Polish actress Christina Yanda: stormy life and quiet quay

Christina Yanda began her creative career even when nothing foreshadowed the fall of the socialist camp. However, some of her works were shown to a wide audience only after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Poland became a truly independent country. But this actress has always been told that she has nothing to be ashamed of her previous work: she never participated in the creation of flat communist propaganda. She played in the theater and cinema. Her work was appreciated by critics and a broad audience. The Polish actress was awarded many national awards. At the "Walk of Fame" in Lodz, Christina Yanda has her own personal star. The first award the actress received in Trieste in 1981 at the festival of films in the genre of fiction. Then Yanda became the owner of the Golden Palm Branch in Cannes in 1990, the Silver Shell at the film competition in San Sebastian in 1992, the Charlemagne medal at the European Media Festival in 2006. On the life and creative path of the actress you can read in this essay.

Study and career start

Kristina Yanda saw the light in the small Polish town of Starachowice. This happened on the eighteenth of December 1952. A girl from her childhood dreamed of becoming an actress. Therefore, after receiving a certificate of secondary education, she did not think for a long time which university to enter. Already in 1975 she successfully graduated from the State Higher School of Theater in Warsaw. As is often the case with movie stars, Christina began her career from the stage. Her debut (in 1976) was the participation in the comedy "Girls' vows" by Alexander Fredr. Christina so masterfully reincarnated in Anel, that her skill was noticed by the director Andrzej Wajda. He invited a young actress to appear in the film "A Man of Marble" (released in 1977). This tape was destined to become a cult. Therefore, the debut of the young actress did not go unnoticed. For the role of Agnieszka she received a prize named Zbigniew Tsibulsky.

Theatrical works

Even being invited to the set, Christina Yanda was not in a hurry to leave the stage. On theatrical stage, she played many bright and memorable roles in the plays of Racine, Euripides, Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, E. Olby. While still a student, she participated in the television show "The Three Sisters" (1974). Then the roles of Aneli in "The Girly Vows", Nina Zarechnaya in "Seagull", the main character in "Eloise and Abelare", Jenny in "Threepenny Opera" Julia in the same name of A. Strinberg, Gisela in "Two on the swings," Margaret in "The Cat on the Hot Roof," Elvira in "The Man and the Wife", and Medea, Lady Macbeth, Phaedra, Vassa Zheleznova.

Christina Yanda: Movies

After participating in the cult ribbon "The Man of Marble" and receiving awards, the actress did not remain forgotten. The invitations poured into her. First, the actress was embodied in Azu "On the Silver Planet". A year later (in 1978), she played in the film "Without anesthesia." It used to happen that she was filming at once in several tapes. So, in 1980, four films with her participation appeared on the screens: "Iron Man", "Golem", "War of the Worlds" and "Conductor". Of the 33 tapes in which the Polish actress played, let's name the most sensational. It's O-bi, o-ba. The end of civilization "(Gaia), the second and fifth parts of the" Decalogue "(Dorota)," Possession "(Julia)," Papa "(Magda)," Life is a deadly disease transmitted sexually "(Anna)," Air " (Martha), "Walesa. A Man of Hope "(Agnieszka). The actress worked not only in Poland, but also in France, Germany, Bulgaria. She starred at such masters of Russian cinema as Zanussi, Vaida, Zhulavsky, Keslevsky, Holland, Yves Boisset and Istvan Szabo.

Recent work

The actress continues to act. Among her recent works on the set are the roles of Irene, Sabina's mother in the film "Reverse", Ellis in "Revelations." She played the main character in the film "The teacher from the kindergarten." Her last known role - grandmother Melania in the painting "Pan Dulskie." The film "Black Thursday. Yanek Vishnevsky fell "remained almost unnoticed in the world. But in Poland he made a lot of noise. After all, the film describes the events of the workers' protests of the Gdansk workers in December 1970, which were suppressed by the authorities by force. Then two workers died. All the characters in the film are real people. Director Antony Krause tried to recreate life in what was then Poland as proceeding in two different dimensions: a simple family from Gdansk and officials from party offices could not meet anywhere except on the street, during protests. Yanda starred in the movie "Black Thursday". But at the stage of editing it turned out that her vision of the situation does not coincide with the concept of the director. The actress refused that the footage with her were included in the film. Fans of Yanda's creativity were somewhat disappointed. After all, the announcement advertised her participation in this film.

Other activities

Kristina Yanda proved herself not only as an excellent actress. She tried herself and as a director. She owns the films "Ladies and Hussars", "Skylark" and "Male-female". Ms. Yanda is the author of several books, mostly autobiographical. Among them, the most famous are "My Way" (published in 2000) and "Pink Tablets for Calming" (2002). She is also the author of several publications and essays.

Kristina Yanda: personal life

The actress was married twice. In 1974, she married Polish actor Andrzej Severin. From this marriage she has a daughter Maria. With her husband, the actress divorced in 1979. Two years later, she married with a famous cameraman Edward Klossinsky. The couple had two sons, Andrzej and Adam. In early 2008, the second actress's husband died. Now the widow lives in the small town of Milanovek near Warsaw.