Dorota Wierzbicka-Matarrelli
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Dorota Wierzbicka-Matarrelli.
Born: January 1, 1963
Known For
Pati
Pati has just found out that in the apartment she lives with her two younger siblings and her mother, the electricity has been cut off again and they are in arrears with the rent. Unfortunately, Julita, Pati's mother, runs away from responsibility in alcohol and drugs, spending time in bars and on the dance floor. Unlike her, Pati has ambitions. She applied to the culinary school in Sopot and is nervously waiting for a decision on whether she will be accepted. Sony, the local drug dealer, starts harassing Pati. He wants her to pay off her mother's debts. Pati discovers that Julita was trying to earn money by dealing drugs. She repays her mother's debt to the dealer with the help of Krystian, who has a crush on Pati. Julita goes to Sony again for drugs.
Piggies
Tomek is 14 and a good student. He's interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him.
Taxing Love
Klara, devoted to her work as a tax inspector, becomes infatuated with the dashing but irresponsible and cynical Marian who is about to be charged with tax evasion.
Women's Day
Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for better wages and an improved standard of living is dishonesty, employee exploitation, and fraud.
You Are God
The story of the late 90s generation and the three friends behind the music: Magik, Fokus and Rahim. The fact-based film charts the relentless struggle for success of Paktofonika, against the backdrop of crumbling traditional values in dreary 90s Silesia.
The King of Warsaw
1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.
Droga do raju
Ela is a resident of a provincial town in the foothills of the Sudetenland. She raises her 9-year-old son Damian alone. "She tries to survive in the gray of everyday life. Her every day closes in a circle of the same events: working at the local slaughterhouse, caring for her ailing mother and moments with her friend. One day magic and happiness enter the heroine's life.
Filmography
as clerk
as dama
as Marian's Client
as Mother of 'Magik'
as Beata Karwowska
as Ela's Mate
as Tomek's Mother