Name
Wojciech Pszoniak
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1942-05-02
Deathday
2020-10-19 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Biography
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Wojciech Pszoniak (born in 1942 in Lwów, currently Ukraine), is a Polish film and theater actor.
Pszoniak gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters.
The actor left Poland during the period of political unrest in 1980-1981, which saw the appearance of the Solidarity trade union and ended with the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981. Pszoniak found roles in France, where he is currently living and working. Since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pszoniak has appeared in Polish movies and plays.
Internationally, he simplified his first name into Wojtek, which is the standard diminutive of the relatively formal Wojciech in the Polish language.
Pszoniak often plays Jewish characters, although he is not of Jewish descent. In France, this is partially attributable to his role in The Promised Land, as well as his foreign accent.
Pszoniak did not speak French when he emigrated to France, so he learned his theatrical lines phonetically; in movies like Danton, where he played Robespierre, his voice was dubbed. An anecdote about his language skills relates that when he finally started speaking French, one director told him that he preferred his old accent.
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Known For
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- 1975 The Promised Land as Moryc Welt
- 1983 Danton as Maximilien Robespierre
- 2004 Viper in the Fist as Père Volitza
- 1977 Ich czworo as Mąż
- 1985 Angry Harvest as Cybulkowski
- 1984 Dangerous Moves as Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm
- 1990 Korczak as Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
- 1990 Monsieur as Kaltz
- 1988 Les années sandwiches as Max
- 1988 Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné as Judge
- 2011 The Mole as Stefan Garbarek
- 2011 The Winner as profesor Karloff
- 1971 A Face of an Angel as Tadeusz's Father
- 2011 Black Thursday as Władysław Gomułka
- 1992 Guilty of Innocence as Ottenhagen
- 1983 Daimler-Benz Limousine as Bogdański
- 2000 Second life as le père de Vincent
- 1980 Golem as Prisoner
- 2014 To Life as L'imprimeur
- 2015 Carte Blanche as Professor-Oculist
- 1993 East Wind as pułkownik Lew Czeko
- 1979 Aria for an Athlete as Siedelmayer, dyrektor cyrku
- 1989 Venetian Red as Antonio Vivaldi
- 1996 La chica
- 1976 The Shadow-Line as Conductor (uncredited)
- 2011 Nie ten człowiek as baron
- 1977 Rewizor
- 1978 Rekolekcje as Marek
- 2001 Chaos as Pali
- 1972 The Devil as Stranger / The Devil
- 2007 Hope as Benedykt Weber
- 1994 The Deep Blue Sea as Mr. Miller
- 1983 Austeria as Rudy Josełe
- 1980 Olympics 40 as Otto Schultze
- 1988 To Kill a Priest as Bridge Player
- 1996 Chicken Talk as Grandfather
- 2016 Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street as Felicjan Zuppe
- 2010 The Rite of Passage as Major Trzaska
- 1973 The Wedding as Journalist / Stanczyk
- 1983 The Window as Waiter
- 2011 Robert Mitchum Is Dead
- 1996 Holy Week as Councilman Zamojski
- 2009 Lesser Evil as pacjent
- 2000 Bajland as Jan Rydel
- 1976 I'm a Butterfly as Redactor Oswald
- 2017 If You Saw His Heart as Le polonais
- 1991 Gawin as Pierre / Xerkes
- 1972 Pilate and Others as Jeszua Ha-Nocri
- Soon Clergyman as Man
- 1986 I Hate Actors as Hercule Potnik
- 1977 The Gorgon Case as Profesor, biegły sądowy podczas procesu w Krakowie
- 2010 Mystification as Pinno
- 2007 Strike
- 1976 Convicted as Ryszard Bielczyk
- 1974 The Nest as Mieszko I
- 1997 Our God's Brother as The Stranger
- 1979 Hospital of the Transfiguration as Marglewski
- 2003 The Pact of Silence as L'archevêque
- 1997 Pour l'amour d'Élena as Souline
- 1982 Spokojne lata as Śliz
- 2012 Cassos as Monsieur Lodz
- 2011 The Rabbi's Cat as Vastenov (voice)
- 1979 The Tin Drum as Fajngold
- 2006 Notturno as Kajetan
- 1982 Przeprowadzka as Andrzej Nowicki
- 1973 Ostatni liść as Berman
- 2017 Z dala od orkiestry as (voice)
- 1989 Coupe franche as Gyuri
- 2001 The Annuity as Łatka
- 2013 Demons Years Later as Self
- Soon An old beggar with a hurdy-gurdy as Self
- 1986 Mit meinen heißen Tränen ( 3 episodes ) as Kajetan
- 2014 Rosemary's Baby ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Wees
- 1978 Ziemia obiecana ( 4 episodes ) as Moryc Welt
- 2006 Oficerowie ( 8 episodes ) as Czesław Pieczur, teść Kalińskiego
- 1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Mr Miller
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
