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Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (1975) (The Staff), took the Grand Prix at Mannheim Film Festival. His first full-length feature was The Scar (1976) (The Scar). In 1978 he made the famous documentary From a Night Porter's Point of View (1979) (Night Porter's Point of View), and in 1979 - a feature Camera Buff (1979) (Camera Buff), which was acclaimed in Poland and abroad. Everything he did from that point was of highest artistic quality.- Writer
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Born in Lvov, Ukraine; then he moved with his father Miroslaw Zulawski to Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. In the 1960s, he was an assistant of the famous Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His feature debut The Third Part of the Night (1971) was an adaptation of his father's novel. His second feature The Devil (1972) was prohibited in Poland, and Zulawski went to France. After the success of his French debut That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) in 1975, he returned to Poland where he spent two years in making On the Silver Globe (1988). The work on this film was brutally interrupted by the authorities. After that, Zulawski moved to France where became known for his highly artistic, controversial, and very violent films. Zulawski is well known for his ability to discover and "rediscover" actresses. Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau played their best parts in his films.- Director
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Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).
He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, Jakub Wajda, was a captain in the Polish infantry. Wajda described his childhood as a happy pastoral country life before the Second World War. In 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. In 1940, Wajda's father was killed by Stalin's agents in the Katyn massacre.
Young Wajda survived the Second World War with his mother and his brother in Nazi-occupied Poland. In 1942, Wajda joined the Polish resistance and served in the Armia Krajowa until the war ended in 1945. In 1946 he moved to Kraków. There Wajda went to Academy of Fine Arts. He studied painting, particularly the impressionist and post-impressionist painting, and was especially fond of Paul Cezanne. From 1950-1954 he studied film directing at the High Film School in Lódz under directors Jerzy Toeplitz and Aleksander Ford. Later, Wajda described the influential and eye-opening experience from seeing French avant-garde films, like Ballet mécanique (1924) by artist-director Fernand Léger.
In 1955 he made his debut as director of full-length A Generation (1955), about the generation of youth coming of age during the Nazi occupation of Poland. His award-winning Kanal (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958) concluded the trilogy about life in Poland during WWII. Although he was under pressure from the Soviet-dominated Polish authorities, Wajda positioned himself as an artist who was above the conflict. He still managed to show the undeclared civil war between two anti-Nazi Polish forces, which were divided by political ideology: the Polish communists and the partisans - folk heroes of the Home Army.
His Oscar-nominated The Promised Land (1975) was a work of multi-layered allegory and Symbolism. Wajda's witty depiction of the 19th century capitalism in Poland actually alluded to the contemporary Communist politics. The shooting of workers in the final scenes was actually unmasking of the official politics of killing workers in the Soviet Union in 1962, under Nikita Khrushchev, and in Poland a few years later. The story of a film student who traces the life of defamed "hero" in Man of Marble (1977) was a deconstruction of the false impressions that official propaganda was using to brainwash the public. The same main characters in Man of Iron (1981) continued unmasking the Communist regime's manipulations against working class people. In 1981, Wajda joined the "Solidarity" labor movement of Lech Walesa.
From 1989 to 1991 Wajda was elected Senator of the Republic of Poland. From 1992 to 1994 he was Member of Presidential Council for Culture. In 1994 he founded the Center of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków, and was awarded the Order of Rising Sun in Japan (1995). Wajda was President of Polish Film Association (1978-1983). He was Member of "Solidarity" Lech Walesa Council (1981-1989). He won an honorary Oscar (2000) for his contribution to cinema, and an honorary Golden Bear (2006) at the Berlin Film Festival.
Wajda's Katyn (2007) was nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2008, and received many other awards and nominations. The film shows historic events in Katyn during WWII, where Wajda's father was among thousands of Polish officers killed by Soviet communists under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Wajda's film was well received by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who initially opened the facts about Katyn to help people understand each other and overcome the tragic past.
"We never hoped to live to see the fall of the Soviet Union, to see Poland as a free country", said Andrzej Wajda.- Ryszard Zabinski was the son of Warsaw Zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski. During the Holocaust, the family successfully hid 300 Jewish men, women, and children in their villa and in the zoo's animal cages and tunnels. Ryszard carried food to the 'guests' and performed a number of chores without ever inadvertently giving away the family's secret activities.
