Jerzy Stuhr
Birthday: 1947-04-18
Place of Birth: Kraków, Poland
Biography: Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈʂtur]; 18 April 1947-9 July 2024) was one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish film and theatre actors. He also worked as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor. He served as the Rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.
Movies
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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Sonata
Grzegorz, diagnosed as an autistic child, lives in his hermetic world, unable to establish contact w...
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Killer
An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob...
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I Will Not Starve
I Will Not Starve tells the story of a fallen chef, formerly a Michelin star, who returns to Turin f...
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Camera Buff
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, ...
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Ich czworo
One of Gabriela Zapolska's most famous comedies, it was written in 1907. A realistic story of a mari...
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King Size
The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of d...
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Twists of Fate
A morality tale that starts from answering a mysterious passenger's mobile phone left on a train, an...
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Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talki...
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We Have a Pope
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gat...
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Down House
Programmer Prince Myshkin returns to his historical homeland from Switzerland, where he was undergoi...
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Killer 2
Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, ...
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Wizja lokalna 1901
More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 ch...
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The Scar
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz...
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Mystification
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Wit...
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Sexmission
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and s...
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Hijacking Agatha
A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted ...
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Arje
A drama about a doctor Arje who discovers his illness and decides to go to Israel in order to meet S...
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anythi...
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Déjà vu
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mi...
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19. południk
The conspiracy story takes place in Poland, at the beginning of the 21st century. in 2003, Poles dec...
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A Brighter Tomorrow
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome...
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'vo...
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From a Far Country
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne ...
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Let It Be
Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two chil...
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The Big Animal
When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt and Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their home. The coup...
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The Third Part of the Night
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his ...
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Hero of the Year
The early 1980s. A former entertainment industry star is now selling leather goods. One day, he watc...
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The Moth
This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan is the host of ...
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Cupid's Bow
Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon ...
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Decalogue X
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is ...
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Tomorrow's Weather
A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 y...
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Medium
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a mu...
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Top Dog
An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a...
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Citizen Piszczyk
This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film be...
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Gwiazda Kopernika
Nicolaus Copernicus, the son of a Toruń merchant, is a bright and curious child. When he is ten year...
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Persona non grata
A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife....
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Love Stories
Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army ...
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Provincial Actors
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a...
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Citizen
An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation t...
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Tango
A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values lead...
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Seans
At the Cultural Center, a young scientist gives a lecture that evokes spontaneous reactions from the...
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Blind Chance
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influ...
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Slate
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Act...
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The Death of John L.
Zbigniew Gąsior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with wom...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker'...
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The Perfect Afternoon
Mikolaj, 22, together with his girlfriend Anna and partner Krzysiek, manage a literary publishing ho...
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Show
Petty thief Czarek takes part in a TV reality show to escape from the mafia. He is sent to a house o...
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The Calm
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life ...
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A Party for Ten, Plus Three
A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of t...
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Milion za Laurę
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters....
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Chance
Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for student...
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List of Lovers
Jerzy Stuhr Poland s most beloved actor wrote and directed this charming comedy that caters to his i...
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A Week in the Life of a Man
Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who appli...
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and e...
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La vita altrui
The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined...
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Through and Through
Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. The...
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Train for Hollywood
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She pat...
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Forgive Us Our Debts
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discov...
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stran...
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Matka swojej matki
Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughte...
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The Mother of the Kings
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She give...
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. ...
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Without Anesthesia
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full polit...
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The Caiman
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a scr...
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Crime and Punishment
Polish television play adaptation of the first of Fyodor Dostoevsky's great novels, in which reflect...
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November Night
Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama...
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Invisible World
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world....
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