Janusz Zaorski

Janusz Zaorski

Born: September 19, 1947

Movies for Janusz Zaorski...

Escape to the Silver Globe
Title: Escape to the Silver Globe
Character: Himself
Released: September 5, 2021
Type: Movie
A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic "On the Silver Globe".
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E=mc²
Title: E=mc²
Character: prorektor
Released: August 23, 2002
Type: Movie
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
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Title: Panny i wdowy
Character: kupujący książki w księgarni polskiej w Paryżu
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: TV
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Panny i wdowy
Title: Panny i wdowy
Released: September 12, 1991
Type: Movie
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Soccer Poker
Title: Soccer Poker
Character: cinkciarz; nie występuje w napisach
Released: March 31, 1989
Type: Movie
Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
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The Smaller Sky
Title: The Smaller Sky
Character: Dr. Barcz
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.
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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: Mundek
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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Screen Tests
Title: Screen Tests
Character: recepcjonista w hotelu
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
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The Finger of God
Title: The Finger of God
Released: August 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.
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Cisza nocna
Title: Cisza nocna
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie