Elżbieta Okupska

Actress

January 1, 1953 (73 years)

Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie, Polska

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

4.7

Night Silence

Cook

A theatre actor whose health is failing gets admitted to a nursing home. Soon, he starts having nightmares that seemingly become deceptively real. The so-called nightmares were able to make him live in two parallel dimensions.

7.4

1670

Stasia

A zany nobleman contends with family feuds and clashes with peasants in his quest to become the most famous person in Poland.

5.8

Boża podszewka. Część druga

kobieta na zebraniu

No description available

7.3

Planet Single. Eight stories

Zofia Kaczor

In these eight tales set across Europe, singles navigate love's complexities via an online dating site, from marital games to elderly romance.

6.8

The World Is Waiting for Us

Barbara

The film shows the gray reality of a Polish unemployed slacker still living (despite 30 on the neck) "on mommy's pot". Just what to do when one day she runs out? Where to get money for living?

6.8

I'm a Killer

Śliwowa

Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.

N/A

Dance Marathon

Irusia

An event, which main attraction is the dance marathon, has gathered crowds at the market square of the provincial Polish town. Impressive prizes compete with another attraction: the concert of the star singer Jessica. A local outsider Christian falls for the singer. Soon he discovers that her life is far from being a dream and decides to win her heart. In the crowd of marathon contestants we will meet many individuals who dream of winning the main prize for various motivations. Who will turn out to be the winner? Will there be a prize at all? Because two small-time crooks, Simon and Silvio, are lurking around. And why this persistent notion that our life is so often influenced by miracles...?

7.7

Papusza

Fat Peasant Woman

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.

6.1

White Dress

Kowalowa

Careerist Maciej gives a lift to a hitchhiker with opposite beliefs as they both head to their hometowns. In the meantime, the local community gets prepared for the annual Corpus Christi procession.

6.4

Women's Day

Sąsiadka Haliny

Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for better wages and an improved standard of living is dishonesty, employee exploitation, and fraud.

7.0

Be Somebody

Joasia

Together with his family, Wiktor moves into a recently bought flat, which turns out to have belonged to Lech Wałęsa, a symbol of freedom and a legend as a simple electrician who became Poland’s president many years ago.

4.9

Nie kłam kochanie

Flower Seller Stenia

Ania, a sensitive, shy green-architecture student, tends the gardens of an elegant building and finds herself falling for its handsome tenant, Marcin. Ambitious and adept at lying to charm women, Marcin faces a sudden financial crisis he can only escape if his wealthy aunt Nela believes he’s already married, so he must persuade Ania to pose as his wife.

6.0

Angelus

Jadzka

A commune built around the pursuit of spiritual perfection through the occult begins to see its prophecies come true.

7.3

Solidarność, Solidarność...

Janusz's Wife

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview.

6.6

I Am

Kucharka

A story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a second time by his alcoholic mother, who had earlier abandoned him, the resolute 11-year-old finds a "home" on a deserted old barge on the outskirts of his hometown. He is still an outcast, but he is an outcast on his own terms, rejecting both patronizing charitable gestures and coercion by local thugs. In the process he makes one true friend, a girl from an affluent family who is also an outcast, despite living in material comfort.

4.8

Brigitte Bardot Forever

pani Lewińska

Inspired by the tale of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey, young Adam’s mother is persecuted by the state police because his father fought in WWII as a pilot before disappearing. Adam fantasizes about his father and one day, while watching Godard’s Contempt in the cinema, finds himself transported into the dressing room of Brigitte Bardot and into a world where he meets a coterie of her contemporary celebrities.

5.2

Larp

Saleswoman Wanda

Sergiusz, a teenager at a technical school, is misunderstood by his family and bullied by his peers because of his passion for fantasy and LARP games. In the incredible world of imagination and adventures marked by sword and sorcery, he is a true hero – masculine, brave, and invincible. In the real world, not so much.

5.5

Relax

Róża

Staff at the vacation home are preparing to welcome refugees.

6.0

Benek

Cashier

The miner leaves the mine and tries to start a new life.

5.1

Field of Dogs

Aunt Xenia

Adam survived a car accident that killed his partner, Basia, and his best friend, Kamil. From that moment, Adam, a poet and promising university literature professor, gave up teaching and found work and refuge in a shopping mall. Reading the Divine Comedy and sleeping provide him with respite from the tormenting pain. In his sleep, he can visit a parallel world where he encounters loved ones and ghosts of his imagination. Added to his personal suffering is that of Poland, devastated by natural and political disasters throughout 2010. Adam, like Dante with Beatrice, continues to have one goal before him: to find his beloved Basia.