Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈɔskar ˈʂtur]; 18 April 1947 – 9 July 2024) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a screenwriter, film director, voice actor and drama professor. He served as the rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.
Throughout his long and prolific professional career spanning over five decades, he appeared in 65 films including Camera Buff (1979), Sexmission (1984), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Dekalog: Ten (1989), Three Colours: White (1994), Kiler (1997), Love Stories (1997) and The Big Animal (2000).
He received numerous awards and honours including the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000), Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture (2005), Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Persona non grata (2006), Złota Kaczka Award (2008), Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011), and Polish Academy Life Achievement Award (2018).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0378 |
| Birthday | 1947-04-18 |
| Place of Birth | Kraków, Poland |
| Also Known As | Jerzy Oskar Stuhr, |
1994
Three Colors: White
7.4/1361
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due t...
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Three Colors: White
2022
Sonata
7.5/10
Grzegorz, diagnosed as an autistic child, lives in his hermetic world, unable to establish contact with others. When he turns fourteen, it turns out t...
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Sonata
1997
Killer
7.621/182
An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.
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Killer
2023
I Will Not Starve
6.5/3
I Will Not Starve tells the story of a fallen chef, formerly a Michelin star, who returns to Turin following the death of his ex-wife and after severa...
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I Will Not Starve
1979
Camera Buff
7.5/197
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Part...
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Camera Buff
1977
Ich czworo
0/0
One of Gabriela Zapolska's most famous comedies, it was written in 1907. A realistic story of a marital triangle, precisely constructed in terms of th...
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Ich czworo
1988
King Size
6.811/95
The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big...
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King Size
2007
Twists of Fate
5.5/2
A morality tale that starts from answering a mysterious passenger's mobile phone left on a train, and intertwines the lives of student Bartek, who lea...
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Twists of Fate
2021
Talking Heads 2021
1/1
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...
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Talking Heads 2021
2011
We Have a Pope
6.8/603
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...
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We Have a Pope
2001
Down House
6.169/68
Programmer Prince Myshkin returns to his historical homeland from Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic. On the bus,...
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Down House
1999
Killer 2
7/115
Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer...
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Killer 2
1981
Wizja lokalna 1901
6.333/3
More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border...
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Wizja lokalna 1901
1976
The Scar
6.543/47
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist par...
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The Scar
2010
Mystification
6.375/4
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact...
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Mystification
1984
Sexmission
7.2/343
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. I...
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Sexmission
1993
Hijacking Agatha
7.056/9
A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in...
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Hijacking Agatha
2004
Arje
4.625/4
A drama about a doctor Arje who discovers his illness and decides to go to Israel in order to meet Sonya - the love of his life.
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Arje
1985
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
6.9/93
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a...
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
1990
Déjà vu
6.768/56
After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow h...
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Déjà vu
2023
A Brighter Tomorrow
6.967/350
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...
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A Brighter Tomorrow
1986
Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
6.44/67
Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets....
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
1981
From a Far Country
4.6/13
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy,...
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From a Far Country
2010
Let It Be
5/9
Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two children, living in the nearby village of Nazareth, in...
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Let It Be
2000
The Big Animal
7.1/28
When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt and Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their home. The couple quickly forms a close bond with the nameless ca...
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The Big Animal
1972
The Third Part of the Night
7/97
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a l...
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The Third Part of the Night
1986
Hero of the Year
8/2
The early 1980s. A former entertainment industry star is now selling leather goods. One day, he watches a TV interview with a department store employe...
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Hero of the Year
1980
The Moth
6.267/15
This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan is the host of a nightly talk show in which he counsels people wh...
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The Moth
1988
Cupid's Bow
5/7
Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest much...
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Cupid's Bow
1980
A Chance
0/0
A new PE teacher arrives at a neglected provincial high school and turns it around with a handball team—until his obsessive control, blackmail, and ab...
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A Chance
1989
Decalogue X
7.933/142
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness...