For young Ryszard, life at the zoo was a childhood dream come true. It was also an adventure he would never forget. He shared space with sick or orphaned new-born animals. Ryszard long remembered all of the animals roaming freely throughout his home. The zoo he remembered prior to the war was filled with love.
On October 30, 1968 a tree planting ceremony was held at Yad Vashem honoring Righteous Among the Nations. Ryszard's parents were among the honorees. Ryszard lived his entire life in Warsaw, Poland. - Malgorzata Braunek was born on 30 January 1947 in Szamotuly, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Tulipany (2004), Lalka (1978) and Wniebowstapienie (1969). She was married to Andrzej Zulawski, Andrzej Krajewski and Janusz Guttner. She died on 23 June 2014 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Robert Dunlap was born on 29 November 1942 and is an actor and producer.
His family is of Scottish/Czech descent. He studied at Lincoln High School in San Jose, and graduated in 1960. Upon graduation, Robert was accepted at the young age of 17 to train as an actor at Pasadena Playhouse. He became a contract player for Warner Brothers Studios in 1961. Robert Dunlap is often recognized because of his appearances in the media. His breakthrough roles include They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and is also known for Dance 'Til Dawn (1988) and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) He has guest starred in many television shows, including: The Rockford Files, Joe Forrester, The Voyagers, Future Cop, My Three Sons, Peyton Place, and Wonder Woman. In 1970, he starred as 'Chester' in the play Chimes at Midnight which was aired live on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He was first cast as Dr. Scott in an Educational Science series, and then went on to appear in 6 additional TV series including Delta, and sang in the opera "La Rondine" by Puccini. During his long acting career, Robert has worked with Gene Hackman, James Garner, George Kennedy, Tony Scott, Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Bridges and Robin Williams on the Richard Prior series. His filmmaking career started in 1971, when he attended Los Angeles Valley College, and received an AA Degree and Technicians Certificate. He won Student Filmmaker of the Year and received an Emmy Citation for the Documentary "Grandpa." In 1982, he formed RED Productions, and produced "Anton," the story of a famous gay interior decorator in West Hollywood. The film received awards from numerous film festivals that include Aspen, Sinking Creek, the "Special Jury Gold Award" at the Houston International Film Festival and "Directors Fortnight" at Cannes. The film aired on Showtime and was selected to be included in "Since Stonewall," a retrospective of classic gay films of the 80s. He has worked on over 45 films as a producer, editor and writer and his work has been aired on the Discovery Channel including "Impact: Earth"; "Alaska: The Great Land"; and on PBS, "Dinosaur: The Arctic Expedition" and "Mass Extinctions" which also aired on Canal Plus and in the Middle East. In 2002, he produced the groundbreaking, award-winning documentary, "Beyond Vanilla: An unforgettable Journey into the Wilder Side of Sex", which documents the kink and fetish scene. In 2008, he produced "Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary." After shooting "Beyond Vanilla", he studied at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) in San Francisco, earned his Phd in 2005, and is a now a Clinical Sexologist and Certified Sex Coach. He is the author of Aphrodisiacs 101, from which he based his doctoral dissertation for IASHS. Dunlap hosts a monthly radio show, The Boom Doctors, with his partner (Dr. Patti Britton), which is aimed at the baby boomer generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) and discusses and explores all aspects of boomer life.- Composer
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Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in 1911 in Sosnowiec. On leaving school, he went to Warsaw to study music (piano) in the Chopin School of Music, under Professor Jozef Smidowicz, and later, under Professor Aleksander Michalowski (both scholars of Franz List). In 1931 he went to Berlin to the Academy of Music studying under Professor Leonid Kreutzer and Arthur Schnabel (piano) and Professor Franz Schreker (composition). At this time he wrote his Violin Concerto, Piano Suite "Zycie Maszyn" (The Life of Machines), Concertino for piano with Orchestra, many works for piano and violin and also some songs. In 1935 Szpilman entered the Polish Radio, where, except during the war, he worked until 1963. In 1946, he published his book "Death of a City" - memories from 1939 to 1945. Since 1945, Szpilman has appeared in concerts as a soloist and with chamber groups in Poland, throughout Europe and in America. He and Bronislav Gimpel formed a very successful piano duet in 1932, which grew in 1962 to the Warsaw Piano Quintet, that performed about 2,500 concerts until 1987 worldwide, with the exception of Australia. In 1936 he also started his career as a composer of songs (about 500). About 150 of them