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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1953-05-01

Place of Birth

Warsaw, Poland

Joanna Szczepkowska

Biography

Joanna Szczepkowska is a Polish actress and writer. In 1997, she published a collection of poems, Miasta do wynajęcia. In 2010, she was elected President of the Union of Polish Stage Artists (Związek Artystów Scen Polskich).

Known for

Dekalog

Dekalog

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.

Dom

Dom

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

Pitbull

Pitbull

The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis. They're not just tracking down murderers. They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.

Ding-Dong

Ding-Dong

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Double Trouble

Double Trouble

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.

Panny i wdowy

Panny i wdowy

An epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events.

Trzy Siostry

Trzy Siostry

Klakier

Klakier

The impresario decides to make the theater group's performances more attractive by spreading a rumor that the oldest actress could die on stage at any moment.

Con Amore

Con Amore

Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the sick Eve.

Decalogue III

Decalogue III

It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.

Rewizor

Rewizor

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents

Chronicle of Amorous Accidents

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.

Glory and Glory

Glory and Glory

Adaptation of the once very loud, today somewhat forgotten book of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz . "Fame and Glory" is the most extensive novel by the author of "Brzezina". Written with epic panache, it outlines the history of the Polish intelligentsia from "the first days of July 1914" to the fall of 1947. It is also an epitaph for the spiritual face of Polish culture, and a little bit European, shaped in the nineteenth century.

Laureat

Laureat

Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.