“He had exceptional acting technique, he could play just about anyone and anything. However, since he was also gifted with enormous comic talent, he was automatically typecast in comedy roles. I think what pained him the most was the fact that the audience wanted from him...
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One of the most remarkable people of the Polish theatre and screen; an actress in Jerzy Grotowski’s theatre and Krzysztof Zanussi’s films.
Her debut on the big screen was in Zanussi’s Życie rodzinne/Family Life, where she played Bella – the main character’s extravagant sister, ...
He appeared in over a hundred films and television series. In 2007, he publicly declared that he was retiring as an actor. Three years later, however, he returned with a role in Mała matura 1947 [Little baccalaureate 1947] (2010), directed by Janusz Majewski, his close...
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For a long time, he was cast in “boyish” roles. “Władysław Kowalski entered the world of Polish film as the Boy. He played a series of roles as young, inexperienced men on the cusp of adulthood,” Konrad Eberhardt, one of the greatest Polish film critics, wrote. One year...
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After a few distinct supporting roles she received an offer that every actress dreams about. Felicja in Wojciech Has’s Jak być kochaną/How to be Loved is a complicated role, rich in nuances and played in several time spans, which allows us to watch the heroine’s evolution...
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For a long time she would bring to mind a striped skirt and wild eroticism: Malina in Wajda’s Brzezina/The Birchwood based on Iwaszkiewicz’s short story, in shots borrowed from Jacek Malczewski’s paintings she seduced two brothers nearing their deaths. Untamed passion of...
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Two remarkable roles mark her career: starting with the role of barmaid Krystyna in Wajda’s legendary Popiół i diament/Ashes and Diamonds where she partnered Zbyszek Cybulski; and ending with Rebeka Widmar in Janusz Majewski’s Zazdrość i medycyna/Jealousy and Medicine, where...
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Gorgeous Ewa in Tadeusz Chmielewski’s debut film, she herself was a debutante who won a competition against thousands of candidates. Full of charm and naivety, which could bring on dangerous situations, were her heroines – like Iwona in Pan Anatol szuka miliona /Anatol Seeks...
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„Kwartalnik Filmowy” – Special Issue 2013: “Polish Film Scholars on Polish Cinema”
Magdalena Ulejczyk
Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Malarz X Muzy /Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Painter of the Tenth Muse, Editor: Mieczysław Kuźmicki, Krystyna Zamysłowska, Stanisław Zawiśliński, Publisher: Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi, 2012.
