Aktorka

Overview

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

Directed by Kinga Dębska, Maria Konwicka

Top cast

David Margulies

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Andrzej Wajda

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Annette Insdorf

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Małgorzata Potocka

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Michał Kott

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Beata Tyszkiewicz

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Robert Brustein

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Liliana Komorowska

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Daniel Olbrychski

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Nita Weissman Okamoto

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Bernard Weissman

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Barbara Ungeheuer

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Magdalena Komorek

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Gay Talese

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Nancy Weber

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Adam Holender

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Meryl Streep

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John Guare

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Joanna Rostropowicz Clark

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Julia Ain Krupa

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