Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

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Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (2015)

Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (born February 15, 1951 in Danzig ; actually Aleksandra Jankowska-Cieślak ) is a Polish actress. The theater actress has appeared in over 40 film and television roles, mostly dramas, since the early 1970s. For Károly Makks and János Xantus ' feature film The Other View (1982) she received the Acting Award at the Cannes International Film Festival .

Life

Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak took acting lessons from Jadwiga Marso after finishing school . She studied at the State University of Theater (PWST) in Warsaw from 1972 to 1973 and made her stage debut in 1973. While Jankowska-Cieślak had been part of the ensemble of the Dramatic Theater in Warsaw since 1972, she began to appear in film productions parallel to her theater career. In 1972 she made her film debut in This love must be killed by Janusz Morgenstern , who was banned from the West by the Warsaw authorities for six years. In the ironic, socially critical story, she can be seen as a young and hopeless nurse who is neither successful in her job nor in love. Other film and television roles followed, including Krzysztof Zanussis and Edward Żebrowskis Nachtdienst (1975). Her breakthrough as a film actress came in 1977 when she appeared in Andrzej Kostenko's melodrama With Yourself. The role of sociology student Ania, who gets lost in the fashion world, brought Jankowska-Cieślak the actor's award at the Polish film festival Gdynia in the same year .

The Polish artist became known to a global audience through her collaboration with Károly Makk and János Xantus . The two Hungarian film directors entrusted her with the lead role of the dedicated journalist Eva in their drama Another View in 1982 . Settled before the aftermath of the Hungarian popular uprising , Eva, who was not very loyal to the regime , tries to expose political grievances and falls in love with her married work colleague Livia (played by the Polish Grażyna Szapołowska ). However, the budding love affair is destroyed by Livia's jealous husband, who shoots his wife while Eva is killed trying to leave Hungary across the Yugoslav border. The film, which is based on a true story, won Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak the favor of international critics. The New York Times praised her for her "tough, indestructible demeanor, which also contained a mischievous and seductive side" and The Other View brought her as the first Polish actress the actor's award at the Cannes Film Festival , where she competed against such renowned colleagues as Sissy Spacek ( Missing ) or Glenda Jackson ( Shadow of the Past ) triumphed. She worked with János Xantus again four years later in Hülyeség nem akadály (1986), one of the few comedies in which Jankowska-Cieślak appeared, but neither with this film nor with Maciej Dejczer's 300 Miles to Heaven did she match her earlier successes tie in. In Dejczer's drama, she mimes a mother who fled to Denmark with her child from communist Poland .

In addition to her film career, Jankowska-Cieślak made regular appearances on Polish theater stages. From 1972 to 1983, from 1987 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2008 she was a member of the ensemble at the Dramatic Theater in Warsaw. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Warsaw Teatr Ateneum . Further engagements took her to the Nowy Theater in Łódź (1988–1990) and the Great Theater in Warsaw (1990–1994). At the end of the 1990s, Mirosław Dembiński's drama Wezwanie was again successful in Polish cinema, followed by other critical successes such as Małgorzata Szumowska's Szczęśliwy człowiek (2001) or Michał Rosa's Co słonko widziało (2006). In 2008 Jankowska-Cieślak worked again with Rosa on Rysa , in which she worked alongside Krzysztof Stroiński . The psychodrama, which is based on real events, focuses on a Krakow university teacher who realizes that the Polish State Security established the woman's happy marriage more than 40 years ago. In 2009 she was awarded the Polish Film Prize for the first time for the part of Joanna Kocjan .

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

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: This love must be killed (Trzeba zabić tę miłość)
  • 1974: Fates on the Way of the Cross (Nagrody i odznaczenia)
  • 1977: Alone (Sam na sam)
  • 1977: Madame Bovary, that's me (Pani Bovary to ja)
  • 1982: The Other Look (Egymásra nézve)
  • 1989: 300 miles to heaven (300 mil do nieba)
  • 1996: Wezwanie
  • 1998: Paula and happiness
  • 2000: Szczęśliwy człowiek
  • 2005: Oda do radości
  • 2006: Co słonko widziało
  • 2008: Rysa
  • 2009: The sweet flag (Tatarak)
  • 2009: Demakijaż
  • 2011: Instynkt (TV series; episode: Wiatr we wlosach )

Awards

Polish film award

Polish Film Festival Gdynia

  • 1977: Best Actress for With Yourself
  • 1997: Best Actress for Wezwanie
  • 2008: Honorable Mention for Rysa

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 1982: Best Actress for The Other Look

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1978, p. 255 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Janet Maslin : 'Another' Hungarian . In: New York Times , September 25, 1982
  3. ↑ Ralf Schenk: Homeless people in the offside trap . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 2009, Kulturkalender, p. K02
personal data
SURNAME Jankowska-Cieślak, Jadwiga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jankowska, Jadwiga; Jankowska-Cieslak, Jadwiga; Jankowska-Ciéslak, Jadwiga; Cieślak-Jankowska, Jadwiga; Jankowska-Cieślak, Aleksandra (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig