About
A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.
Directors
Kinga Dębska, Maria Konwicka
Writer
Maria Konwicka
Producers
Studio
Telewizja Polska, Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
Original Language
Polish
Cast
Full credits →D
David Margulies
Self
A
Andrzej Wajda
Self
A
Annette Insdorf
Self
M
Małgorzata Potocka
Self
B
Beata Tyszkiewicz
Self
L
Liliana Komorowska
Self
D
Daniel Olbrychski
Self
G
Gay Talese
Self
A
Adam Holender
Self
M
Meryl Streep
Self (archive footage)
J
John Guare
Self
M
Michał Urbaniak
Self
O
Omar Sangare
Self
M
Myra Paci
Self
H
Hanna Hartowicz
Self
C
Carol Monda
Self
P
Perri Yaniv
Self
B
Barbara Sass
Self
K
Krystyna Czubówna
Voiceover (voice)
E
Elżbieta Czyżewska
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)