Maria Kaniewska
Acting
Biography
Maria Kaniewska (27 May 1911 in Kiev - 11 December 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish actress, screenplay writer, film director. In 1960 she received a bronze lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
Born: May 27, 1911
Place of Birth: Kijów, Rosja (obecnie Ukraina)
Known For
Man - Woman Wanted
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.
What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Birth Certificate
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
The Last Stage
Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.
Adam's Two Ribs
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
The Refuge
In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.
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.
Kapelusz pana Anatola
Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
Ewa Wants to Sleep
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Bad Luck
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Filmography
as Priest's Housekeeper
as Grandmother Rosa
as Żona profesora Brzósko-Suchackiego
as pianistka
as Janitor
as Kozłowska
as akuszerka usuwająca ciążę Bogutówny
as Zootechnik
as nie występuje w napisach
as Customer
as Customer
as Cat Lady
as Lodzia, sekretarka
as Boy With Bow's Mother
as Arcimowiczowa
as Lipska
as Anna Bobkowa ("Third Sunday")
as Gerda Buchtowa
as Mrs. Anastasia
as Neighbour Borrowing Oil
as Hotel Janitor
as Melania's mother (uncredited)
as Hochmeier
as Anastazja Makulec (uncredited)
as Lady-in-waiting (uncredited)
as Helutka
as Woman at the train station (uncredited)
as Stefania (segment 1)
as Hostess (uncredited)
as Saleswoman
as Singing Teacher (uncredited)
as Moniuszko's Co-Passenger (uncredited)
as Woman in a Window (uncredited)
as Rapportführerin
as Stacha Sarnowa