Zbigniew Cybulski
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Zbigniew Cybulski Polish pronunciation: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf t͡sɨˈbulskʲi] (November 3, 1927 – January 8, 1967) was a Polish actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland.
Zbigniew Cybulski was born November 3, 1927 in a small village of Kniaże near Śniatyń, Poland (now a part of Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine). After World War II he joined the Theatre Academy in Kraków. He graduated in 1953 and moved to Gdańsk, where he made his stage debut in Leon Schiller's Wybrzeże Theatre. Also, with his friend Bogumił Kobiela, Cybulski founded a famous student theatre, the Bim-Bom. In the early 1960s, Cybulski moved to Warsaw, where he shortly joined the Kabaret Wagabunda. He also appeared on stage at the Ateneum Theatre, one of the most modern and least conservative Warsaw-based theatres of the epoch.
However, Cybulski is best remembered as a screen actor. He first appeared in a 1954 film Kariera as an extra. His first major role came in 1958, when he played in Kazimierz Kutz's Krzyż Walecznych. The same year he also appeared as one of the main characters in Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds and Aleksander Ford's The Eighth Day of the Week based on a short story by Marek Hłasko. From then on Cybulski was seen as one of the most notable actors of the Polish Film School and one of the "young and wrathful", as his generation of actors were called at the time.
His most famous films, apart from Ashes and Diamonds, include Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript. He also acted in numerous television plays, including some based on works by Truman Capote, Anton Chekhov and Jerzy Andrzejewski.
Cybulski died in an accident at a Wrocław Główny railway station on January 8, 1967, on his way from the film set. As he jumped on the speeding train (as he often did), he slipped on the steps, fell under the train, and was run over. Before the accident he said goodbye to Marlene Dietrich, a personal friend of his, who was a passenger on the train. He was buried in Katowice.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.894 |
Birthday | 1927-11-03 |
Place of Birth | Kniaże, Polska |
Also Known As | Збигнев Цибульский, |
1958
Ashes and Diamonds
7.468/220
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting fac...
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Ashes and Diamonds
1965
The Saragossa Manuscript
7.917/132
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
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The Saragossa Manuscript
1962
The Doll
5/5
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary,...
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The Doll
1960
Innocent Sorcerers
7.155/29
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals a...
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Innocent Sorcerers
1964
Giuseppe in Warsaw
6.4/14
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays i...
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Giuseppe in Warsaw
1957
Wraki
4.1/5
Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are b...
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Wraki
1963
The Criminal and the Lady
6.75/9
Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards a...
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The Criminal and the Lady
1963
How to Be Loved
7.5/22
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her...
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How to Be Loved
1965
Salto
6.868/19
A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.
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Salto
1961
Goodbye to the Past
6.6/5
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherish...
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Goodbye to the Past
1960
Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
6.741/27
Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming...
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Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
1959
Night Train
7.563/80
Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also...
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Night Train
1955
A Generation
6.8/48
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A Generation
1959
Cross of Valor
6.4/8
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he fi...
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Cross of Valor
1965
Alone in the City
7/1
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Alone in the City
1957
Koniec nocy
4/4
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their r...
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Koniec nocy
1964
No More Divorces
6.625/8
Three short segments about love.
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No More Divorces
1967
The Killer Leaves a Trace
6/3
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
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The Killer Leaves a Trace
1966
Christmas Eve
6.2/4
A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
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Christmas Eve
1964
To Love
5/3
A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During thei...
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To Love
1967
Full Ahead
6/3
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
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Full Ahead
1955
Trzy starty
0/0
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight...
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Trzy starty
1963
Their Everyday Life
4/2
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
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Their Everyday Life
1962
Love at Twenty
6.7/47
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Love at Twenty
1966
Master
7.2/3
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Master
1958
The Eighth Day of the Week
5.3/7
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of l...
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The Eighth Day of the Week
1966
Iluzja
0/0
A man is fascinated by a woman in a club. Obsessed with dreams about her, he begins to follow the path of his imagination.
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Iluzja
1955
Career
0/0
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Career
1966
Tomorrow Mexico
7/1
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
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Tomorrow Mexico
1963
Silence
6.25/4
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...
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Silence
1966
The Codes
6.6/7
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and...
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The Codes
1965
Penguin
5.8/6
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
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Penguin
1956
Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
5.5/2
Two friends think that they've discovered a dangerous spy hiding in a mine shaft.
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Tajemnica dzikiego szybu
1962
Spóźnieni przechodnie
6/1
Five short stories.
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Spóźnieni przechodnie
1962
Thé a la menthe
0/0
A man sits at a cafe in Paris and watches the world go by.
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Thé a la menthe
1969
Zbyszek
0/0
Dedicated to tragically deceased actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the film creates a subjective biography of its subject by linking together scenes from his m...
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Zbyszek
1967
Jowita
6.808/13
Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed wi...
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