Krystyna Janda

Krystyna Janda

December 18, 1952 · 73 years old

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Krystyna Janda (born 18 December 1952, Starachowice, Poland) is a Polish film and theater actress best known, in the West, for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man o…

Known For

15 titles
1
A Short Film About Killing

A Short Film About Killing

1988 · 1h 24m · Movie

A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.

7.9
2
Mephisto

Mephisto

1981 · 2h 26m · Movie

In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

7.7
3
Elles

Elles

2011 · 1h 39m · Movie

On her latest assignment, a journalist for Elle immerses herself in a prostitution ring run by university students.

5.6
4
Man of Marble

Man of Marble

1977 · 2h 40m · Movie

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

7.7
5
On the Silver Globe

On the Silver Globe

1989 · 2h 46m · Movie

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

7.2
6
Man of Iron

Man of Iron

1981 · 2h 36m · Movie

A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.

7.3
7
Interrogation

Interrogation

1989 · 1h 58m · Movie

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

7.9
8
How I Fell in Love with a Gangster

How I Fell in Love with a Gangster

2022 · 3h 5m · Movie

A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikos" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history.

6.1
9
The Reverse

The Reverse

2009 · 1h 39m · Movie

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs t...

7.0
10
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

1985 · 1h 28m · Movie

A man searches for survival after nuclear war forces people into an underground bunker. The inhabitants await rescue while their refuge decays around them.

7.2
11
Kill It and Leave This Town

Kill It and Leave This Town

2020 · 1h 28m · Movie

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

6.9
12
Golem

Golem

1980 · 1h 32m · Movie

The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster...

6.7
13
The Conductor

The Conductor

1980 · 1h 41m · Movie

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist's mot...

6.9
14
Panie Dulskie

Panie Dulskie

2015 · 1h 31m · Movie

A professor is investigating his own childhood home, while a movie director finds inspiration to make a documentary that reveals secrets across three generations.

5.5
15
An Air So Pure

An Air So Pure

1997 · 1h 46m · Movie

Set in Europe during WWI, a doctor and lawyer have converted a musty old mansion into a ritzy hotel and health spa. The chateau is inhabited by an eccentric collection of characters from whom the proprietors go to great lengths to...

6.8