Daniel Olbrychski
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Olbrychski (Polish pronunciation: [ɔlˈbrɨxskʲi]; born 27 February 1945) is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing a defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt.
Born: February 27, 1945
Place of Birth: Lowicz, Lódzkie, Poland
Known For
Dekalog
Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk]) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human.
Przygody pana Michała
Wesele
The guests of a wedding face their fears when they are visited by strange apparitions
Ziemia obiecana
The Promised Land
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 of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
The Wedding
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 a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
The Deluge
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
DJ
The desire for perfection, crossing boundaries can lead directly to obsession with own ego. What happens when music is more important than relationships? Who we become without love? Is having talent enough to climb to the top?
Decalogue III
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.
The Barber of Siberia
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Filmography
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Colonel Olbrych
as Colonel Olbrych (voice)
as Antoni Lemańczyk
as Mateusz
as Oryst Grabowsky
as Daniel Olbrychski
as Self
as Bílý Jelen
as Dean
as Self
as Old Man on the Train – Behemot (voice)
as Sasza
as Gustaw
as Wernyhora
as Predsjednik RH
as Leo von Trettow
as Viktor
as Priest
as Матвій Грач (Матьє Озон у зрілому віці)
as Grandpa
as Napoleon
as Emile Amagat
as Wladimir Sokulow
as Self
as Bezdomny
as Janusz Petelicki
as Bożek
as Marcin Kazimierz Katski
as Werner
as Gustaw Majer
as Waldeks Opa
as Józef Piłsudski
as Badecki "Jowisz"
as Elka's Uncle
as Szlachcic
as Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov
as Kinizsi 2.
as akowiec, kolega ojca
as Krasnevsky
as Wit
as Dr. Gebauer
as chauffeur taxi
as Friedrich Nietzsche
as "Doktor"
as McLaughlin - english correspondent
as Franz von Schober
as Strombach
as Nassaiev
as McLaughlin
as Frank
as Krzysztof Brodecki, ojciec Marka
as Lord de Winter
as Piastun
as Piastun
as Dyndalski
as Szymon Gajowiec
as Konrad Sachs
as (voice) (uncredited)
as Filavandrel, król elfów
as Szymon Gajowiec
as Tuhaj-Bej
as Wił (głos)
as Seweryn
as Gerwazy Rębajło
as Tuhaj-Bej
as Kopnovsky
as Witold
as Reżyser
as Senior Lieutenant
as profesor w wagonie
as Borys
as Franciszek
as mecenas
as Stepan
as "Mistrz" Rafał Nawrot
as Alberto
as Angelo
as Jan
as Vnik mafiozi
as François
as Roger
as Janusz
as Karl Giering
as Winston Churchill
as Janusz
as Father Adam
as Martina's Father
as (uncredited)
as Interior Ministry Official
as Hared
as Yuli
as Franz von Schober
as Michał Kątny
as Scope
as Leo Jogiches
as Paul Bronnen
as Grzegorz
as Vincent Delaune / Thomas
as Fritz
as Daniel, l'amante di Chiara
as Tac-Tac, l'équipe de Liebskind
as Guillaume
as Saint-Genis
as Captain
as Davorin
as Karl Kremer
as Father Paczkowski
as występuje w roli samego siebie
as Herophant
as Stanisław Wyspiański
as Zygmunt
as Wiktor Ruben
as Jan Bronski
as Karol Borowiecki
as Daniel Olbrychski
as Stanislaw Przybyszewski
as Karol Borowiecki
as Self
as Andrzej Kmicic
as Claudio
as Bridegroom
as Mateusz Lewita
as Lieutenant Henryk Dąbrowski
as Wit Braun
as A hegedülõ
as Bolesław
as Tadeusz
as Stefan
as Himself
as Azja Tuhaj-Bejowicz
as Daniel Olbrychski (uncredited)
as Sculptor
as Banko
as Franek
as Henryk Dąbrowski
as Karol XII, król Szwecji
as Azja Tuhaj-Bejowicz (Mellechowicz)
as Daniel
as Student
as Charles XII
as Insurance Company Salesman (voice) (uncredited)
as Self
as Marek Arens
as Tolek Szczepaniak
as Andrzej
as Junior Lieutenant Stefan Olewicz
as Rafał Olbromski
as Corporal "Koral"