Gabriela Kownacka
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 25, 1952
Place of Birth: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
Known For
Childish Questions
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Matki, żony i kochanki
The Wedding
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
Killer 2
Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...
The Birthday
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
Smacznego, telewizorku
The TV-obsessed burgomaster of a Polish town and his equally addicted wife are literally sucked into their set, vanishing from the living room. Their three bewildered children must band together to pull Mom and Dad back out of the television before they’re lost forever.
The Leper
A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
Hello, Fred the Beard
The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.
Write and Fight
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Filmography
as Matka Stana
as Actress
as matka Aleksa
as Anka Kwiatkowska
as Polish First Lady
as Dorota Padlewska-Lindner
as Ewelina
as Teresa Adler
as Masza
as Elżbieta
as Barbara Nowosad
as Gertruda
as Wife of Propaganda Chief
as Micia
as Olimpia
as Blonde Woman Artificial Intelligence
as Krystyna Danek
as Maria
as Danusia
as Iza
as Bożena
as Sylwia
as Joanna
as Jadźka
as Anita
as "Myszka"
as Ania
as Rita Szylinżanka
as Kasia
as Wajda (uncredited)
as Zosia