''The Winner'' ( pl, Wygrany) is a 2011 American-Polish co-production written and directed by Wieslaw Saniewski and starring

Pawel Szajda Pawel B. Szajda ( pl, Paweł Szajda ; born January 13, 1982) is an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in '' Under the Tuscan Sun'', ''Generation Kill'', '' Tatarak,'' and as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov in the thi ...

Janusz Gajos Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...

Wojciech Pszoniak Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Biography and career Pszoniak was born in Lwów, Nazi occupied Poland, now in Ukraine. He gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 19 ...

and Marta Żmuda-Trzebiatowska. Film tells a story of Oliver (played by

, " Under the Tuscan Sun" and HBO's "

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") who is a young and talented pianist. When his life and promising career suddenly collapse, he finds an unexpected help in a retired math teacher, now a compulsive horse race gambler (played by

). ''The Winner'' was filmed in

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town

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and

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city of Wroclaw and

Lądek Zdrój Lądek may refer to the following places: *Lądek, Konin County Lądek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grodziec, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Grodzie ...

. Film's soundtrack includes music of Chopin, three

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's songs and

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