Annette Insdorf with Andrzej Wajda at his home in July, 2014 Photo: Hanna Hartowicz
Annette Insdorf , the author of Francois Truffaut; Indelible Shadows: Film and Holocaust, Philip Kaufman; and Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski recalls meeting Andrzej Wajda for the first time in 1974 when he was directing Elzbieta Czyzewska (star of Wajda's Everything For Sale) in Albert Camus’s adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel The Possessed at the Yale Repertory Theater with Meryl Streep and playwright Christopher Durang among the cast.
Andrzej Wajda's Afterimage is Poland's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Annette, is also a Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts and moderator of the Telluride Film Festival where Wajda was honored in 1983. She shares with us her personal encounters with this great artist who left his indelible mark on the world.
"Maybe it's because I...
Annette Insdorf , the author of Francois Truffaut; Indelible Shadows: Film and Holocaust, Philip Kaufman; and Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski recalls meeting Andrzej Wajda for the first time in 1974 when he was directing Elzbieta Czyzewska (star of Wajda's Everything For Sale) in Albert Camus’s adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel The Possessed at the Yale Repertory Theater with Meryl Streep and playwright Christopher Durang among the cast.
Andrzej Wajda's Afterimage is Poland's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Annette, is also a Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts and moderator of the Telluride Film Festival where Wajda was honored in 1983. She shares with us her personal encounters with this great artist who left his indelible mark on the world.
"Maybe it's because I...
- 10/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze and Annette Insdorf
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Polish film star forced into exile by the communist authorities
By the mid-1960s Elzbieta Czyzewska, who has died aged 72, was considered one of the brightest stars of film, theatre and television in Poland. However, she became persona non grata in her own country, only a few months after she was celebrated as the "pride of her generation" on the cover of a Polish magazine.
In 1965 she was appearing in a Warsaw production of Arthur Miller's autobiographical play After the Fall, in the role apparently based on Marilyn Monroe. In the audience was the American journalist David Halberstam, a correspondent for the New York Times, who had interviewed Czyzewska the day before. The pair married that year but Halberstam was expelled from Poland by the authorities for writing articles that criticised the communist regime. The government also condemned Czyzewska for marrying a "Zionist intellectual", and she left to join...
By the mid-1960s Elzbieta Czyzewska, who has died aged 72, was considered one of the brightest stars of film, theatre and television in Poland. However, she became persona non grata in her own country, only a few months after she was celebrated as the "pride of her generation" on the cover of a Polish magazine.
In 1965 she was appearing in a Warsaw production of Arthur Miller's autobiographical play After the Fall, in the role apparently based on Marilyn Monroe. In the audience was the American journalist David Halberstam, a correspondent for the New York Times, who had interviewed Czyzewska the day before. The pair married that year but Halberstam was expelled from Poland by the authorities for writing articles that criticised the communist regime. The government also condemned Czyzewska for marrying a "Zionist intellectual", and she left to join...
- 7/7/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Polish Actress Czyzewska Dies
Polish film and TV star Elzbieta Czyzewska has lost her battle with esophageal cancer. She was 72.
Czyzewska died at a Manhattan, New York hospital on Thursday.
She rose to fame as a national sex symbol in Poland after starring in 1961 film Erotica and became the most popular actress in the country during the 1960s.
She starred in a critically acclaimed Polish production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, but her career took a turn after her marriage to the American journalist David Halberstam made her an outcast in her home country, when he was accused of slander against the government.
The couple was expelled from Poland and fled to the U.S., where Czyzewska established herself as a stage actress, including a starring role in a 1974 production of The Possessed, alongside a then-unknown Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang.
On film, her credits included smaller roles in Putney Swope, Running on Empty, Cadillac Man and A Kiss Before Dying. She also made appearances on TV in shows like Sex and the City, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Damages.
In May 2005, she was honoured with the Cultural Award of Merit by the Consul General of the New York Polish Consulate - the highest award for a Polish American to receive.
Her marriage to author Halberstam ended in divorce in 1977.
Czyzewska died at a Manhattan, New York hospital on Thursday.
She rose to fame as a national sex symbol in Poland after starring in 1961 film Erotica and became the most popular actress in the country during the 1960s.
She starred in a critically acclaimed Polish production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, but her career took a turn after her marriage to the American journalist David Halberstam made her an outcast in her home country, when he was accused of slander against the government.
The couple was expelled from Poland and fled to the U.S., where Czyzewska established herself as a stage actress, including a starring role in a 1974 production of The Possessed, alongside a then-unknown Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang.
On film, her credits included smaller roles in Putney Swope, Running on Empty, Cadillac Man and A Kiss Before Dying. She also made appearances on TV in shows like Sex and the City, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Damages.
In May 2005, she was honoured with the Cultural Award of Merit by the Consul General of the New York Polish Consulate - the highest award for a Polish American to receive.
Her marriage to author Halberstam ended in divorce in 1977.
- 6/18/2010
- WENN
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