Aktorka

The story

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

Cast

D David MarguliesSelf A Andrzej WajdaSelf A Annette InsdorfSelf M Małgorzata PotockaSelf M Michał KottSelf B Beata TyszkiewiczSelf R Robert BrusteinSelf L Liliana KomorowskaSelf D Daniel OlbrychskiSelf N Nita Weissman OkamotoSelf B Bernard WeissmanSelf B Barbara UngeheuerSelf

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M Magdalena KomorekSelf G Gay TaleseSelf N Nancy WeberSelf A Adam HolenderSelf M Meryl StreepSelf (archive footage) J John GuareSelf J Joanna Rostropowicz ClarkSelf J Julia Ain KrupaSelf M Michał UrbaniakSelf O Omar SangareSelf M Myra PaciSelf M Mac WellmanSelf H Hanna HartowiczSelf T Teodor ZarębaSelf C Carol MondaSelf P Perri YanivSelf B Barbara SassSelf K Krystyna CzubównaVoiceover (voice) E Elżbieta CzyżewskaSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) B Bohdan Łazuka(archive footage) (uncredited) K Krystyna Janda(archive footage) (uncredited) D Dorota StalińskaEwa Orzechowska (archive footage) (uncredited)