Grażyna Szapołowska
Grażyna Szapołowska (Polish pronunciation: [ɡraˈʐɨna ʂapɔˈwɔfska]; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from The Theatre Art School in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw.
She is best known for starring in A Short Film About Love (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the sixth episode of Dekalog. It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski film, Bez końca.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.787 |
| Birthday | 1953-09-19 |
| Place of Birth | Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| Also Known As |
1985
No End
7/102
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she h...
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No End
1985
Visiting Van Gogh
1/1
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Visiting Van Gogh
1999
Pan Tadeusz
5.527/55
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this s...
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Pan Tadeusz
1985
Przyspieszenie
0/0
A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
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Przyspieszenie
1988
A Short Film About Love
7.8/368
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and a...
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A Short Film About Love
1988
Enclosure
0/0
In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. Having learned about this, the CIA now intends to d...
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Enclosure
2021
Talking Heads 2021
1/1
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...
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Talking Heads 2021
1993
Abissinia
0/0
Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restaurant in this unfashionable Adriatic tourist town, but...
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Abissinia
2010
Trick
5.6/19
Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy...
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Trick
1987
Komediantka
5/1
A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
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Komediantka
2011
Battle of the Sexes
2.8/13
The story of an unemployed journalist who fights overweight and account shortages more effectively than Bridget Jones, and although she knows a lot ab...
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Battle of the Sexes
2006
Just Love Me
5.8/53
Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young, hip architect. In his break-out role, popular Polish television star...
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Just Love Me
1987
First Encounter - Last Encounter
5.3/10
The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not co...
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First Encounter - Last Encounter
2003
Warszawa
4.7/6
On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal...
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Warszawa
1994
Three Colors: White
7.459/1173
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due t...
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Three Colors: White
2005
Angel in Love
6/8
Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial overseers, citing budget cuts, initiate "Phase Two" w...
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Angel in Love
1982
Another Way
5.6/15
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discove...
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Another Way
2022
Everyone Knows Better
5.7/6
"Everyone Knows Better" is an original comedy, reminiscent of the best New York tradition of independent cinema, dominated by warm relations and close...
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Everyone Knows Better
1991
Seychelles
6/1
A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer...
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Seychelles
1984
Fort 13
5.9/4
A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.
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Fort 13
1989
Decalogue VI
8/137
A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtya...
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Decalogue VI
2011
Battle of Warsaw 1920
4.5/39
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while h...
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Battle of Warsaw 1920
1979
Hotel klasy lux
0/0
The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.
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Hotel klasy lux
1991
The Conviction
5.5/14
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, b...
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The Conviction
2005
Nachbarinnen
2.5/3
The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of...
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Nachbarinnen
1985
Medium
5.6/20
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
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Medium
1985
Custody
4.5/4
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and ha...
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Custody
1987
The Young Magician
6.1/9
A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to...
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The Young Magician
1993
Beautiful stranger
0/0
Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin...
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Beautiful stranger
Król dopalaczy
0/0
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Król dopalaczy
2015
Fanciful
5/2
After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and emotionally cold towards the teenager, now driven...
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Fanciful
1987
The Magnate
5.4/7
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
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The Magnate
2011
Polnische Ostern
7/3
Grumpy baker Grabosch can't bear the thought that his granddaughter, now that her mother has died, will live with her Polish father. He must get Mathi...
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Polnische Ostern
1988
Hanussen
6.139/18
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim disco...
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Hanussen
2008
Nie kłam kochanie
4.9/35
"Nie kłam, kochanie" nie jest bajką. To miłosna historia, podana lekko, jednak nie pozostająca w oderwaniu od życia, w której wszelkiego rodzaju zawir...
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Nie kłam kochanie
2011
Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
4.7/13
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
2005
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
8.5/3
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslo...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2013
Run Boy Run
7.2/187
Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as...
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Run Boy Run
2017
Botoxx
4/89
"Botoks" is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong, determined and expressive physicians who struggle with life's decisions and pr...
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Botoxx
1988
Taboo
6.1/7
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage da...
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Taboo
1978
The Scent of Earth
2/1
The trials and tribulations of a peasant's life in the 30's, finally overshadowed by the destructiveness of war.
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The Scent of Earth
1984
Ivy
0/0
Kinga, a divorced woman raising her daughter Emilka, decides to change her professional life and start writing a book. Personal matters and problems...
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Ivy
2015
The Dogcatcher
0/0
A man with OCD is paid to find dogs.
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The Dogcatcher
1984
The Twenties, the Thirties
6.1/6
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deem...
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The Twenties, the Thirties
1983
Big Shar
6.9/21
Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads for the town of Lutyn where he runs a con and attrac...
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Big Shar
1985
Flowers of Reverie
5.9/7
The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political dissension is the focus of this excellent historica...
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Flowers of Reverie
1990
Kill Cruise
3.8/13
Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for.
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Kill Cruise
2005
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
7/124
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58...
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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
1989
Lava
5.6/12
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
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Lava
1997
Our God's Brother
5.3/3
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
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Our God's Brother
2020
365 Days
7.047/8963
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
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365 Days
1998
Home Chronicles
8/1
The protagonist of the film is a 12-year-old boy - Witek, the son of a small-town miller, a former entrepreneur who, after the war, holed up in a smal...
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Home Chronicles
2020
Asymmetry
5.4/5
Piotr and his girlfriend Weronika plan their future together. They don't expect one evening to change everything. Not only in their lives.
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Asymmetry
1981
The Big Picnic
6.7/3
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysie...
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The Big Picnic
1986
Przez dotyk
0/0
Two women meet in the hospital.
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Przez dotyk
2010
Little Rose
6.974/39
Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist...
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Little Rose
2007
Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies
7.1/19
Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever.
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Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies
1991
Lebewohl, Fremde
0/0
Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; only after he is identified as a political fugitiv...
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Lebewohl, Fremde
1985
In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
7/2
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions...
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