Andrzej Chyra

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Andrzej Chyra (born 27 August 1964) is a Polish actor. He graduated from High School and in 1987 he graduated from the Acting Theater School in Warsaw. In 1994, he majored at the same university in Directing. He made his film debut in 1993, with the role of Benvollo in the film Order of Affection, directed by Radosław Piwowarski. The largest role so far that brought him recognition was as Gerard Nowak in the 1999 film Debt (Dług) by Krzysztof Krauze, for which he was awarded the Best Actor award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. The success of this was repeated in 2005 when he received the PFF Gdynia prize for his role in Komornik. He was also nominated in 2006 for his role in the film, We're All Christs. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Andrzej Chyra (b. 10 April 1966 in Radzymin) is a Polish movie and stage actor.. Born : 27th-Aug-1964

Movie Credits

The Collector

Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
Released : 14th-Sep-2005

Katyn

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
Released : 21st-Sep-2007

Strike

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
Released : 23rd-Feb-2007

Symmetry

Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi przejściowej Łukasz za wszelką cenę chce znaleźć się wśród grypsującej części więźniów. Świat gitów wymaga jednak przestrzegania panujących tu twardych zasad. Reżyser uzyskał zgodę Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych na realizację zdjęć w więzieniu na Białołęce.
Released : 16th-Sep-2003

All That I Love

Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside perceptions.
Released : 18th-Sep-2009

The Magic Tree

Three children stumble upon a red chair, carved from a Magic Tree. This chair will grant your every wish if you sit upon it and wish. Their first wish is of course, pizza! But then their unpleasant aunt makes an unfortunate wish about the children's parents ...
Released : 18th-Jul-2009

Trick

Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.
Released : 12th-Feb-2010

S@motnosc w sieci

When an unhappily married woman meets a renowned scientist online, the two start to fall for each other as they exchange romantic emails.
Released : 1st-Jan-2006

Squint Your Eyes

The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town and finds grudging refuge with the slightly slovenly caretaker of an abandoned farm, an ex-teacher.
Released : 24th-Oct-2003

The Debt

Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
Released : 19th-Nov-1999

Where Eskimos Live

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.
Released : 11th-Jan-2002

Elles

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Released : 9th-Sep-2011

Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek wśród złodziei marzeń

Released : 21st-Mar-2002

Palimpsest

Marek, the main character of "Palimpsest," is a police inspector, a man on the verge of psychological disintegration trying to solve an intricate case. The story is told on two planes. The first one is a crime story, which constitutes the framework of the film. In the course of events, another theme appears - psychological experiences of the main character. Vivid blend of picture with sound and music will draw the audience into the deepest recesses of Marek's mind, making the viewers face questions: What is reality and what is only an illusion? Where is the borderline between the real world and our perception of it? What makes suffering meaningful and what is really important in one's life"?
Released : 18th-Aug-2006

Land of Oblivion

Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
Released : 28th-Mar-2012

Lasting

Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos.
Released : 8th-Jan-2013

One Nation, One King

„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.
Released : 26th-Sep-2018

In the Name of...

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
Released : 6th-Sep-2013

Dark Water

Daniel is a young and ambitious real estate agent with a view to becoming a partner in the company. Along with the boss' wife Marie, he dares to spend a secret and passionate weekend in a luxurious archipelago house which he is supposed to sell. Once there, both Daniel and Marie discover that they are not as alone as they thought. George, a Polish craftsman, has stayed behind to finish work on the house and prepare it for sale. Soon however, what should have been a passionate and intimate weekend develops into something far more unpleasant.
Released : 13th-Jun-2012

Tomorrow's Weather

A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years.
Released : 2nd-Oct-2003

Nieruchomy poruszyciel

A head of a factory starts using one of his female workers as a toy in more and more sadistic ways.
Released : 1st-Aug-2008

Persona non grata

A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.
Released : 1st-Apr-2005

The Word

Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
Released : 14th-Mar-2014

Carte Blanche

The true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss from everyone surrounding him - his colleagues, pupils, even the ones who really care about him, because of the fear of losing his job and trying to save his dignity. Due to a genetic disorder, Kacper is faced with a very real possibility of permanent blindness. Initially heartbroken, he attempts to hide his health problems from his bosses driven by his desire to keep his job and to help his students with the final exams. The only person who knows about Kacper's problem is his best friend Wiktor. Meanwhile, Kacper enters a relationship with his colleague Ewa, and tries to help a rebel student Klara, who hides a secret of her own.
Released : 23rd-Jan-2015

Stones for the Rampart

To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.
Released : 7th-Mar-2014

Raging Rose

Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help him find his son. Roman happens to go to the same school as Rose, and she finds him attractive. After an unexpectedly wonderful experience with Roman, she falls desperately in love with him.
Released : 27th-Nov-2015

The Performer

A dynamic and full of punk energy story based on life of one of the most original and interesting contemporary artist, the performer, Oskar Dawicki (playing himself). The main theme of his art is the search for an answer to the question of whether. Oskar Dawicki exists at all. The trade mark of his performances is his blue shining jacket.
Released : 26th-Jan-2015