were in Poland's pop charts and they are "evergreens" of Polish pop music culture to this day. In the 50s he wrote also about 40 songs for children, for which he received in 1955 the award of the Polish Composers Union. He also wrote many orchestral pieces (ballet, Small Overture, etc.), musicals, music for children's theater and music for about 50 children's radio broadcasts, as well as film music: "Wrzos" (1937); "Dr. Murek" (1939); "Pokoj Zwyciezy Swiat" (1950); "Call My Wife" (1957), and others. In 1961, he initiated and organized the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, and also founded the Polish Union of Authors of Popular Music. In 1964, he became a member of Presidium of Polish Composers Union, and ZAIKS (Polish ASCAP). In April 1998, his book "Death of the City" will be published by ECON Verlag, a leading German publisher, with commentary by a famous German writer and poet: Wolf Biermann.- Director
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz was born on 19 January 1922 in Gwozdziec, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Hvizdets, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Night Train (1959), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) and Death of a President (1977). He was married to Lucyna Winnicka, Maria Güntner and Malgorzata Dipont. He died on 27 December 2007 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Actress
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Kalina Jedrusik was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1931. Her parents brought her up together with two other children. In 1953 she debuted on stage and year later married famous Polish writer Stanislaw Dygat (Jezioro Bodenskie, Disneyland). Her long list of theatre work includes plays by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and Bertolt Brecht among others.
Jedrusik first appeared on screen in 1957 with the movie Eva Wants to Sleep (1958). She is mostly known for playing Joanna in comedy Lekarstwo na milosc (1966) and Lucy Zuckerowa in The Promised Land (1975). Her filmography also includes adaptations of her husband's work - Jezioro Bodenskie, Jowita and many others. Apart from her movie career she was also a talented singer. The Double Life of Véronique (1991) was her last screen appearance. She died on August 7, 1991 in Warsaw. She was 60.- Roman Wilhelmi was born on 6 June 1936 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Moth (1980), Hotel Pacific (1975) and The Story of Sin (1975). He died on 3 November 1991 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Piotr Szulkin was born on 26 April 1950 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He was a director and writer, known for The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981), Golem (1980) and Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986). He was married to Renata Karwowska-Szulkin. He died on 3 August 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Lucyna Winnicka was born on 14 July 1928 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Night Train (1959), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) and Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960). She was married to Jerzy Kawalerowicz. She died on 22 January 2013 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Wojciech Pszoniak was born on 2 May 1942 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Danton (1983), The Promised Land (1975) and Korczak (1990). He was married to Barbara. He died on 19 October 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.- Jerzy Nowak was born on 20 June 1923 in Brzesko, Malopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Three Colors: White (1994) and The Promised Land (1975). He was married to Maria Andruszkiewicz-Nowak. He died on 26 March 2013 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Joanna Szczerbic was born on 13 June 1941 in Staszków, Opolskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Barrier (1966), Agnieszka 46 (1964) and Dialogue 20-40-60 (1968). She was married to Jerzy Skolimowski. She died on 8 March 2014 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Pawel Królikowski was born on 1 April 1961 in Zdunska Wola, Lódzkie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo (2014), Na dobre i na zle (1999) and Pitbull (2005). He was married to Malgorzata Ostrowska-Królikowska. He died on 27 February 2020 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Aleksandra Slaska was born on 4 November 1925 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Spotkanie w 'Bajce' (1962), Dom na pustkowiu (1949) and Five from Barska Street (1954). She was married to Janusz Warminski. She died on 18 September 1989 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Ligia Branice was born on 7 December 1932 in Krasnystaw, Lubelskie, Poland. She was an actress and writer, known for Behind Convent Walls (1978), La Jetée (1962) and Spotkania (1957). She was married to Walerian Borowczyk. She died on 6 September 2022 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Composer
