Among dozens of characters created by her are country girls - amidst them the genius Handzia Kaziukowa in Leszczyński’s Konopielka, terrible wives as in Kondratiuk’s Niedziela Barabasza [Barabas’s Sunday] and attractive lovers like in Załuski’s Kardiogram [The Cardiogram]....
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“This profession cannot be defined. Intellect does not guarantee success in acting. Often, on the contrary, it is an obstacle. It is a profession full of contradictions. Is it not a mystery that the audience goes silent when one actor enters the stage and does not even see...
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Her name alone still causes cinemaniacs’ heart rates to speed up even though most of her films no longer exist. Before the war, delighted audiences awarded her the title of ‘Queen of the Polish screen’ several times. She played over twenty roles in films of the best directors...
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Her first bigger role was in Agnieszka Holland’s Niedzielne dzieci/Sunday Children, but she shone brightly in the films of Barbara Sass, with whom she paired up in an extremely creative duo. Portraying a young journalist who will do anything to get what she wants in Bez...
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Her debut was in Antoni Bohdziewicz’s unsuccessful Szkice węglem/Charcoal Sketches, after which she showed her class and style playing Joczys’s widow in Kazimierz Kutz’s Krzyż Walecznych/Cross of Valour. In Popiół i diament/Ashes and Diamonds she sang the very sad Czerwone...
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"He seems to be a unique actor in Poland – he is good in whatever field of art he undertakes, be it film, television, or theatre. Why is that? I think there are two elements worth pointing out. The first is his excellent technique, mastered to perfection in virtually every...
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Her debut – not counting Dwie godziny [‘Two Hours], which was only allowed on screens eleven years after its making – was in Zakazane piosenki/Forbidden Songs, the first post-war film. She also played the main character in the first post-war comedy Skarb/The Treasure. She...
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She spent two years in Pantomimy Theatre in Wrocław. Her early serious acting work was first in Yugoslavia – for Dragovan Jovanovic in Zapach ziemi [‘The Scent of Earth’], in Hungary – for Sándor Sára in 80 huszár [’80 Hussars’] and for Károly Makk. For the latter she played...
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The authoress of the famous announcement of the fall of communism in Poland, she is not only an actress but also a director, a writer and a columnist. Directors tend to give her supporting roles but Szczepkowska gives them such depth and strength of expression that her roles...
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„Kwartalnik Filmowy” – Special Issue 2013: “Polish Film Scholars on Polish Cinema”
