Name Krystyna Mikolajewska | Role Actress | |
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Movies Pharaoh, The Red and the White Similar People Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Zelnik, Piotr Pawlowski, Tadeusz Schmidt | ||
Krystyna Mikolajewska (born 6 September 1939, Pabianice, Poland) is a Polish actress who appeared in several productions by the East German film company DEFA, as well as in other notable movies.
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Career
Mikolajewska trained at the State Higher School of Theater-Ludwik Solski in Krakow, received first prize in the 1958 National Competition V Recytatorskim (poetry recitation), and began appearing in theater, TV, and film before graduating in 1964. Her first major role was in Jerzy Kawalerowicz's 1966 historical film Pharaoh, which earned an Academy Award nomination for best Foreign Language Film of 1967. She then appeared in Miklós Jancsó's classic The Red and the White (1967). In the late 1960s she often worked in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where she appeared in Roland Oehme and Lothar Warneke's comedy-of-errors Not With Me, Madam! (1969), and had a starring role in Konrad Petzold's DEFA 'red western', Ordeal by Innocence (1970).
Throughout her career Mikolajewska worked regularly on stage, starting at Theater Wojciech Boguslawski in Kalisz. In 1966−68 she performed in theaters in Wroclaw, and, in the 1968−1972 seasons, acted at the Old Theatre−Helena Modjeska in Krakow. In the 1970s and 1980s she appeared only sporadically before the camera, and performed at the National Theatre in Warsaw.
Filmography
(A selection of notable films featuring Mikolajewska; Polish productions, where not otherwise noted.)
