Jan Paweł Kruk

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Tram Conductor in the Lódz Ghetto

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as tragarz

Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Więzień Muchomor

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as knajak

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.

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Franz Jakob, włamywacz w biurze Baxta

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

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Town Citizen (segment "Comedy From Errors") (uncredited)

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Militiaman (uncredited)

A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Ziutek (uncredited)

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Mateusz, służący Borowieckiego

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

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Mateusz, Borowiecki's Servant

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Photographer (uncredited)

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Joss

The former head of the Institute of Science - Professor Molnar, returns to the Institute to seek treatment for his heart condition. The new director of the Institute, and his former assistant, Dr. Egberg had a falling out with Molnar after the latter considered his research unethical. However, after waking up from surgery, Molnar makes a horrifying discovery; Egberg has swapped their brains!

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Zenek

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Kozak

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Militiaman in Rybczyńska's Apartment (uncredited)

Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her, runs away from home.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Boy Scout (uncredited)

Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Józef

The film presents the story of Robert - an aging, once-recognized artist who is today struggling with his own complexes and vices, and helplessness towards a new reality that ruthlessly throws him to the margins of existence. One day Robert finds himself in a roadside ditch hit by a dog's car. In a reflex of spontaneous compassion, he takes the dog home and begins to look after him.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as (w napisach: Paweł Kruk)

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Man by the Mine (uncredited)

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Sęk (uncredited)

Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as specjalista "od mokrej roboty" w barze "U Lulka"

A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Zenon Kapuściak

A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Citizen (uncredited)

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.

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

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.

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Village Man (uncredited)

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Landlord

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Wiktor, mąż Jadźki

The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Bandit (uncredited)

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Dunaj

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.

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as "Tamburyn" Employee (uncredited)

The young count makes a bet with his friends about who will be the first to win the favor of a girl they meet. The opportunity to meet her arises unexpectedly quickly.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Student

A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as młody Pilichowski

A portrait of a small, contemporary village, shaken by the return of one of its residents from prison. Zdzich returns from prison to a small village on the edge of the Augustów Primeval Forest. He was accused of shooting a militiaman and, despite the clear bias of the witnesses, he was convicted. Now the locals fear that his return will bring revenge for the false accusations. Zdzich hides in the forest. One day, he meets Romanek, the son of Jadźka, whose honor he once defended in a fight with others. Romanek cannot answer who his father is. Their meetings become more frequent and turn into friendship. Zdzich decides to come out of hiding and makes a show of attending church. He proposes to Jadźka and is accepted. He also explains the circumstances of his arrest to the locals. The next day, the forester is killed by a mysterious bullet. Zdzich was the last person seen with him. This causes unrest in the village.

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Chachuła (uncredited)

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

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Bus Passenger (uncredited)

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.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Guard

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as (w napisach: P. Kruk)

Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance.

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as porucznik, dowódca starszego Naroga

This film was created by combining and shortening the films Kierunek Berlin (Destination Berlin) and Ostatnie dni (The Last Days). It presents the final phase of the great offensive of 1945, which ended with the capture of Berlin, from the perspective of a private soldier of the First Polish Army.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Stutterer

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Prison Guard

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Lieutenant

As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Felek ("Second Sunday")

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Alojzy

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.

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

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.