Wiesław Kupczak

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male

Wiesław Kupczak

Known For

Shattered Games
0h 59m
Movie 2024

Shattered Games

The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed by the German press as the 'Bombenmannschaft' ('Bomber Crew'). The film focuses on team leader, Akiba Rubinstein, alongside his fellow players Dawid Przepiórka, Ksawery Tartakower, Mieczyslaw Najdorf, Paulin Frydman and Kazimierz Makarczyk. They battle to win the trophy as well as dealing with the mental illness of Rubinstein and the outbreak of World War II. The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.

Boxer
2h 30m
Movie 2024

Boxer

With only his wife by his side, a promising young boxer flees communist Poland to chase his dream of becoming the greatest fighter in history.

Out of Water
0h 14m
Movie 2022

Out of Water

Zosia is a 13-year-old CODA - a hearing child of deaf parents. Together with her father, she sets off to compete in her dream swimming competition, to which she was not allowed to participate due to her father's oversight.

Stars
1h 46m
Movie 2017

Stars

A story of passion, rivalry, love, and friendship. Jan Banas, acclaimed Silesian football player of the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to makes his dreams come true on and off the field. Stars is the story of a great love between young people torn by passion and ambition.

Traffic Department
1h 58m
Movie 2013

Traffic Department

Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.

Kryminalni: Misja śląska
1h 46m
Movie 2006

Kryminalni: Misja śląska

Commissioner Zawada and his team chase the Gravedigger, who kidnaps women and buries them alive.

Retrieval
1h 43m
Movie 2006

Retrieval

19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal matches to get money and is spotted by a man running a security business. Accepting this man's offer means becoming a gangster, but this could allow him to a residence permit for his girlfriend Katya.

Ode to Joy
1h 58m
Movie 2006

Ode to Joy

Three stories of young disillusioned Poles of different background and region of origin. What binds them together is that they all meet on the bus to London shortly after Poland's entry into EU.

Angelus
1h 43m
Movie 2001

Angelus

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

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