Jan Mayzel

Jan Mayzel

Born: January 5, 1930
Died: December 30, 2021
in Milanówek, mazowieckie, Polska

Movies for Jan Mayzel...

The Last Suit
Title: The Last Suit
Character: Piotrek
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Cranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham unexpectedly travels to Poland in order to deliver a suit to a childhood friend who saved his life during the Nazi occupation.
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Title: Kryminalni
Character: adwokat Buchacza, Jaskuły i Walerczaka
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.
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Chopin: Desire for Love
Title: Chopin: Desire for Love
Character: gość na koncercie Chopina
Released: March 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
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Marszałek Piłsudski
Title: Marszałek Piłsudski
Character: lekarz robiący zastrzyk Piłsudskiemu
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Marszałek Piłsudski
Character: lekarz robiący zastrzyk Piłsudskiemu
Released: October 21, 2001
Type: TV
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Colonel Kwiatkowski
Title: Colonel Kwiatkowski
Character: recepcjonista w hotelu "Polonia"
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Taksówkarz
Released: December 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Daddy is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to kidnap his daughter rather than let the court award custody to his mentally ill wife, whom he deems unfit to raise their child. But as he quickly finds out, it's easier to be a real man than it is to be a real father.
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Title: Zespół adwokacki
Character: oskarżyciel Malaka na rozprawie w Sądzie Apelacyjnym w Łodzi
Released: December 21, 1994
Type: TV
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A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Title: A Bachelor's Life Abroad
Character: Mine Foreman
Released: January 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.
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Controlled Conversations
Title: Controlled Conversations
Character: Man replacing a Tire (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
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Po upadku
Title: Po upadku
Character: archiwista
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
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Title: Dekalog
Character: Grzegorz, przyjaciel Stefana
Released: December 10, 1989
Type: TV
Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
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Decalogue VII
Title: Decalogue VII
Character: Grzegorz
Released: May 16, 1989
Type: Movie
As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.
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King Size
Title: King Size
Character: Portier w "Victorii"
Released: May 2, 1988
Type: Movie
A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
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The Rotter Case
Title: The Rotter Case
Released: July 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.
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Title: Alternatywy 4
Character: dyrektor fabryki Cichockiego
Released: September 30, 1986
Type: TV
Alternatywy 4 was a Polish comedy TV series that was finished in 1983. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in Alternatywy 4 was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.
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The Haunted
Title: The Haunted
Character: Kamasznik
Released: July 25, 1982
Type: Movie
1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.
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Jeśli się odnajdziemy
Title: Jeśli się odnajdziemy
Character: Zasada
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Teddy Bear
Title: Teddy Bear
Released: May 4, 1981
Type: Movie
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
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Title: Dom
Character: nauczyciel Kajtka Talara
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
Character: Walenty
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: TV
Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.
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What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Title: What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Character: Man trying to pass the Gate
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
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Milion za Laurę
Title: Milion za Laurę
Released: June 8, 1971
Type: Movie
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Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Title: Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Character: Frenchman in Bar
Released: November 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.
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Cooked Doves
Title: Cooked Doves
Character: Director's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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Markiza de Pompadour
Title: Markiza de Pompadour
Character: Militiaman (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1966
Type: Movie
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
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Title: Podziemny front
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: TV
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Adam's Two Ribs
Title: Adam's Two Ribs
Character: Leszek Nowicki
Released: January 24, 1964
Type: Movie
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
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Gangsters and Philantropists
Title: Gangsters and Philantropists
Character: Hanka's Boyfriend ("Alcoholmeter")
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
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Rainy July
Title: Rainy July
Character: Student (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.