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Wojciech Zagórski

Wojciech Zagórski

Acting
1928-08-06
Warsaw, Poland

Known For & Full Filmography37 Titles

#1Kryminalni

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes as bezdomny "Smyra"

5.7 / 10
Drama

Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

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#2Colonel Kwiatkowski

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as repatriant zza Buga

6.8 / 10
ComedyHistory

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.

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#3Dom

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as pacjent szpitala w Tworkach

7.3 / 10
Drama

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

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#4The Possessed

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Monk

5.6 / 10
DramaHistoryThriller

Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.

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#5Calling 07

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Cemetery Worker

7.5 / 10
DramaCrime

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

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#6Polskie drogi

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as [obsada aktorska] (w napisach: Jerzy Zagórski)

7.2 / 10
War & PoliticsDrama

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.

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#74 Alternative Street

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as gość na weselu

8.4 / 10
Comedy

4 Alternative Street was a Polish comedy TV show that was finished in 1983 and aired in 1986 due to censorship. Many famous Polish actors appeared in the series. The filming location used in the mini series was a residential complex which is still in existence at 3 Grzegorzewska Street in Warsaw, Poland. The series was a satire to the communist rule in Poland, spoken in a way that it passed through communist censorship office.

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#8The Quack

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
DramaRomance

A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.

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#9Janosik

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.2 / 10
Action & Adventure

Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.

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#10Dyrektorzy

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as robotnik

7.0 / 10
Drama

1957. Excessively high production standards imposed by the authorities result in the plan not being fulfilled, and the workers cannot imagine living normally without rewards and bonuses. A rebellion breaks out. Worker democracy wins – the working class elects a director from among its own ranks. He is an old locksmith with no managerial experience. Although he believes in the socialist spirit and has a communist past, he does not hold the position for long, as he makes promises too easily that he is unable to keep.

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#11Boża podszewka. Część druga

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes as mężczyzna w biurze PUR-u

5.8 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#12I Am Burning!

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Pogorzelski's Servant

7.9 / 10
ComedyTV MovieFantasy

Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).

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#13Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Leon, służący

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.

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#14Życie na gorąco

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as fałszywy "Indianin", handlarz indiańskimi gadżetami

8.0 / 10
Action & AdventureCrime

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#15Interrogation

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Man at the Place of Antonina's Arrest (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
DramaThrillerCrime

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

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#16Lazarus' Whims

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Sexton

10.0 / 10
TV MovieDrama

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.

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#17Rancho Texas

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
WesternDrama

Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.

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#18Dzień Wisły

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
War

September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...

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#19Dziki 2. Pojedynek

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes as Dziadek

6.0 / 10
Action & Adventure

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#20Brunet Will Call

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Telephone Central Employee

6.9 / 10
Comedy

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.

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#21The Linnet

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Szymon 'Kuśtyk'

6.7 / 10
ComedyDrama

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.

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#22Zamach stanu

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as widz na procesie brzeskim (nie występuje w napisach)

8.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.

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#23The First Day of Freedom

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Camp Medic

6.5 / 10
DramaWar

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

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#24And a Warm Heart

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

A businessman, spoiled by the good life, learns that he suffers from a serious heart condition. He can only survive by finding a donor immediately. In the hospital, he accidentally meets a young man whose grief and job loss have taken away all his will to live. He is suicidal, so he is the perfect donor, and they must find a way to help him leave this world...

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#25Merry Christmas

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as mężczyzna wybierający choinkę (nie występuje w napisach)

8.0 / 10
TV MovieComedy

Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.

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#26The Knave of Spades

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Gienio (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
ComedyCrime

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.

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#27What Will You Do When You Catch Me?

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Store Customer

7.3 / 10
Comedy

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

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#28A Lady from the Window

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Struś's Representative

7.5 / 10
RomanceDramaHistory

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

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#29Don Gabriel

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Tomicki's Neighbour (uncredited)

10.0 / 10
ComedyWar

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

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#30How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Turk (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
ComedyWarAdventure

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.

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#31The Holy War

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Clerk

5.4 / 10
Comedy

To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).

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#32Mój stary

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Circus Spectator (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Drama

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

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#33Kalosze szczęścia

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Choir director in Racławice

4.8 / 10
ComedyCrime

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.

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#34Under the Phrygian Star

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Ryboń (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Drama

Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".

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#35Hell and Heaven

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Hearse Driver (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyFantasy

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

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#36Good Sins

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Judge (uncredited)

8.3 / 10
ComedyHistory

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

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#37Trzy kroki po ziemi

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Man in Court (segment 1) (uncredited)

9.0 / 10
Drama

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

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