POLISH FILM ACADEMY

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 in difficult situations which bring out their true nature and temperament. A doctor for Zanussi and Żebrowski fighting for her dignity, a modern Madame Bovary for Kamiński, for Dembiński a doctor put in jail for a year – her character’s situation was the equivalent of media propaganda creating an alibi for the murderers of Grzegorz Przemyk – and a heroine of Rysa/Scratch who falls deeper into obsession and unable to forgive her husband. All of these roles are bases for great performances and Jankowska-Cieślak does them justice with class and talent appreciated through different awards – among them, a trophy from Cannes for her role of Eva in Károly Makk’s Egymásra nézve [‘Another Way’].