
Jan Kociniak
Known For & Full Filmography30 Titles

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as personalny FSO na pogrzebie Jasińskiego
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as General Tanz's Orderly (uncredited)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Bartłomiej Walukiewicz
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Traffic Policeman
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Walukiewicz
God's Lining presents the dramatic fate of Marianna Jurewiczówna, her family, and the inhabitants of the Vilnius region from 1900 to 1945. The series begins in 1900, when Marianna, the youngest child of Maria and Andrzej Jurewicz, is born. Through Maryśka's eyes, we meet a succession of characters passing through the manor: the order-takers (Bartłomiej), the slackers (e.g., Mickiewicz), the peasant farmhands (e.g., Antośka), the servants (e.g., Walunia), and various misfits, rejected and ridiculed (e.g., the foolish Maryla), just like the main character. Marianna Jurewiczówna is called "niedonosek" by her family because of her premature birth; she feels unloved and rejected, misunderstood, and different. The series concludes in 1945, during the so-called first repatriation.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Staszek's Friend
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Stonoga, sierżant MO
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Pacheco's Servant
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Jeremiasz Pitsbury (voice)
Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Listonosz
Chased by mafia boss Kreda over a mistaken €2 million debt, club president Ryszard Ochódzki follows consigliere Maria Wafel’s advice to sell land to Father Pudło, only to hatch an even bigger bank fraud with banker Koziczek to raise the cash. Flush with stolen funds and briefly enjoying political office, he hides the money in the Molibdenów home, but just as he and coach Jarząbek plan to retrieve it, contract killer Dukan closes in.

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Bidder
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Mister Józio
The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Partisan Leader
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Teofil
The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Filip
A theatre play based on the comedy by Aleksander Fredro. directed by Wojciech Pszoniak.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Leutnant Klaus
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Zbyszek, przełożony Witczaka
An adaptation of Jerzy Stefan Stawiński’s novel "13 Days in the Life of a Retiree: The Diary of Adam Bzowski", depicting the exemplary life of a Polish intellectual (born well before the war) and his ancestors.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Wacek (voice) (uncredited)
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Director's Subordinate (uncredited)
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Heir
In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as ambasador Francji
A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Circus Spectator (uncredited)
A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Karczewiak
After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Soldier
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines.

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Teutonic Order Lackey
Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Paver
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as caretaker
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Publican
Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Man who saw "Pharaoh"
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.
