In 1988, he made his debut as Piotrek in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s film “Dekalog X”. Originally cast mainly in comedy roles, he is now more known for dramatic roles. Winner of the two Eagles: “Return to Legoland” (2022) and “ftermath” (2013). He is a graduate of the Cracow State Theatre School. He teaches at the Stanisław Wyspiański’s Academy of Theater Arts (Acting Department in Wrocław), and Warsaw Theater Academy. “Marta Grall” is his full-length debut, for which he also co-wrote the screenplay. His students from Acting Department in Warsaw Theater Academy are performing in “Marta Grall” movie.

Cinema Lesson with Maciej Stuhr at the Bursztynowa Hall, Szkolna Street 1, on Tuesday, August 2, at 4:00 p.m., just after the screening of the film “Marta Grall”.

Later, she was swallowed up by television. In the 90s she worked for “News” (Aktualności) of TVP Katowice, then she made reports for the “Reporter-Express” – she produced more than sixty films. Since the 1900s he has been producing documentaries. Her signature is empathy, she just listens to her characters and believes in the power of their stories. Her films are made with an extraordinary sensitivity and a special feeling for the weaker, the excluded, the other. Both previous reports and documentaries have an enormous impact.

Cinema Lesson with Lidia Duda at the Bursztynowa Hall, Szkolna Street 1, on Tuesday, August 2, at 6:00 p.m., just after the screening of the film “The Fledglings”.

He made his debut in 1966 in Teatr Polski in Wrocław, then for years he was associated with the Stary Theater in Krakow and the National Theater in Warsaw. He was invited to collaborate by many outstanding theater directors: Kazimierz Dejmek, Mikołaj Grabowski, Jerzy Jarocki, Krystian Lupa, Michał Zadara, Grzegorz Jarzyna. He made his film debut in 1966 in “Marks on the Road”, and his roles that have gone down in history include: Sixtus in “Write and Fight” directed by W. J. Has, The Count Jędruś Łohojski in “Farewell to Autumn” by M. Treliński, Max Bauer in “Korczak” by A. Wajda, Juliusz in ”The Polish Freeloader” by Ł. Wylężałek, Ubu in “King Ubu” by P. Szulkin.

Jan Peszek is an extraordinary actor, which was noticed in the 1960s by Bogusław Schaeffer, a leading representative of the musical avant-garde, writing “The script for non-existent but potential instrumental actor ”. This potential though existing actor is Peszek himself. The text that requires from an artist to be, as Tadeusz Nyczek writes in the Encyclopedia of the Polish Theater, “a trickster, virtuoso, priest and jester in one person”, was written specially for him.

The premiere of this “composition” performed and directed by Jan Peszek took place in 1976. On August 5, the monodrama will be performed at the BNP Paribas Two Riversides Film and Art Festival. Cinema Lesson with Jan Peszek on Wednesday, August 3 at 12:30 in Bursztynowa Hall, 1 Szkolna Street.