Jan Nowicki
Birthday: 1939-11-05
Place of Birth: Kowal, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
Biography: Jan Nowicki (5 November 1939 – 7 December 2022) was an actor and writer, known for The Hourglass Sanatorium, The Third Part of the Night or Big Shar. He appeared in over 100 films and television episodes since 1963.
Movies
The First Day of Freedom
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. A...
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The Five Obstructions
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri...
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Tylko Beatrycze
Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king....
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Potyatusok
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to P...
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The Land of Mirage
Officer Karikas from Petersburg should be in Saratov with her servant,in the way he played cards and...
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Red Thorns
A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment ...
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The Perfect Number
The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to kno...
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Big Shar
Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads fo...
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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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Sztos
Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. C...
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New Year's Eve Adventure
A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment....
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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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Diary for My Children
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scar...
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Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem
Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his f...
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Hour After Hour
Tadeusz documents his work as a driver by writing short stories to papers....
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Poznań 56
The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the ...
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A Story in Red
Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village...
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Krótka podróż
A study of two people involved in the story of the love triangle. However, not the plot itself is th...
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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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Golem
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any detail...
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Life in the Mud is Golden
A talented boy from the block dreams of making an album together with complete members of a hip-hop ...
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Tulips
The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When ...
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Daas
In 1776 Vienna, imperial counselor Henryk Klein investigates allegations that the charismatic Jewish...
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Diary for My Loves
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 ...
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The Anatomy of Love
A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a t...
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Przedwiośnie
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1...
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Daughters of Fortune
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to ma...
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Children and Fish
Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One d...
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The Girls of Nowolipki
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbrea...
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Korn's Password
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Ko...
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Magneto
Years later, Lena returns to Poland, accompanied by a French journalist, to learn the truth about he...
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The Ashes
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at th...
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The Seventh Room
An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one a...
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Kraj świata
Two writers comment on the situation of Poland in the period of political transformation....
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The Inheritance
During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's...
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SuperWizja
A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions crea...
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Nie ma takiego numeru
A classic of cinema with a twist, that is, the story of how to intelligently empty the casino safe w...
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Scorpio, Virgo and Sagittarius
Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and...
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The Two of Them
Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, ...
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Polish Roulette
As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the polic...
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Lava
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the...
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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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The Unburied Man
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regim...
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Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes ...
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Revisited
In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great acto...
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Wasted Lives
In the first half of the fifties Júlia, the weaver meets engineer Szél on a visit with "educative" p...
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Panny i wdowy
Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of wome...
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In Broad Daylight
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. ...
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Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to vis...
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Diary for My Father and My Mother
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1...
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The Great Post Office Robbery
The heroes of this crime-comedy attempt to get hold of money by a funny trick. They start operating ...
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The Spiral
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, thro...
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Nine Months
Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides ...
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Oh, oh Juliet
Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and th...
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Autor wychodzi
A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she i...
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Siegfried
The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfr...
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The Magnate
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty ...
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11 Minutes
The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time....
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Fetus
This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adop...
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Colonel Wolodyjowski
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to acti...
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Fenomen
Olive is the daughter of a millionaire, spoiled by her loving dad, who fulfills her every whim. Deep...
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Fanatyk
As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his o...
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Nightmares
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy...
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
The plot is a series of unfortunate events happening to unremarkable characters. The father of the m...
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Just Like at Home
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and j...
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E=mc²
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philoso...
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Before Twilight
The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to r...
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Little Vilma: The Last Diary
The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder...
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Ruthless Times
Hungary, end of World War II. Five Hungarian soldiers desert their troop which has been directed to ...
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Family Life
A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his grave...
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Listy miłosne
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man s...
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The Wedding Night During the Daylight
The end of the 70s of the last century. A team of surveyors goes to a small provincial town. Magiste...
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Smugglers
"Ladybug," "Silent" and "Cobra" are 19-year-old young men who have everything, but want even more. T...
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Ich liebe dich - April! April!
The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their m...
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The Spider Women
Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save...
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Crab and Joanna
Just before the end of an 18-month-long journey from Africa, a fishing ship is sent on another 2-mon...
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through ...
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Notes on Love
Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a came...
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On the Move
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife an...
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To See the Light
1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with...
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Deszczowy żołnierz
After being raped by her lover, Anna, lawyer investigating top-level corruption, nearly hits an amne...
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A Mother, a Daughter
Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22...
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A Hole in the Ground
An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to dr...
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Nights and Days
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the Januar...
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Lost Night
A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in th...
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Młode Wilki 1/2
The second part of a story about young people entering adulthood in the harsh reality of predatory c...
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Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia....
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Spokojne lata
Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his fr...
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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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So-Called Humanity in Madness
A theatrical attempt to reconstruct the last, lost play by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. An amalgam o...
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The Foundation
A sophisticated conman starts a foundation helping the victims of drunk drivers. In reality, all the...
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Napoleon
Napoleon (French: Napoléon et l'Europe) is a six-part French–Polish historical miniseries that aired...
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