Jan Nowicki
Acting
Biography
Jan Nowicki (5 November 1939 – 7 December 2022) was an actor and writer, known for The Hourglass Sanatorium, The Third Part of the Night or Big Shar. He appeared in over 100 films and television episodes since 1963.
Born: November 5, 1939
Place of Birth: Kowal, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska
Known For
Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes from a small coastal village on the North Sea (FRG). She is intelligent, determined, but also hungry for adventure, and she fascinates the world of men. She has developed into an accomplished secretary with excellent foreign language skills - predestined for an international career. Her meeting with Colonel Shelvin paves the way for this: Vera is able to take up a position at NATO headquarters in Brussels and, thanks to her achievements, she travels to many countries and meets countless interesting people.
The Hourglass Sanatorium
Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
Nights and Days
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Diary for My Loves
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Magneto
Years later, Lena returns to Poland, accompanied by a French journalist, to learn the truth about her father.
Nie ma takiego numeru
A classic of cinema with a twist, that is, the story of how to intelligently empty the casino safe where the gambling underworld launders government money. The young team, which can't miss a trusted butler, an experienced gambler, an attractive thief and a powerful, though not always brilliant donkey, will follow in the footsteps of the aged legends of the criminal film world. And although there will be a number of unexpected obstacles and surprises along the way, the old team will help the new crooks realize the scam of all time. The gallant Kwinto will pave the way for the thieves to get into the safe, and the reliable Big Shoo will give the roulette specialist an accelerated course in poker.
Revisited
In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works.
Colonel Wolodyjowski
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Listy miłosne
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also has trouble expressing his emotions. They are helped by Julka, a girl from the neighborhood who likes Teresa. She finds a pile of love letters from the beginning of the century in the trash. By forging Teresa and Janusz's handwriting, she starts a love correspondence between them, rewriting fragments of other people's confessions.
Siedem czerwonych róż, czyli Benek kwiaciarz o sobie i o innych
A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.
Filmography
as Edward
as Beggar
as Bogdan
as Malarz
as Self
as Eryk
as Kowalski
as count Von Nogai
as Oliwia's father
as Marek
as 'Wielki Szu'
as "Matka"
as Imre Nagy
as Man with Jacket (from Notater om kærligheden) ( segment Cartoon)
as Edward 'X' Nowicki
as Lunapark Owner
as Alfred Kleber
as Uncle Leon Skalnicki
as Zdenek
as Robert
as Dziedzic
as Zanik
as Jerzy Chmielewski
as Eryk
as Jan Szymański
as Magister
as profesor w wagonie
as Franz Heller
as Jerzy Chmielewski
as Marek
as Péter
as Ryszard Brun
as rendőr
as Cyprian Lechicki
as Jeleky Barna
as Cyprian Lechicki
as Murat/Barras
as Actor
as Ornithologist
as Ghost / Belzebub
as Manden med frakken / Man with jacket
as książę Hans Heinrich XV von Teuss
as Painter
as Frederic Shelvin
as Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Teuss
as János
as Waldo
as Różycki
as Engineer
as Baumgartner
as Janos
as 'Wielki Szu'
as Mag
as Zygmunt Brzeziński, technolog na "Rybaku Morskim"
as lawyer
as Jan Kozicki
as Ákos
as Champion of Sleep
as Marek
as Chwostek
as Novák András
as Tomasz
as Bodnár János
as Stefan Wojnicz
as János Bognár
as Napoleon Orsini
as inż. Adam Stokłos, k-nik wydziału / z-ca dyrektora ds. techn.
as inżynier Adam Stokłos, dyrektor naczelny zjednoczenia
as Preusker
as Jan
as Kuryło
as Konstanty
as Józef
as Jakub
as Adam
as Marek Sobota
as Borecki, inżynier
as Andrzej Orawiec
as Ketling-Hassling of Elgin
as Captain Nawrot
as Protagonist
as Captain Wyganowski
as New Year's Eve party guest (uncredited)