Magdalena Zawadzka
Acting
Biography
Magdalena Zawadzka-Holoubek (born October 29, 1944) is a Polish stage and film actress. She is the wife of actor Gustaw Holoubek and the mother of cinematographer Jan Holoubek. She gained wide popularity after the 1968 film Colonel Wolodyjowski (Pan Wołodyjowski), in which she played the role of Basia Wołodyjowska.
Born: October 29, 1944
Place of Birth: Filipowice, Małopolskie, Poland
Known For
Playing with the Devil
The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.
Przygody pana Michała
The Lodger
A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
Nights and Days
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Rat
Polish businessman Jarek Branicki organizes a beauty pageant. As the man in charge, he expects his girlfriend to win it and suggests this outcome to the judges. At the same time, however, he is on the verge of bankruptcy and tries to escape the country after being cornered by his creditors. Recognized by a passenger on the train, he flees and finds refuge in the underground passages of Warsaw’s central railway station.
Colonel Wolodyjowski
In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Call me Rockefeller
In the absence of their parents, the Malinowski kids are robbed. Instead of going to the police though they decide to regain the stolen money themselves.
Nowy
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.
Nights and Days
Set in the Kalisz Region in the second half of the 19th century after the failure of the January Uprising in 1863, the miniseries presents a unique portrait of an oppressed society as told through the life of the Niechcic family.
No More Divorces
Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.
Filmography
as Krystyna (voice)
as Self
as 'Kameralna' Barmaid
as Krystyna Sobańska
as Łukowska
as matka Ani
as Bronko's wife
as Magda Malinowska, mama rodzeństwa
as Malinowska, mama rodzeństwa
as Lena
as Kasia
as Ksawunia Woynarowska
as Mariola
as Amelia
as Ksawunia Woynarowska
as Helena
as Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina 'Zinochka'
as Magda Zawadzka
as Natalia Lewicka
as Bożenka
as Michasia
as Barbara Jeziorkowska-Wołodyjowska
as Lady Makbet
as Barbara Jeziorkowska
as Marika
as Lola
as Małgosia
as Katarzyna Zasławska
as Magda
as Tuńka
as Katarzyna "Kajtek"
as Kasia (Segment 3)
as Chairman's Daughter (uncredited)