Maja Ostaszewska
Birthday: 1972-09-03
Place of Birth: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maja Ostaszewska (born September 3, 1972) is a Polish actress. She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski. She started her acting training in her native Kraków and later graduated from PWST, in 1996. She has since acted mostly on Teatr Rozmaitości in Warsaw, working with well-known Polish directors such as Krystian Lupa, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Grzegorz Jarzyna. In 1993, during her acting training, she played a small role in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Although her actual real film debut was in 1997, with the TV movie Przystań. For this role, she received the Best Actress Award at the Polish Film Festival held in Gdynia in 1998. Ostaszewska recently played one of the main characters in Academy Award nominated Andrzej Wajda's Katyń. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maja Ostaszewska (b. 10 April 1966 in Radzymin) is a Polish movie and stage actor., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
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Katyn
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Colors of Evil: Red
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A Grain of Truth
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Entanglement
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Green Border
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Egoiści
A look at the 1990s generation of cynical and selfish young Varsovians who managed to achieve financ...
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In the Name of...
The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is...
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Broad Peak
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Rybka Canero
A family crime comedy by Juliusz Machulski, written especially for the Television Theater. "Fish can...
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Dom na końcu drogi
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Body
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The In-Laws 2
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Jack Strong
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Damaged
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Loneliness in the Net
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Pitbull: Public Orders
Policemen from two precincts are joining forces to fight the Mokotowska Group....
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The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
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Chopin, a Sonata in Paris
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Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca
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Pitbull: Tough Women
Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the bru...
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Schindler's List
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
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Changes
Adrian plans to marry Wanda and, with that intention, visits his fiancee's family house by the lake....
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7 Emotions
Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days wh...
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I Am Lying Now
Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up i...
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Przystań
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(Nie)znajomi
A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into...
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Kill It and Leave This Town
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, w...
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Nightwalk
It is night in Warsaw. Two very different homes. In one, a father watches sports lying on the sofa, ...
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Never Gonna Snow Again
Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the...
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Magnesium
A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between ...
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consi...
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The In-Laws
Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two fam...
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The In-Laws 3
Wanda and Tadeusz host a christening for their granddaughter, tension simmering as they reluctantly ...
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Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
The making-of featurette of Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film Katyń....
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Where Eskimos Live
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The Doll
Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. ...
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