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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One of the finest Polish film actors, however audiences had to wait several years to admire his acting talent because films by Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Janusz Zaorski – shot in 1980-1982 – were stopped by the censor and were only released in 1987.
He was...
“I can certainly say that film is an unfulfilled area of my career. It has not given me sufficient satisfaction. Apart from Salto, Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko/How Far From Here, And Yet How Close, and several films by Andrzej Wajda (Wesele/The Wedding in particular, as it...
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Maja Bojarska, the wife of Tadeusz Łomnicki, wrote in her book “King Lear is dead,” “In October 1974, I met a monster – someone who could do everything on stage. And a maniac who insisted that all that was not enough.”
He was born on July 18, 1927 in Podhajce near Lviv and...
“To be an artist is a kind of vocation. Just as there is the ethos of the intelligentsia carrying on the torch of education, so there is the ethos of an artist, who shares his experiences with the audience, who shares the mystery of existence, love, and curiosity about...
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Theatre and film actor, director and teacher. Born on July 3, 1928 in Łódź, died on November 20, 2008 in Warsaw. Associated with theatres in Olsztyn, Opole, Lublin, Łódź, and Warsaw. Founder – along with his wife Halina Machulska – of the Ochota Theatre in Warsaw, where...
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Before going to theatre school, he studied vocal pedagogy at the State Higher School of Music in Łódź. He never gave up his passion for music – he is not only an actor, but – in his spare time – a musician, member of the jazz quartet A2.
He was born on March 2, 1948 in Gdansk....
“Nobody can play seemingly common and uninteresting characters as convincingly as Maklakiewicz,” Tadeusz Konwicki once said. “He had his own distinctive style, even in bad or even terrible films,” Krzysztof Mętrak commented. “He was not a star. He did not even play leading...
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Her debut role was (still as Teresa Kamińska) for Henryk Kluba in Słońce wschodzi raz na dzień/The Sun Rises Once a Day, which was locked away by the censorship office for years. Hans Kloss fans remembered her expressive face from the dramatic role of Simone in the episode...
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„Kwartalnik Filmowy” – Special Issue 2013: “Polish Film Scholars on Polish Cinema”
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Faces of Agnieszka Holland. Editor: Krystyna Zamysłowska, Mieczysław Kuźmicki, Publisher: Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi, 2013