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Jan A. P. Kaczmarek is a composer with a tremendous international reputation that continues to grow. As a successful recording artist and touring musician, Jan turned to composing film scores as his primary occupation. Jan's first success in the United States came in theater. After composing striking scores for productions at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, Jan won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for his music for the New York Shakespeare Festival's 1992 production of John Ford's "Tis Pity She's A Whore," directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, starring Val Kilmer and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Newsday wrote that Jan's score "undulates with hypnotic force that gets under your skin," while Frank Rich of the New York Times found it worthy of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci and Luchino Visconti. Educated as a lawyer, he abandoned his planned career as a diplomat, for political reasons, to write music in order to finally gain freedom of expression. First he composed for the highly politicized underground theater, and then for a mini-orchestra of his own creation, "The Orchestra of the Eighth Day". The major turning point in his life, he says, was a period of intense study with avant-garde theater director, Jerzy Grotowski. "Playing and composing was like a religion for me," Kaczmarek explains, "and then it became a profession." "The Orchestra of the Eighth Day" began touring Europe in the late 1970's and to date, has completed eighteen major tours. They appeared at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the VPRO Radio International Contemporary Music Festival in Amsterdam,the Venice Biennale, and the International Music Festival in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, where Jan won the Golden Spring Prize for the Best Composition. He is a five-time winner in Jazz Forum's Jazz Top Poll. At the end of the Orchestra's first American tour in 1982, Kaczmarek recorded his debut album, Music for the End, for the Chicago-based major independent Flying Fish Records. Jan returned to America in 1989 to find a label for his latest composition for the Orchestra. Jan stayed in the United States where he expanded his horizons by composing for theater as he had already done in Poland with great success, capped by two prestigious New York theater awards in 1992. Having also composed music for films in Poland, he focused his attention to that medium, achieving recognition as a film composer with scores to such films as "Total Eclipse", "Bliss", "Washington Square", "Aimée & Jaguar", "The Third Miracle", "Lost Souls", "Edges of the Lord", "Quo Vadis" and Adrian Lyne's "Unfaithful."
February 2005, Jan won his first Oscar for Best Original Score on Marc Forster's highly acclaimed film, "Finding Neverland."
Jan also won The National Review Board's award for Best Score of the Year, and was nominated for both a Golden Globe and BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.In addition to his work in films, Jan is also setting up an Institute inspired by the Sundance Institute, in his home country of Poland, as a European center for development of new work in the areas of film, theatre, music and new media. The Institute website (currently under construction) is: www.rozbitek.org. It is anticipated that Rozbitek will begin accepting students in 2006.- Actor
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Marian Kociniak was born on 11 January 1936 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Pan Tadeusz (1999), Television Theater (1953) and How I Unleashed World War II (1970). He was married to Grazyna Kociniak. He died on 17 March 2016 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Production Designer
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Adam Kilian was born on 13 February 1923 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Television Theater (1953), Król Macius I (1958) and Dekalog (1989). He died on 25 June 2016 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Ignacy Machowski was born on 5 July 1920 in Rzeszów, Podkarpackie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Night Train (1959) and Zbrodniarz i panna (1963). He died on 11 January 2001 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Ryszard Bugajski began his career working with Andrzej Wajda at Studio X in the late 70's. When he was pressured by the secret police to become an informant at the Studio, Bugajski vowed to try and bring down the Communist regime. To that end he shot his first feature film, "Interrogation", as society crumbled around him during the Solidarity uprisings. A scathing attack against the system, "Interrogation" was completed in secret during martial law. Banned by the authorities, the film was watched illegally by millions of Poles on newly acquired VCRs.
Persecuted by the secret police and banned from working, Bugajski and his wife fled to Canada in 1985, where he quickly learned English and got work directing television series and films.
On the fall of Communism in Poland, "Interrogation" became the official Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or, and its leading actress Krystyna Janda won Best Actress for her stunning performance.
