Ewa Krzyżewska
Acting
Biography
Ewa Krzyzewska was born on February 7, 1939 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Pharaoh (1966) and Zbrodniarz i panna (1963). She was married to Boleslaw Kwiatkowski. She died on July 30, 2003 in Spain.
Born: February 7, 1939
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Known For
Ashes and Diamonds
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
A Cure for Love
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
The Criminal and the Lady
Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.
Pharaoh
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
All Souls' Day
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.
The Boarded Window
In a secluded forest house, a woman tormented by anxiety and paranoia lives with her helpless husband. Their fragile peace shatters when she suddenly falls ill and appears to die, setting the stage for a tense and haunting drama of isolation and dread.
The Bells Toll for the Barefooted
A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even in inhuma ne conditions. In a frosty mountain setting a cruel struggle for life takes place. After a fight, two partisans return to their brigade carrying along a young German soldier as a captive. But suddenly, amidst the hopelessness of barren mountains. all protagonists find themselves in a liminal existential situation.
Christmas Eve
A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
Hell and Heaven
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
Faust XX
A terminally ill professor gets an immoral offer.
Filmography
as Rebeka Widmarowa
as Zosia
as Gisa Tonius
as Varsovian
as Anastazja
as Anna
as Margueritte
as Linda
as Guardian Devil
as Honorata
as Andrzej's Mistress
as Hebron
as Protagonist's mother
as Verona
as Teresa
as Małgorzata Makowska
as Zuzanna Wiśniewska
as Wala
as Marija / Maria
as Krystyna Rozbicka