POLISH FILM ACADEMY

She only appeared in a few films during the second half of the 50s and the first half of the 60s. Her last screen role was a supporting one in Tomasz Zygadło’s Odwet/Revenge as a graduate convention member.
She became part of cinema history because of one role: in Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał/Canal. A resistance fighter – Stokrotka – a girl in love, who with superhuman effort, half-naked, in the darkness of the sewers drags the wounded man she loves – lieutenant Korab – towards light and freedom only to find a death trap at the end of the tunnel. It became an icon of the Polish Film School, and the scene with the bars closing off the canal from the side of the Vistula River is one of the most famous scenes in the history of Polish cinema.