Bugajski returned to his homeland in 1995 where he has been making feature films, documentaries, television series and television features. He has also published several novels and continues to receive awards at film festivals. In 2009, Bugajski made his acclaimed feature film, General Nil, and in 2013 "The Closed Circuit" opened to both critical acclaim and commercial success in Poland.- Ewa Salacka was born on 3 May 1957 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Pierwsza milosc (2004), Curse of Snakes Valley (1988) and Poverie za beliya vyatar (1990). She was married to Krzysztof Krauze and Witold Kirstein. She died on 23 July 2006 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Marek Walczewski was born on 9 April 1937 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Tin Drum (1979), Stranger (2004) and Death of a President (1977). He was married to Malgorzata Niemirska. He died on 26 May 2009 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Krzysztof Komeda was born on 27 April 1931 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a composer and actor, known for Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Knife in the Water (1962). He was married to Zofia von Tittenbrun. He died on 23 April 1969 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Wladyslaw Kowalski was a Polish actor and pedagogue. He graduated from the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw in 1959. His debut role was Chuch in the play "Hat Full of Rain" by Michael V. Gazzo, directed by Andrzej Wajda, at the Wybrzeze Theatre in Gdansk. He then performed on the stages of Warsaw theaters: Ateneum (1960-1974) and Powszechny (1974-2005). From 2005, he was an actor of the Gustaw Holoubek Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw. In the 80s, he was an academic teacher at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw. He is known for his roles in the movies Kartka z podrózy (1984), The Double Life of Véronique (1991), and Avalon (2001).
- Henryk Bista was born on 12 March 1934 in Kochlowice, Ruda Slaska, Slaskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989), Schindler's List (1993) and Curse of Snakes Valley (1988). He was married to Urszula Mordzewska. He died on 8 October 1997 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Ludwik Sempolinski was born on 18 August 1899 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Pietro wyzej (1937), O czym sie nie mówi... (1939) and Sygnaly (1938). He died on 17 April 1981 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Andrzej Blumenfeld was born on 12 August 1951 in Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Delivery Man (2013), The Pianist (2002) and Mute (2018). He died on 14 August 2017 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Danuta Szaflarska was born on 6 February 1915 in Kosarzyska, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kosarzyska, Piwniczna-Zdrój, Malopolskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Time to Die (2007), Diably, diably (1991) and Pozegnanie z Maria (1993). She was married to Janusz Kilanski and Jan Ekier. She died on 19 February 2017 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Tadeusz Konwicki was born on 22 June 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie, Poland [now Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a writer and director, known for Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989), Dolina Issy (1982) and The Last Day of Summer (1958). He was married to Danuta Konwicka. He died on 7 January 2015 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Teresa Tuszynska was born on 5 September 1942 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Prague Nights (1969), Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960) and Drugi czlowiek (1961). She died on 19 March 1997 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont was born on 7 May 1867 in Kobiele Wielkie, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kobiele Wielkie, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Chlopi (1922), Ziemia obiecana (1927) and Komediantka (1987). He was married to Aurelia Szablowska. He died on 5 December 1925 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Witold Pyrkosz was born on 24 December 1926 in Krasnystaw, Lubelskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Cien (1956), M jak milosc (2000) and Vabank (1981). He was married to Krystyna and Ewa Bilewska. He died on 22 April 2017 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Anna Ciepielewska was born on 7 January 1936 in Ostróg, Wolynskie, Poland [now Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Orzel i reszka (1975), Dluga noc (1967) and Taranthriller (1997). She died on 20 May 2006 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz was born on 14 May 1921 in Postawy, Wilenskie, Poland [now Pastavy, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Deluge (1974), W pustyni i w puszczy (1973) and Ostatni strzal (1959). He was married to Zofia Komorowska-Jasiukiewicz. He died on 27 June 1973 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Wieslaw Golas was born on 4 October 1930 in Kielce, Swietokrzyskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Cien (1956), Lalka (1968) and The Deluge (1974). He died on 9 September 2021 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Wieslaw Michnikowski was born on 3 June 1922 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Sexmission (1984), Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963) and