Jan Prochyra
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Jan Prochyra.
Born: December 2, 1948
Place of Birth: Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Known For
Uciec jak najbliżej
A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip.
Playing with the Devil
The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
Calling 07
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Dom
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Colonel Kwiatkowski
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.
The Big Picnic
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
Woman in a Hat
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Nightmares
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
Filmography
as kierownik Towarzystwa Krzewienia Kultury Żydowskiej
as journalist
as "Fidel"
as Man by the Bar in "Gejsza"
as Znachor Bartłuk
as Colonel Kawałek
as lekarz więzienny
as Zelepukhin
as pracownik biura projektów
as Bolesław Kirło (uncredited)
as Grzes Peruka
as Zdzisio
as Circus Member
as Leon
as Salesman
as Karol
as mężczyzna na porodówce
as asystent działacza partyjnego
as Maciejak, administrator domu na Złotej
as Karborund
as Fat Man
as Raciaty
as (w napisach: Jan Prohyra)
as Dudziak, szwagier Szczerbica
as Highlander's Son (uncredited)