11 Minutes

The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.
Released : 2nd-Sep-2015

The High Frontier

A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival.
Released : 19th-Feb-2016

Powiedz to, Gabi

A teenage girl named Gabi has a crush on an older guy. She's trying to pursue her feelings.
Released : 13th-Jul-2003

Frost

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.
Released : 3rd-Aug-2017

A Simple Story About Murder

A rookie officer's career gets turned around when he is pegged as the prime suspect in a crime involving a senior policeman - his own father.
Released : 21st-Oct-2016

The Last Family

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...
Released : 30th-Sep-2016

United States of Love

Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
Released : 29th-Jul-2016

Zdjęcie

Released : 11th-Mar-2012

Beyond Words

A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.
Released : 16th-Feb-2018

The Lullaby Killer

After a spate of mysterious disappearances in 1950s Kraków, young investigator Karski believes he's on the trail of a vicious serial killer. When his investigation points to wealthy and respected playboy Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz,Karski finds himself up against his own supervisors, a mysterious woman and the hypnotic charms of Beautiful Wladek himself.
Released : 20th-Oct-2017

Catalina

Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
Released : 18th-Sep-2017

7 Emotions

Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
Released : 12th-Oct-2018

Money Is Not Everything

The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.
Released : 5th-Jan-2001

All Inclusive

"All Inclusive" tells the story of seven women who are going on holidays to Morocco, getting out of the hotel and confronting women from Morocco. They will look for their own way of life in the desert, confront their world, looking at the reality that surrounds them.
Released : 1st-Jun-2024

Parquet

The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.
Released : 13th-May-2021

Julius

An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the father lives through his second heart attack and still refuses to change his lifestyle, Julius will have to find a way to influence his behaviour.
Released : 19th-Sep-2018

Doctor Lisa

The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…
Released : 22nd-Oct-2020

Mystification

Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.
Released : 26th-Mar-2010

Bird Talk

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.
Released : 16th-Sep-2019

Kill It and Leave This Town

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
Released : 2nd-Mar-2021

Stranger

A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
Released : 1st-Oct-2004

Walden

After 30 years of exile in Paris, Jana travels back to Vilnius. She wants to see again the lake that Paulius, her first love, called “Walden”.
Released : 7th-Sep-2022

Kallafiorr

Released : 7th-Feb-2000

Magnesium

A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR: Twin brothers plan to rob a rival Mafia style family, an instance of female empowerment in that it is run by sisters.
Released : 2nd-Oct-2020

TV Credits

Arne Dahl

Ozz Ballin - An elite, seven-member team is tasked with solving the most complex crimes in Sweden, from murder and drug trafficking to espionage.
Released : 27th-Dec-2011

1983

Władysław Lis, ojciec Karoliny, minister gospodarki narodowej - Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
Released : 30th-Nov-2018

Defekt

Tomasz Wołczyk "Makler" -
Released : 8th-Nov-2003

Miasteczko

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Released : 27th-Mar-2000

Cztery poziomo

Borys -
Released : 6th-Dec-2007

Dekalog

student szkoły teatralnej; nie występuje w napisach - Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
Released : 10th-Dec-1989

Bez tajemnic

Tomasz Werner, ojciec Zosi -
Released : 17th-Oct-2011

Oficerowie

nadkomisarz Krzysztof Ryś (w retrospekcjach z serialu "Oficer") -
Released : 24th-Sep-2006

Krakowskie potwory

profesor Jan Zawadzki - A young woman haunted by her past joins a mysterious professor and his group of gifted students who investigate paranormal activity — and fight demons.
Released : 18th-Mar-2022

Miodowe lata

Wilkoń -
Released : 13th-Oct-1998

Wielkie rzeczy

Jerzy Jastrzębski -
Released : 3rd-May-2001

Twarze i maski

Czerski, reżyser "Świętoszka" -
Released : 7th-Jan-2001

Wiedźmin

Borch Trzy Kawki - Wiedźmin is a 2002 fantasy television series. 13 episodes were made. The series received relatively poor reviews, particularly in the light of the failure of the preceding movie. The story is based on the stories of The Witcher, by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
Released : 22nd-Sep-2002

Przedwiośnie

przewodniczący na zebraniu komunistów -
Released : 23rd-Mar-2002

Zaginiona

komisarz Krzysztof Ryś - The series "Lost", produced for 1TVP, tells about "ordinary people in extraordinary situations", inspired by a true story about the disappearance of a high school graduate from one of Warsaw high schools a few years ago ...
Released : 5th-Jan-2003

Oficer

superintendent Krzysztof Ryś - Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.
Released : 17th-Mar-2005

Dziewczyna i kosmonauta

Bogdan (58) - An astronaut's return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn't aged.
Released : 17th-Feb-2023

Sortownia

Jacek Woliński -
Released : 16th-Jun-2023