Szyc starred also as Tytus in Testosteron / Testosterone by Tomasz Konecki and Andrzej Saramonowicz (2007), in Lejdis by Konecki (2008) and in Serce na Dłoni / And a Warm Heart by Krzysztof Zanussi (2008). He starred again as Kruszon in Trzeci Oficer / The Third Officer – a continuation of Dejczer’s successful series. The role of Dr. Konstanty Grot in Feliks Falk’s Enen (2009) brought him the Złota Kaczka (Golden Duck) award.
In 2009 he worked again with Xawery Żuławski in an adaptation of Dorota Masłowska’s novel Wojna Polsko-Ruska / The Polish-Russian War (US translation of the book’s title: Snow White and Russian Red, 2009). For the leading part of Silny he was honoured with the Złote Lwy award at the Gdynia Film Festival. Konrad J. Zarębski wrote:
The actor, with a shaved head and unprecedented energy, plays a young man from the dregs of society, risking identification with a representative of a social group symbolizing post-soviet remains in customs and mentality.
He also played leading roles in Rafael Lewandowski’s Kret / The Mole (2010) and Jerzy Hoffman’s 1920. Bitwa Warszawska / Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011).
In 2014 Szyc could be seen in Jan Jakub Kolski’s Serce, Serduszko / The Heart and the Sweetheart. He played a priest from a small village in Podkarpacie who tried to reach his followers through online videos. Even though the part of the rapping, tattooed priest was a supporting role, it was more memorable than some of the leading characters in the film.
In 2015, after a few slower years, Szyc’s career accelerated. The actor played in Persona non Grata, a film directed by Cellin Gluck, which tells the story of a Japanese diplomat who saved 10 thousand Jews from the Holocaust, and also in Agnieszka Holland’s feminist-ecological thriller Spoor, based on Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead.
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The biggest acting challenge that Szyc faced after Polish-Russian War was the role of Tadeusz Kantor in Jan Hryniak’s Kantor: Nigdy Tu Nie Powrócę / Kantor: I Shall Never Return. It is going to be a biographical story about the life and work of one of Polish theatre’s most prominent figures. ‘It had to be an actor who has madness, risk and credibility inside of him’, said the creators about casting Szyc. The premiere of the film is planned for the fall of 2016.
In 2017 another film with Szyc is going to have its premiere – Kamerdyner, an epic tale about the history of Kaszuby, created by Filip Bajon.
Theatrical roles
On the stage of Współczesny Theatre in Warsaw the actor collaborated with Agnieszka Glińska on Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (2003) and Ödön von Horváth’s Die Unbekannte aus der Seine (2004). As Jacek Wakar wrote about his role in the latter: