Wojciech Pszoniak

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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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Performance

Mr Miller

Rosemary's Baby

Mr. Wees

Oficerowie

Czesław Pieczur, teść Kalińskiego

Mit meinen heißen Tränen

Kajetan

The Tin Drum

Fajngold

Ziemia obiecana

Moryc Welt

Golem

Prisoner

Robert Mitchum Est Mort

Danton

Maximilien Robespierre

Chaos

Pali

The Mole

Stefan Garbarek, były kapitan SB

The Devil

Stranger / The Devil

The Promised Land

Moryc Welt

To Kill a Priest

Bridge Player

Korczak

Henryk Goldszmit vel Janusz Korczak

Viper in the Fist

Père Volitza

The Rabbi's Cat

Vastenov (voice)

East Wind

pułkownik Lew Czeko

Dangerous Moves

Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm

If You Saw His Heart

Le polonais

The Pact of Silence

L'archevêque

The Wedding

Journalist / Stanczyk

Black Thursday

Władysław Gomułka

Hospital of the Transfiguration

Marglewski

Holy Week

Councilman Zamojski

To Life

L'imprimeur

The Shadow-Line

Conductor (uncredited)

Carte Blanche

Professor-Oculist

Venetian Red

Antonio Vivaldi

Angry Harvest

Cybulkowski

Pilate and Others

Jeszua Ha-Nocri

The Rite of Passage

Major Trzaska

Lesser Evil

pacjent

Cassos

Monsieur Lodz

Mystification

Pinno

Austeria

Rudy Josełe

Second life

le père de Vincent

The Gorgon Case

Profesor, biegły sądowy podczas procesu w Krakowie

Daimler-Benz Limousine

Bogdański

The Winner

profesor Karloff

La chica

The Deep Blue Sea

Mr. Miller

Les années sandwiches

Max

A Face of an Angel

Tadeusz's Father

Aria for an Athlete

Siedelmayer, dyrektor cyrku

I Hate Actors

Hercule Potnik

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

Judge

Our God's Brother

The Stranger

Nie ten człowiek

baron

Strike

Bajland

Jan Rydel

Rewizor

I'm a Butterfly

Redactor Oswald

Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street

Felicjan Zuppe

The Nest

Mieszko I

Olympics 40

Otto Schultze

Hope

Benedykt Weber

Ich czworo

Mąż

Guilty of Innocence

Ottenhagen

Clergyman

Man

Chicken Talk

Grandfather

The Window

Waiter

Gawin

Pierre / Xerkes

Rekolekcje

Marek

Pour l'amour d'Élena

Souline

Convicted

Ryszard Bielczyk

Notturno