
Birthday:
11-28-1973
(51 years)
Birthplace:
Warsaw, Poland
Biography
Jowita Budnik (née Miondlikowska; born 28 November 1973) is a Polish actress. Budnik was born in Warsaw and studied at the University of Warsaw. She made her film debut in 1985 at the age of 11 in Radosław Piwowarski's Kochankowie mojej mamy ("My Mom's Lovers"). She has appeared in such films as Papusza, Plac Zbawiciela and Jeziorak as well as the television series M jak miłość and W labiryncie. In 2017, she received Best Actress Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for her role in the film Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017).
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Songs About Love
Act like mama Alicji
event2021 star_border 6.3
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Robert, a young musician living in the shadow of his successful father, rebels against his father’s authority. On meeting a novice small-town vocalist, he is confronted with the nature of his inner struggle. In the face of a conflict between feeling and ambition, their joint musical project is left hanging in the air.
All Our Fears
Act like Jadwiga Majewska / Jagoda's mother
event2022 star_border 5.7
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Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.
For Love
Act like Marlena Kobara
event2022 star_border 4.7
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Marlena struggles with a serious marital crisis due to the alcohol addiction of her husband, Zbigniew. Via the Internet she meets Bruno, a Senegalese, who brings back Marlena’s self-confidence and sense of womanhood. However, it turns out that the man plans something rather different for her than building a relationship with her…
Playing Hard
Act like Matka dziewczynki
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens.
The Passage
Act like Różyłłowa
event2021 star_border 2
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A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.
In for a Murder
Act like Ilona Czerwińska
event2021 star_border 6.2
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A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.
Mother's Day
Act like Diplomat
event2023 star_border 5.9
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Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.
Brothers
Act like Małkowa
event2021 star_border 5.7
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A village in Mazowsze, 1943. Two teenage boys, Janek and Staszek, find two young Jews hiding on a farm. They soon realize that the boys, Abram and Chaim, are their age and are the sons of a respected pharmacist who lived in a nearby town before the war. They were the only survivors of the anti-Jewish pogrom led by the Germans in the nearby forest. In spite of the deadly threat, Janek and Staszek decide to hide the boys and keep it a secret.
Be Somebody
Act like Sylwia
event2023 star_border 7
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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.
The Word
Act like Majchertowa, matka Janka
event2014 star_border 4.4
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Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
Doll
Act like Bronisłava 'Papusza' Wajsová
event2013 star_border 7.7
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The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
East Wind
Act like Liza
event1993 star_border 5.3
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The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
Po upadku
Act like córka Ratajczaków
event1990 star_border 7.5
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A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.
Young Eagles
Act like Rotmanowa
event2022 star_border 6.2
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Grodno, the eastern border of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bomb the city. One of the bombs hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek. Literally and symbolically, the world of a carefree childhood, fun and first crushes ends.
Wet Monday
Act like Sylwia
event2024
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Fifteen-year-old Klara is raped by a masked boy during Wet Monday. A year later, just before the first anniversary of the incident, she becomes paralyzed by a fear of water. Looking for support and understanding, Klara turns to her new, somewhat esoteric friend.
Sucker's Death
Act like Dawid's Mother
event2024
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A small town somewhere in Poland. "Małolat", a member of a nationalist militia, is blackmailed into planting a bomb at an LGBT rally in Warsaw. However, he does not know that his gay brother will be at the demonstration. The mother of both characters will get involved in the whole situation. The young man faces a dramatic choice.
Masters of the Planet
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On the day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents. They all quickly discover that their spouses are not their soulmates. As a result, the couples reshuffle and new relationships are formed.
Sophie Seeks 7
Act like Pielęgniarka
event2014 star_border 4
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After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, a 30-year-old woman reconnects with six of her exes while trying to find the love of her life.
Retrieval
Act like Gazda's Wife (as Jowita Miondlikowska)
event2006 star_border 5.9
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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.
Death Before the Wedding
Act like Clerk Marzenka
event2025 star_border 4.2
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When Maja brings her fiancé home, her traditional parents must overcome their cultural biases amidst a crisis at their dairy farm. Can love find a way?
All for My Mother
Act like Irena
event2019 star_border 5.6
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Olka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She only wants her mother back.
Birds Are Singing in Kigali
Act like Anna Keller
event2017 star_border 5.4
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We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
7 Minutes
Act like Laboratory Worker
event2010 star_border 3.3
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Seven minutes - sweet moment that can change lives forever. History of several autumn, although extremely hot days in the life of Piotr Winkler, who in an unexpected way loses control over his stable and secure life. 37-year-old designer, happy husband of Marta and Agnieszka's father, goes to conference as a substitute for a colleague. There he meets an attractive brunette, which will soon topple the peaceful, happy world upside down.
My Nikifor
Act like Cleaning Lady Kowalska
event2004 star_border 5.9
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From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
Silent Night
Act like Ciotka Basia
event2017 star_border 7.1
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Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
Saviour Square
Act like Beata Zielińska
event2006 star_border 6.9
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A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Call Me Marianna
event2015 star_border 7.3
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Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter rejects her. Her mother still calls her “son.” As Marianna transitions from male to female, she is abandoned by her loved ones, alone in a world unwilling to accept her true self. This multi-award-winning documentary is an intensely sympathetic and powerful account of one individual’s struggle to gain acceptance—even in the midst of profound physical hardship.
Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
Act like Agata Kosz
event2019 star_border 6.5
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Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever.
The Debt
Act like dziewczyna z pralni (w napisach: Jowita Miondlikowska)
event1999 star_border 7.1
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Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
Strike
event2007 star_border 6.6
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A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
Who Will Write Our History?
Act like Rachela Auerbach
event2018 star_border 7.4
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Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Getto.
Glasgow
Act like Nurse
event2011 star_border 4
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Damian, a young boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for Glasgow Celtic F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man.
Justice
Act like Bartek's Mother
event2024 star_border 6.6
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A young detective seeks the help of a discharged police officer, giving him the chance to reclaim his old life in exchange for solving a bank raid case.
1983
Act like Joanna Marcinkiewicz, żona Tobiasza (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.5
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Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
Into Deep Water
Act like Marlena Turska (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 8
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A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.
Angel of Death
Act like Mira Janik (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.8
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A small-town policewoman is chasing a vicious serial killer; at stake is first a country girl's life, and then her own life.
Families Like Ours
Act like Polsk kvinde (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.5
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In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels. As the nation prepares to leave their homes, high school student Laura must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she's fallen in love with.
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