Pola Raksa

Apolonia "Pola" Raksa (born April 14, 1941 in Lida , USSR ) is a Polish actress .

Life

Pola Raska is a Polish actress and singer and a 1960s cinema star. The pale blonde artist with light blue eyes had studied philology in Breslau and gained her first acting experience at a student theater. At the end of the 1950s, Raksa was discovered by a photographer in a Polish milk bar and then photographed in a girls' magazine. Just 19 years old, Pola Raksa was brought in front of the camera by the director Maria Kaniewska and given the female lead in the mystery thriller " The Devil of the 10th Grade ". From then on, the attractive Polish woman was regularly cast in Polish films, and she became one of the most popular actresses of the 1960s. At the same time she took care of her artistic training and attended the State Film School in Łódź until 1964 in order to perfect her acting skills.

Pola Raksa has enjoyed success in contemporary everyday stories as well as in melodramas, comedies and historical epics. She received special attention, also abroad, in the middle of the decade with the two films “ The Handwriting of Saragossa ” and “ Legionaries ”. Film offers from the “socialist brother countries” also took them to the Soviet Union and Hungary. At the same time, Pola Raksa began to play theater, making her debut on a professional stage on March 6, 1964. Until 1968, she had a permanent engagement at the Powszechny Theater in Lodz. In 1968 Pola Raksa moved to Warsaw's Współczesny Theater.

In the course of the 1970s, the actress gradually withdrew from film and was a little forgotten. Between 1965 and 1979 Pola Raksa received a wealth of prizes, awards and honors of national and international provenance. In 1997 she ended her stage career, and a year later she also worked in film. Pola Raksa then worked on costume designs and also wrote newspaper columns on this topic.

Filmography

• 1960: The devil of the 10th grade (Szatan z siódmej klasy)
• 1960: Reality (Rzeczywistość)
• 1962: Kawalerów Club
• 1963: Everyday life in a marriage (Ich dzień powszedni)
• 1963: The demolished bridge (Zerwany most)
• 1963: The reason for divorce (Rozwodów nie będzie)
• 1964: Beata
• 1964: Panienka z okienka
• 1964: The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
• 1965: Legionaries (Popioły)
• 1966: Nocturno (Nocturn)
• 1966: Zosia
• 1967: The blackmailer in shorts (Bicz boży)
• 1967: Paris - Warsaw without a visa (Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy)
• 1968: Przygoda z piosenką
• 1969: Pogoń za Adamem
• 1966–1970: Four tank soldiers and a dog (Czterej pancerni i pies) (TV series)
• 1974: Snowfall (Hószakadás)
• 1975: Oszlopos Simeon
• 1978: Aria for an athlete (Aria dla atlety)
• 1980: Nothing stands in the way (Nic nie stoi na przeszkodzie)
• 1982: Elveszett illúziók
• 1986: Tulipan (TV movie)
• 1993: The Abduction of Agata (Uprowadzenie Agaty)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 395.

Web links

• Pola Raksa in the Internet Movie Database (English)