
Wojciech Pszoniak
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Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, currently Ukraine), is a Polish film and theater actor.
Pszoniak gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters.
The actor left Poland during the period of political unrest in 1980-1981, which saw the appearance of the Solidarity trade union and ended with the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981. Pszoniak found roles in France, where he is currently living and working. Since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pszoniak has appeared in Polish movies and plays.
Internationally, he simplified his first name into Wojtek, which is the standard diminutive of the relatively formal Wojciech in the Polish language.
Pszoniak often plays Jewish characters, although he is not of Jewish descent. In France, this is partially attributable to his role in The Promised Land, as well as his foreign accent.
Pszoniak did not speak French when he emigrated to France, so he learned his theatrical lines phonetically; in movies like Danton, where he played Robespierre, his voice was dubbed. An anecdote about his language skills relates that when he finally started speaking French, one director told him that he preferred his old accent.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.026 |
Birthday | 1942-05-02 |
Place of Birth | |
Also Known As | Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak, Wojtek Pszoniak, Wojtek Psoniak, |

1975

The Promised Land
7.3/72
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait...
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The Promised Land

1983

Danton
6.9/162
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe...
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Danton

2004

Viper in the Fist
6.4/152
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of th...
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Viper in the Fist

1977

Ich czworo
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Ich czworo

1985

Angry Harvest
6.5/11
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's n...
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Angry Harvest

1984

Dangerous Moves
5.9/35
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
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Dangerous Moves

1990

Korczak
7.1/27
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
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Korczak

1990

Monsieur
5.5/2
The adventures of Monsieur, a polite young man who is brilliant at ping-pong, who lives with his fiancée's parents and who, pursued by a neighbor, tri...
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Monsieur

1988

Les années sandwiches
6.2/8
In the post-war Paris, a young Jewish boy whose parents were deported, met in the subway a well-off boy of the same age with whom he became friends. A...
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Les années sandwiches

1988

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
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This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erl...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

2011

The Mole
6.667/24
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Polan...
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The Mole

2011

The Winner
6.7/3
Oliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off his European tournée, he is forced to repay the tour...
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The Winner

1971

A Face of an Angel
0/0
Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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A Face of an Angel

2011

Black Thursday
6.8/24
Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pa...
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Black Thursday

1992

Guilty of Innocence
6/1
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise...
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Guilty of Innocence

1983

Daimler-Benz Limousine
5.7/3
Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have...
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Daimler-Benz Limousine

2000

Second life
5.5/5
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his fr...
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Second life

1980

Golem
6.5/46
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's release...
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Golem

2014

To Life
5.2/17
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. Th...
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To Life

2015

Carte Blanche
6.8/33
The true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss from everyone surrounding him - his colleagues, pupils, e...
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Carte Blanche

1993

East Wind
5.5/4
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resi...
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East Wind

1979

Aria for an Athlete
6.3/7
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus...
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Aria for an Athlete

1989

Venetian Red
0/0
Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats...
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Venetian Red

1996

La chica
10/1
In a remote area of South America, three men, are living, far from the civilization... and from the police. Until a fatal morning when Julie, 25, trie...
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La chica

1976

The Shadow-Line
6/3
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a...
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The Shadow-Line

2011

Nie ten człowiek
6/1
A surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his parents' encouragement, decides to take his f...
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Nie ten człowiek

1977

Rewizor
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Rewizor

1978

Rekolekcje
0/0
Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.
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Rekolekcje

2001

Chaos
6.479/47
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, s...
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Chaos

1988

The Devil
7.4/76
Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. A...
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The Devil

2007

Hope
5.4/8
Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to B...
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Hope

1994

The Deep Blue Sea
1/1
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors...
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The Deep Blue Sea

1983

Austeria
6.7/19
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified t...
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Austeria

1980

Olympics 40
6.7/3
The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Po...
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Olympics 40

1988

To Kill a Priest
6/26
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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To Kill a Priest

1996

Chicken Talk
0/0
Joshua visits his grandfather, a survivor of Auschwitz, five days before his tenth birthday. The elder recalls own childhood in polish countryside at...
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Chicken Talk

2016

Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
6.1/9
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Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street

2010

The Rite of Passage
6.1/6
A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and...
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The Rite of Passage

1973

The Wedding
7.3/20
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...
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The Wedding

1983

The Window
0/0
Krzysztof, a 30-something writer has been on a downward spiral ever since the success of his first novel. Struggling to compete his new work, the "Boo...
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The Window

2011

Robert Mitchum Est Mort
7/3
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1995

Holy Week
5.4/9
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and som...
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Holy Week

2009

Lesser Evil
5.5/8
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose n...
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Lesser Evil

2000

Bajland
3/1
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Bajland

1976

I'm a Butterfly
5.2/4
Funny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and fall in love. But there are three problems: his wife an...
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I'm a Butterfly

2017

If You Saw His Heart
4.3/22
Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.
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If You Saw His Heart

1991

Gawin
5/1
Six-years-old and terminally ill, Felix dreams of meeting an extra-terrestrial. Hearing this his Dad decides to make his dream come true by finding a...
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Gawin

1972

Pilate and Others
6.3/3
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death....
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Clergyman
0/0
In 2011, a psychiatric patient is visited by a postulate. The patient is a retired head of the "D" Group – a secret department of the Security Service...
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Clergyman

1986

I Hate Actors
5.4/13
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever p...
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I Hate Actors

1977

The Gorgon Case
5.8/6
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroo...
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The Gorgon Case

2010

Mystification
5.8/3
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact...
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Mystification

2007

Strike
6.6/8
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
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Strike

1976

Convicted
6/3
A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
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Convicted

1974

The Nest
5.9/7
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's bor...
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The Nest

1997

Our God's Brother
5.3/3
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
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Our God's Brother

1979

Hospital of the Transfiguration
6.2/13
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the pat...
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Hospital of the Transfiguration

2003

The Pact of Silence
5.9/26
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has...
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The Pact of Silence

1997

Pour l'amour d'Élena
0/0
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Pour l'amour d'Élena

1982

Spokojne lata
0/0
Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.
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Spokojne lata

2012

Cassos
6/4
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Cassos

2011

The Rabbi's Cat
7/178
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's te...
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The Rabbi's Cat

1979

The Tin Drum
6.944/474
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world...
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