Jadwiga Barańska

Jadwiga Barańska ( born October 21, 1935 in Łódź) is a Polish actress, director and screenwriter. A wide audience was the theater and film actress best known for her decades- long collaboration with Jerzy Antczak, which it established, among others, as the lead actress in his award- winning feature films Countess Cosel and nights and days ( 1975).

Biography

Jadwiga Barańska studied at the State Higher School of Theatre ( PWSTiF ) in Łódź. In 1958 she finished her acting training and was from 1959 to 1966 member of the ensemble of the "Classic Theater " ( Teatrze Klasycznym ) in Warsaw. There she acted in plays like Gabryela Zapolskas The moral of the woman or Dulski in the title role of Lodoiska. 1966 moved Barańska at the Warsaw "Polish theater " ( Teatr Polski ), where she was seen until 1972 with success in several plays.

In addition to her work in the theater celebrated Barańska 1957 her feature film debut with a supporting role in Ewa and Czeslaw Petelskas Petelskis Romance wrecks in which Zbigniew Cybulski took over the lead role. Three years later she appeared for the first time, directed by Jerzy Antczak in Przechadzka między dobrem i zlem (1961 ), the implementation of Michał Choromańskis work the same for the Polish Television Theatre ( Teatr Telewizji ). Then Barańska worked increasingly with Antczak, who staged many classics of world literature for television and with whom she also took private happiness. She took on, among other starring roles in Honoré de Balzac's Goriot ( Ojciec Goriot, 1962), the role of Laura in Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie ( Szklana menażeria, 1963), the Lavinia in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra ( žaloba przystoi Elektrze, 1965) and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters ( Trzy siostry, 1968). International success on the big screen was in 1968 granted her, when she took over the title role in Jerzy Antczaks costume drama Countess Cosel. The part of the beloved of August the Strong (played by Mariusz Dmochowski ) earned her the 1969 Best Actor Award of the International Film Festival, Phnom Penh.

To surpass this success was Barańska 1975 with the main female role in Antczaks nights and days. In the film adaptation of Mary Dąbrowskas four-part family saga, the actress slipped together with Jerzy Bińczycki in the role of a Polish couple who witnessed the political, social and economic transformation of Poland from January Uprising in 1863 until the First World War. The drama, dubbed by critics as a Polish counterpart to Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, was awarded in 1976 an invitation to the competition of the 26th Berlin Film Festival, where Barańska was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress of the film festival. For her portrayal of Barbara Niechcic the competition jury, led by the Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz the 31- year-olds in preference to such well-known actresses as the American Geraldine Chaplin ( Buffalo Bill and the Indians ) or the French Miou - Miou (F as Fairbanks ) had given. Barańska was the first Polish actress who could triumph in Berlin. A year later nights and days for the Oscar nominated as Best Foreign Language Film, but had opposite Jean -Jacques Annaud's longing for Africa in the cold.

Awarded several times by her performance in nights and days in Poland, including in 1975 with the Golden Cross of Merit of the country, Barańska left in the late 1970s with her husband Jerzy Antczak the socialist homeland and emigrated to the United States. There Antczak worked as a professor of film and television at the University of California (UCLA ) in Los Angeles.

In the early 1990s, the couple returned back to Poland. Barańska supported from then on her husband as co- screenwriter of the television version of Humphrey Cobb's Paths of Glory ( Ścieżki chwały ) and Dama kameliowa (both 1995), a Polish remake of Alexandre Dumas ' The Lady of the Camellias with Anna Radwan and Jan Frycz in the lead roles. A year later, she was involved in screenwriting and directing television film adaptation of Antczaks Cezar i Pompejusz (1996 ) by Henry de Montherlant. Your previous last movie role she took over in 2002 under the direction of her husband in Chopin - Desire for Love ( 2002). In the award-winning film biography of Frederic Chopin (played by Piotr Adamczyk ) she acted as a mother of well-known composers and was again written and directed jointly responsible.

2008 Jadwiga Barańska was honored with the Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit in gold by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Filmography

Actress

Director

Screenwriter

Awards

International Film Festival Berlin

Phnom Penh International Film Festival

Polish Film Festival Gdynia

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