FrameThrower · Actors · Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr
5 films · 533 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1979–1994
Born 18 April 1947 · Kraków, Poland · died 9 July 2024
Jerzy Oskar Stuhr was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a screenwriter, film director, voice actor and drama professor. He served as the rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.
Throughout his long and prolific professional career spanning over five decades, he appeared in 65 films including Camera Buff (1979), Sexmission (1984), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Dekalog: Ten (1989), Three Colours: White (1994), Kiler (1997), Love Stories (1997) and The Big Animal (2000).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 533 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1979–1994
- Order of the Smile2014
- Knight of the Order of the Smile2014
- Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta2011
- Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic2000
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta1997
- Honoris Gratia2012
- Laur Krakowa XXI wieku2007
- Annual award ACFK2007
- Golden Medal for Merit to Culture2005
- Paszport Polityki1997
- Złote Lwy1997
- City of Kraków Award1995
How their films are shot
Measured across 533 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jerzy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 80% of their frames are night, 75% low key — the look of the work Jerzy takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 533 frames from Jerzy Stuhr's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.