Irena Kownas

Irena Kownas

Born: August 9, 1937
in Wilno, Polska (obecnie Litwa)

Movies for Irena Kownas...

Fun and Games
Title: Fun and Games
Character: Darek's mother
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: Movie
In the villa of the party dignitary, the fates of Stanisław, his son's friends, Zbyszek, a worker leaving the army, and the head of the thieves' gang, cross. The film was shelved by the censors for 27 years before finally getting a limited release in 2009.
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Title: Będziesz moja
Character: Barbara Nowak
Released: May 18, 2006
Type: TV
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Attractive Seeks Woman
Title: Attractive Seeks Woman
Character: Elżunia
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Stasio Tuchala, old bachelor, resident of Sucha Wolka, after his sister left for America, lives alone. Because he can not cope with the farmwork, his friends decide to get him married. Stasio already attracted two girls from his village and Ukrainian Vera, but he dreams of Miss from colorful magazines. Matrimonial ad that Stasio, Albert and Henry put in the press, has nothing to do with reality, Stasio is NOT a handsome, dark haired, and wealthy. Meanwhile, the mayor Sucha Wolka seriously offended gang leaders from the neighboring village Mokra Wolka and on Sunday the village is expecting a retaliation ...
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Title: Kryminalni
Character: babcia Szczepana
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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Zróbmy sobie wnuka
Title: Zróbmy sobie wnuka
Character: Apolonia Tuchała, matka Krysi
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
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The Master and Margarita
Title: The Master and Margarita
Character: Praskowia
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Citizen Piszczyk
Title: Citizen Piszczyk
Character: Renata's mother
Released: January 16, 1989
Type: Movie
This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.
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ESD
Title: ESD
Character: Mrs Lisiecka
Released: March 16, 1987
Type: Movie
The Borejko family has four daughters - Gabriela, Ida, Natalia and Patricia. Most concern causes the red-haired Ida, whose unusual ideas often end badly, though the girl has the best intentions. Her father, who works at the university as a classical philologist, gives her the idea to found a group called ESD. They want to try out the theory that you are more successful if you send out more positive signals to the environment. Soon this theory will be put to the test. Ida's mother has to go to the hospital and the entire burden of household chores falls on the children.
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Nad Niemnem
Title: Nad Niemnem
Character: Starzyńska
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?
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The Twenties, the Thirties
Title: The Twenties, the Thirties
Character: Fuks' Wife
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.
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Title: Życie Kamila Kuranta
Character: Antonina Gorlicka
Released: February 12, 1983
Type: TV
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Wierne blizny
Title: Wierne blizny
Released: October 4, 1982
Type: Movie
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Jeśli się odnajdziemy
Title: Jeśli się odnajdziemy
Character: Adela Dekarzowa
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: kobieta przygotowywana do programu radiowego
Released: July 27, 1981
Type: Movie
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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Title: Dom
Character: wdowa Jadwiga Rupała, kandydatka na żonę Szczepana Pocięgły
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
Title: Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
Released: April 18, 1980
Type: Movie
In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin on the Prussian side. Both are occasionally smuggling stuff over the border. But while Jan acts from political conviction and is smuggling illegal writings over the border, Martin is only interested in the money. That is why he does not question his shadowy client when he sneaks out refugees into Russia. But then it becomes evident that the distinguished gentleman has robbed the refugees from all of their belongings, only to turn them over to the authorities of the Czar.
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Title: Życie na gorąco
Character: Lipke, właścicielka pensjonatu w Bazylei
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Nights and Days
Character: Kucharka Felicja
Released: February 26, 1978
Type: TV
Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, and Bogumił Niechcic, against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
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Flames
Title: Flames
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Presenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: właścicielka pensjonatu „Viola” w Płotnicy
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.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: Midwife at Łódź Hospital
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.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: Hanyszowa
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.
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Title: Dyrektorzy
Character: sąsiadka Gajdy
Released: December 16, 1975
Type: TV
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Łukasz
Title: Łukasz
Character: Kierowniczka sklepu
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The film deals with the issues of adolescents. The protagonist - Łukasz, a serious young man, falls into conflicts with his surroundings due to his uncompromising attitude.
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Title: Clouds of War
Character: młynarzowa
Released: December 23, 1973
Type: TV
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
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Adam's Two Ribs
Title: Adam's Two Ribs
Character: Father Makowski's housekeeper (uncredited)
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.