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The Defence (TV Series)
''The Defence'' (also known as ''The Disappearance''; pl, Chyłka) is a Polish crime drama television series based on the ''Chyłka'' series by Remigiusz Mróz. It aired on TVN and Player from 26 December 2018 to 4 January 2022. Premise In the village of Sajenek in Augustów, Angelika and Dawid Szlezyngier are horrified to find that their three-year-old daughter has gone missing. Since they are the prime suspects, Angelika contacts her old friend, Attorney Joanna Chyłka, to help defend them. Cast Main * Magdalena Cielecka as Joanna Chyłka * Filip Pławiak as Kordian "Zordon" Oryński * Piotr Żurawski as "Kormak" * Jakub Gierszał as Piotr Langer Jr. * Szymon Bobrowski as Artur Żelazny * Ireneusz Czop as Commissioner Szczerbiński Recurring * Jacek Koman as Harry McVay * Olga Bołądź as Magda, Joanna's sister * Helena Zawistowska as Daria, Magda's daughter and Joanna's niece * Szymon Piotr Warszawski as Prosecutor Olgierd "Paderborn" Paderewski * Cezary Pazura as Feliks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirosław Baka
Mirosław Michał Baka (born 15 December 1963 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski) is a Polish actor. One of his best-known roles is Jacek in ''A Short Film About Killing'' (1988) directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. He also appeared in the comedy television series ''Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi ''Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi'' is a Polish comedy television series broadcast in 2003. Twelve episodes were aired on TVP1. It was directed by Jan Kidawa-Błoński and Krzysztof Lang and revolves around the adventures of the first female unit ...'' in 2003. References 1963 births Living people People from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Polish male film actors Polish male stage actors {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suwałki
Suwałki ( lt, Suvalkai; yi, סואוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Suwałki is the largest city and the capital of the historical Suwałki Region. Until 1999 it was the capital of Suwałki Voivodeship. Suwałki is located about from the southwestern Lithuanian border and gives its name to the Polish protected area known as Suwałki Landscape Park. The Czarna Hańcza river flows through the city. Etymology The name derives from Lithuanian ''su-'' (near) and ''valka'' (creek, marsh), with the combined meaning "place near a small river or swampy area". History The area of Suwałki had been populated by local Yotvingian and Prussian tribes since the early Middle Ages. However, with the arrival of the Teutonic Order to Yotvingia, their lands were conquered and remained largely depopulated in the following centuries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Białystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Uplands of the Podlachian Plain on the banks of the Biała River, by road northeast of Warsaw. It has historically attracted migrants from elsewhere in Poland and beyond, particularly from Central and Eastern Europe. This is facilitated by the nearby border with Belarus also being the eastern border of the European Union, as well as the Schengen Area. The city and its adjacent municipalities constitute Metropolitan Białystok. The city has a warm summer continental climate, characterized by warm summers and long frosty winters. Forests are an important part of Białystok's character and occupy around (18% of the administrative area of the city) which places it as the fifth-most forested city in Poland. The first settlers arrived in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Englert
Jan Aleksander Englert (born 11 May 1943) is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1957. Since 2003 he has served as Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Warsaw, National Theatre in Warsaw. Biography In 1957 at the age of 14 he made his film debut in Andrzej Wajda's ''Kanał''. In 1964, Englert graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and started working in the Polish Theatre in Warsaw, Polish Theatre, where at first he mostly played supporting roles. A breakthrough came in 1968 with the international success of ''Notes'', produced by the Television Theatre, where he was noticed by Kazimierz Kutz and offered work in film. To his frustration, Englert found himself being type-cast into roles of friendly, straightforward, honorable and unambiguous lovers. "I would like to stop being treated as a 'confectionary' actor, that is, unable to experience deeper screen experiences." In 1969 he left the Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Ferency
Adam Ferency (born 5 October 1951) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1976. He starred in the 1990 film '' Burial of a Potato'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Blind Chance'' (1981) * ''Fever'' (1981) * ''Interrogation'' (1982) * ''The Mother of Kings'' (1987) * '' Burial of a Potato'' (1990) * ''Conversation with a Cupboard Man'' (1993) * ''With Fire and Sword'' (1999) * ''Pornografia'' (2003) * ''80 Million'' (2011) * ''Battle of Warsaw 1920'' (2011) * ''Cold War'' (2018) See also *Cinema of Poland *List of Poles This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited. Science Physics * Czesław Białobrzeski * Andrzej Buras * Georges Charpak ... References External links * 1951 births Living people Polish male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Suszyński
Zbigniew Suszyński (born 26 July 1961, in Rypin) is a Polish film, television and theater actor. He has also provided voice-overs for commercials and television programs. He has been in dubbing roles in many animated films and TV shows, such as in ''The Brave Little Toaster'' as Radio, in ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' as Squidward Tentacles and in ''T.U.F.F. Puppy'' as Verminous Snaptrap. He has played in many films like '' Shades of Fern'' (1984), '' The Young Magician'' (1986), '' Korczak'' (1990) and ''Szamanka'' (1996). Biography He made his first TV appearance in the television series ''Jan Serce'' (1981). Whilst he was still studying acting, on 15 November 1986 he made his theatrical debut, playing the role of Orlando in a performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Julian Tuwim ''Studyjnego'83 Theatre in Łódź. ''In 1987 he graduated from the Acting Department of the National Film School in Łódź. Between 1987-1990 he worked at the Stefan Jaracz Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cezary Kosiński
Cezary Kosiński (born 8 April 1973) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1997. Selected filmography References External links * 1973 births Living people Polish male film actors {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Poniedziałek
Jacek Poniedziałek (born 6 August 1965, Kraków) is a Polish film, theatre and television actor as well as a theatre director and translator. Life and career He was born on 6 August 1965 in Kraków and grew up in the city's Olsza II District. In 1990, he graduated from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków. He received his diploma on the basis of his performance in the role of Walter in Robert Musil's ''Early Drafts for The Man Without Qualities'' directed by Krystian Lupa. During his studies in Kraków, he began his long collaboration with theatre director Krzysztof Warlikowski. He was hired by the German director Karin Beier for his staging of Shakespeare's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' in a theatre in Düsseldorf. He performed at such institutions as the KTO Theatre in Kraków, the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre (1990-1992) and the Old Theatre (1992-1997). In 1997, he started working at the National Theatre in Warsaw. Between 1999–2006, he performed at the Variety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Pikuła
Monika Pikuła is a Polish theater and film actress. two years after graduating from the Theater Academy in Warsaw. In 2007, she received ''Wyróżnienie Award'' for the role of ''Zosia'' in the play ''Wagon'' of the Współczesny Theater in Warsaw at the 11th National Festival of Comedy TALIA 2007 in Tarnów. In 2003, she graduated from the Acting Department of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw ( pl, Akademia Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza) is a public higher education institution in Warsaw, Poland. Its focus is on the theatre arts. It is headquartered in the C .... Two years later, she received the Tadeusz Łomnicki Award for theatrical achievements. Since 2005, she has been employed in the team of the Współczesny Theater. References Living people 1980 births Polish film actresses Polish television actresses Polish stage actresses Aleksander Zelwero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Schuchardt
Tomasz Schuchardt (born 18 September 1986) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2007. Selected filmography References External links * 1986 births Living people Polish male film actors Polish film actors Polish male stage actors {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
