Anna Prucnal

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Anna Prucnal (born December 17, 1940 in Warsaw ) is a Polish - French actress and singer .

Life

Anna Prucnal began performing as an actress and singer in the student cabaret STS while studying music in Warsaw. At the beginning of the 1960s she made her first films, which she then brought to socialist countries abroad. Films were made in Bulgaria and the GDR .

Since the early 1970s, she has been in a relationship with the French television editor Jean Maillaud , who initially visited her regularly in Poland and eventually married her. Prucnal's participation in Dušan Makavejev's controversial film Sweet Movie led to forced exile by the Polish government in 1974. The exile then emigrated to Paris . Here she continued her film career with some very revealing roles and began a successful chanson career with appearances at the Paris Olympia , tours all over the world and theater works in France. She is still a very popular chanson interpreter, especially in French-speaking countries. She brought Alfred Biolek to Germany at the end of the 1970s , where she appeared on his show Bio's Bahnhof .

She was only allowed to re-enter Poland in 1989 when François Mitterrand and Françoise Sagan invited her to accompany him on a state visit to Warsaw. Her concerts on this trip were enthusiastically received by the Polish audience.

Filmography (selection)

• 1963: The New Year's Adventure (Przygoda noworoczna) - Director: Stanisław Wohl
• 1964: The Flying Dutchman - Director: Joachim Herz
• 1966: Journey to the Marriage Bed - Director: Joachim Hasler
• 1968: Routes across the country - Director: Martin Eckermann
• 1970: On the way to Lenin - Director: Günter Reisch
• 1974: Sweet Movie - Director: Dušan Makavejev
• 1980: Fellini's City of Women (La città delle donne) - Director: Federico Fellini
• 1994: The Crows (Wrony) - Director: Dorota Kędzierzawska

Web links

Commons : Anna Prucnal  - Collection of Pictures

• Anna Prucnal in theInternet Movie Database(English)