Piotr Szwedes
Acting
Biography
Piotr Szwedes was born on August 5th 1968 in a historical town known as the "Pearl of Warmia" - Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland. After graduating high school and being rejected from a university to study law he studied hospitality at the Technical School in Mrągowo where he was a member of the "Artefakt" theater group at the Youth Cultural Center which prompted him to meet the prospecting actor and director Wojciech Malajkat. In 1992, he graduated from the Acting Department of the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School Leon Schiller in Łódź. In the same year he received the jury's distinction and the Tonsil award at the 10th National Review of Graduate Performances of Theater Schools in Łódź for the role of Mr. Martin in Eugène Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano", directed by Ewa Mirowska. He performed at the Teatr Studyjny in Łódź and in Varsovian theaters such as: Studio (1991–1992), Ochota (1993–1993, 1997–1998, 2000), Na Woli (1995, 1998, 2000), Scena Prezentacje (1995), Nowy, Komedia (2003–2006), Bajka and Kamienica. In the years 2009-2015 he was a full-time actor at the Teatr Syrena, where he played in productions directed by Wojciech Malajkat including Agata Christie's crime fiction "Spider's Web" (2008), the black comedy "Loot" (2009) and in Stephen King's play adaptation "The Shawshank Redemption" (2011). In 2008 he directed an impressionistic performance by Maria Czubaszek "Przepraszam, czy tu straszy?" At the tm theater, he appeared as Satan in the play "Experiment: Adam and Eve" (2010) based on Mark Twain's "The Diaries of Adam and Eve", directed by Tomasz Mędrzak.
Known For
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
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Gwiezdny Pirat
The story of Eugeniusz Bodo, a famous Polish actor and singer, who was at the peak of his career in 1930s.
Bodo
An inspiring story about Ania Przybylska, a brave girl from Gdynia who loved life and dared to make her dreams come true. The documentary is built of interviews and never-before-seen footage from private archives portraying a woman who balanced her career and public appearance with family life.
Ania
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Nothing Funny
Marek Kossot, a special forces soldier, discovers that his niece Monica is a drug addict. Wanting to cut the girl off from the source of the goods, he tries to intimidate her dealer and also her boyfriend, a certain Coke. The drug bosses are alarmed by Mark's action and send their men against him. The brutal intervention proves effective only up to a point. When Monica collapses after an overdose, she organizes a good squad from her former charges and starts a war against the drug mafia....
Nocne graffiti
In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...
Prostitutes
Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
At Full Gallop
"Ladybug," "Silent" and "Cobra" are 19-year-old young men who have everything, but want even more. They are smugglers working for "Black" - the head of a Szczecin smuggling gang. Unexpectedly, a certain Chmielewski, the richest man in Szczecin and former boss of "Black", gives up his illegal business. The good "deals" with customs officials come to an end. The boys decide that they will continue to manage on their own. However, in order to continue doing "business", they need to hire someone with a "clean" passport. The choice falls on Robert - the class primer.
Smugglers
The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
Doctor Semmelweis
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Kurierzy
A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral outrage is complicated: the married man allowed himself to be seduced by the woman, who threatens to tell the man's wife.