Acting
Feb 19, 1940
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Emilia Krakowska
Acting
Biography
Emilia Krakowska (born 20 February 1940 in Poznań) is Polish entertainer, film and theater actress. She graduated from High School in Drezdenko. A graduate of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw (1963). She played in the following theaters: Powszechny in Warsaw (1964-1968), National (1968-1978), Contemporary in Warsaw (1978-1985) and Variety in Warsaw (1985-1991) and Teatr Powszechny in. Jan Kochanowski in Radom in 2008; Wrocław Comedy Theatre, Drama Theatre; Alexander Hungarian Białystok and the New Theatre in Słupsk. She is a film actress, and consolidated her position as the participation in a number of television series. In the 1980s, she was a member of the National Council for Culture. She belonged to a group of actors who boycotted the Polish stage after the introduction of martial law in 1981.. In 2005, during the X Festival of Stars in Międzyzdroje she participated in the Promenade of Stars. In 2013 she was awarded by the Polish section of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
Feature Films (45)
Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.
A Round Week
Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family in 1945. Here she meets Ludwik, an old love and her daughter's father.
Wiśnie
A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
Red Thorns
The "Dudek" cabaret group, Edward Dziewoński’s lifetime achievement, one of the greatest post-war cabaret groups recorded by a documentary filmmaker during rehearsals. The stars of Polish acting could be seen on stage, accompanied by excellent songs by Wojciech Młynarski.
What is Dudek?
After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.
The Ambulance Will Come
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
Wedle wyroków twoich...
A new employee has to deal with the horrors of bureaucracy in this satirical short poking fun at the insititutions of the Polish People's Republic.
Nowy pracownik
Maria is consumed by sadness over her inability to have a child. She and her husband had chosen not to have children when they were younger, and now she fears it may be too late. Maria travels to her childhood home, where she discovers that she is pregnant. The news restores her zest for life and renews her faith in people. More cheerful and hopeful, she decides to return home to her waiting husband.
The Taste of Water
On August 1, 1944, Warsaw holds its breath as Home Army couriers spread word that “W-hour” is at 17:00. A platoon under “Czarny” must assault German barracks without the expected backup—an order they follow at the risk of collective suicide.
Godzina W
The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came across their trail and the criminals were soon captured. And then the real bomb went off. It turned out that the thieves were not people listed in the police annals or even in contact with the criminal world. All the robbers had a reputation as "respectable citizens", by no means suffering from a lack of cash.
Hazardziści
Television & Series (7)
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
Marianek is an unlucky man and not successful in his affairs. At the same time, he is a dove-hearted man, sensitive to other people’s misfortunes and harm, willing to help, even at his own expense. He is always ready to solve the problems of others, although he is usually not very good at it. His favorite saying is “absolutely”.
Droga
A TV adaptation of Władysław Stanisław Reymont's most famous novel, realistically depicting Polish rural life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Against the broad backdrop of rural community life, inextricably linked to the rhythm of nature throughout the four seasons, the complicated and often dramatic story of the Boryna family unfolds.
