Natalia Szymańska
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 27, 1896
Place of Birth: Warszawa, Rosja (obecnie Polska)
Known For
Our Folks
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Coloured Stockings
The film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable stockings, which she cannot afford. She becomes the laughing stock of the school when she appears in stockings sewn by her grandmother. The humiliation leads Matilda to take a dramatic step. The second part tells the story of Jadźka, who is an object of derision at her school. Fearing embarrassment, she increasingly misses school and plunges into a world of autistic dreams.
Man on the Tracks
One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?
Octopus Cafe
Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.
Silence
Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.
Little Town
A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
Rendes-Vous with a Spy
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
The Peasants
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
Farewells
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Five Boys from Barska Street
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Filmography
as Agata (uncredited)
as Banasiowa
as Old Woman ("I Know Who You Are") (uncredited)
as Hadleyburg Citizen / Town Citizen
as Old Woman (uncredited)
as Leonia Pawlak
as Neighbour (uncredited)
as Sieczka's Mother
as Herbalist (uncredited)
as Ela's Grandmother (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Henryk's Mother
as Matylda's Grandmother (segment "Matylda")
as Woman in a Crowd (uncredited)
as Woman renting a Room to Paweł (uncredited)
as Grzelakowa
as Orzechowski's wife
as Marek's Mother