Zbigniew Zamachowski

Zbigniew Zamachowski

Birthday: 1961-07-17

Place of Birth: Brzeziny, Poland

Biography: Zbigniew Zamachowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzbiɡɲɛv zamaˈxɔfskʲi]; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting career in 1981 and in 1989 had a co-starring role in Part Ten of director Krzysztof Kieślowski's film series, Dekalog. Four years later, Kieślowski cast him as the lead character, "Karol Karol", in Three Colors: White, the second of his acclaimed Three Colors trilogy. He is a two-time winner of Polish Film Awards for his roles in Robert Gliński's film Hi, Tereska (2001) and Andrzej Jakimowski's film drama Zmróż oczy (2004). His other notable roles are featured in Kazimierz Kutz's film Colonel Kwiatkowski (1996), Jerzy Hoffman's historical film With Fire and Sword (1999) and Andrzej Wajda's biopic Walesa: Man of Hope (2013). Between 1985 and 1997, he performed at The Studio Theater, and since 1997 he has been an actor at the National Theater in Warsaw.

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Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Blue

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone...

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Three Colors: Red
Three Colors: Red

Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At fir...

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Three Colors: White
Three Colors: White

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wi...

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Distant Lights
Distant Lights

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

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Triple Trouble
Triple Trouble

When a pearl in the collectionof the National Museum of Poznań, Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville",...

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23
23

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germ...

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With Fire and Sword
With Fire and Sword

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europ...

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Surfers’ Time
Surfers’ Time

Three young guys got work from unlucky gangster... they try to make a great job but everything goes ...

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Devil
Devil

Franciszek finds out from a doctor that his mother is on the verge of death. Unable to watch over he...

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Operation Dunaj
Operation Dunaj

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in Augu...

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Truth Makes Free
Truth Makes Free

A Security Service Major wishes to "buy" gullible priest Zieja and turn him into an agent who will d...

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Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us
Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us

Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by ...

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Talking Heads 2021
Talking Heads 2021

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki...

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8 Things
8 Things

8 things that you don't know about men. Years after “happily ever after,” five old friends grapple w...

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Demons of War
Demons of War

A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated f...

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Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz
Projekt dziecko, czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz

Peter and Anne decide to find the perfect sperm donor. The trouble is, where can he be found. First,...

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Dublerzy
Dublerzy

A couple of friends, Max and Leo spend some time in Sicily, the island that is associated with mafia...

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Blind Date
Blind Date

Majka is young, beautiful and intelligent. It is time for her to learn and work, she has wonderful f...

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Squint Your Eyes
Squint Your Eyes

The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town...

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Pitbull. Last Dog
Pitbull. Last Dog

A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to s...

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Let's Make a Grandson
Let's Make a Grandson

To save the family land from a mysterious millionaire, a farmer hatches a plan to marry off his two ...

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Happy New York
Happy New York

The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and ...

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Weiser
Weiser

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It...

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30 Door Key
30 Door Key

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood durin...

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Father, Son & Holy Cow
Father, Son & Holy Cow

Bogdan, an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, retires from the stage when his wife Iza dies,...

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White Soup
White Soup

The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The gr...

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Kanalia
Kanalia

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge....

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Darmozjad polski
Darmozjad polski

A slice of life type movie. A main plot goes around showing common behavior and psychological portra...

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Aftermath
Aftermath

Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them....

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Hi, Tereska
Hi, Tereska

Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her....

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Seychelles
Seychelles

A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable clepto...

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Art of Loving
Art of Loving

Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right cho...

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Decalogue X
Decalogue X

Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is ...

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Taranthriller
Taranthriller

Looking for a place to conduct research, docent Marek and his family move into an old villa where st...

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Reverted
Reverted

Young democracy activist is being chased by police in a very funny way....

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Wiech moja miłość
Wiech moja miłość

The film is inspired by the work of Wiech (Stefan Wiechecki), a humorist who has been depicting the ...

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The Station
The Station

A seriously wounded gangster with a bag full of money stops at a deserted gas station....

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Our Folks: The Beginning
Our Folks: The Beginning

Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours...

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Came the Uhlans
Came the Uhlans

In a post-State gmina Osiek, on August 15th the plaque commemorating the liberation of the town from...

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Pułapka
Pułapka

An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himsel...

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Colonel Kwiatkowski
Colonel Kwiatkowski

Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded ...

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Hope
Hope

Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident record...

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Killing Love
Killing Love

Casper, movie rental worker becomes an owner of a DVD with a registered murder, which John made ​​fo...

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The Hexer
The Hexer

A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destin...

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Treasure
Treasure

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to...

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Warsaw Stories
Warsaw Stories

'Igła" (The needle) is a former prisoner who seen the Blessed Virgin. He survived the conversion an...

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Kill Me, Cop
Kill Me, Cop

The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first t...

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Persona Non Grata
Persona Non Grata

The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to...

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Miłość na pierwszą stronę
Miłość na pierwszą stronę

The story of Nina - a modern day Cinderella and Robert - the son of the presidential couple. She is ...

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If I Were You
If I Were You

A married couple wakes up in each other's bodies, discovering surprising thrusts about their partner...

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Gabriel
Gabriel

Embarking on a journey across southern Poland to find his long-lost father, twelve-year-old Tomek re...

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Luxury
Luxury

The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas....

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A Night at the Kindergarten
A Night at the Kindergarten

A young man crashes a school play rehearsal to prevent a group of teachers and eccentric parents fro...

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Dark Crimes
Dark Crimes

Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described...

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Esterhazy
Esterhazy

The story of a small Esterhazy and his research of Bunnies's Paradies that truly existed between Eas...

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Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach

During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station...

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7 Things You Don't Know About Men
7 Things You Don't Know About Men

Seven men navigate the confusing world of modern dating as they each chase love and happiness amid c...

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The Pianist
The Pianist

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

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Gods
Gods

Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa....

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Wałesa: Man of Hope
Wałesa: Man of Hope

How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is a...

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Destined for Blues
Destined for Blues

The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history...

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1800 Grams
1800 Grams

A touching story about the most important human matters: love, loneliness, sacrifice and courage, ar...

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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a ...

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Yes, Yes
Yes, Yes

Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the ...

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Dublerzy
Dublerzy

A couple of friends, Max and Leo spend some time in Sicily, the island that is associated with mafia...

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Escape from the Liberty Cinema
Escape from the Liberty Cinema

The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - act...

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Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca
Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński is secretly abducted from the Primate’s Palace and sent into solitary conf...

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Korczak
Korczak

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during ...

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Kolekcja sukienek
Kolekcja sukienek

Eight women of different ages. Love and loneliness. Fear. Therefore, all that clothes us. A film abo...

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No Panic with a Hint of Hysteria
No Panic with a Hint of Hysteria

A timid accountant tries to earn his living as a rather unsuccessful hitman, until one stormy night ...

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Taxing Love
Taxing Love

Klara, devoted to her work as a tax inspector, becomes infatuated with the dashing but irresponsible...

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The Possessed
The Possessed

Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime thr...

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Be Prepared
Be Prepared

Conflicts between the scouts and boys in a reformatory at the common scout camp, are sometimes very ...

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Sauna
Sauna

A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna....

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Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever

The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the m...

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Run Boy Run
Run Boy Run

A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to su...

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The Resistance Fighter
The Resistance Fighter

Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the commanders of ...

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Politics
Politics

Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years....

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The Ring and the Rose
The Ring and the Rose

A messenger of King Padella arrives at the castle of King Valoroz XXIV of Paflagonia. He announces t...

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The Birch-Tree Meadow
The Birch-Tree Meadow

Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spe...

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Half a Century of Poetry Later
Half a Century of Poetry Later

Quarter the century after the Rivian Pogrom (the very last events from the Witcher Saga) Kaer Morhen...

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Bad Boy
Bad Boy

The rise and fall of a soccer club owner, discovering the harsh reality of the sport, often connecte...

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Love Me and Do Whatever You Want
Love Me and Do Whatever You Want

Sławek Wiśnik, a young, ambitious musician and graduate of the conservatory's organ class, wants to ...

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Proof of Life
Proof of Life

When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enli...

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The Sundial Clock
The Sundial Clock

The story of a married couple, actress and director, who live in the bosom of nature, in a stream hu...

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Sweat
Sweat

Three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zając, whose presence on social media has made he...

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Jack Strong
Jack Strong

Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the w...

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Zad wielkiego wieloryba
Zad wielkiego wieloryba

Roy, who lives abroad, recollects his youth. Soon he receives news about his old friend's death....

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The Big Picnic
The Big Picnic

Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town...

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Ludożerca
Ludożerca

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Boczny tor
Boczny tor

Old couple dreams about a cruise....

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Dotknięci
Dotknięci

Jan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives,...

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Domokrążca
Domokrążca

A strange world where people fight for a piece of horse meat....

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Escape
Escape

Teenager pretends to be mentally ill to get away from a reformatory....

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The Body
The Body

One day a commuter, who happens to be a burglar, finds a dead body on a train. As he was just return...

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The Offsiders
The Offsiders

Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train h...

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Da kommt noch was
Da kommt noch was

At the latest when Helga crashes through the floor of her living room, she realizes that she is stuc...

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Within the Whirlwind
Within the Whirlwind

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard...

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Jaś i Małgosia - rodzeństwo, które przeżyło
Jaś i Małgosia - rodzeństwo, które przeżyło

20 years after Hansel and Gretel ate the witch, the siblings are publishing a book about their adven...

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Odwiedź mnie we śnie
Odwiedź mnie we śnie

Ala is a frustrated housewife and mother of three children. When she suddenly gets killed in a car a...

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Operation Pope
Operation Pope

At the Kremlin's behest, Bulgarian secret services, along with Polish comrades, prepare for an attem...

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Fundacja Kultura
Fundacja Kultura

A 'village idiot' tries to open a barber shop....

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Emigranci
Emigranci

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Ballada o Piotrowskim
Ballada o Piotrowskim

The main character is Piotrowski, who seems to be a loser in life. One day, he decides to change his...

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Jan Englert. Spróbuję jeszcze raz pofrunąć
Jan Englert. Spróbuję jeszcze raz pofrunąć

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