
Tomasz Schimscheiner
Known For & Full Filmography25 Titles

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Self - Special Guest
Top Model. Zostań modelką is an ongoing reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model that pits contestants from Poland against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of the next Polish Top Model and a lucrative modeling contract with NEXT agency as well as an appearance on the cover of the Polish issue of Glamour and a nationwide Max Factor campaign in hopes of a successful future in the modeling business.

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Kowicki
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.

Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Pathologist Maryjanski
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Mariusz
Usta Usta is a Polish comedy-drama television series based on the British series Cold Feet. It ran on TVN for three seasons from March 6, 2010 to May 3, 2011.

Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as cook Wiktor Walicki
Pati has just found out that in the apartment she lives with her two younger siblings and her mother, the electricity has been cut off again and they are in arrears with the rent. Unfortunately, Julita, Pati's mother, runs away from responsibility in alcohol and drugs, spending time in bars and on the dance floor. Unlike her, Pati has ambitions. She applied to the culinary school in Sopot and is nervously waiting for a decision on whether she will be accepted. Sony, the local drug dealer, starts harassing Pati. He wants her to pay off her mother's debts. Pati discovers that Julita was trying to earn money by dealing drugs. She repays her mother's debt to the dealer with the help of Krystian, who has a crush on Pati. Julita goes to Sony again for drugs.

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Grzegorz Kołodziej, mąż Miry
A retired policeman and a former criminal must face their past when their daughters' lives are suddenly put at risk in this gangster thriller shining a light on the dark and dangerous activities of the Warsaw Mafia.

Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as colonel Zabieło
Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Psychotherapist
As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Policeman
A careerist from Warsaw, who does not like dogs, has to go to Kraków for professional reasons, where she meets a charming widower, his son and their four-legged pet.

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The young merchant Duncan is back from a long expedition that bought back the sacred stone called "Heart of the Mountains" from the infidels. Duncan has missed his loving wife, Heather, for many weeks. During a party held in honor of the expedition's happy return, the village is raided by Skaar's men, who steal the stone and kidnap the beautiful Heather. Duncan wants to set out on his own to recapture Heather, but the village Druid advises him to ask for help from Veronar, Heather's brother, who has been sentenced to exile for unknown reasons. Duncan sets out on the expedition, but not everything goes his way...

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Waiter in 'Giewont'
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. A group of Zomovniks, smashing union security, drags the chairman of the Company Commission of the NSZZ Solidarity in the Wujek mine out of his apartment. The news quickly spreads to the miners. Initially surprised, they soon react with spontaneous protest. On December 14, a strike breaks out at the plant. The miners demand the lifting of martial law and the release of the chairman. When negotiations fail, the army, ZOMO and militia storm the mine.

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Stanisław Niwiński
After a spate of mysterious disappearances in 1950s Kraków, young investigator Karski believes he's on the trail of a vicious serial killer. When his investigation points to wealthy and respected playboy Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz,Karski finds himself up against his own supervisors, a mysterious woman and the hypnotic charms of Beautiful Wladek himself.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Piotruś lives with his father, who takes great care of him. His father explains the world to Piotruś and warns him about the terrible dangers that lurk outside his home. Piotruś is 35 years old and one day he comes across an old, mysterious newspaper with crosswords that will open the door to independence for him.

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Oculist in Warsaw
Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as A Funeral Worker
A man with OCD is paid to find dogs.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as colonel Zabieło
Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where almost everything was forbidden?

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Donald Tusk
At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transported back to 1987, when she was still married to her womanizing first husband, Darek and lived in the People's Republic of Poland.

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Partner of Mother
A deeply devout 7 years old girl hears the biblical story of the shepherd and his lost sheep from which she concludes that Holy God seems to prefer sinners.

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Wuj Błażeja
A young family is realizing their dream of a peaceful life away from the bustle of the big city. Their newfound tranquility is shattered by the arrival of the protagonist’s late father’s brother, whose sudden appearance forces the young man to confront his painful past.

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ania is an apprentice at a small hairdressing parlour along with her best friend, Kasia. The two teenage girls from dysfunctional families share a common dream of becoming professional hair stylists.

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as anioł Lubega
Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial overseers, citing budget cuts, initiate "Phase Two" without telling him. Some changes are good - they send him a nanny, the enterprising Irena; some are bad - his phone number to Heaven no longer works nor do his special powers; and some dismay him - he grows a penis. His closest friend tells him to get a woman, and Irena advises him on hygiene. He visits a therapist, Roma, and falls in love with her. She tells him its transference. Meanwhile, Giordano's celestial friends conspire to rid Roma of her boyfriend, clearing the way for Giordano to be his naive and engaging self.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Anioł Lubega / Muzyk udający w czyśćcu Presleya
The story of an Angel named Giordano, who, for his rascally conduct in Heaven (too frequent visits to Purgatory and his fascination with rock-and-roll), is sent to earth to do at least one good deed there every day. Giordano is supposed to land in "Holland", but by mistake he ends up in "Poland" (or more precisely: Krakow). His fresh outlook, sympathy for people and original thinking about the world help him, at the very beginning of his stay on Earth, to save a crumbling marriage.

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Pazio
A Polish historical film, based on Marek Nowakowski's book "Report on Martial Law. Notes from Everyday Life." An interesting procedure of the production is the combination of a classic feature film with animation stylized as a comic book.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as King
Just before Christmas, things that are difficult to explain happen in the house of the widow of the local organist. Muddy traces left in the house, mysterious shadows and strange sounds make Bogusia increasingly believe that these may be signs from her tragically deceased husband.