Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

Jadwiga Jankowska - Cieślak (* February 15, 1951 in Gdansk; actually Aleksandra Jankowska - Cieślak ) is a Polish actress. The stage actress appeared since the early 1970s in over 40 film and television roles, mostly dramas in appearance. For Károly Makk and János Xantus ' feature film The Other View ( 1982), she received the Best Actor Award at the International Film Festival of Cannes.

Life

Jadwiga Jankowska - Cieślak took after leaving school acting classes with Jadwiga Marso. She studied from 1972 to 1973 at the National Academy for Theatre ( PWST ) in Warsaw in 1973 and celebrated her stage debut. While Jankowska - Cieślak since 1972 belonged to the ensemble of the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, she began her theater career in parallel to act in movie productions. In 1972, she made ​​her film debut in This love must be killed by Janusz Morgenstern, who has been banned from the Warsaw authorities for six years with the West. In the ironic and critical social history, it is seen as a young and hopeless nurse who is still granted neither professional success in love. Other film and television roles followed, including Krzysztof Zanussi and Edward Żebrowskis night service ( 1975). His breakthrough as a film actress marked the year 1977, when she appeared with himself in Andrzej: gratis melodrama alone. The part of a sociology student Ania, who loses in the fashion world, brought Jankowska - Cieślak in the same year the Best Actor Award at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia one.

A worldwide audience became known as the Polish artist by working with Károly Makk and János Xantus. The two Hungarian film directors trusted her 1982, the main role of the committed journalist Eva in her drama Another look at. Located in front of the aftermath of the Hungarian uprising, the little -regime political grievances Eva tries to uncover and falls in love with her ​​married co-worker Livia (played by the Polish Grazyna Szapolowska ). The budding love relationship is destroyed by Livia's jealous husband who guns down his wife while Eva comes when trying killed to leave Hungary on the Yugoslav border. Through the film, which is based on a true story, Jadwiga Jankowska - Cieślak won the favor of international critics. The New York Times praised her for her " tough, indestructible occurrence, which contains also a sly and seductive side " and the other overlooking brought her the first Polish actress the Best Actor Award at the Film Festival of Cannes, where they face such renowned colleagues such as Sissy Spacek ( Missing ) or Glenda Jackson ( shadows of the Past ) triumphed. With János Xantus it four years later worked again in Hülyeség nem akadály (1986 ) together, one of the few comedies that occurred in the Jankowska - Cieślak, but neither this film nor with Maciej Dejczers 300 miles to heaven she could to the earlier successes build. In Dejczers drama she played a mother who flees with her child from communist Poland to Denmark.

In addition to her career in film Jankowska - Cieślak appeared regularly on Polish theater stages in appearance. She was from 1972 until 1983 and from 1987 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2008 member of the ensemble at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Warsaw Teatr Ateneum. Other engagements have taken her to the Nowy Theatre in Łódź (1988-1990) and at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw ( 1990-1994). In the late 1990s presented with Miroslaw Dembinskis Drama Wezwanie again the success of the Polish cinema one, the other critics successes as Małgorzata Szumowskas Szczęśliwy człowiek (2001) or Michał Rosa Co słonko widziało (2006) followed. 2008 Jankowska - Cieślak reunited with Rosa Rysa in which it acts on the side of Krzysztof Stroinski. The psychological drama based on true events, is a Cracow University teacher at the center, which must recognize that the Polish State Security has donated the happy marriage of the woman more than 40 years ago. For the part of Joanna KOCJAN it was first time in 2009 awarded the Polish Film Award.

Jadwiga Jankowska - 2007 Cieślak solemnly the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Knight's Cross ) was awarded. In 2009 she received the Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Merit in gold as Honored Polish culture.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Polish Film Awards

• 2002: nominated for Best Actress for Szczęśliwy człowiek
• 2007: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Co słonko widziało
• 2009: Best Actress for Rysa

Polish Film Festival Gdynia

International Film Festival of Cannes