Kalina Jędrusik
Acting
Biography
Kalina Jędrusik was a Polish singer and actress. She performed in more than thirty films from 1953 to 1991. She was considered to be the polish Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot, and a sex symbol of PRL (Communist Poland of the 1940s - 1980s). Jędrusik was married to writer Stanisław Dygat.
Born: February 5, 1931
Place of Birth: Gnaszyn (obecnie Częstochowa), śląskie, Polska
Known For
Opening Tomorrow
A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.
Hospital
Confined to a hospital room, a seemingly healthy man endures a surreal night as his space is invaded by a procession of bizarre, dreamlike visitors—many linked to the imagery of railroads. Blurring reality with hallucination, the film transforms the ward into a stage for nightmarish encounters.
Ziemia obiecana
How to Be Loved
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
The Double Life of Véronique
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
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 Promised Land
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Innocent Sorcerers
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.
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.
H.M. Deserters
Set in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Italians, and others—confined in a provincial barracks under German officers. Subjected to the cruelty of a sadistic lieutenant, they rebel, humiliate him, and later attempt escape. Disguised as guards for veterinary surgeons in Budapest, the deserters are eventually recaptured and returned for court-martial, forced once more to face their tormentor.
Filmography
as madame Elli (sekwencja z filmu "C.K. Dezerterzy")
as żona profesora
as Crazy Woman
as Herself
as Vaudevillain
as Madame Elli, kierowniczka domu publicznego
as Kobieta słuchająca Chopina
as Millionaire's Wife
as Antonia
as Lucy Zuckerowa, kochanka Borowieckiego
as kasztelanowa
as Lucy Zuckerowa
as Kowalew's Lover
as Girl at a Party
as Wanda
as Wąsowska
as Helena Księżakowa
as Małgorzata Sadecka
as Joanna
as Irena Krawczyk ("First Sunday")
as Kazimiera Paluch "Fatima", asystentka Damona
as Kazimiera Paluch "Fatima", asystentka "Damona"
as Baśka Oraczewska (voice) (uncredited)
as Zuzanna
as Girl Listening to Rawicz in a Cafe
as Anna (segment 1) / Herself (segment 5) (uncredited)
as Barbara Percykówna
as Spiewaczka w szafie
as Prostitute
as Journalist
as Anka, Andrzej's Wife
as Janek and Zosia's neighbor
as Sonia
as Waitress (uncredited)
as Biernacka (uncredited)