Zona dla Australijczyka (1964). He was married to Maria Aniela Sobieszek. He died on 29 September 2017 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Anna German was a Polish pop-singer of the German origin (her surname has nothing in common with her ethnic origin - this is a purely casual coincidence in English only; the Polish word for "German" is niemiecki (m), niemiecka (f), niemiec "a German man", niemka "a German lady", Niemcy "Germans", "Germany" etc.). She was born in the Soviet Union. Her parents as well as other Soviet Germans, were banished to Central Asia after the Nazi Germany had attacked the USSR. Her father was killed in the labor camp. During the war her mother married a Pole and moved to Poland after World War II had been over. Anna German's main profession is geologist. She became a pop singer in the early 1960s after winning a song competition at University of Wroclaw where she was studying. In August 1967 she was badly injured in the road accident (car crash) in Italy. The process of her rehabilitation lasted three years until in 1970 she started singing again. She was popular both in Poland and in the USSR. The cause of her death in the age of 46 is cancer, which is in no way bound with the road accident as many people mistakenly suppose.- Director
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Ewa Petelska was born on 24 December 1920 in Pyzdry, Wielkopolskie, Poland. She was a director and writer, known for Black Wings (1963), The Artillery Sergeant Kalen (1961) and Kopernik (1973). She was married to Czeslaw Petelski. She died on 20 August 2013 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Actor
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Krzysztof Kowalewski was born on 20 March 1937 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Nigdy w zyciu! (2003), Ja wam pokaze! (2007) and With Fire and Sword (1999). He was married to Agnieszka Suchora and Vivian Rodriguez. He died on 6 February 2021 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Jerzy Andrzejewski was born on 19 August 1909 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Innocent Sorcerers (1960) and Gates to Paradise (1968). He was married to Maria Abgarowicz and Nona Barbara Siekierzynska. He died on 19 April 1983 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Wojciech Pokora was born on 2 October 1934 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for Rozrywka po staropolsku (1985), Lalka (1978) and Palace Hotel (1977). He was married to Hanna Pokora. He died on 4 February 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Gustaw Holoubek was born on April 21, 1923. He was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator. Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Poland. His father was a Czech immigrant who settled in Poland after the First World War, and his mother was Polish. Holoubek had his first role as an actor in 1947, thus beginning his lifelong career in theatre and film in Poland and abroad. His political career began in 1976, when he was elected to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament. He was re-elected in 1980, but resigned in 1981 when martial law was declared. In 1989, he was elected to the Senate, the upper house. That same year, he took a position as a professor at the Academy of Theatre in Warsaw. Holoubek was a recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Knight's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Grand Cross). He was married to Magdalena Zawadzka, Danuta Kwiatkowska and Maria Wachowiak. He died on March 6, 2008 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz was born on 25 March 1926 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Zaczarowany rower (1955), Niedaleko Warszawy (1954) and Theatre Macabre (1971). She was married to Gustaw Lutkiewicz. She died on 20 April 2021 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Actor
- Casting Department
Igo Sym was born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1896. Before working as an actor he served from 1918-1921 in the Polish army. After working in silent films he was engaged by the theater in Warsaw, where he often appeared with his "Singing Saw".
When in 1939 the Germans ran over Poland, Sym started to collaborate with them. At this time many Polish people where head-hunted, and many of them where celebrities. Sym worked for the Gestapo and trapped some of these searched people (among them was the famous singer Hanka Ordonówna). When the Polish underground-gouvernment found out about Sym's contacts with the Gestapo, he was executed in his apartment on March 7th 1941.- Leonard Pietraszak was born on 6 November 1936 in Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Królowa Bona (1980), Vabank (1981) and Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwillówny (1983). He was married to Wanda Majerówna. He died on 1 February 2023 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Andrzej Szalawski was born on 4 December 1911 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Girls of Nowolipki (1937), The Promised Land (1975) and Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960). He died on 11 October 1986 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Barbara Ludwizanka was born on 24 January 1908 in Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Sublokator (1966), Sexmission (1984) and Igraszki pieniadza (1930). She died on 26 October 1990 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.