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Decalogue X
2003
Tomorrow's Weather
6.871/35
A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.
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Tomorrow's Weather
1985
Medium
5.609/23
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
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Medium
1978
Top Dog
6.9/22
An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.
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Top Dog
1989
Citizen Piszczyk
5.909/11
This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowat...
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Citizen Piszczyk
2009
Gwiazda Kopernika
3/1
Nicolaus Copernicus, the son of a Toruń merchant, is a bright and curious child. When he is ten years old, the Dutch astrologer Paul van de Volder pre...
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Gwiazda Kopernika
2005
Persona non grata
5.4/15
A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.
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Persona non grata
1997
Love Stories
6.8/15
Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a dru...
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Love Stories
1979
Provincial Actors
5.9/9
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a mod...
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Provincial Actors
2014
Citizen
5.435/23
An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system an...
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Citizen
1992
Tango
0/0
A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and Artur's, the...
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Tango
1978
Seans
0/0
At the Cultural Center, a young scientist gives a lecture that evokes spontaneous reactions from the audience.
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Seans
1987
Blind Chance
7.5/250
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
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Blind Chance
1976
Slate
5.19/21
A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.
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Slate
1988
The Death of John L.
4/4
Zbigniew Gąsior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with women he can't neglect the emptiness in his life.
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The Death of John L.
2006
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
8.5/3
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslo...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2007
The Perfect Afternoon
4/4
Mikolaj, 22, together with his girlfriend Anna and partner Krzysiek, manage a literary publishing house in the center of Gliwice. Soon the young coupl...
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The Perfect Afternoon
2003
Show
6.133/15
Petty thief Czarek takes part in a TV reality show to escape from the mafia. He is sent to a house on a desert island with 9 other contestants. Even t...
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Show
1980
The Calm
6.941/17
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only o...
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The Calm
1980
A Party for Ten, Plus Three
7.091/11
A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the w...
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A Party for Ten, Plus Three
1971
Milion za Laurę
7.5/2
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
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Milion za Laurę
1980
Chance
7.5/2
Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately as h...
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Chance
1995
List of Lovers
6.429/7
Jerzy Stuhr Poland s most beloved actor wrote and directed this charming comedy that caters to his image as an innocent caught in a cynical world.
St...
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List of Lovers
1999
A Week in the Life of a Man
5.9/15
Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he...
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A Week in the Life of a Man
1981
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
6.77/63
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as t...
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
2000
La vita altrui
10/1
The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined
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La vita altrui
1973
Through and Through
6.154/13
Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. T...
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Through and Through
1987
Train for Hollywood
5.7/12
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high sc...
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Train for Hollywood
2018
Forgive Us Our Debts
6.074/285
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
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Forgive Us Our Debts
1991
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
6.3/19
The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
1977
Próba ciśnenia
8/1
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Próba ciśnenia
1975
Strach
7/1
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Strach
1996
Matka swojej matki
6.2/4
Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides...
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Matka swojej matki
1987
The Mother of the Kings
6.3/7
In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.
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The Mother of the Kings
1984
A Year of the Quiet Sun
6.47/33
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both exp...
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
1987
Escape
6.5/2
Teenager pretends to be mentally ill to get away from a reformatory.
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Escape
1978
Without Anesthesia
6.8/18
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show feat...
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Without Anesthesia
2006
The Caiman
6.714/290
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...
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The Caiman
1987
Crime and Punishment
0/0
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1978
November Night
0/0
Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama takes place on two levels - historical and metaph...
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November Night
2013
Invisible World
5.8/12
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
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Invisible World
1995
Jury
0/0
In a ministerial office, representatives of major political factions meet to decide which famous Poles should appear on newly denominated banknotes. D...
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Jury
1977
Skiz
0/0
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Skiz
2003
19. Południk
0/0
The conspiracy story takes place in Poland, at the beginning of the 21st century. in 2003, Poles decide in a referendum not to join the EU, and in 200...
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19. Południk
1974
The Keys
4.333/3
During their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.
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