Helena Makowska
Helena Makowska , actually Elena Woyniewicz , (born March 2, 1893 in Krivoy Rog , Russia , † August 22, 1964 in Rome ) was a Polish actress .
Life
The daughter of the Polish engineer Ludwik Woyniewicz and his wife Stanislawa geb. In 1903 Sauret moved with his parents from Ukraine, where her father worked for a mining company, to Warsaw. There she attended high school and received her first theater roles.
Helena Makowska went to Milan in 1912, where she became known as a stage actress. She had similar successes in Italian silent films. From 1917 to 1922 she lived in Rome, after which she settled in Munich. She played important roles in several German silent films, but had to leave Germany as a Polish citizen in 1925. She then mostly commuted between Poland and Italy and had stage appearances in Milan, Warsaw and Krakow. During this time there was an alleged affair with the Italian Crown Prince Umberto .
After the Wehrmacht marched into Poland, she was arrested by the Gestapo in Warsaw on November 17, 1939 and deported to Berlin in 1940 as a British citizen. As part of a prisoner exchange, she was only released in April 1943, after which she settled in England. There she played in the theater ensemble of the Polish Army, with whom she later made guest appearances in France, Belgium and Northern Germany. From 1947 she lived again in Rome, teaching foreign languages and taking on small film roles.
Her first husband became the lawyer Julian Makowski in 1909, her second at the beginning of the twenties the Austrian actor Karl Falkenberg . A few years later in Italy she married the Englishman Botteril.
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: Romanticismo
- 1916: La gioconda
- 1916: La fiaccola sotto il moggio
- 1916: Stracetto
- 1916: Eva nemica
- 1917: Lucciola
- 1917: Tormento
- 1917: Caino
- 1918: Folgore
- 1919: Centocelle
- 1921: La verità nuda
- 1922: Dying Peoples. 1. Home in need; 2. Burning sea
- 1922: Maciste and the daughter of the Silver King
- 1923: quarantine
- 1923: The last sensation of the Farini circus
- 1923: women's morality / shame
- 1924: The horror of the sea
- 1924: Blond Hannele
- 1924: love life
- 1924: Modern marriages
- 1924: The last four seconds of Quidam Uhl
- 1924: The circus diva
- 1924: Taras Bulba. 1. The daughter of the voivod; 2. Cossack end
- 1924: Women in the Swamp / Judith
- 1925: The shot in the pavilion
- 1926: The Secret of an Hour
- 1926: Czerwony blaze
- 1927: Kochanka Szamoty
- 1948: Fabiola
- 1951: Quo vadis?
- 1954: La valigia del sogni
- 1954: The Barefoot Countess ( The Barefoot Contessa )
- 1958: Arrividerci Firenze!
literature
- Jerzy Maśnicki, Kamil Stepan: Helena Makowska. In: Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph . Lexicon for German-language films. Delivery 25. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 1995 (Loseblatt edition).
Web links
- Helena Makowska in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Helena Makowska at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Makowska, Helena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woyniewicz, Elena (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krivoy Rog , Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd August 1964 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |