His roles Piątka z ulicy Barskiej/ Five From Barska Street (1953) by Aleksander Ford, Pokolenie/Generation (1954) and Kanał/Canal (1956) by Andrzej Wajda, and Pożegnania/Farewells (1958) by Wojciech Jerzy Has made Janczar one of the first film stars of Polish post-war cinema, ...
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One of the most eminent Polish actresses, her body of work (Polish and foreign) includes a few dozen titles.
Thanks to her amazing portrayal of Agnieszka in Wajda’s Człowiek z marmuru/Man of Marble she became the icon of moral-concern cinema. She proved her class in Ryszad...
Not many actresses in the Polish cinema have had so much luck when it comes to roles. Right from her debut role of Magda in Morgenstern’s Trzeba zabić tę miłość/This Love Must be Killed which brought her the Zbyszek Cybulski Award, she’s been playing ambiguous characters, put...
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In the first post-war film she sang the ‘forbidden songs’. She became very popular after taking part in the TV series Wojna domowa/War at Home, where she created a character of an energetic, modern woman full of warmth and humour, who deals with problems of bringing up her...
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Charismatic singer in the famous Jerzy Wasowski and Jeremi Przybora’s TV show Kabaret Starszych Panów, she was the Polish sex symbol of the 60s. Gifted with unusual beauty and a soft, characteristic voice that used to give men chills, she was unlucky with leading roles. The...
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Born on November 26 or 28, 1880 (some sources say December 8, 1882, which is probably the date of his baptism) in Venice. Theatre actor associated with cinema since the beginning of its existence on Polish soil. He starred in experimental films by Kazimierz Prószyński, such...
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„Kwartalnik Filmowy” – Special Issue 2013: “Polish Film Scholars on Polish Cinema”
Agnieszka Holland
Faces of Agnieszka Holland. Editor: Krystyna Zamysłowska, Mieczysław Kuźmicki, Publisher: Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi, 2013
