Jan Prochyra

Jan Prochyra

Born: December 2, 1948
Died: May 20, 2015
in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska

Movies for Jan Prochyra...

Citizen
Title: Citizen
Character: kierownik Towarzystwa Krzewienia Kultury Żydowskiej
Released: November 7, 2014
Type: Movie
An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be active, but something always got in his way, either through an absurd coincidence, as a result of his own lack of ability, or due to the unpredictable nature of certain events in our recent history.
bee
Title: Kryminalni
Character: "Fidel"
Released: September 18, 2004
Type: TV
Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
bee
The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Title: The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Character: Mirsz
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...
bee
Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: Kapitan
Released: May 6, 2002
Type: Movie
bee
Prostitutes
Title: Prostitutes
Character: mężczyzna przy barze w "Gejszy"
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...
bee
Title: Boża podszewka
Character: Znachor Bartłuk
Released: November 23, 1997
Type: TV
bee
Colonel Kwiatkowski
Title: Colonel Kwiatkowski
Character: pułkownik Kawałek, oficer w hotelu "Polonia"
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
bee
Provocateur
Title: Provocateur
Character: lekarz więzienny
Released: May 31, 1995
Type: Movie
bee
Blood of the Innocent
Title: Blood of the Innocent
Character: Zelepukhin
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
bee
The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Title: The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Character: dyrektor PGR-u
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
bee
Inner State
Title: Inner State
Character: pracownik biura projektów
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
bee
Nad Niemnem
Title: Nad Niemnem
Character: Bolesław Kirło (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between Justyna Orzelska, niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz. Will their love be strong enough to break the mental barrier that separates the world of Bohatyrowicz from the world of Korczyński?
bee
Problemat profesora Czelawy
Title: Problemat profesora Czelawy
Released: October 4, 1986
Type: Movie
bee
I Like Bats
Title: I Like Bats
Character: Grzes Peruka
Released: July 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Izabella, a beautiful young woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the night she has the strange habit to feed bats.
bee
Woman in a Hat
Title: Woman in a Hat
Character: Zdzisio
Released: September 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
bee
The Twenties, the Thirties
Title: The Twenties, the Thirties
Character: Circus Member
Released: March 19, 1984
Type: Movie
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
bee
Fetysz
Title: Fetysz
Character: Inspektor Winicjusz Rudy
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Życie Kamila Kuranta
Character: Leon
Released: February 12, 1983
Type: TV
bee
The Big Picnic
Title: The Big Picnic
Character: Salesman
Released: October 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
bee
The Smaller Sky
Title: The Smaller Sky
Character: Karol
Released: September 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.
bee
Title: Dom
Character: Maciejak, administrator domu na Złotej
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
bee
Title: Dom
Character: mężczyzna na porodówce
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
bee
Title: Dom
Character: asystent działacza partyjnego
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
bee
Playing with the Devil
Title: Playing with the Devil
Character: Karborund
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
bee
Kartoteka
Title: Kartoteka
Character: Fat Man
Released: October 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
bee
Nightmares
Title: Nightmares
Character: Raciaty
Released: April 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
bee
Dagny
Title: Dagny
Character: (w napisach: Jan Prohyra)
Released: January 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
bee
Title: Calling 07
Character: Dudziak, szwagier Szczerbica
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: TV
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
bee
Title: Zezem
Character: Gość na imieninach Górnego
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: TV