Lucyna Winnicka

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Lucyna Winnicka (born July 14, 1928 in Warsaw ; † January 22, 2013 ) was a Polish theater and film actress . She also dealt with alternative medicine .

Life

After graduating from the Tadeusz Reytan Lyceum in Warsaw, she studied law at the University of Warsaw . Then she studied at the Warsaw Theater School . She married the film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz . Since 1954, she mostly played leading roles in her husband's films. Her roles in the films Nachtzug (1959, awarded a prize at the Venice Film Festival ) and Mother Johanna von den Engeln (1960) were particularly significant . For her role in “Mother Johanna von den Engeln” she was awarded the Étoile de Cristal as best foreign actress in France in 1962 . She also performed in the theaters of Szczecin and Warsaw. She played one of the roles in the Polish film series "Seconds Decide" from 1967–1968 (Polish Stawka większa niż życie). In 1977 she played her last film role.

Since then she has been engaged in alternative medicine and has written two books: “W poczekalni nieba” (In the waiting room of heaven - conversations about life and death) and “Podróż dookoła świętej krowy” (A journey around the sacred cow). She founded the "Academy of Life", where she taught unconventional healing methods, philosophy and Far Eastern medicine. She also worked for the weekly “Przekrój”.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1954: One man's way; aka Under the Phrygian Star (Pod gwiazdą frygijską)
  • 1957: The real end of the great war (Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny)
  • 1959: Night train (Pociąg)
  • 1960: The Crusaders (Krzyżacy)
  • 1960: Spaceship Venus does not answer
  • 1961: Mother Johanna von der Engeln (Matka Joanna od Aniołów)
  • 1966: Pharaoh (Faraon)
  • 1967–1968: Seconds Decide (Stawka większa niż życie) (TV series)
  • 1970: A love film (Szerelmesfilm)
  • 1973: Through and through (Na wylot)
  • 1973: Feuerwehrgasse 25 (Tűzoltó utca 25.)
  • 1975: Interim balance sheet (Bilans kwartalny)
  • 1981: Index (Indeks)

literature

  • Lucyna Winnicka: Podróż dookoła świętej krowy. Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Katowitz 1986, ISBN 83-03-01549-4 , (with a preface by Julian Aleksandrowicz).
  • Lucyna Winnicka: W poczekalni nieba: rozmowy o życiu i śmierci. Iskry, Warsaw 1999, ISBN 83-207-1590-3 , (with pictures by Jerzy Duda-Gracz ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucyna Winnicka never żyje
personal data
SURNAME Winnicka, Lucyna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2013