Janusz Gajos
Birthday: 1939-09-23
Place of Birth: Dąbrowa Górnicza, Polska
Biography: Janusz Gajos (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjanuʂ ˈɡajɔs]; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the greatest Polish actors. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours including the Gold Cross of Merit (1974),[3] Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture (2007), five Polish Film Awards (2001, 2007, 2016, 2016, 2019), Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011), and Diamond Lions Award at the Gdynia Film Festival (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Janusz Gajos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Three Colors: White
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wi...
View Movie
Fuks²
Maciek is a bright and savvy 20-year-old, although he has to borrow money and a car for a date from ...
View Movie
From a Far Country
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne ...
View Movie
The Butler
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whos...
View Movie
It's Me, the Thief
A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the ...
View Movie
Death as a Slice of Bread
Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. A g...
View Movie
Angel in Love
Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial ove...
View Movie
Fluke
Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not b...
View Movie
Soccer Poker
Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years clim...
View Movie
Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki...
View Movie
Psy
In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they...
View Movie
Interrogation
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of frie...
View Movie
The Winner
Oliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off hi...
View Movie
Decalogue IV
A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is begin...
View Movie
Karino
The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for th...
View Movie
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on ...
View Movie
The Codes
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest...
View Movie
What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mist...
View Movie
A Lady from the Window
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families....
View Movie
Full Moon
A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the...
View Movie
Playing with the Devil
The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war....
View Movie
Zaczarowane podwórko
A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazin...
View Movie
Beniamiszek
Żagota lost his fortune, family and friends. His only hope is a horse which got stolen....
View Movie
An Uneventful Story
A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes sto...
View Movie
Wedle wyroków twoich...
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they...
View Movie
Inner State
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world w...
View Movie
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. ...
View Movie
The Fog
In the first months after the war, a period of confusion and fratricidal fighting, a Warsaw whack-jo...
View Movie
Bezkresne łąki
A lyrical comedy; an escape to nature for a civil servant tired of everyday life and the monotony of...
View Movie
Idol
In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the...
View Movie
Niedziela pewnego małżeństwa w mieście przemysłowym średniej wielkości
The Milewskis are a middle-aged couple. Witold and Magda, both occupied with careers in managerial p...
View Movie
Big Bang
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hos...
View Movie
The Contract
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" c...
View Movie
Guilty of Innocence
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic...
View Movie
Aquarium
Film based on the book of Viktor Suvorov, a former Soviet military intelligence officer. The story o...
View Movie
Citizen
An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation t...
View Movie
Convoy
Director of detention, director Nowacki finds Sergeant Zawada, who is hiding from the world. An expe...
View Movie
Poznań 56
The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the ...
View Movie
Happy New York
The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and ...
View Movie
Daimler-Benz Limousine
Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The s...
View Movie
Weiser
The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It...
View Movie
Chopin: Desire for Love
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin....
View Movie
Man of Iron
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d...
View Movie
Breaking the Limits
Based on true events. In 1980s Poland, Jerzy Górski is a young man who finds the determination to st...
View Movie
Pitbull
Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian crimin...
View Movie
Jasminum
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument ...
View Movie
Egzekutor
Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. H...
View Movie
Stardust
An odd couple of old people lead their simple lives close to nature. The man is an amateur construct...
View Movie
Ławeczka
Male-female warfare at its acting best. She and he. He is Janusz Gajos, she - Joanna Zolkowska. The ...
View Movie
The Yellow Scarf
The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The da...
View Movie
Obok prawdy
After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral d...
View Movie
Bigda is Coming!
The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile g...
View Movie
The Closed Circuit
The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, ap...
View Movie
Escape from the Liberty Cinema
The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - act...
View Movie
Odd Oddballs, or: Jan Brzechwa’s The Tale of Palemon the Corsair
The princes and princesses, according to the will of their father, King Fafala IV, try to defeat Cap...
View Movie
A Time of Betrayal
A drama set in the year 1516 in Tuscany. Niccolo Machiavelli, stripped of office, remains in exile a...
View Movie
The Secret of Little Rose
Joanna Warczewska, daughter of an eminent writer, is at the peak of her life. Her thriving political...
View Movie
Body
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently decease...
View Movie
Przedwiośnie
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1...
View Movie
Last Mission
Andre, an assassin working on behalf of French government goes to Poland to kill Polish businessman ...
View Movie
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 ...
View Movie
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3...
View Movie
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 ...
View Movie
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes...
View Movie
Blindness
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickna...
View Movie
The Revenge
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldie...
View Movie
There and Back
In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in Engla...
View Movie
Lesser Evil
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It wa...
View Movie
Milioner
The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mothe...
View Movie
Rozmowy przy wycinaniu lasu
TV staging of Polish contemporary drama. Stanislaw Tym returned to the text, which is preceded by a ...
View Movie
Młynarski. Piosenka finałowa
A moving documentary depicting a recent and very candid interview with Wojciech Mlynarski, in which ...
View Movie
Clergy
The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Ever...
View Movie
Bicz Boży
A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will repo...
View Movie
The Conductor
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a vi...
View Movie
Zwariowana noc
Three Polish resistance fighters hide in an old castle inhabitated by an old baroness and her relati...
View Movie
Norymberga
The play by Wojciech Tomczyk. The topic taken up by Wojciech Tomczyk is a very hot one, dealing with...
View Movie
Wahadełko
Michal Szmańda suffers from epilepsy, depression and other conditions. He is cared for by his sister...
View Movie
Przemytnicy
The 1920s, the southern border of Poland. Smuggler Józef Trofida is released from prison. From his f...
View Movie
Squadron
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impr...
View Movie
Kocie ślady
A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring....
View Movie
Mały
A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for...
View Movie
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and e...
View Movie
Solid Gold
Kaja Miller is a police officer that is abducted and abused on one of her missions. Eight years late...
View Movie
Płaszcz
Akaky Akakyevich Bashmachkin, a titular counsellor at one of the St. Petersburg offices, has been ha...
View Movie
Kung-fu
A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when ...
View Movie
A Gentle Creature
A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her...
View Movie
Przedstawienie Hamleta we wsi Głucha Dolna
Based on the play "Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja" by Croatian playwright Ivon Brešan. The st...
View Movie
Stajnia na Salvatorze
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans ...
View Movie
The Gift of the Magi
The story of a young couple who try to make ends meet to afford Christmas presents for one another....
View Movie
Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza
Further fate of Dzidzius Górkiewicz, the protagonist of Andrzej Munk's film "Eroica". After retiring...
View Movie
Solidarność, Solidarność...
A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consi...
View Movie
