Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

Birth : 1951-02-15, Gdańsk, pomorskie, Polska

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Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

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Cat
Daughter comes to her father's apartment to feed the cat and water the flowers in his absence. However, the animal makes trouble, and the teenager discovers a secret hidden from her.
The Devil
According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as a believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events were possible...
(Nie)znajomi
babcia
A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone...
Pitbull. Last Dog
Patolog
A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.
Tarapaty
Chuda
A young girl, her new friend and his dog try to find a long-lost Picasso painting in an abandoned house before a gang of burglars seize it.
Demakijaż
Dozorczyni (segment "Droga wewnętrzna")
Sweet Rush
Marta's Friend
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Scratch
Joanna Kocjan
Wednesday, Thursday Morning
Ewa
On August 1, the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, two young people, lost and alone, are looking for happiness and their way in life.
Co słonko widziało
Józef's wife
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Ode to Joy
Three stories of young disillusioned Poles of different background and region of origin. What binds them together is that they all meet on the bus to London shortly after Poland's entry into EU.
Pitbull
lekarz ostatniego kontaktu
Five troubled lawmen pursue a brutal criminal.
Happy Man
Słodko gorzki
Gnat, nauczycielka matematyki
The Ring with a Crowned Eagle
Choinska
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
300 Miles to Heaven
Barbara Kwiatkowska, matka Grzesia i Jędrka
Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.
Inner State
Agata
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
Art of Loving
Dorota Zabiellowa
Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
Masquerade
Zosia
The well-known actor, Michael Barczewski, returns after a long break to the stage. He tells reporter the story of Jack Burda, a young promising actor who took his profession a bit too serious and played his own death...
Kill Me, Cop
A Polish thriller. Central story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run (Linda) and the cop (Machalica) who put him behind the bars the first time around.
Hülyeség nem akadály
Funeral Ceremony
Anna
After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Powinowactwo
Marta Siematycka
Vieras
A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
Another Way
Szalánczky Éva
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
Exit 7
Pools meisje
A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.
Sam na sam
Ania Sarnecka
"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.
Madame Bovary, That's Me
Anna
Znikąd donikąd
Nachtdienst
A Girl and the Pigeons
Basia
TV adaptation of a short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. In after-war Poland father discourages his only surviving child, Edek, from falling in love by buying him pigeons to take care of.
Nagrody i odznaczenia
Krystyna
1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.
To Kill This Love
Magda
The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.