Danuta Szaflarska
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Danuta Szaflarska.
Born: February 6, 1915
Place of Birth: Kosarzyska k. Piwnicznej-Zdroju, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Polska)
Known For
Tango
The famous play by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Maciej Englert. A 1999 production.
The Doll
The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka. Causing a misalliance in the late nineteenth century Warsaw. Young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed uprising, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. Upon return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman. Marrying the late shop owner's widow, he becomes rich, He uses his money set up a partnership with a Russian merchant, met in the exile. The two makes a fortune supplying the Russian army. Wokulski falls in love with Izabela, daughter of the bankrupt aristocrat. In his quest to win her, he ventures theatres and aristocratic salons. To help her financially distressed father, he founds a company with the aristocrats as shareholders. Wokulski ability to make money is respected, but his lack of social rank is often brought. Izabela eventually accepts his affection, but without true devotion or love.
Forbidden Songs
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Samochodzik and Knights Templar
Pan Tomasz with his friends are looking a big treasure hidden by knights.
Time to Die
An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with souvenirs and treasures of eras gone by. Aniela runs into conflict in her dealings with others, particularly a nasty neighbor who sees her property as an eyesore and wants to do everything in his reach to buy it up and tear it down, and her married adult son, who - though kindly - triggers paranoia within Aniela (she cannot help but believe that he is scheming and planning to wheedle the property away from her). Driven aback by these individuals, Aniela finds one of her only sources of comfort and reassurance in her daily talks with her dog, Fila - and develops a great affinity for spying on the neighbors' doings whenever boredom creeps in.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Listy miłosne
Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also has trouble expressing his emotions. They are helped by Julka, a girl from the neighborhood who likes Teresa. She finds a pile of love letters from the beginning of the century in the trash. By forging Teresa and Janusz's handwriting, she starts a love correspondence between them, rewriting fragments of other people's confessions.
Nothing
A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.
The Book of Great Wishes
Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
Korczak
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Filmography
as Mom (old)
as Self
as Zielarka
as Janosik's grandmother
as Zosia's grandmother
as Aniela
as Lucy's Grandgrandmother
as Wanda Przybyłowicz "Mimi"
as Aunt Lusia
as Aunt Aniela
as siostra Hortensja
as Mother
as Eugenia
as Old Lady
as Adam's Mother
as Jedza
as Grandma
as Anna
as doktorowa
as Wiedzma
as Mrs. Bauer, Max's mother
as Bzowska, babcia Adama
as Mamusia
as Misiewiczowa
as żona Lucjusza
as Wiktoria
as Stanisława Edelman
as Zofia
as Italian circus woman
as Marylka's "Aunt"
as (Voice)
as Weronika
as Podstolina
as Kitty
as Countess Krystyna
as Krystyna Różycka-Konar
as Halina Tokarska