
Jan Kurnakowicz
Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Michał Klecha
A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Sgt. Biedron
An exiled leader returns to Poland to lead an uprising against the Russian occupiers.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Prof. Józef Elsner
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Józiuk
Ryszard Malewicz, a young inventor, is out of work. He had been waiting for months for a response from the ministry to which he had sent plans for his invention, an explosive of extraordinary power. Desperate Ryszard is comforted by his mother and his fiancée Maria.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Prof. Jan Quatrini
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Journalist
Jan Winkler borrows 1,000 zł from a respected professor in exchange for introducing young women to dubious “scientific” experiments. He uses the money to buy a nightclub and falls for prosecutor Alicja Horn.

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Piotr Rafalski
Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Tomasz Kotlica, polski milioner z Brazylii
A young locksmith, Jerzy, builds an airplane. By chance, he meets the Brazilian millionaire Tomasz Kotlica and his daughter Janina. Witold Siemacki, an aviator, stands in the way of Jerzy's career and happiness.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Stolnik Kieżgajłło
King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland secretly falls in love with Barbara Radziwiłłówna, a noblewoman of Lithuanian magnate lineage, defying his mother Queen Bona’s plans to wed him to a French princess.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Cieślak
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Sound Technician
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.

Movie - 1929, 2h 15m • as Editor's Secretary
Bielecki becomes determined to become a famous writer, but the means he employs in achieving his goal are far from ethical. Bielecki discourages his friend Jerzy Gorski by telling him his new work is rather poor, driving him into despair. But Bielecki is such a good friend that he even provides Gorski with the morphine so he can overdose too. With Gorski out of the way, Bielecki can now peddle his friend's book as his own. However, it doesn't take long for Bielecki's evil ways to catch up to him.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Taylor (uncredited)
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Cześnik Raptusiewicz
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as General
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
