Acting
Wojciech Pszoniak
PL, FR, DE, EN cinema · 71 credits
Born
2 May 1942
Died
19 October 2020 (aged 78)
Also known as Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak · Wojtek Pszoniak · Wojtek Psoniak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wojciech Pszoniak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
Clergyman
as Man
If You Saw His Heart
as Le polonais
Z dala od orkiestry
as (voice)
Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
as Felicjan Zuppe
Carte Blanche
as Professor-Oculist
To Life
as L'imprimeur
Cassos
as Monsieur Lodz
The Mole
as Stefan Garbarek
The Winner
as profesor Karloff
Black Thursday
as Władysław Gomułka
Nie ten człowiek
as baron
The Rabbi's Cat
as Vastenov (voice)
The Rite of Passage
as Major Trzaska
Mystification
as Pinno
Lesser Evil
as pacjent
Hope
as Benedykt Weber
Strike
Actor
Notturno
as Kajetan
Viper in the Fist
as Père Volitza
The Pact of Silence
as L'archevêque
Chaos
as Pali
The Annuity
as Łatka, Director
Second life
as le père de Vincent
Bajland
as Jan Rydel
Our God's Brother
as The Stranger
Pour l'amour d'Élena
as Souline
La chica
Actor
Chicken Talk
1996
Chicken Talk
as Grandfather
Holy Week
as Councilman Zamojski
The Deep Blue Sea
as Mr. Miller
East Wind
as pułkownik Lew Czeko
Guilty of Innocence
as Ottenhagen
Gawin
as Pierre / Xerkes
Korczak
as Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak
Monsieur
1990
Monsieur
as Kaltz
Venetian Red
as Antonio Vivaldi
Coupe franche
as Gyuri
To Kill a Priest
as Bridge Player
I Hate Actors
as Hercule Potnik
Angry Harvest
as Cybulkowski
Dangerous Moves
as Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm
Danton
as Maximilien Robespierre
Daimler-Benz Limousine
as Bogdański
Austeria
as Rudy Josełe
The Window
as Waiter
Spokojne lata
as Śliz
Przeprowadzka
as Andrzej Nowicki
Golem
as Prisoner
Olympics 40
as Otto Schultze
Aria for an Athlete
as Siedelmayer, dyrektor cyrku
Hospital of the Transfiguration
as Marglewski
The Tin Drum
as Fajngold
Rekolekcje
as Marek
The Gorgon Case
as Profesor, biegły sądowy podczas procesu w Krakowie
The Shadow-Line
as Conductor (uncredited)
I'm a Butterfly
as Redactor Oswald
Convicted
as Ryszard Bielczyk
The Promised Land
as Moryc Welt
The Nest
as Mieszko I
The Wedding
as Journalist / Stanczyk
The Devil
as Stranger / The Devil
Pilate and Others
as Jeszua Ha-Nocri
A Face of an Angel
as Tadeusz's Father