More

Pan Tadeusz

Actors: Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Szapolowska, Marek Kondrat, Alicja Bachleda-Curus

Synopsis: Legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapts a nationally treasured epic poem to the silver screen. For 400 years, Lithuania and Poland were linked, until the country was partitioned in 1795 by aggressive nations at its borders -- Russia, Prussia, and the Austrian empire. At that point, the Read More

Operation Simoom

Father's Law

Deserters' Gold

Actors: Marek Kondrat, Boguslaw Linda, Wiktor Zborowski, Katarzyna Figura

Kiler

Actors: Cezary Pazura, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Katarzyna Figura, Janusz Rewinski, Marek Kondrat

Synopsis: Director Juliusz Machulski's shaggy dog action comedy Kiler observes the unfortunate case of mistaken identity that befalls Jurek Kiler (Cezary Pazura), a taxicab driver whose name, of course, just happens to be one letter shy of ''killer.' That doesn't serve him well: the inevitable Read More

Nic Smiesznego

Actors: Cezary Pazura

Pulkownik Kwiatkowski

Synopsis: It is 1945, and the Russian occupation of Poland has been complete for some time. Kwiatowski, a surgeon, has been given a vacation by one of his grateful patients, a colonel in the (communist) Polish security force, known as the UB. While he is on leave, he takes an old girlfriend on a date at a Read More

Erotic Tales II

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of three steamy vignettes from three different filmmakers. The first, Cinzia Torrini's "Sweeties," follows the desperation of a rotund, neglected housewife who goes to a psychic for help. The mystical woman gives the housewife a few special sweets with the warning that Read More

Panna Z Mokra Glowa

Zawrocony

Synopsis: A rube goes to work in the big city and finds himself victimized by the government system he was trained to support in this Polish comedy set in the year of Solidarity, 1991. Country boy Tomasz works in a power plant. He feels alone because he doesn't understand his co-worker's impassioned support Read More

Psy

Actors: Boguslaw Linda, Cezary Pazura, Marek Kondrat, Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Synopsis: One question that arose when Poland changed from its communist form of government to a more open model was what to do with its thousands of secret policemen. Clearly, some of them couldn't be integrated into the regular police force, and some of them could. In this police thriller, Olo (Marek Kondrat Read More

No End

Actors: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Artur Barcis

Synopsis:
The late, celebrated Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski) has created a downbeat but emotionally harrowing, magic realist tale in this film about a fictional couple whose lives are taken over by events in Poland in the turbulent, early 1980s. Antoni Zyro (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a Polish Read More

H.M. Deserters

Actors: Marek Kondrat, Zoltan Bezeredi, Wiktor Zborowski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Synopsis: A diverse group of soldiers defending the Austro-Hungarian empire are the subject of this lengthy comedy. Czechs, Poles, Jews, Hungarians, and Italian regulars combine forces to put down their new commander, a sadistic German-born officer with a penchant for handing out public humiliation and Read More

Kobieta W Kapeluszu

Actors: Hanna Mikuc, Henryk Machalica, Marek Kondrat

Synopsis: In one hard look at the often-superficial world of movies and the theater, director Stanislaw Rosewicz has created a view of that world seen through the experiences of Eve (Hanna Mikuc), a young actress who prefers Shakespeare over her boyfriend. In reality, Eve has to pay the rent by performing Read More

Delibabok Orszaga

Actors: Jan Nowicki, Marek Kondrat, Teri Tordai, Kati Rak, Adam Szirtes

Synopsis: "The Inspector General" is a satirical comedy of errors penned by Nikolay Gogol in the 19th century and interpreted here by director Marta Meszaros for the cinema. Jan Nowicki stars as the corrupt mayor of a small town who learns that the formidable inspector general is going to show up incognito Read More

Danton

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu Read More

Dreszcze

Actors: Teresa Sawicka, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Teresa Marczewska, Tomasz Hudziec, Jerzy Binczycki

Synopsis: This pessimistic Polish film stars Tomasz Hudziec as a boy whose father is arrested by the Stalinist police. To quell Hudziec's potential rebelliousness, the authorities ship him off to a Pioneer Camp, where he will be "re-educated." Camp life is horrible, but Hudziec goes with the program in Read More

Man of Iron

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irene Byrska, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's sequel to his immensely well-received Man of Marble covers some of the same ground: the relationship of labor leaders to their communist political masters and the difficulties the media encounters in covering that story. But it adds an exceptionally timely element Read More

Lekcja Martwego Jezyka

Actors: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Juliusz Machulski

Synopsis: This haunting, symbolic drama is set in a small Polish town in 1918. An officer in the Austrian army has come to stay in a hotel owned by a Jew. The officer was born in Poland, he is the only guest in the hotel, and the area itself would one day be the site where many Polish Jews and other Read More

Smuga Cienia

Synopsis: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1976 Polish Film Festival, this drama from director Andrzej Wajda was based on the short story The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad. The film tells the story of a young man who tries his best to helm a foundering boat bound for Singapore. Not only is the boat Read More

Zaklete Rewiry

Actors: Marek Kondrat, Roman Wilhelmi, Roman Skamene

Synopsis: The staff at a big, fancy European restaurant have a hierarchy and social order every bit as subtle and complex as can be found in the most convoluted military organization. In this Polish film, based on the 1936 novel by former waiter Henryk Worcell, Roman Borcyczko (Marek Kondrat) survives the Read More

Historia Zoltej Cizemki

Actors: Gustaw Holoubek, Andrzej Szczepkowski, Bronislaw Pawlik

Synopsis: Set at the end of the 15th century when one of Poland's greatest sculptors, Wit Stwosz, was working on his lifetime masterpiece, this costume drama by director Sylwester Checinski looks at a young orphan and his connection to the famous sculptor. Wawrzek (Andrzej Szczepkowski) has been awarded a Read More