Jacek Grondowy
Acting
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Born: September 10, 1970
Place of Birth: Legnica, dolnośląskie, Polska
Known For
Forgotten Love
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Planet Single. Eight stories
In these eight tales set across Europe, singles navigate love's complexities via an online dating site, from marital games to elderly romance.
Murderesses
Rising police talent Karolina delves deep to uncover her missing ex-cop father's fate, stumbling upon treacherous family shadows and a corrupt police scheme. As she battles against toxic masculinity, shocking revelations about her father emerge.
The World Is Waiting for Us
The film shows the gray reality of a Polish unemployed slacker still living (despite 30 on the neck) "on mommy's pot". Just what to do when one day she runs out? Where to get money for living?
The Eastern Gate
Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.
Pilecki's Report
Polish WWII resistance fighter Witold Pilecki infiltrates Auschwitz, is imprisoned and interrogated by communist officials post-war, depicting his wartime experiences, incarceration, torture, and 1948 execution for opposing Soviet regime.
Blindness
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.
Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.
Lampo, the Travelling Dog
The life of Zuzia, whose dad works on the railway, changes massively when Lampo, an extraordinary travelling dog, joins the family. The remarkable shepherd dog, whose train trips are an internet sensation, immediately becomes the best friend of the girl suffering from a heart condition.
Dad
A lonely dad, facing the sudden death of a Ukrainian babysitter, takes his daughter and her friend on a journey by the truck. Will trucker and two scamp girls handle the transport of frozen fish, body smuggling and life without a home?
Filmography
as Jankulowski
as Robert Bielik's Father
as Józef
as Jan Szymula
as Wancerz
as Conductor
as Pawka
as aspirant Grabski
as "Piegus"
as akordeonista
as Kazimierz
as Krzysztof
as Good-Schutzmann
as Jarosław Mireczek