Krystyna Janda
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Krystyna Janda (born 18 December 1952, Starachowice, Poland) is a Polish film and theater actress best known, in the West, for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru, 1976) and Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza, 1981).
In 1982, Janda played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajski's film Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), which first premiered only 7 years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Despite the film's late release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and Polish Film Festival in 1990.
Janda is also known for her leading role in the second episode of The Decalogue series of Krzysztof Kieślowski.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.121 |
| Birthday | 1952-12-18 |
| Place of Birth | Starachowice, Poland |
| Also Known As |
1981
Man of Iron
6.807/70
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Mac...
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Man of Iron
1977
Man of Marble
7/76
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell o...
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Man of Marble
1988
A Short Film About Killing
7.587/355
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
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A Short Film About Killing
1981
Mephisto
7.2/127
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in p...
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Mephisto
1989
On the Silver Globe
7.7/139
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry...
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On the Silver Globe
1978
Without Anesthesia
6.6/14
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show feat...
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Without Anesthesia
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
2009
Reverse
7.172/32
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother...
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Reverse
1991
Polish Cuisine
4/2
A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.
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Polish Cuisine
1982
Espion, lève-toi
7.3/63
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is...
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Espion, lève-toi
1989
Interrogation
7.2/61
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, fo...
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Interrogation
2022
How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
6.7/192
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true stor...
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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
2009
Sweet Rush
6.3/26
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Sweet Rush
1989
Decalogue II
7.261/174
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in...
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Decalogue II
2000
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
7/24
Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the oper...
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Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
1985
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
6.7/57
The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a...
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
2005
The Call of the Toad
5.2/9
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the cal...
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The Call of the Toad
1983
On, ona, oni
0/0
Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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On, ona, oni
2011
Elles
5.4/176
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tu...
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Elles
1980
Golem
6.6/41
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Golem
1989
Inventory
6.3/3
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography...
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Inventory
1978
The Border
4.8/3
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The Border
1995
Daddy
7.2/38
Daddy is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to kidnap h...
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Daddy
2000
The Yellow Scarf
6.6/21
The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his...
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The Yellow Scarf
1984
Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
5/3
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him...
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Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
1981
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
6.7/37
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Ide as th...
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century
2018
Julius
5.5/23
An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the father...
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Julius
2001
Weiser
5.7/9
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Weiser
1985
The Cop & the Girl
4.5/4
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the c...
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The Cop & the Girl
2024
The Clowns
0/0
Students from the Faculty of Acting find out that their graduation film will be made by the famous director Gajda. The news is electrifying – everyone...
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The Clowns
1981
In Broad Daylight
6.3/7
Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for t...
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In Broad Daylight
1980
The Conductor
6.3/13
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned sym...
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The Conductor
1984
Synthesis
0/0
In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly become...
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Synthesis
2014
All About My Parents
4.2/5
The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.
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All About My Parents
1987
Suspended
3.7/3
Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in he...
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Suspended
1977
Madame Bovary, That's Me
0/0
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Madame Bovary, That's Me
1973
Six-Part Draft
0/0
Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.
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Six-Part Draft
1979
Rodzina Połanieckich
0/0
The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th cent...
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Rodzina Połanieckich
1984
It's Only Rock
3.5/2
Polish musical film with leading Polish rock bands from the '80
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It's Only Rock
2001
Przedwiośnie
5.2/6
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution,...
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Przedwiośnie
2015
Damaged
4.9/7
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common w...
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Damaged
1989
Inner State
0/0
December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several peo...
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Inner State
1987
Laputa
5/1
Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish pho...
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Laputa
1985
Vertiges
6.5/5
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on th...
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Vertiges
1992
Dismissed From Life
3/2
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He...
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Dismissed From Life
1997
An Air So Pure
5.7/6
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicte...
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An Air So Pure
1980
The Green Bird
0/0
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The Green Bird
2013
Walesa: Man of Hope
5.8/76
How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common ma...
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Walesa: Man of Hope
1996
Pestka
6/2
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Pestka
1989
Decalogue V
7.881/143
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally...
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Decalogue V
1986
My Mother's Lovers
8/3
Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very matu...
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My Mother's Lovers
1983
Bella Donna
0/0
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose nu...
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Bella Donna
2007
A Few People, a Little Time
5.8/6
The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politi...
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A Few People, a Little Time
2019
Dolce Fine Giornata
5.7/20
In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant develops against a backdrop of terrorism and eroding...
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Dolce Fine Giornata
1998
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
5.5/2
A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral out...
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Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
1983
Embers
6.3/3
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is havin...
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Embers
1996
Matka swojej matki
5/2
Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides...
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Matka swojej matki
1988
Fik-Mik
5/1
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Fik-Mik
2021
Kill It and Leave This Town
6.868/19
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him a...
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Kill It and Leave This Town
2005
Solidarność, Solidarność...
6/1
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
2010
Kręć! Jak kochasz to kręć!
8/1
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