Michał Tarkowski

Michał Tarkowski

Birthday: 1946-07-11

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland

Biography: Polish actor, screenwriter and director, co-creator (together with Janusz Weiss and Jacek Kleyff ) of the cabaret group Salon Niezależnych. He received a diploma at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1974, and in 1979 he graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National Film School in Łódź . In the 1970s, he co-founded the Independent Salon cabaret. Then he mainly took up film activities. He is known mainly for roles in such films as Man of Marble and Wodzirej .

Movies

Man of Marble
Man of Marble

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who beca...

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Poza układem
Poza układem

The young speedway rider wants to represent the country in the world championship. However, the coac...

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On, ona, oni
On, ona, oni

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce....

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Laureat
Laureat

Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home....

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Zero
Zero

A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and...

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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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W dół kolorowym wzgórzem
W dół kolorowym wzgórzem

The protagonist of the story is Rysiek, who, after serving a prison sentence in the Nysa Penitentiar...

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Fear of Falling
Fear of Falling

Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man when he receives a troubling message fr...

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Top Dog
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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Personnel
Personnel

Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw t...

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Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs

Set in a small Polish town coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James De...

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The Scar
The Scar

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz...

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Slate
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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Illumination
Illumination

Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy ...

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Fever
Fever

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitio...

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Hero of the Year
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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Kung-fu
Kung-fu

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when ...

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Afera Mięsna
Afera Mięsna

A portrait of cabinet intrigues, the false aspirations of the party elite and the grinding reality o...

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